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 27 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 108 120
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 +40
Contract jobs citing Local Government 10 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.43% 0.36% 0.37%
As % of the General category 0.77% 0.50% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 8
10th Percentile £324 £263 £400
25th Percentile £395 £300 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £375 £503
Median % change year-on-year +31.33% -25.37% -8.64%
75th Percentile £573 £494 £574
90th Percentile £745 £558 £641
Central London median daily rate £500 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £103.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £30.04 £26.56
% change year-on-year -13.07% +13.08% -

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 general skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,307 1,189 1,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 56.14% 71.80% 66.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 738 1,012
10th Percentile £363 £331 £338
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.00%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £696
90th Percentile £819 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 8
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.74
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.15
Median hourly rate £23.16 £28.50 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year -18.74% +27.19% +7.46%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £27.13
90th Percentile £53.50 £92.75 £34.33
Central London median hourly rate £26.00 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -10.56% +21.13% -14.29%

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 27 May 2026.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) govService
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) iTrent
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (10.00%) SAP ERP
1 1 (10.00%) SAP MM
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (10.00%) OLTP
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Science
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Designer
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Content Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) DBA
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Service Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Junior
2 1 (10.00%) Junior Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead Service Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Trainer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Service Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Service Designer
2 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (10.00%) Support Officer
2 1 (10.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (10.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (10.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) AI
2 1 (10.00%) Content Management
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (10.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (10.00%) Logistics
2 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (10.00%) Qualitative Research
2 1 (10.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (10.00%) SIEM
2 1 (10.00%) Statistics
2 1 (10.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (10.00%) Validation
2 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) Korn
2 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (10.00%) ProC
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CIPD
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
1 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (10.00%) Granicus