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 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 428 505
Rank change year-on-year -52 +77 +103
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 145 91 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.31% 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.58% 0.50% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 50 54
10th Percentile £346 £359 £413
25th Percentile £431 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £583 £613
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% -4.82% +18.93%
75th Percentile £675 £648 £645
90th Percentile £825 £692 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £22.04 -
Median % change year-on-year +149.55% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year +120.00% - -

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 25,119 18,234 25,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.22% 62.79% 58.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,660 11,696 16,405
10th Percentile £300 £300 £268
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,557 715 1,850
10th Percentile £13.71 £15.00 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.14 £19.00 £15.38
Median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £59.00 £58.56 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.15 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £27.70 £25.00
% change year-on-year -13.36% +10.80% -19.35%

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 1 April 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
Top 14 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 1 April 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 -58 126 £595 +2.06% 32
London -51 67 £650 +9.98% 22
UK excluding London -57 61 £500 -4.76% 18
Work from Home -35 49 £600 +0.76% 17
South East -35 20 £590 - 11
South West -14 15 £500 -9.09% 1
Midlands -68 11 £410 -21.90% 1
Scotland +14 7 £450 +114.29% 3
East Midlands -28 7 £423 -15.50%
North of England -64 7 £500 -1.23% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £500 - 1
West Midlands -58 4 £347 -34.00% 1
North West -41 2 - - 1
East of England -32 1 £600 -

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 (4.14%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (2.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.07%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (1.38%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 50 (34.48%) Oracle Payables
2 40 (27.59%) Oracle Receivables
3 39 (26.90%) Oracle General Ledger
4 31 (21.38%) Oracle Assets
5 26 (17.93%) Oracle Cash Management
6 21 (14.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 20 (13.79%) Oracle EBS
8 13 (8.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 13 (8.97%) SAP S/4HANA
9 12 (8.28%) Oracle EBS R12
10 9 (6.21%) Oracle Financials
11 8 (5.52%) Oracle AGIS
12 7 (4.83%) Oracle FAH
13 6 (4.14%) SAP FI
14 4 (2.76%) Oracle E-Business Tax
14 4 (2.76%) Oracle ERP
15 3 (2.07%) NetSuite
16 2 (1.38%) SAP Business One
16 2 (1.38%) SAP FI/CO
16 2 (1.38%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.72%) SaaS
2 15 (10.34%) OCI
3 9 (6.21%) Azure
3 9 (6.21%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (5.52%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.45%) PaaS
6 4 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.76%) Lucidchart
6 4 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.38%) IaaS
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.69%) dbt
8 1 (0.69%) GitHub
8 1 (0.69%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.69%) Intacct
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.52%) Power BI
2 7 (4.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 7 (4.83%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.76%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.38%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.69%) Metadata
7 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.07%) JIRA
1 3 (2.07%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.38%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.69%) Hudson
3 1 (0.69%) Toad
General
1 139 (95.86%) Finance
2 50 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 30 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (17.24%) Banking
5 14 (9.66%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.14%) Law
7 6 (4.14%) Legal
8 4 (2.76%) Billing
8 4 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.76%) Military
8 4 (2.76%) Publishing
9 3 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.07%) Retail
10 2 (1.38%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.38%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.38%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.38%) Local Government
11 1 (0.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 44 (30.34%) Consultant
2 27 (18.62%) Analyst
3 21 (14.48%) Lead
3 21 (14.48%) Oracle Consultant
4 20 (13.79%) Functional Consultant
5 16 (11.03%) Business Analyst
6 14 (9.66%) Oracle Financials Consultant
6 14 (9.66%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 11 (7.59%) Financial Analyst
8 10 (6.90%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
9 9 (6.21%) Accountant
9 9 (6.21%) Senior
10 8 (5.52%) Architect
10 8 (5.52%) Developer
11 6 (4.14%) Oracle Analyst
11 6 (4.14%) Oracle Architect
11 6 (4.14%) SAP Consultant
11 6 (4.14%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.14%) Senior Business Analyst
11 6 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (22.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.45%) Middleware
2 5 (3.45%) XML
3 2 (1.38%) ADO
3 2 (1.38%) REST
3 2 (1.38%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (1.38%) SOAP
3 2 (1.38%) Web Services
3 2 (1.38%) XML Messaging
4 1 (0.69%) EDI
4 1 (0.69%) Express.js
4 1 (0.69%) MERN Stack
4 1 (0.69%) Node.js
4 1 (0.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.66%) Onboarding
2 7 (4.83%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.76%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.07%) Augmented Reality
5 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.38%) Derivative
6 2 (1.38%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.69%) AS400
7 1 (0.69%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.69%) Equities
7 1 (0.69%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.69%) Replication
7 1 (0.69%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.38%) Linux
1 2 (1.38%) Windows
2 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (43.45%) Accounts Payable
2 54 (37.24%) Accounts Receivable
3 42 (28.97%) ERP
4 36 (24.83%) Migration
5 35 (24.14%) User Acceptance Testing
6 31 (21.38%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (20.69%) Cash Management
8 26 (17.93%) Procure-to-Pay
9 25 (17.24%) Validation
10 24 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (14.48%) Budgeting
12 18 (12.41%) Agile
12 18 (12.41%) Data Migration
13 17 (11.72%) Budgeting and Forecasting
14 15 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (8.97%) Decision-Making
15 13 (8.97%) Financial Modelling
15 13 (8.97%) Project Management
15 13 (8.97%) Record to Report
16 12 (8.28%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.93%) SQL
2 11 (7.59%) PL/SQL
3 2 (1.38%) X++
4 1 (0.69%) ABAP
4 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (18.62%) ACCA
1 27 (18.62%) CIMA
2 16 (11.03%) Degree
3 15 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 11 (7.59%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.14%) PMP
6 5 (3.45%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.07%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.38%) CISM
8 2 (1.38%) CISSP
8 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.69%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.69%) MBA
9 1 (0.69%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.52%) Data Quality
1 8 (5.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 6 (4.14%) Basel III
2 6 (4.14%) GAAP
2 6 (4.14%) IFRS
3 5 (3.45%) IFRS 9
3 5 (3.45%) QA
4 3 (2.07%) SLA
5 2 (1.38%) GDPR
5 2 (1.38%) GRC
5 2 (1.38%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.69%) PMO
6 1 (0.69%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.69%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.38%) Control-M
2 1 (0.69%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 67 (46.21%) Oracle
2 37 (25.52%) SAP
3 14 (9.66%) Workday
4 12 (8.28%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.76%) Xero
6 3 (2.07%) Ariba
6 3 (2.07%) Informatica
7 2 (1.38%) CODA
7 2 (1.38%) IFS
7 2 (1.38%) Infor
7 2 (1.38%) PeopleSoft
7 2 (1.38%) Sage
8 1 (0.69%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.69%) Adobe
8 1 (0.69%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.69%) Concur
8 1 (0.69%) Databricks
8 1 (0.69%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.69%) Misys
8 1 (0.69%) Zuora