Local Government Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Local Government (Local Authority, Local Council)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Local Government in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Local Government over the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 99 124
Rank change year-on-year -25 +25 +58
Contract jobs citing Local Government 4 20 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.97% 0.44%
As % of the General category 0.31% 1.44% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 11
10th Percentile £432 £190 £413
25th Percentile £461 £226 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £351 £560
Median % change year-on-year +45.51% -37.41% +24.44%
75th Percentile £574 £639 £631
90th Percentile £612 £788 £644
Central London median daily rate £308 £376 £450
% change year-on-year -18.22% -16.44% -

All General Skills
City of London

Local Government falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,288 1,387 1,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 69.96% 67.46% 64.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 886 849 1,162
10th Percentile £330 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -2.13%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 11
10th Percentile £20.02 £13.18 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.42 £20.00 £19.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £27.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% +9.00% -47.09%
75th Percentile £41.94 £65.63 £42.38
90th Percentile £57.75 £82.88 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -25.40% +30.84% -37.79%

Local Government
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Local Government relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Local Government job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Local Government.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Local Government

Local Government
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Local Government in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Local Government in the City of London

Local Government
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Local Government.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Local Government

Local Government
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 1 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Service Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Service Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Digital Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Service Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior User Researcher
2 1 (25.00%) Service Designer
2 1 (25.00%) User Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Qualitative Research
1 2 (50.00%) Quantitative Research
1 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (25.00%) Active Listening
2 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Design Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Diary Studies
2 1 (25.00%) Emotional Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Ethnography
2 1 (25.00%) Key Management
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) Service Design
2 1 (25.00%) User Research
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) Korn
1 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (25.00%) ProC
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle