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 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 437 508
Rank change year-on-year -58 +71 +56
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 168 116 82
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.36% 0.19%
As % of the General category 0.58% 0.57% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 69 40
10th Percentile £416 £404 £461
25th Percentile £486 £415 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -6.67% +6.84%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £652
90th Percentile £858 £770 £796
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile £16.51 - -
25th Percentile £18.71 £20.45 £41.25
Median hourly rate £19.69 £22.04 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.66% -48.14% +115.19%
75th Percentile £81.88 £60.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.40 £69.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.69 £21.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -6.24% -50.59% +115.19%

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 29,012 20,465 24,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.85% 63.06% 57.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,395 12,853 15,377
10th Percentile £313 £281 £277
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £472 £490
% change year-on-year +5.88% -3.62% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,002 1,036 1,895
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.36 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.30 £15.95
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.17 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.63% -16.41% +6.42%
75th Percentile £61.18 £53.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £71.88 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year +41.30% -27.87% +22.63%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -60 145 £600 +20.00% 53
UK excluding London -44 85 £525 -4.55% 26
London -55 69 £613 +28.95% 30
Work from Home -51 51 £542 -9.67% 32
South West -9 29 £600 -4.00% 6
Midlands -47 17 £481 -25.96% 3
South East -56 13 £505 -40.59% 10
West Midlands -58 9 £427 -43.07% 1
Northern Ireland - 9 - -
East Midlands -16 8 £600 +20.00% 2
North of England -72 7 £525 +17.45% 3
East of England -24 5 £613 +2.08% 2
Scotland -5 4 £475 +126.19%
North West -51 4 £525 +17.45% 2
Yorkshire -49 3 - - 1
Wales - 1 £550 - 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 10 (5.95%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 11 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 44 (26.19%) Oracle Payables
2 33 (19.64%) Oracle Receivables
3 26 (15.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 22 (13.10%) Oracle General Ledger
5 21 (12.50%) Oracle Assets
6 20 (11.90%) Oracle EBS
7 15 (8.93%) Oracle Cash Management
8 14 (8.33%) NetSuite
9 11 (6.55%) Oracle EBS R12
10 9 (5.36%) SAP FI
11 7 (4.17%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 7 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
11 7 (4.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 6 (3.57%) Oracle FAH
12 6 (3.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 6 (3.57%) SAP Business One
13 4 (2.38%) Oracle Financials
13 4 (2.38%) SAP CO
13 4 (2.38%) SAP FI/CO
13 4 (2.38%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 10 (5.95%) Dynamics 365
2 8 (4.76%) OCI
2 8 (4.76%) SaaS
3 6 (3.57%) Azure
4 3 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.19%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.19%) Google Sheets
5 2 (1.19%) Intacct
5 2 (1.19%) PaaS
5 2 (1.19%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.60%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.60%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.60%) dbt
6 1 (0.60%) GitHub
6 1 (0.60%) Lucidchart
6 1 (0.60%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.60%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 8 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (2.38%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.38%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.79%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (1.79%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.19%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.19%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.19%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.60%) Metadata
6 1 (0.60%) OLTP
6 1 (0.60%) Power BI
6 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.98%) JDeveloper
1 5 (2.98%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.19%) Hudson
2 2 (1.19%) Toad
3 1 (0.60%) JIRA
3 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 160 (95.24%) Finance
2 53 (31.55%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.10%) Banking
5 18 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.17%) Retail
7 5 (2.98%) Billing
7 5 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.98%) Military
8 4 (2.38%) Local Government
8 4 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.79%) Legal
9 3 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.19%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 61 (36.31%) Consultant
2 27 (16.07%) Lead
3 23 (13.69%) Oracle Consultant
4 20 (11.90%) Analyst
5 16 (9.52%) Functional Consultant
5 16 (9.52%) SAP Consultant
6 15 (8.93%) Business Analyst
7 11 (6.55%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 9 (5.36%) Financial Analyst
8 9 (5.36%) Lead Consultant
9 8 (4.76%) Implementation Consultant
9 8 (4.76%) Oracle Financials Consultant
9 8 (4.76%) Senior
10 7 (4.17%) Accountant
10 7 (4.17%) Developer
10 7 (4.17%) Transformation Consultant
11 6 (3.57%) Finance Business Analyst
11 6 (3.57%) NetSuite Consultant
12 5 (2.98%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 5 (2.98%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.17%) XML
3 5 (2.98%) Middleware
3 5 (2.98%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.79%) Web Services
5 2 (1.19%) Express.js
5 2 (1.19%) MERN Stack
5 2 (1.19%) Node.js
5 2 (1.19%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.90%) Onboarding
2 10 (5.95%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.95%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.38%) Augmented Reality
4 3 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.19%) Derivative
5 2 (1.19%) Equities
5 2 (1.19%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.60%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.60%) Replication
6 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.79%) Unix
2 1 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (42.86%) Accounts Payable
2 64 (38.10%) Accounts Receivable
3 56 (33.33%) ERP
4 48 (28.57%) Migration
5 46 (27.38%) User Acceptance Testing
6 41 (24.40%) Data Migration
7 38 (22.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 38 (22.62%) Validation
8 32 (19.05%) Budgeting
9 25 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (13.10%) Business Intelligence
11 20 (11.90%) Cash Management
12 18 (10.71%) System Integration Testing
13 17 (10.12%) Workflow
14 15 (8.93%) Process Improvement
14 15 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 13 (7.74%) AI
15 13 (7.74%) Analytics
15 13 (7.74%) Record to Report
15 13 (7.74%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 24 (14.29%) SQL
2 9 (5.36%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.38%) ABAP
4 3 (1.79%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.60%) C#
5 1 (0.60%) Python
5 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.60%) X++
Qualifications
1 29 (17.26%) ACCA
1 29 (17.26%) CIMA
2 12 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.55%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.76%) Degree
4 8 (4.76%) PMP
5 7 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.57%) AAT
7 4 (2.38%) CCA
8 3 (1.79%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.19%) CIPFA
9 2 (1.19%) CISM
9 2 (1.19%) CISSP
9 2 (1.19%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.60%) CCAB
10 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.60%) MBA
10 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.60%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.17%) GDPR
1 7 (4.17%) IFRS
2 5 (2.98%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.38%) GRC
4 2 (1.19%) GAAP
4 2 (1.19%) QA
5 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) PSD2
5 1 (0.60%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.19%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.60%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 62 (36.90%) Oracle
2 50 (29.76%) SAP
3 38 (22.62%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.36%) Sage
4 9 (5.36%) Workday
5 5 (2.98%) Infor
6 4 (2.38%) Talend
6 4 (2.38%) Xero
7 3 (1.79%) Adaptive Insights
7 3 (1.79%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.79%) Epicor
7 3 (1.79%) Google
7 3 (1.79%) IFS
7 3 (1.79%) QAD
7 3 (1.79%) Zuora
8 2 (1.19%) Ariba
8 2 (1.19%) Concur
8 2 (1.19%) Databricks
8 2 (1.19%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.60%) Murex