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 2 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 304 329
Rank change year-on-year -75 +25 +83
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 79 71 60
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.39% 0.53% 0.37%
As % of the General category 0.63% 0.77% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 52 37
10th Percentile £463 £405 £453
25th Percentile £525 £415 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +10.80%
75th Percentile £700 £673 £700
90th Percentile £868 £831 £760
England median daily rate £550 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% -
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 12,557 9,274 10,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.70% 68.81% 62.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,011 6,089 6,586
10th Percentile £350 £325 £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 £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 179 118
10th Percentile £16.07 £17.06 £17.85
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.56 £25.81
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% -10.64% +23.14%
75th Percentile £47.50 £48.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £71.30 £65.11 £65.32
England median hourly rate £29.50 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +17.30% -32.93% +31.00%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -19 20 £750 +7.14% 4
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 (3.80%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (32.91%) Oracle Payables
2 22 (27.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 21 (26.58%) Oracle General Ledger
4 17 (21.52%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (16.46%) Oracle Assets
6 10 (12.66%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (10.13%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (8.86%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (7.59%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 6 (7.59%) SAP S/4HANA
10 5 (6.33%) Oracle Cash Management
10 5 (6.33%) Oracle FAH
11 4 (5.06%) NetSuite
11 4 (5.06%) Oracle Internet Expenses
11 4 (5.06%) Oracle iProcurement
12 3 (3.80%) Unit4 Business World
13 2 (2.53%) Dynamics AX
13 2 (2.53%) Dynamics GP
13 2 (2.53%) Infor CloudSuite
13 2 (2.53%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.13%) Dynamics 365
1 8 (10.13%) OCI
2 7 (8.86%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.33%) Azure
4 4 (5.06%) AWS
4 4 (5.06%) Power Automate
4 4 (5.06%) PowerApps
5 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.80%) Copilot Studio
5 3 (3.80%) GCP
5 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.53%) SaaS
7 1 (1.27%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.27%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.27%) dbt
7 1 (1.27%) GitHub
7 1 (1.27%) Intacct
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 3 (3.80%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (3.80%) Power BI
2 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.27%) OLTP
3 1 (1.27%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (6.33%) JIRA
2 4 (5.06%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.80%) JDeveloper
3 3 (3.80%) Oracle Forms
General
1 75 (94.94%) Finance
2 29 (36.71%) Social Skills
3 22 (27.85%) Banking
4 13 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.33%) Financial Institution
5 5 (6.33%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Retail
7 2 (2.53%) Billing
7 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.53%) International Banking
7 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.27%) Local Government
8 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (26.58%) Consultant
2 20 (25.32%) Analyst
3 19 (24.05%) Business Analyst
4 14 (17.72%) Financial Analyst
5 13 (16.46%) Oracle Consultant
6 12 (15.19%) Finance Business Analyst
7 11 (13.92%) Functional Consultant
8 8 (10.13%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 8 (10.13%) Senior
9 7 (8.86%) Developer
10 6 (7.59%) Lead
11 5 (6.33%) Change Analyst
11 5 (6.33%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (6.33%) Senior Business Analyst
12 4 (5.06%) Banking Analyst
12 4 (5.06%) Banking Business Analyst
12 4 (5.06%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 4 (5.06%) Finance Manager
12 4 (5.06%) Oracle Analyst
12 4 (5.06%) Oracle Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (6.33%) Middleware
3 3 (3.80%) XML
4 2 (2.53%) RESTful
5 1 (1.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.80%) Derivative
3 3 (3.80%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.27%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Equities
5 1 (1.27%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.27%) FMCG
5 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.80%) Unix
2 1 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (48.10%) Accounts Payable
2 35 (44.30%) ERP
3 34 (43.04%) Accounts Receivable
4 32 (40.51%) Migration
5 31 (39.24%) User Acceptance Testing
6 28 (35.44%) Stakeholder Management
7 27 (34.18%) Data Migration
8 21 (26.58%) Validation
9 15 (18.99%) Data Analysis
9 15 (18.99%) Workshop Facilitation
10 13 (16.46%) Budgeting
10 13 (16.46%) System Integration Testing
11 12 (15.19%) Business Analysis
12 11 (13.92%) Data Modelling
12 11 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (13.92%) Process Improvement
13 10 (12.66%) Requirements Gathering
14 9 (11.39%) Analytics
14 9 (11.39%) Project Delivery
14 9 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.58%) SQL
2 4 (5.06%) C#
2 4 (5.06%) PL/SQL
2 4 (5.06%) X++
3 3 (3.80%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (8.86%) Degree
2 6 (7.59%) ACCA
2 6 (7.59%) CIMA
2 6 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.27%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.27%) PMP
5 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.25%) Data Quality
2 9 (11.39%) IFRS
3 3 (3.80%) GDPR
4 2 (2.53%) GAAP
4 2 (2.53%) IFRS 17
4 2 (2.53%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.27%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.53%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 36 (45.57%) Oracle
2 24 (30.38%) Microsoft
3 14 (17.72%) SAP
4 7 (8.86%) Workday
5 4 (5.06%) Talend
6 3 (3.80%) Sage
7 2 (2.53%) Adaptive Insights
7 2 (2.53%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.53%) Anaplan
7 2 (2.53%) Ariba
7 2 (2.53%) CODA
7 2 (2.53%) Epicor
7 2 (2.53%) HP
7 2 (2.53%) IFS
7 2 (2.53%) Infor
7 2 (2.53%) Murex
7 2 (2.53%) QAD
7 2 (2.53%) Zuora
8 1 (1.27%) Maconomy
8 1 (1.27%) Xero