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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 110 115
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +57
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 20 7 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.83% 0.40% 0.56%
As % of the General category 1.45% 0.54% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 2
10th Percentile £529 - £499
25th Percentile £573 £404 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £408 £581
Median % change year-on-year +90.25% -29.89% -33.57%
75th Percentile £941 £574 £639
90th Percentile £1,040 £672 £668
Central London median daily rate £775 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +63.21% -2.56% -44.29%

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 1,379 1,285 1,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 56.94% 73.34% 67.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 813 995
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £457 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £565
% change year-on-year +2.73% -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 8
10th Percentile - £16.85 £18.74
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.15
Median hourly rate £21.33 £31.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -31.19% +29.67% +32.82%
75th Percentile £40.63 £63.75 £32.81
90th Percentile £52.46 £93.25 £79.80
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £34.48 £26.56
% change year-on-year -21.69% +29.82% +28.28%

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 26 June 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 (10.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (5.00%) Aladdin
2 1 (5.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (5.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) ChatGPT
2 1 (5.00%) dbt
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
General
1 19 (95.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Finance Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Finance Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Finance Systems Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Programme Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Systems Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Workday Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Data Migration Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Derivatives Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Functional Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Derivative
1 2 (10.00%) Equities
1 2 (10.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Migration
2 13 (65.00%) Data Migration
3 10 (50.00%) Accounts Payable
3 10 (50.00%) ERP
3 10 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 9 (45.00%) Accounts Receivable
5 7 (35.00%) Project Delivery
6 5 (25.00%) Validation
7 4 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 2 (10.00%) Analytics
8 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
9 1 (5.00%) Architectural Design
9 1 (5.00%) Integration Testing
9 1 (5.00%) Requirements Gathering
9 1 (5.00%) System Integration Testing
9 1 (5.00%) Test Scripting
9 1 (5.00%) Test Strategy
9 1 (5.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) IFRS
2 1 (5.00%) GAAP
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Workday
4 1 (5.00%) Charles River
4 1 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) SimCorp