General Ledger Contract Job Trends

General Ledger
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term General Ledger in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited General Ledger over the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 429 437
Rank change year-on-year -59 +8 +90
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 194 123 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.37% 0.36%
As % of the General category 0.63% 0.59% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 82 77
10th Percentile £419 £404 £445
25th Percentile £500 £421 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +5.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £674 £660
90th Percentile £788 £752 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 1
10th Percentile £16.83 £53.38 -
25th Percentile £17.33 £54.69 £41.25
Median hourly rate £19.69 £58.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.49% +38.24% +117.95%
75th Percentile £47.71 £62.19 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.88 £63.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.71 - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - +117.95%

All General Skills
UK

General Ledger falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 30,832 20,956 22,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.48% 63.27% 58.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,899 13,033 13,139
10th Percentile £313 £275 £281
25th Percentile £420 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £740 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,749 1,247 954
10th Percentile £13.46 £13.51 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.17 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £53.75 £45.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £72.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £21.39 £31.97
% change year-on-year +28.56% -33.09% +21.79%

General Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing General Ledger relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

General Ledger job vacancy trend in the UK

General Ledger
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing General Ledger.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing General Ledger

General Ledger
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing General Ledger over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing General Ledger.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing General Ledger

General Ledger
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing General Ledger over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing General Ledger within the UK over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -65 173 £575 - 135
UK excluding London -30 94 £550 +2.33% 58
London -75 83 £600 - 85
Work from Home -39 68 £525 -12.50% 51
Midlands -30 25 £516 -3.17% 5
South East -58 24 £540 -5.05% 24
West Midlands -33 17 £429 -25.39% 3
South West -15 16 £600 +26.32% 4
North of England -68 10 £525 +17.45% 18
Northern Ireland - 9 - - 2
East Midlands -13 8 £550 +22.22% 2
East of England -30 8 £505 -15.83% 3
North West -46 7 £525 +17.45% 6
Yorkshire -27 3 - - 5
Scotland -18 2 £555 - 2

General Ledger
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.09%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (9.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 54 (27.84%) Oracle Payables
2 50 (25.77%) Oracle Receivables
3 44 (22.68%) Oracle General Ledger
4 37 (19.07%) SAP S/4HANA
5 32 (16.49%) Oracle Assets
6 24 (12.37%) Oracle ERP
7 23 (11.86%) Oracle EBS
8 15 (7.73%) Oracle Cash Management
9 12 (6.19%) NetSuite
10 11 (5.67%) Oracle Financials
11 10 (5.15%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 10 (5.15%) SAP FI
12 8 (4.12%) Oracle EBS R12
13 5 (2.58%) Oracle FAH
13 5 (2.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
14 4 (2.06%) Oracle Internet Expenses
14 4 (2.06%) Oracle iProcurement
14 4 (2.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 4 (2.06%) SAP GRC
14 4 (2.06%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.86%) Dynamics 365
2 16 (8.25%) OCI
3 11 (5.67%) Azure
4 8 (4.12%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.06%) AWS
6 4 (2.06%) Google Workspace
6 4 (2.06%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.06%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.06%) SaaS
7 3 (1.55%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (1.55%) dbt
7 3 (1.55%) GCP
7 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.55%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.03%) Azure Databricks
9 1 (0.52%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.52%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.52%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.52%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 7 (3.61%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (3.09%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.06%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (2.06%) Power BI
4 4 (2.06%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.55%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.03%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.03%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.52%) OLTP
7 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (4.12%) JIRA
2 5 (2.58%) JDeveloper
3 4 (2.06%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (2.06%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.03%) ERwin
4 2 (1.03%) Hudson
5 1 (0.52%) Toad
General
1 190 (97.94%) Finance
2 68 (35.05%) Social Skills
3 38 (19.59%) Banking
4 21 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (9.28%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.19%) Billing
7 9 (4.64%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.58%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.58%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.58%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.58%) Retail
9 4 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.06%) Local Government
9 4 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.03%) International Banking
11 2 (1.03%) Legal
11 2 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (31.44%) Consultant
2 31 (15.98%) Analyst
3 27 (13.92%) Oracle Consultant
4 26 (13.40%) Business Analyst
5 22 (11.34%) Financial Analyst
6 21 (10.82%) Lead
7 20 (10.31%) Functional Consultant
8 16 (8.25%) Finance Business Analyst
9 13 (6.70%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 13 (6.70%) SAP Consultant
10 11 (5.67%) Architect
11 10 (5.15%) Accountant
11 10 (5.15%) Senior
12 8 (4.12%) Developer
13 7 (3.61%) Implementation Consultant
13 7 (3.61%) Trainer
14 6 (3.09%) NetSuite Consultant
14 6 (3.09%) SAP Financial Consultant
14 6 (3.09%) Transformation Consultant
14 6 (3.09%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.07%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (4.12%) XML
3 5 (2.58%) Middleware
3 5 (2.58%) REST
3 5 (2.58%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (2.06%) Web Services
5 3 (1.55%) SOAP
6 2 (1.03%) JSON
6 2 (1.03%) RESTful
6 2 (1.03%) Spring
6 2 (1.03%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.52%) Express.js
7 1 (0.52%) MERN Stack
7 1 (0.52%) Node.js
7 1 (0.52%) React
7 1 (0.52%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.22%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (4.12%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.12%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.12%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.09%) NHS
4 5 (2.58%) e-Learning
4 5 (2.58%) Learning Management System
5 4 (2.06%) Derivative
6 3 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.55%) Life Science
6 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.55%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.03%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.03%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.52%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.55%) Unix
2 1 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (47.42%) Accounts Payable
2 89 (45.88%) Accounts Receivable
3 85 (43.81%) ERP
4 73 (37.63%) Migration
5 69 (35.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 60 (30.93%) User Acceptance Testing
7 59 (30.41%) Data Migration
8 41 (21.13%) Validation
9 33 (17.01%) Workshop Facilitation
10 28 (14.43%) Budgeting
10 28 (14.43%) System Integration Testing
11 25 (12.89%) Cash Management
11 25 (12.89%) Requirements Gathering
12 24 (12.37%) Process Improvement
13 22 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (10.82%) Analytics
14 21 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 20 (10.31%) Project Delivery
16 18 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
16 18 (9.28%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (16.49%) SQL
2 9 (4.64%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.06%) ABAP
3 4 (2.06%) C#
3 4 (2.06%) X++
4 3 (1.55%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.03%) Java
5 2 (1.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (15.98%) ACCA
1 31 (15.98%) CIMA
2 25 (12.89%) Security Cleared
3 20 (10.31%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.64%) AAT
4 9 (4.64%) Degree
5 7 (3.61%) PMP
6 6 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.06%) CCA
8 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.03%) CCAB
9 2 (1.03%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.82%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.73%) IFRS
3 6 (3.09%) GDPR
4 4 (2.06%) GRC
5 3 (1.55%) IFRS 17
5 3 (1.55%) QA
6 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.03%) GAAP
6 2 (1.03%) IFRS 9
6 2 (1.03%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.03%) SEPA
7 1 (0.52%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.03%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.52%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (41.24%) Oracle
2 56 (28.87%) Microsoft
2 56 (28.87%) SAP
3 12 (6.19%) Workday
4 7 (3.61%) Sage
5 5 (2.58%) Xero
6 4 (2.06%) Adobe
6 4 (2.06%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.06%) Talend
7 3 (1.55%) Ariba
7 3 (1.55%) Databricks
7 3 (1.55%) Infor
8 2 (1.03%) Adaptive Insights
8 2 (1.03%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.03%) Anaplan
8 2 (1.03%) CODA
8 2 (1.03%) Epicor
8 2 (1.03%) Google
8 2 (1.03%) QAD
8 2 (1.03%) Zuora