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 17 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 289 339
Rank change year-on-year -86 +50 +63
Contract jobs citing General Ledger 80 73 49
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.39% 0.54% 0.30%
As % of the General category 0.64% 0.79% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 52 25
10th Percentile £477 £404 £448
25th Percentile £525 £415 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £595 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -4.80% +19.05%
75th Percentile £713 £673 £700
90th Percentile £878 £831 £765
England median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
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 £39.60 £55.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.01% +29.41% +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 12,500 9,290 10,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.45% 69.16% 62.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,971 6,130 6,673
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
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 £790 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 183 121
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £20.94 £24.64 £24.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £44.31 £49.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £71.30 £65.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.50
% change year-on-year +25.25% -34.68% +40.00%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -18 21 £775 +24.00% 6
West London - 4 £475 - 2
South London - 1 - - 1
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
Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 25 (31.25%) Oracle Payables
2 21 (26.25%) Oracle General Ledger
3 20 (25.00%) Oracle Receivables
4 16 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (15.00%) Oracle Assets
6 9 (11.25%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (10.00%) 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
9 5 (6.25%) Oracle Financials
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%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
1 8 (10.00%) OCI
2 6 (7.50%) 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 4 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.50%) Power BI
3 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.25%) Metadata
4 1 (1.25%) OLTP
4 1 (1.25%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.25%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) JIRA
1 4 (5.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.75%) JDeveloper
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle Forms
General
1 76 (95.00%) Finance
2 28 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 26 (32.50%) Banking
4 12 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.50%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.25%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.00%) Retail
8 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.50%) International Banking
9 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Billing
10 1 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Front Office
10 1 (1.25%) Legal
10 1 (1.25%) Local Government
10 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (26.25%) Analyst
2 20 (25.00%) Consultant
3 19 (23.75%) Business Analyst
4 13 (16.25%) Financial Analyst
5 12 (15.00%) Functional Consultant
5 12 (15.00%) Oracle Consultant
6 11 (13.75%) Finance Business Analyst
7 8 (10.00%) Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 7 (8.75%) Senior
9 6 (7.50%) Lead
10 5 (6.25%) Change Analyst
11 4 (5.00%) Banking Analyst
11 4 (5.00%) Banking Business Analyst
11 4 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Finance Manager
11 4 (5.00%) Oracle Analyst
11 4 (5.00%) Oracle Business Analyst
11 4 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (6.25%) Middleware
3 3 (3.75%) XML
4 2 (2.50%) RESTful
5 1 (1.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.75%) Derivative
3 3 (3.75%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.50%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
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%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Unix
2 1 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (43.75%) Migration
2 33 (41.25%) Accounts Payable
2 33 (41.25%) ERP
3 32 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 30 (37.50%) Accounts Receivable
5 29 (36.25%) Data Migration
6 24 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (28.75%) Validation
8 16 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
9 14 (17.50%) Data Analysis
10 13 (16.25%) Budgeting
10 13 (16.25%) Data Modelling
10 13 (16.25%) Workshop Facilitation
11 11 (13.75%) Business Analysis
11 11 (13.75%) Data Validation
11 11 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (12.50%) AI
13 9 (11.25%) Change Management
13 9 (11.25%) Process Improvement
13 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.75%) 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
4 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (8.75%) Degree
2 6 (7.50%) ACCA
2 6 (7.50%) CIMA
3 4 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PMP
6 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 9 (11.25%) IFRS
3 3 (3.75%) GDPR
4 2 (2.50%) GAAP
4 2 (2.50%) IFRS 17
4 2 (2.50%) IFRS 9
4 2 (2.50%) QA
5 1 (1.25%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 36 (45.00%) Oracle
2 24 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 17 (21.25%) SAP
4 5 (6.25%) 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%) 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%) Ariba
8 1 (1.25%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.25%) Xero