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 26 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 436 448
Rank change year-on-year -60 +12 +99
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 186 116 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.35% 0.32%
As % of the General category 0.61% 0.55% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 76 63
10th Percentile £415 £404 £440
25th Percentile £500 £419 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £632 £675 £681
90th Percentile £761 £801 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £16.62 £53.38 -
25th Percentile £18.22 £54.69 £41.25
Median hourly rate £30.59 £58.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.94% +38.24% +117.95%
75th Percentile £70.50 £62.19 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.10 £63.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.69 - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - +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 30,691 20,987 22,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.94% 63.45% 58.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,938 13,037 13,227
10th Percentile £313 £275 £281
25th Percentile £419 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,607 1,219 1,051
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £29.01 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -28.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £53.95 £47.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £21.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.85% -38.86% +29.63%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -59 161 £550 -4.35% 131
UK excluding London -43 91 £510 -2.86% 66
London -75 77 £600 - 73
Work from Home -19 71 £525 -12.50% 60
Midlands -32 23 £516 -6.25% 9
South West -21 21 £600 +26.32% 4
South East -63 19 £503 -2.43% 25
West Midlands -36 14 £427 -25.74% 9
East Midlands -11 9 £575 +26.37%
Northern Ireland - 9 - - 3
East of England -30 8 £505 -15.83% 5
North of England -71 6 £525 +17.45% 16
Scotland -20 4 £555 - 4
Yorkshire -40 3 - - 4
North West -45 3 £525 +17.45% 9
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 7 (3.76%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (10.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 51 (27.42%) Oracle Payables
2 44 (23.66%) Oracle Receivables
3 37 (19.89%) Oracle General Ledger
4 34 (18.28%) SAP S/4HANA
5 24 (12.90%) Oracle Assets
6 22 (11.83%) Oracle EBS
7 18 (9.68%) Oracle ERP
8 15 (8.06%) NetSuite
9 14 (7.53%) Oracle Cash Management
10 10 (5.38%) SAP FI
11 9 (4.84%) Oracle EBS R12
12 8 (4.30%) Oracle Financials
13 7 (3.76%) Oracle E-Business Tax
14 5 (2.69%) Oracle FAH
14 5 (2.69%) SAP CO
14 5 (2.69%) SAP FI/CO
14 5 (2.69%) SAP GRC
15 4 (2.15%) Oracle Internet Expenses
15 4 (2.15%) Oracle iProcurement
15 4 (2.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 18 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
2 15 (8.06%) OCI
3 11 (5.91%) Azure
4 8 (4.30%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.15%) AWS
6 4 (2.15%) Google Workspace
6 4 (2.15%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.15%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.15%) SaaS
7 3 (1.61%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (1.61%) dbt
7 3 (1.61%) GCP
7 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.08%) Azure Databricks
8 2 (1.08%) Google Sheets
8 2 (1.08%) Intacct
9 1 (0.54%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.54%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 6 (3.23%) Oracle Database
2 6 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.15%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (2.15%) Power BI
3 4 (2.15%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.61%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.08%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.08%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.08%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.54%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 6 (3.23%) JIRA
2 5 (2.69%) JDeveloper
3 4 (2.15%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (2.15%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.08%) ERwin
4 2 (1.08%) Hudson
5 1 (0.54%) Toad
General
1 179 (96.24%) Finance
2 65 (34.95%) Social Skills
3 35 (18.82%) Banking
4 22 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (11.29%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.38%) Billing
7 8 (4.30%) Retail
8 7 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.23%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.69%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.69%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.15%) Local Government
11 4 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.61%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.61%) Legal
12 3 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.61%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.08%) International Banking
13 2 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 56 (30.11%) Consultant
2 30 (16.13%) Analyst
3 27 (14.52%) Lead
4 25 (13.44%) Business Analyst
4 25 (13.44%) Oracle Consultant
5 21 (11.29%) Functional Consultant
6 20 (10.75%) Financial Analyst
7 14 (7.53%) Finance Business Analyst
7 14 (7.53%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 13 (6.99%) SAP Consultant
9 10 (5.38%) Senior
10 9 (4.84%) Architect
11 8 (4.30%) Accountant
11 8 (4.30%) Developer
11 8 (4.30%) Implementation Consultant
12 7 (3.76%) NetSuite Consultant
12 7 (3.76%) Trainer
12 7 (3.76%) Transformation Consultant
13 6 (3.23%) Lead Consultant
14 5 (2.69%) SAP Financial Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (20.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (4.30%) XML
3 6 (3.23%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (2.69%) Middleware
4 5 (2.69%) REST
5 4 (2.15%) Web Services
6 3 (1.61%) SOAP
7 2 (1.08%) JSON
7 2 (1.08%) RESTful
7 2 (1.08%) Spring
7 2 (1.08%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.54%) Express.js
8 1 (0.54%) MERN Stack
8 1 (0.54%) Node.js
8 1 (0.54%) React
8 1 (0.54%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.06%) Data Structures
2 9 (4.84%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.30%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.69%) e-Learning
5 5 (2.69%) Learning Management System
6 4 (2.15%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.61%) Derivative
7 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.61%) Life Science
7 3 (1.61%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.08%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.08%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.08%) NHS
8 2 (1.08%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.61%) Unix
2 1 (0.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (45.16%) Accounts Payable
2 82 (44.09%) Accounts Receivable
3 74 (39.78%) ERP
4 64 (34.41%) Migration
5 63 (33.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 54 (29.03%) User Acceptance Testing
7 53 (28.49%) Data Migration
8 36 (19.35%) Validation
9 32 (17.20%) Budgeting
9 32 (17.20%) Workshop Facilitation
10 27 (14.52%) System Integration Testing
11 26 (13.98%) Requirements Gathering
12 25 (13.44%) Process Improvement
13 21 (11.29%) Cash Management
13 21 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 19 (10.22%) Analytics
14 19 (10.22%) Change Management
14 19 (10.22%) Data Analysis
15 18 (9.68%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (15.05%) SQL
2 9 (4.84%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.15%) C#
3 4 (2.15%) X++
4 3 (1.61%) ABAP
4 3 (1.61%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.08%) Java
6 1 (0.54%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (15.05%) ACCA
1 28 (15.05%) CIMA
2 23 (12.37%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.91%) Degree
5 8 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (4.30%) PMP
6 7 (3.76%) AAT
7 5 (2.69%) CCA
8 4 (2.15%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.61%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.08%) CCAB
10 2 (1.08%) CIPFA
11 1 (0.54%) CISM
11 1 (0.54%) CISSP
11 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.60%) Data Quality
2 15 (8.06%) IFRS
3 7 (3.76%) GDPR
4 5 (2.69%) GRC
5 3 (1.61%) QA
6 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.08%) GAAP
6 2 (1.08%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.08%) IFRS 9
6 2 (1.08%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.08%) SEPA
7 1 (0.54%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.08%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.54%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (42.47%) Oracle
2 53 (28.49%) Microsoft
2 53 (28.49%) SAP
3 10 (5.38%) Workday
4 8 (4.30%) Sage
5 5 (2.69%) Xero
6 4 (2.15%) Adobe
6 4 (2.15%) Talend
7 3 (1.61%) Ariba
7 3 (1.61%) Databricks
7 3 (1.61%) Google
7 3 (1.61%) Infor
8 2 (1.08%) Adaptive Insights
8 2 (1.08%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.08%) Anaplan
8 2 (1.08%) Epicor
8 2 (1.08%) IFS
8 2 (1.08%) QAD
8 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.08%) Zuora