General Ledger Contract Job Trends in London

General Ledger
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term General Ledger in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited General Ledger over the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 292 320
Rank change year-on-year -85 +28 +71
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 80 73 61
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.40% 0.54% 0.38%
As % of the General category 0.64% 0.79% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 53 40
10th Percentile £463 £406 £460
25th Percentile £525 £415 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year - +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £719 £673 £694
90th Percentile £926 £750 £753
England median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £59.55 £53.38 -
25th Percentile £61.50 £54.69 -
Median hourly rate £66.00 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.34% - -
75th Percentile £70.50 £62.19 -
90th Percentile £72.45 £63.13 -
England median hourly rate £19.69 £58.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -66.49% +38.24% +117.95%

All General Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 12,513 9,208 10,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.92% 68.54% 62.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,975 6,052 6,560
10th Percentile £350 £330 £331
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £779 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £527
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.03% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 178 121
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.84 £17.50
25th Percentile £20.01 £24.50 £25.23
Median hourly rate £28.47 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -10.03% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.18 £66.90 £68.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%

General Ledger
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

General Ledger job vacancy trend in London

General Ledger
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

General Ledger
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing General Ledger in London over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for General Ledger in London

General Ledger
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

General Ledger
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing General Ledger in London over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for General Ledger in London

General Ledger
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
Central London -8 20 £750 +7.14% 20
West London - 4 £475 - 2
General Ledger
England

General Ledger
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 3 (3.75%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (32.50%) Oracle Payables
2 22 (27.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 21 (26.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 16 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (16.25%) Oracle Assets
6 11 (13.75%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (10.00%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (8.75%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (8.75%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (6.25%) Oracle Cash Management
9 5 (6.25%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 5 (6.25%) Oracle FAH
10 4 (5.00%) NetSuite
10 4 (5.00%) Oracle Internet Expenses
10 4 (5.00%) Oracle iProcurement
11 3 (3.75%) Unit4 Business World
12 2 (2.50%) Dynamics AX
12 2 (2.50%) Dynamics GP
12 2 (2.50%) Dynamics SL
12 2 (2.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
1 8 (10.00%) OCI
2 7 (8.75%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.25%) Azure
4 4 (5.00%) AWS
4 4 (5.00%) Power Automate
4 4 (5.00%) PowerApps
5 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.75%) Copilot Studio
5 3 (3.75%) GCP
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.50%) SaaS
7 1 (1.25%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.25%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.25%) dbt
7 1 (1.25%) GitHub
7 1 (1.25%) Intacct
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 3 (3.75%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (3.75%) Power BI
2 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.25%) OLTP
3 1 (1.25%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) JIRA
2 4 (5.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.75%) JDeveloper
3 3 (3.75%) Oracle Forms
General
1 76 (95.00%) Finance
2 30 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 23 (28.75%) Banking
4 13 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 5 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Retail
7 2 (2.50%) Billing
7 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.50%) International Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Local Government
8 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (25.00%) Analyst
1 20 (25.00%) Consultant
2 19 (23.75%) Business Analyst
3 14 (17.50%) Financial Analyst
4 12 (15.00%) Finance Business Analyst
4 12 (15.00%) Oracle Consultant
5 11 (13.75%) Functional Consultant
6 8 (10.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 8 (10.00%) Senior
7 7 (8.75%) Developer
7 7 (8.75%) Lead
8 5 (6.25%) Change Analyst
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Banking Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Banking Business Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Finance Manager
9 4 (5.00%) Oracle Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Oracle Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (6.25%) Middleware
3 3 (3.75%) XML
4 2 (2.50%) RESTful
5 1 (1.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.75%) Derivative
3 3 (3.75%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.25%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Equities
5 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.25%) FMCG
5 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.25%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Unix
2 1 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (47.50%) Accounts Payable
2 37 (46.25%) ERP
3 34 (42.50%) Accounts Receivable
4 33 (41.25%) Migration
5 30 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
6 28 (35.00%) Data Migration
6 28 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (25.00%) Validation
8 15 (18.75%) Data Analysis
8 15 (18.75%) Workshop Facilitation
9 13 (16.25%) Budgeting
9 13 (16.25%) System Integration Testing
10 12 (15.00%) Business Analysis
10 12 (15.00%) Process Improvement
11 11 (13.75%) Data Modelling
11 11 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
13 9 (11.25%) Change Management
13 9 (11.25%) Project Delivery
13 9 (11.25%) Record to Report
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.50%) SQL
2 4 (5.00%) C#
2 4 (5.00%) PL/SQL
2 4 (5.00%) X++
3 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (8.75%) ACCA
1 7 (8.75%) CIMA
1 7 (8.75%) Degree
2 6 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.25%) PMP
5 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (21.25%) Data Quality
2 10 (12.50%) IFRS
3 3 (3.75%) GDPR
3 3 (3.75%) IFRS 17
4 2 (2.50%) GAAP
4 2 (2.50%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.25%) QA
5 1 (1.25%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 37 (46.25%) Oracle
2 25 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 15 (18.75%) SAP
4 8 (10.00%) Workday
5 4 (5.00%) Talend
6 3 (3.75%) Sage
7 2 (2.50%) Adaptive Insights
7 2 (2.50%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.50%) Anaplan
7 2 (2.50%) Ariba
7 2 (2.50%) CODA
7 2 (2.50%) Epicor
7 2 (2.50%) HP
7 2 (2.50%) IFS
7 2 (2.50%) Infor
7 2 (2.50%) Murex
7 2 (2.50%) QAD
7 2 (2.50%) Zuora
8 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.25%) Xero