General Ledger Contract Job Trends in the City of London

General Ledger
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term General Ledger in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited General Ledger over the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 107 121
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 +52
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 10 7 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.45% 0.40% 0.54%
As % of the General category 0.77% 0.57% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £544 - £403
25th Percentile £600 £404 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year +42.91% -1.67% -23.64%
75th Percentile £825 £650 £606
90th Percentile £875 £673 £648
Central London median daily rate £738 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +55.32% -9.52% -23.64%

All General Skills
City of London

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 in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,297 1,236 1,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 58.48% 70.67% 65.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 778 1,055
10th Percentile £357 £330 £338
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £705 £687 £689
90th Percentile £810 £775 £806
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.05 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.83 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% +36.77% -36.42%
75th Percentile £45.08 £58.75 £27.25
90th Percentile £53.50 £108.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £32.83 £25.00
% change year-on-year -20.46% +31.30% -28.57%

General Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing General Ledger relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

General Ledger job vacancy trend in the City of London

General Ledger
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing General Ledger.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing General Ledger

General Ledger
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing General Ledger in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for General Ledger in the City of London

General Ledger
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing General Ledger.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing General Ledger

General Ledger
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (10.00%) Aladdin
2 1 (10.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) OCI
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Finance Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Finance Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Finance Systems Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Functional Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Functional Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Workday Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) Derivative
1 1 (10.00%) Equities
1 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Accounts Payable
3 2 (20.00%) ERP
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Accounts Receivable
4 1 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lineage
4 1 (10.00%) E-business
4 1 (10.00%) ETL
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Record to Report
4 1 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) IFRS
2 3 (30.00%) GAAP
2 3 (30.00%) IFRS 9
3 1 (10.00%) Basel III
3 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) SAP
3 2 (20.00%) Workday
4 1 (10.00%) Charles River
4 1 (10.00%) Informatica
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) SimCorp