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 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 108 127
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 +61
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 10 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.54% 0.64% 0.28%
As % of the General category 0.79% 0.95% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 5
10th Percentile £518 £547 £430
25th Percentile £525 £596 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £688 £528
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +30.21% -3.12%
75th Percentile £700 £734 £606
90th Percentile - £775 £648
Central London median daily rate £625 £650 £528
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.11% -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 1,268 1,373 1,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 68.99% 67.77% 64.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 840 1,154
10th Percentile £338 £350 £350
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £579 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% +0.65% -2.13%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £688
90th Percentile £788 £794 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 11
10th Percentile £20.18 £12.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.62 £18.00 £19.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £22.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% -12.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £45.08 £47.50 £42.38
90th Percentile £59.75 £73.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £33.75 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.64% +26.17% -37.79%

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 30 December 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) dbt
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) OCI
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Back Office
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Billing
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Finance Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) ERP Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (10.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (10.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Accounts Payable
1 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (10.00%) Accounts Receivable
3 1 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (10.00%) Due Diligence
3 1 (10.00%) ETL
3 1 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (10.00%) Order Management
3 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (10.00%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
3 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GAAP
1 3 (30.00%) IFRS
1 3 (30.00%) IFRS 9
2 1 (10.00%) Basel III
2 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) eFront
3 1 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Workday