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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 431 481
Rank change year-on-year -83 +50 +69
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 163 121 93
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.37% 0.23%
As % of the General category 0.56% 0.58% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 74 48
10th Percentile £419 £404 £429
25th Percentile £500 £415 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +5.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £672 £675 £652
90th Percentile £831 £817 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.91% -4.35% +9.52%
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 29,176 20,705 22,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.95% 63.13% 57.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,355 12,970 14,349
10th Percentile £313 £280 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,128 1,095 1,482
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.36 £13.86
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £32.81 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.44% -32.93% +22.87%
75th Percentile £60.06 £51.65 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.10 £70.81 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.25 £22.50 £38.06
% change year-on-year +47.78% -40.88% +46.38%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -86 142 £600 +4.35% 38
UK excluding London -26 81 £518 -5.91% 24
London -74 69 £625 +19.05% 18
Work from Home -48 51 £542 -9.67% 23
South West -17 28 £600 -4.00% 5
Midlands -42 15 £481 -25.96% 5
South East -56 13 £471 -44.56% 8
West Midlands -54 9 £430 -42.73% 4
Northern Ireland - 9 - -
East Midlands -9 6 £625 +11.11% 1
East of England -16 6 £561 -2.39% 2
North of England -72 6 £525 +17.45% 3
Scotland -8 3 - -
Yorkshire -51 3 - - 1
North West -55 3 £525 +17.45% 2
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 9 (5.52%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 14 (8.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 40 (24.54%) Oracle Payables
2 30 (18.40%) Oracle Receivables
3 28 (17.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (12.88%) Oracle General Ledger
5 20 (12.27%) Oracle Assets
6 19 (11.66%) Oracle EBS
7 16 (9.82%) NetSuite
8 15 (9.20%) Oracle Cash Management
9 10 (6.13%) SAP FI
10 9 (5.52%) Oracle EBS R12
11 8 (4.91%) Oracle ERP
12 7 (4.29%) Oracle E-Business Tax
13 6 (3.68%) SAP Business One
14 5 (3.07%) SAP CO
14 5 (3.07%) SAP FI/CO
14 5 (3.07%) SAP GRC
14 5 (3.07%) Unit4 Business World
15 4 (2.45%) Dynamics AX
15 4 (2.45%) Oracle FAH
15 4 (2.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 15 (9.20%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (4.29%) OCI
3 6 (3.68%) Azure
3 6 (3.68%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.68%) SaaS
4 4 (2.45%) Power Automate
4 4 (2.45%) PowerApps
5 3 (1.84%) Copilot Studio
5 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (1.84%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.23%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.23%) dbt
6 2 (1.23%) Google Sheets
6 2 (1.23%) Intacct
7 1 (0.61%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.61%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 7 (4.29%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.45%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (2.45%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.45%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.84%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.23%) Power BI
5 2 (1.23%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.23%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.61%) Metadata
6 1 (0.61%) OLTP
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.07%) JDeveloper
2 4 (2.45%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (2.45%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.23%) Hudson
4 1 (0.61%) ERwin
4 1 (0.61%) JIRA
4 1 (0.61%) Toad
General
1 154 (94.48%) Finance
2 49 (30.06%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.72%) Banking
4 22 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (11.04%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.91%) Retail
7 5 (3.07%) Billing
7 5 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.45%) Local Government
8 4 (2.45%) Military
9 3 (1.84%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.84%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.84%) Legal
9 3 (1.84%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.84%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (32.52%) Consultant
2 24 (14.72%) Lead
3 19 (11.66%) Oracle Consultant
4 16 (9.82%) Analyst
4 16 (9.82%) Functional Consultant
5 15 (9.20%) SAP Consultant
6 11 (6.75%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.13%) Developer
7 10 (6.13%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 8 (4.91%) Architect
8 8 (4.91%) Implementation Consultant
8 8 (4.91%) Senior
9 7 (4.29%) Accountant
9 7 (4.29%) Financial Analyst
9 7 (4.29%) NetSuite Consultant
9 7 (4.29%) Transformation Consultant
10 6 (3.68%) Finance Manager
10 6 (3.68%) Lead Consultant
11 5 (3.07%) Oracle Financials Consultant
11 5 (3.07%) SAP Financial Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (4.91%) XML
3 5 (3.07%) Middleware
4 4 (2.45%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (1.84%) REST
6 2 (1.23%) Express.js
6 2 (1.23%) MERN Stack
6 2 (1.23%) Node.js
6 2 (1.23%) React
6 2 (1.23%) RESTful
6 2 (1.23%) Web Services
7 1 (0.61%) Restlet
7 1 (0.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.43%) Onboarding
2 11 (6.75%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.91%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.84%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.84%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.23%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.23%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.23%) Life Science
7 1 (0.61%) CESG
7 1 (0.61%) Derivative
7 1 (0.61%) Equities
7 1 (0.61%) FMCG
7 1 (0.61%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.61%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.61%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.84%) Unix
2 1 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (43.56%) Accounts Payable
2 66 (40.49%) Accounts Receivable
3 58 (35.58%) ERP
4 48 (29.45%) Migration
5 47 (28.83%) User Acceptance Testing
6 41 (25.15%) Data Migration
7 40 (24.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 35 (21.47%) Budgeting
9 34 (20.86%) Validation
10 22 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (12.88%) Cash Management
12 19 (11.66%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (11.66%) System Integration Testing
13 17 (10.43%) Process Improvement
13 17 (10.43%) Workflow
14 16 (9.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 14 (8.59%) AI
15 14 (8.59%) Analytics
15 14 (8.59%) Workshop Facilitation
16 13 (7.98%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (12.88%) SQL
2 8 (4.91%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.45%) C#
3 4 (2.45%) X++
4 3 (1.84%) ABAP
4 3 (1.84%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.61%) Python
5 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (15.34%) ACCA
1 25 (15.34%) CIMA
2 16 (9.82%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.52%) Degree
4 9 (5.52%) PMP
5 7 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.68%) AAT
7 4 (2.45%) CCA
8 3 (1.84%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.84%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.23%) CIPFA
9 2 (1.23%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.61%) CCAB
10 1 (0.61%) CISM
10 1 (0.61%) CISSP
10 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.91%) IFRS
3 7 (4.29%) GDPR
4 5 (3.07%) GRC
5 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.23%) GAAP
5 2 (1.23%) QA
6 1 (0.61%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.61%) CEMLI
1 1 (0.61%) HP ALM
1 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (38.04%) Oracle
2 49 (30.06%) SAP
3 43 (26.38%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.52%) Sage
5 8 (4.91%) Workday
6 5 (3.07%) Infor
6 5 (3.07%) Xero
7 4 (2.45%) Talend
8 3 (1.84%) Adaptive Insights
8 3 (1.84%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.84%) Databricks
8 3 (1.84%) Epicor
8 3 (1.84%) Google
8 3 (1.84%) IFS
8 3 (1.84%) QAD
8 3 (1.84%) Zuora
9 2 (1.23%) Ariba
9 2 (1.23%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (0.61%) Adobe
10 1 (0.61%) Murex