Local Government Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Local Government in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Local Government over the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 214 206
Rank change year-on-year -31 -8 +68
Contract jobs citing Local Government 220 166 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.08% 1.23% 1.25%
As % of the General category 1.76% 1.78% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 129 123
10th Percentile £350 £350 £326
25th Percentile £425 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £538
90th Percentile £700 £650 £625
England median daily rate £525 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +12.86% +3.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 15
10th Percentile £16.70 £26.71 £23.80
25th Percentile £20.02 £29.77 £25.90
Median hourly rate £26.70 £33.69 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year -20.74% +6.53% +34.78%
75th Percentile £34.00 £34.61 £33.07
90th Percentile £41.00 £59.30 £36.34
England median hourly rate £20.66 £30.13 £27.92
% change year-on-year -31.44% +7.90% +21.52%

All General Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 12,473 9,335 10,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.33% 69.13% 62.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,938 6,152 6,815
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -4.78% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 188 125
10th Percentile £16.76 £16.85 £17.70
25th Percentile £20.92 £24.65 £24.18
Median hourly rate £27.75 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% -7.14% +10.38%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.61
England median hourly rate £31.13 £25.15 £38.31
% change year-on-year +23.77% -34.35% +39.31%

Local Government
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Local Government job vacancy trend in London

Local Government
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Local Government
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Local Government in London over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Local Government in London

Local Government
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Local Government
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Local Government in London over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Local Government in London

Local Government
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 Local Government within the London region over the 6 months to 11 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 -7 24 £525 +20.00% 13
South London +5 15 £450 - 7
West London -26 7 £475 +5.56% 11
East London -3 2 £265 -47.00% 10
North London -9 2 £445 -25.83% 1
Local Government
England

Local Government
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 18 (8.18%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.82%) CMS
3 3 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.36%) Drupal
3 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.36%) WordPress
4 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.91%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) govService
5 1 (0.45%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 15 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.73%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.45%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.55%) NEC Housing
2 7 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (2.27%) iTrent
4 4 (1.82%) SAP ERP
5 3 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.91%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.91%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.91%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.45%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.45%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.45%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 32 (14.55%) Azure
2 27 (12.27%) Power Platform
3 15 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (6.36%) AWS
5 13 (5.91%) Entra ID
6 9 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.64%) GitHub
8 6 (2.73%) GCP
9 5 (2.27%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.27%) SaaS
10 4 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.82%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.36%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.36%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.27%) Firewall
2 9 (4.09%) DNS
3 6 (2.73%) DHCP
3 6 (2.73%) Network Security
4 5 (2.27%) LAN
4 5 (2.27%) WAN
5 4 (1.82%) VPN
5 4 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.36%) Broadband
7 2 (0.91%) Intranet
8 1 (0.45%) SSL
8 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.36%) Power BI
2 6 (2.73%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (1.82%) Power Query
4 3 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.36%) Metadata
4 3 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.91%) Apache Hudi
5 2 (0.91%) Big Data
5 2 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.91%) GIS
5 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.91%) Presto
5 2 (0.91%) Redis
6 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.45%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.45%) MySQL
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (3.18%) JIRA
2 4 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.91%) Git
3 2 (0.91%) GitLab
3 2 (0.91%) Mocha
4 1 (0.45%) Capybara
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.45%) RSpec
General
1 109 (49.55%) Public Sector
2 88 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 45 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (16.36%) Finance
5 20 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 20 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (6.36%) Social Housing
7 8 (3.64%) Legal
8 7 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.82%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.82%) Police
11 3 (1.36%) Fire and Rescue
11 3 (1.36%) Retail
12 2 (0.91%) Back Office
12 2 (0.91%) Legal Technology
12 2 (0.91%) Publishing
13 1 (0.45%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.45%) Law
13 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (16.82%) Analyst
2 19 (8.64%) Senior
3 18 (8.18%) Business Analyst
4 16 (7.27%) Lead
5 12 (5.45%) Architect
6 11 (5.00%) Project Manager
7 10 (4.55%) Consultant
7 10 (4.55%) Designer
8 9 (4.09%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 9 (4.09%) Data Analyst
8 9 (4.09%) Data Manager
8 9 (4.09%) Security Manager
9 8 (3.64%) Developer
10 6 (2.73%) IT Manager
10 6 (2.73%) Operations Manager
10 6 (2.73%) Performance Analyst
11 5 (2.27%) Infrastructure Manager
11 5 (2.27%) Oracle Functional Consultant
11 5 (2.27%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
11 5 (2.27%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.55%) Terraform
2 7 (3.18%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (2.73%) RESTful
4 3 (1.36%) CSS
4 3 (1.36%) HTML
5 2 (0.91%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.91%) Chai
5 2 (0.91%) Express.js
5 2 (0.91%) Jest
5 2 (0.91%) JWT
5 2 (0.91%) Node.js
5 2 (0.91%) Nunjucks
5 2 (0.91%) OAuth
5 2 (0.91%) Play Framework
5 2 (0.91%) PySpark
5 2 (0.91%) REST
5 2 (0.91%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.45%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.45%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.73%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (5.91%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.00%) Freedom of Information
4 10 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.09%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.09%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.18%) NHS
7 6 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.27%) Housing Association
8 5 (2.27%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.27%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.36%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.36%) Cyberattack
10 3 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.91%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.00%) Windows
2 5 (2.27%) Windows 10
3 4 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.91%) Linux
4 2 (0.91%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 55 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 50 (22.73%) Agile
4 38 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (15.45%) Decision-Making
6 28 (12.73%) DevOps
7 26 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (11.82%) Migration
8 25 (11.36%) AI
8 25 (11.36%) Business Analysis
8 25 (11.36%) Service Delivery
9 24 (10.91%) Validation
10 23 (10.45%) Roadmaps
10 23 (10.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 22 (10.00%) Case Management
12 21 (9.55%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (9.55%) Project Delivery
13 18 (8.18%) Data Migration
13 18 (8.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 18 (8.18%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.45%) SQL
2 9 (4.09%) JavaScript
3 8 (3.64%) Python
4 6 (2.73%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.27%) Java
6 4 (1.82%) C#
6 4 (1.82%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.91%) Bicep
7 2 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.91%) Go
7 2 (0.91%) Scala
8 1 (0.45%) Groovy
8 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.45%) Ruby
8 1 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.45%) Swift
8 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.73%) CISSP
5 4 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.82%) CCNP
5 4 (1.82%) CISM
5 4 (1.82%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.36%) CCNA
6 3 (1.36%) Degree
7 2 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.91%) CCSP
7 2 (0.91%) CIPD
7 2 (0.91%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.91%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.18%) GDPR
2 17 (7.73%) Accessibility
3 15 (6.82%) Data Quality
4 10 (4.55%) QA
5 9 (4.09%) PMO
6 8 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.64%) NCSC
7 7 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (2.73%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.73%) WCAG
9 4 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.36%) NIST
10 3 (1.36%) SLA
11 2 (0.91%) GRC
11 2 (0.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.45%) BS7666
12 1 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.45%) P3O
12 1 (0.45%) PERC
12 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (4.09%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.64%) Docker
3 1 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (2.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.91%) Grafana
3 2 (0.91%) Kibana
4 1 (0.45%) SCCM
4 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.64%) SAP
3 13 (5.91%) Oracle
4 10 (4.55%) NEC
5 6 (2.73%) Google
6 4 (1.82%) Cisco
6 4 (1.82%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.36%) Civica
7 3 (1.36%) Infoblox
7 3 (1.36%) Juniper
7 3 (1.36%) Kronos
7 3 (1.36%) Liquidlogic
7 3 (1.36%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.36%) Splunk
8 2 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.91%) Orchard
8 2 (0.91%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.91%) Sparx
9 1 (0.45%) Meraki
9 1 (0.45%) Verint