Local Government Contracts

Local Government (Local Authority, Local Council)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Local Government in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Local Government over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 233 360
Rank change year-on-year -25 +127 +35
Contract jobs citing Local Government 330 447 355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.03% 0.63%
As % of the General category 1.65% 1.80% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 306 241
10th Percentile £296 £325 £261
25th Percentile £393 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +0.56% -
75th Percentile £550 £574 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £409 £475 £438
% change year-on-year -13.89% +8.56% +2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 60 22
10th Percentile £12.21 £15.39 £14.42
25th Percentile £20.45 £17.53 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +11.93% +6.23%
75th Percentile £34.74 £33.65 £24.08
90th Percentile £57.50 £43.65 £28.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.83 £23.08 £22.26
% change year-on-year -9.75% +3.68% +11.30%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,963 24,787 32,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.17% 57.06% 58.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,522 15,498 22,682
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £402 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -4.08% -2.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 988 1,949 1,051
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.82 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.36 £15.62 £16.85
Median hourly rate £27.22 £31.80 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% +4.13% +25.42%
75th Percentile £52.00 £53.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.05 £68.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £30.91 £25.95
% change year-on-year -25.60% +19.12% +29.75%

Local Government
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Local Government in the UK

Local Government
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Local Government in the UK

Local Government
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Local Government over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Local Government in the UK

Local Government
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Local Government in the UK

Local Government
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Local Government over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Local Government in the UK

Local Government
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 4 July 2025. 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
England -6 305 £450 -0.55% 1,675
London -10 167 £475 +5.56% 575
UK excluding London -17 143 £409 -13.89% 1,175
Work from Home +37 125 £447 -0.74% 678
South West +31 44 £400 -11.11% 143
North of England +5 38 £438 -12.50% 349
South East +32 27 £475 -2.56% 231
Yorkshire +18 22 £388 -22.50% 96
Midlands -2 14 £460 -16.36% 220
North West -14 13 £425 -15.00% 225
East of England -10 9 £400 -4.54% 124
East Midlands +1 7 £460 -27.84% 82
West Midlands +4 6 £463 -21.28% 137
Channel Islands - 5 £725 -
Scotland -4 4 £400 +96.08% 62
North East +4 3 £650 -27.78% 28
Wales -6 2 £425 -29.17% 47

Local Government
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (8.18%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.61%) CMS
3 2 (0.61%) Confluence
3 2 (0.61%) Drupal
4 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.30%) govService
4 1 (0.30%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 42 (12.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (9.39%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (5.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.42%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.30%) SPSS
7 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.33%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.52%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (1.21%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.61%) OPENHousing
5 2 (0.61%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.61%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.30%) Academy Housing
6 1 (0.30%) iTrent
6 1 (0.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle iSupplier
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.30%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 49 (14.85%) Azure
2 35 (10.61%) Power Platform
3 21 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.64%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
6 9 (2.73%) AWS
7 8 (2.42%) IaaS
8 7 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.12%) PaaS
9 6 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (1.52%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.52%) SaaS
11 4 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.21%) OCI
12 3 (0.91%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.61%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (0.61%) GCP
13 2 (0.61%) Google Docs
13 2 (0.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.64%) Firewall
1 12 (3.64%) Intranet
2 11 (3.33%) VPN
3 7 (2.12%) DNS
3 7 (2.12%) WAN
4 5 (1.52%) DHCP
4 5 (1.52%) LAN
4 5 (1.52%) Network Security
4 5 (1.52%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.21%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.21%) VLAN
5 4 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.91%) Cisco Wireless
6 3 (0.91%) Wireless
7 2 (0.61%) BGP
7 2 (0.61%) EIGRP
7 2 (0.61%) Internet
7 2 (0.61%) OSPF
7 2 (0.61%) SNMP
8 1 (0.30%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.09%) Power BI
2 6 (1.82%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.82%) Tableau
3 5 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.21%) GIS
5 3 (0.91%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (0.91%) InfluxDB
5 3 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.61%) Metadata
6 2 (0.61%) MS Access
6 2 (0.61%) Power Query
6 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (1.52%) JIRA
2 1 (0.30%) MSI
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
General
1 107 (32.42%) Public Sector
2 98 (29.70%) Social Skills
3 70 (21.21%) Finance
4 34 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.45%) Law
6 12 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.33%) Public Speaking
8 8 (2.42%) Police
9 7 (2.12%) Legal
10 4 (1.21%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.91%) Billing
11 3 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.91%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.61%) Publishing
13 1 (0.30%) Back Office
13 1 (0.30%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 58 (17.58%) Analyst
2 38 (11.52%) Project Manager
3 28 (8.48%) Senior
3 28 (8.48%) Support Officer
4 22 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 20 (6.06%) Data Analyst
6 19 (5.76%) Developer
7 12 (3.64%) Consultant
7 12 (3.64%) IT Engineer
8 11 (3.33%) Architect
8 11 (3.33%) Communications Officer
8 11 (3.33%) Lead
9 10 (3.03%) SAP Analyst
10 9 (2.73%) Programme Manager
10 9 (2.73%) Senior Manager
11 8 (2.42%) Applications Support
11 8 (2.42%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (2.12%) 2nd Line Support
12 7 (2.12%) Data Engineer
12 7 (2.12%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.73%) HTML
2 8 (2.42%) CSS
3 5 (1.52%) .NET
4 3 (0.91%) ASP.NET
4 3 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.61%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (0.61%) Bootstrap
5 2 (0.61%) REST
5 2 (0.61%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.30%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.30%) jQuery
6 1 (0.30%) JSON
6 1 (0.30%) Middleware
6 1 (0.30%) OLE
6 1 (0.30%) RESTful
6 1 (0.30%) SOAP
6 1 (0.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (3.33%) NHS
4 5 (1.52%) Housing Association
5 4 (1.21%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.21%) Freedom of Information
5 4 (1.21%) Public Cloud
6 3 (0.91%) Data Centre
6 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.91%) IVR
6 3 (0.91%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.61%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.61%) Freedom of Information Act
7 2 (0.61%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.61%) Social Media
7 2 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.36%) Windows
2 8 (2.42%) Windows 10
3 7 (2.12%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.52%) Android
4 5 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.61%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (14.55%) Migration
2 43 (13.03%) Agile
3 40 (12.12%) Project Management
4 39 (11.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 38 (11.52%) Decision-Making
6 37 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
7 36 (10.91%) Service Delivery
8 34 (10.30%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (9.09%) Data Migration
10 28 (8.48%) Data Analysis
11 26 (7.88%) Case Management
12 24 (7.27%) Collaborative Working
13 22 (6.67%) Customer Service
14 20 (6.06%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 19 (5.76%) Analytics
15 19 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (5.76%) ERP
15 19 (5.76%) ITIL
16 17 (5.15%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (10.00%) SQL
2 15 (4.55%) Python
3 6 (1.82%) JavaScript
3 6 (1.82%) VBA
4 5 (1.52%) C#
4 5 (1.52%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.91%) R
7 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.30%) PHP
8 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (8.18%) Degree
2 20 (6.06%) DBS Check
3 10 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (1.52%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.21%) CCNP
5 4 (1.21%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.91%) CBAP
6 3 (0.91%) CCNA
6 3 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (0.91%) ISTQB
6 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.61%) CCAB
7 2 (0.61%) CISSP
7 2 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.30%) CEH
8 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.30%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.45%) Accessibility
2 16 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.94%) QA
4 12 (3.64%) GDPR
5 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.52%) PMO
6 4 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.21%) NCSC
7 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (6.36%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.42%) vSphere
3 6 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.91%) Docker
5 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (5.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (3.03%) SCCM
3 3 (0.91%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.67%) SAP
3 14 (4.24%) Oracle
4 13 (3.94%) Cisco
4 13 (3.94%) NEC
5 11 (3.33%) Civica
6 10 (3.03%) Liquidlogic
7 9 (2.73%) VMware
8 8 (2.42%) Ariba
9 6 (1.82%) Capita
10 5 (1.52%) Apple
10 5 (1.52%) Meraki
10 5 (1.52%) Northgate
10 5 (1.52%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.52%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.21%) Google
12 3 (0.91%) Remedy
12 3 (0.91%) Veeam
13 2 (0.61%) Infoblox
13 2 (0.61%) SolarWinds