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 3 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 420 499
Rank change year-on-year -59 +79 +131
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 138 106 98
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.35% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.57% 0.57% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 62 62
10th Percentile £360 £439 £414
25th Percentile £431 £491 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £571 £630
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% -9.33% +22.33%
75th Percentile £652 £648 £649
90th Percentile £819 £713 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +25.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.52 -
Median % change year-on-year +115.52% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £29.00 -
% change year-on-year +89.66% - -

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 24,224 18,626 26,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.07% 62.38% 58.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,159 11,511 16,788
10th Percentile £300 £287 £263
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £493
% change year-on-year -0.52% -3.05% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,476 622 1,752
10th Percentile £13.60 £15.60 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.67 £20.27 £15.37
Median hourly rate £23.79 £30.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +16.69% -19.43%
75th Percentile £54.25 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £27.39 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.70% +9.54% -6.17%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -52 124 £595 +4.85% 33
London -36 64 £613 +3.81% 16
UK excluding London -50 59 £550 +4.76% 25
Work from Home -27 44 £600 +1.69% 25
South East -11 22 £600 +16.50% 11
South West -7 11 £475 +11.76% 2
Midlands -56 11 £423 -19.52% 3
East Midlands -25 8 £450 -10.00% 1
North of England -59 7 £500 -9.09% 2
Yorkshire -57 5 £500 -9.09% 1
Scotland - 5 £450 - 1
East of England -26 3 £600 - 4
West Midlands -56 3 £268 -49.67% 2
North West -37 2 - - 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 4 (2.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (2.90%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.45%) Confluence
2 2 (1.45%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 2 (1.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (7.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.90%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 53 (38.41%) Oracle Payables
2 43 (31.16%) Oracle General Ledger
3 42 (30.43%) Oracle Receivables
4 34 (24.64%) Oracle Assets
5 26 (18.84%) Oracle Cash Management
6 23 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
6 23 (16.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 18 (13.04%) Oracle EBS R12
8 16 (11.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 12 (8.70%) Oracle Financials
10 11 (7.97%) SAP S/4HANA
11 10 (7.25%) Oracle AGIS
12 9 (6.52%) Oracle FAH
13 5 (3.62%) Oracle E-Business Tax
14 4 (2.90%) Oracle ERP
14 4 (2.90%) SAP FI
15 2 (1.45%) SAP R/3
16 1 (0.72%) Oracle SCM
16 1 (0.72%) SAP FI/CO
16 1 (0.72%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.32%) SaaS
2 16 (11.59%) OCI
3 11 (7.97%) Azure
3 11 (7.97%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (7.25%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.62%) PaaS
7 4 (2.90%) Lucidchart
7 4 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.45%) IaaS
9 1 (0.72%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.72%) dbt
9 1 (0.72%) GitHub
9 1 (0.72%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.72%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.25%) Power BI
2 7 (5.07%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 6 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.72%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.90%) JIRA
1 4 (2.90%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.17%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.45%) Hudson
4 1 (0.72%) Toad
General
1 130 (94.20%) Finance
2 53 (38.41%) Social Skills
3 26 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (14.49%) Banking
5 16 (11.59%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.35%) Law
7 5 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.90%) Billing
8 4 (2.90%) Legal
8 4 (2.90%) Publishing
9 3 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.17%) Military
10 2 (1.45%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.45%) Local Government
11 1 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.72%) French Language
11 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (32.61%) Consultant
2 27 (19.57%) Oracle Consultant
3 25 (18.12%) Analyst
4 24 (17.39%) Functional Consultant
5 19 (13.77%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 18 (13.04%) Oracle Financials Consultant
7 16 (11.59%) Business Analyst
8 15 (10.87%) Lead
8 15 (10.87%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
9 12 (8.70%) Financial Analyst
10 11 (7.97%) Senior
11 8 (5.80%) Accountant
11 8 (5.80%) Architect
11 8 (5.80%) Developer
12 7 (5.07%) Oracle Analyst
12 7 (5.07%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (5.07%) Senior Business Analyst
13 6 (4.35%) Oracle Architect
13 6 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
14 5 (3.62%) Financial Controller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (23.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.62%) Middleware
3 4 (2.90%) XML
4 3 (2.17%) REST
5 2 (1.45%) ADO
5 2 (1.45%) SOAP
5 2 (1.45%) Web Services
5 2 (1.45%) XML Messaging
6 1 (0.72%) EDI
6 1 (0.72%) Express.js
6 1 (0.72%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.72%) Node.js
6 1 (0.72%) React
6 1 (0.72%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.97%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.80%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.62%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.45%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.45%) Derivative
6 2 (1.45%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.72%) AS400
7 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.72%) Equities
7 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.72%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.45%) Linux
1 2 (1.45%) Windows
2 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (44.93%) Accounts Payable
2 53 (38.41%) Accounts Receivable
3 42 (30.43%) ERP
4 35 (25.36%) Migration
5 34 (24.64%) User Acceptance Testing
6 30 (21.74%) Cash Management
7 28 (20.29%) Business Intelligence
7 28 (20.29%) Procure-to-Pay
8 22 (15.94%) Validation
9 20 (14.49%) Agile
9 20 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (13.77%) Data Migration
11 17 (12.32%) Budgeting
12 15 (10.87%) Budgeting and Forecasting
12 15 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (9.42%) Decision-Making
13 13 (9.42%) Workshop Facilitation
14 12 (8.70%) Project Management
14 12 (8.70%) Record to Report
14 12 (8.70%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.39%) SQL
2 11 (7.97%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.90%) X++
4 1 (0.72%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 25 (18.12%) ACCA
1 25 (18.12%) CIMA
2 20 (14.49%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.87%) Degree
4 13 (9.42%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.62%) PMI Certification
5 5 (3.62%) PMP
6 3 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.72%) CISM
8 1 (0.72%) CISSP
8 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.72%) MBA
8 1 (0.72%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 7 (5.07%) IFRS
3 6 (4.35%) Basel III
3 6 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.35%) GAAP
3 6 (4.35%) IFRS 9
4 5 (3.62%) SLA
5 4 (2.90%) QA
6 2 (1.45%) GDPR
6 2 (1.45%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.45%) PMO
7 1 (0.72%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (0.72%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.45%) Control-M
2 1 (0.72%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 69 (50.00%) Oracle
2 31 (22.46%) SAP
3 15 (10.87%) Workday
4 11 (7.97%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.90%) Xero
6 3 (2.17%) Ariba
6 3 (2.17%) IFS
6 3 (2.17%) Informatica
7 2 (1.45%) CODA
7 2 (1.45%) Infor
8 1 (0.72%) Adobe
8 1 (0.72%) Charles River
8 1 (0.72%) Epicor
8 1 (0.72%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.72%) IBM
8 1 (0.72%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.72%) Murex
8 1 (0.72%) QAD
8 1 (0.72%) Sage
8 1 (0.72%) SimCorp