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 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 428 464
Rank change year-on-year -76 +36 +88
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 171 117 93
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.36% 0.24%
As % of the General category 0.58% 0.56% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 73 53
10th Percentile £419 £404 £453
25th Percentile £500 £415 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.52%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £825 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £515 £575
% change year-on-year +0.49% -10.43% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 1
10th Percentile £16.82 - -
25th Percentile £19.20 £20.45 £41.25
Median hourly rate £39.60 £22.04 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.65% -48.14% +117.95%
75th Percentile £77.81 £49.03 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.30 £60.63 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.69 £21.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -6.24% -50.59% +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 29,482 20,875 22,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.05% 63.50% 57.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,469 12,963 13,968
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
25th Percentile £415 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,257 1,147 1,334
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.25 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.25 £16.88
Median hourly rate £31.56 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +25.47% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.25 £58.65
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.06 £70.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.14 £38.12
% change year-on-year +46.79% -41.92% +52.48%

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 18 August 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 18 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for General Ledger in the UK

General Ledger
Top 16 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 18 August 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 -87 149 £590 +2.61% 86
UK excluding London -46 85 £518 +0.49% 52
London -71 73 £625 +7.30% 47
Work from Home -36 61 £534 -11.00% 47
South West -19 26 £600 -4.00% 5
Midlands -43 17 £550 +6.80% 3
South East -68 15 £503 -2.43% 16
West Midlands -41 9 £430 -26.27% 2
Northern Ireland - 9 - - 3
East Midlands -14 8 £600 +26.32% 1
East of England -18 8 £505 -12.17% 3
North of England -79 6 £525 +17.45% 18
Scotland -10 3 - - 4
Yorkshire -43 3 - - 3
North West -48 3 £525 +17.45% 7
Wales - 1 £550 - 1

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 8 (4.68%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 15 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 45 (26.32%) Oracle Payables
2 35 (20.47%) Oracle Receivables
3 28 (16.37%) Oracle General Ledger
3 28 (16.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (12.28%) Oracle Assets
5 19 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (8.77%) NetSuite
6 15 (8.77%) Oracle Cash Management
7 13 (7.60%) Oracle ERP
8 11 (6.43%) SAP FI
9 9 (5.26%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (4.09%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 6 (3.51%) SAP Business One
11 6 (3.51%) SAP CO
11 6 (3.51%) SAP FI/CO
12 5 (2.92%) SAP GRC
12 5 (2.92%) Unit4 Business World
13 4 (2.34%) Oracle FAH
14 3 (1.75%) Oracle Internet Expenses
14 3 (1.75%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.60%) Dynamics 365
2 11 (6.43%) OCI
3 10 (5.85%) Azure
4 6 (3.51%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.51%) SaaS
5 4 (2.34%) AWS
5 4 (2.34%) Power Automate
5 4 (2.34%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.75%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (1.75%) dbt
6 3 (1.75%) GCP
6 3 (1.75%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (1.75%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.17%) Google Sheets
7 2 (1.17%) Intacct
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 7 (4.09%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.34%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (2.34%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.34%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.75%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.17%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.17%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.17%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.17%) Power BI
5 2 (1.17%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.17%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.17%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.58%) Metadata
6 1 (0.58%) OLTP
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.92%) JDeveloper
2 4 (2.34%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (2.34%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.75%) JIRA
4 2 (1.17%) ERwin
4 2 (1.17%) Hudson
5 1 (0.58%) Toad
General
1 163 (95.32%) Finance
2 55 (32.16%) Social Skills
3 26 (15.20%) Banking
4 21 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.68%) Retail
7 5 (2.92%) Billing
7 5 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.34%) Local Government
8 4 (2.34%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.75%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.75%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.75%) Legal
9 3 (1.75%) Military
9 3 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.17%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (33.33%) Consultant
2 26 (15.20%) Lead
3 23 (13.45%) Oracle Consultant
4 20 (11.70%) Functional Consultant
5 16 (9.36%) Analyst
5 16 (9.36%) SAP Consultant
6 13 (7.60%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 12 (7.02%) Business Analyst
8 10 (5.85%) Architect
8 10 (5.85%) Developer
9 8 (4.68%) Implementation Consultant
9 8 (4.68%) Senior
10 7 (4.09%) Accountant
10 7 (4.09%) Financial Analyst
10 7 (4.09%) NetSuite Consultant
10 7 (4.09%) Transformation Consultant
11 6 (3.51%) Finance Manager
11 6 (3.51%) Lead Consultant
12 5 (2.92%) ERP Consultant
12 5 (2.92%) SAP Financial Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.09%) XML
3 5 (2.92%) Middleware
3 5 (2.92%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.75%) REST
5 2 (1.17%) Express.js
5 2 (1.17%) MERN Stack
5 2 (1.17%) Node.js
5 2 (1.17%) React
5 2 (1.17%) RESTful
5 2 (1.17%) Web Services
6 1 (0.58%) Restlet
6 1 (0.58%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.77%) Onboarding
2 13 (7.60%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.68%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.34%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.75%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.75%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.17%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.17%) Life Science
7 2 (1.17%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.17%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.58%) Equities
8 1 (0.58%) FMCG
8 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.75%) Unix
2 1 (0.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (44.44%) Accounts Payable
2 71 (41.52%) Accounts Receivable
3 65 (38.01%) ERP
4 53 (30.99%) Migration
5 52 (30.41%) User Acceptance Testing
6 47 (27.49%) Stakeholder Management
7 43 (25.15%) Data Migration
8 33 (19.30%) Budgeting
9 31 (18.13%) Validation
10 22 (12.87%) System Integration Testing
11 21 (12.28%) Cash Management
12 20 (11.70%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (11.11%) Process Improvement
14 18 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
15 17 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 16 (9.36%) Analytics
16 16 (9.36%) Project Delivery
16 16 (9.36%) Requirements Gathering
16 16 (9.36%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (12.87%) SQL
2 7 (4.09%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.34%) C#
3 4 (2.34%) X++
4 3 (1.75%) ABAP
4 3 (1.75%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.58%) Python
5 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (14.04%) ACCA
1 24 (14.04%) CIMA
2 19 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.36%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.26%) PMP
5 8 (4.68%) Degree
6 7 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.51%) AAT
8 5 (2.92%) CCA
9 4 (2.34%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.75%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.17%) CIPFA
11 2 (1.17%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.58%) CCAB
12 1 (0.58%) CISM
12 1 (0.58%) CISSP
12 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.85%) Data Quality
1 10 (5.85%) IFRS
2 7 (4.09%) GDPR
3 5 (2.92%) GRC
4 3 (1.75%) QA
5 2 (1.17%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.17%) GAAP
6 1 (0.58%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.17%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.58%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (39.77%) Oracle
2 51 (29.82%) SAP
3 44 (25.73%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.68%) Sage
5 7 (4.09%) Workday
6 5 (2.92%) Xero
7 4 (2.34%) Databricks
7 4 (2.34%) Infor
7 4 (2.34%) Talend
8 3 (1.75%) Adobe
8 3 (1.75%) Google
9 2 (1.17%) Adaptive Insights
9 2 (1.17%) Anaplan
9 2 (1.17%) Ariba
9 2 (1.17%) Epicor
9 2 (1.17%) HP
9 2 (1.17%) IFS
9 2 (1.17%) Murex
9 2 (1.17%) QAD
9 2 (1.17%) ServiceNow