Local Government Contracts in England

Local Government (Local Authority, Local Council)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Local Government in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Local Government over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 372 374
Rank change year-on-year +148 +2 -10
Contract jobs citing Local Government 382 318 485
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.03% 0.63% 0.68%
As % of the General category 1.77% 1.06% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 225 323
10th Percentile £346 £223 £300
25th Percentile £413 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +18.11%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £525
90th Percentile £645 £588 £605
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 21 88
10th Percentile £15.39 £16.77 £17.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.75 £17.87
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.41 £24.20
Median % change year-on-year +11.56% -7.40% +12.09%
75th Percentile £32.36 £23.36 £49.25
90th Percentile £37.56 £37.34 -
UK median hourly rate £26.02 £22.34 £22.09
% change year-on-year +16.48% +1.11% +1.28%

All General Skills
England

Local Government is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,593 29,947 40,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.42% 59.25% 56.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,921 20,994 27,954
10th Percentile £275 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 988 1,324
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £51.50 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.26 £57.97
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Local Government
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Local Government as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Local Government in England

Local Government
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Local Government in England.

Daily rate trend for Local Government in England

Local Government
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Local Government in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Local Government in England

Local Government
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Local Government in England.

Hourly rate trend for Local Government in England

Local Government
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Local Government in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Local Government in England

Local Government
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Local Government within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +134 226 £475 +5.56% 92
North of England +40 40 £500 +17.65% 62
South East +21 36 £488 +50.00% 81
East of England +36 32 £500 +25.00% 41
North West +22 29 £500 +17.65% 32
Midlands +18 23 £456 +4.29% 58
South West +25 22 £439 +59.72% 48
West Midlands +30 18 £475 - 31
Yorkshire +20 10 £463 -2.63% 24
East Midlands +12 4 - - 27
North East - 1 £900 - 6
Local Government
UK

Local Government
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.31%) govService
4 4 (1.05%) ArcGIS
4 4 (1.05%) CMS
4 4 (1.05%) WordPress
5 3 (0.79%) Drupal
5 3 (0.79%) Jadu
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (4.97%) Spreadsheet
2 17 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.79%) SPSS
6 2 (0.52%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.52%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (2.88%) NEC Housing
2 7 (1.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.79%) Aareon QL
4 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.26%) Academy Housing
5 1 (0.26%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.26%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.26%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (9.16%) Azure
2 29 (7.59%) Power Platform
3 18 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (2.88%) AWS
5 10 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (2.62%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (2.09%) Google Workspace
7 7 (1.83%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.31%) GitHub
8 5 (1.31%) OCI
9 4 (1.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.05%) Google Analytics
9 4 (1.05%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (0.79%) SaaS
11 2 (0.52%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.83%) Firewall
1 7 (1.83%) WAN
2 4 (1.05%) LAN
3 3 (0.79%) Intranet
3 3 (0.79%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.79%) SMS
4 2 (0.52%) SAN
4 2 (0.52%) VPN
5 1 (0.26%) BGP
5 1 (0.26%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.26%) DMZ
5 1 (0.26%) FTP
5 1 (0.26%) HTTP
5 1 (0.26%) Internet
5 1 (0.26%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.26%) MPLS
5 1 (0.26%) Network Security
5 1 (0.26%) SSL
5 1 (0.26%) VSAN
5 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.28%) Power BI
2 17 (4.45%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.36%) GIS
4 7 (1.83%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.05%) Looker
6 3 (0.79%) BusinessObjects XI
6 3 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.79%) Power Query
6 3 (0.79%) PowerPivot
6 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.52%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.52%) MS Access
7 2 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.52%) Tableau
8 1 (0.26%) Big Data
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.26%) Redis
8 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Git
2 3 (0.79%) JIRA
2 3 (0.79%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.26%) RStudio
General
1 97 (25.39%) Public Sector
2 65 (17.02%) Finance
3 64 (16.75%) Social Skills
4 34 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.09%) Legal
7 8 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.83%) Fire and Rescue
9 6 (1.57%) Police
9 6 (1.57%) Social Housing
10 5 (1.31%) Back Office
10 5 (1.31%) Law
11 4 (1.05%) Advertising
11 4 (1.05%) Marketing
12 3 (0.79%) Billing
12 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.79%) Publishing
13 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (19.37%) Analyst
2 63 (16.49%) Project Manager
2 63 (16.49%) Senior
3 37 (9.69%) Architect
4 32 (8.38%) Developer
5 24 (6.28%) Business Analyst
5 24 (6.28%) Lead
6 21 (5.50%) Senior Analyst
7 18 (4.71%) Programme Manager
8 16 (4.19%) Consultant
9 15 (3.93%) Senior Manager
10 14 (3.66%) IT Manager
10 14 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.40%) Senior Developer
12 9 (2.36%) Support Officer
13 8 (2.09%) Data Analyst
13 8 (2.09%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (2.09%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.09%) Support Analyst
14 7 (1.83%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.85%) .NET
2 15 (3.93%) React
3 8 (2.09%) XML
4 7 (1.83%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.05%) .NET Framework
5 4 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.79%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.79%) CSS
7 2 (0.52%) HTML
7 2 (0.52%) REST
8 1 (0.26%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.26%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.26%) D3.js
8 1 (0.26%) jQuery
8 1 (0.26%) JSON
8 1 (0.26%) OAuth
8 1 (0.26%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.26%) RESTful
8 1 (0.26%) Software Packaging
8 1 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.02%) Management Information System
2 12 (3.14%) NHS
3 10 (2.62%) Housing Association
3 10 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.09%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.83%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.31%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.05%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.79%) AS400
8 3 (0.79%) Linked Data
9 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.52%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.52%) IoT
10 1 (0.26%) Animation
10 1 (0.26%) Blog
10 1 (0.26%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.26%) Graphic Design
10 1 (0.26%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.88%) Windows
2 4 (1.05%) VMS
3 3 (0.79%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.26%) Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (17.02%) Project Management
2 52 (13.61%) Agile
3 43 (11.26%) Business Case
4 39 (10.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (8.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 33 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (8.38%) PRINCE2
8 31 (8.12%) Decision-Making
8 31 (8.12%) Migration
8 31 (8.12%) Performance Management
8 31 (8.12%) Service Delivery
9 30 (7.85%) Project Delivery
10 29 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (6.81%) Budget Management
12 23 (6.02%) CRM
12 23 (6.02%) Programme Management
13 21 (5.50%) Change Management
13 21 (5.50%) User Experience
14 19 (4.97%) Customer Service
15 18 (4.71%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 33 (8.64%) SQL
2 23 (6.02%) C#
3 17 (4.45%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.62%) Python
5 6 (1.57%) Bicep
6 5 (1.31%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.79%) Java
8 2 (0.52%) R
8 2 (0.52%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.52%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.52%) VBA
9 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (8.38%) Degree
2 15 (3.93%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.62%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 7 (1.83%) CISSP
6 6 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (1.31%) CCSK
7 5 (1.31%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.79%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.79%) NVQ Level 4
9 2 (0.52%) ACCA
9 2 (0.52%) APMG
9 2 (0.52%) CIMA
9 2 (0.52%) CIPFA
9 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.52%) PMP
10 1 (0.26%) CISM
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.93%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.14%) PMO
5 10 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 9 (2.36%) ISO 22301
7 8 (2.09%) GDPR
7 8 (2.09%) QA
8 7 (1.83%) NIST
9 6 (1.57%) COBIT
9 6 (1.57%) NCSC
10 5 (1.31%) SLA
11 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.52%) Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.05%) SCCM
3 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.26%) Avamar
4 1 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.26%) Endace
4 1 (0.26%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.26%) SCOM
4 1 (0.26%) SCOrch
4 1 (0.26%) SCVMM
4 1 (0.26%) Simpana
4 1 (0.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 52 (13.61%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.45%) Oracle
3 13 (3.40%) Northgate
4 11 (2.88%) NEC
5 8 (2.09%) Google
6 7 (1.83%) Sparx
7 4 (1.05%) CA
7 4 (1.05%) Capita
7 4 (1.05%) Civica
7 4 (1.05%) Granicus
8 3 (0.79%) Aareon
8 3 (0.79%) Blue Prism
8 3 (0.79%) UiPath
9 2 (0.52%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (0.52%) Citrix
9 2 (0.52%) Dell
9 2 (0.52%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (0.52%) SAP
9 2 (0.52%) ServiceNow