Local Government Contract Job Trends

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 28 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 186 310
Rank change year-on-year -88 +124 +105
Contract jobs citing Local Government 368 498 340
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.36% 0.75%
As % of the General category 1.63% 2.28% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 249 239
10th Percentile £250 £300 £260
25th Percentile £400 £385 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.87% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £553
90th Percentile £673 £601 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 39 43
10th Percentile £20.76 £19.85 £16.20
25th Percentile £25.00 £21.13 £18.35
Median hourly rate £31.86 £31.12 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +41.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £52.50 £33.75 £26.29
90th Percentile £57.50 £38.84 £31.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year - +24.56% -4.43%

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 22,571 21,864 27,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 62.52% 59.73% 59.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,144 12,907 18,051
10th Percentile £273 £292 £280
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,449 820 1,115
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £28.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.96% -12.50% +28.00%
75th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.99 £70.25 £71.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 £27.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -18.00% -10.00% +36.36%

Local Government
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Local Government job vacancy trend in the UK

Local Government
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Local Government

Local Government
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Local Government over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Local Government in the UK

Local Government
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Local Government

Local Government
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Local Government over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Local Government in the UK

Local Government
Top 17 Contract Job 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 28 November 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 -86 307 £475 +5.56% 212
UK excluding London -96 164 £471 +4.76% 189
London -38 151 £500 +5.26% 58
Work from Home -6 139 £500 +5.26% 105
North of England -56 45 £450 -10.00% 39
South West -39 37 £420 -6.67% 20
North West -31 34 £450 -10.00% 23
South East -11 27 £400 -5.88% 64
Midlands -34 25 £600 +20.00% 37
East Midlands -8 14 £288 -42.50% 8
Scotland +4 13 £500 -16.67% 2
West Midlands -44 11 £600 +14.29% 29
Yorkshire -41 10 £388 -22.50% 12
East of England -41 8 £500 +40.35% 19
Channel Islands - 5 £725 -
Wales 0 4 - - 12
North East -9 1 - - 7

Local Government
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.82%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.82%) CMS
3 3 (0.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.09%) Trello
4 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (5.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.45%) NEC Housing
3 7 (1.90%) iTrent
4 6 (1.63%) SAP Payroll
5 4 (1.09%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.82%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.54%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.27%) Academy Housing
8 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.27%) Primavera
8 1 (0.27%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 45 (12.23%) Azure
2 32 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 22 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (2.99%) SuccessFactors
5 10 (2.72%) AWS
5 10 (2.72%) Entra ID
5 10 (2.72%) SaaS
6 7 (1.90%) OCI
6 7 (1.90%) PowerApps
7 6 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (1.63%) IaaS
8 4 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (1.09%) PaaS
9 3 (0.82%) Azure Functions
9 3 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (0.82%) Miro
9 3 (0.82%) Serverless
10 2 (0.54%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.62%) Firewall
2 12 (3.26%) WAN
3 10 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (2.45%) VPN
5 8 (2.17%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.90%) SAN
6 7 (1.90%) Wireless
7 6 (1.63%) LAN
8 5 (1.36%) DNS
8 5 (1.36%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.36%) VLAN
9 4 (1.09%) DHCP
9 4 (1.09%) Internet
10 3 (0.82%) Network Security
11 2 (0.54%) BGP
11 2 (0.54%) Broadband
11 2 (0.54%) EIGRP
11 2 (0.54%) OSPF
11 2 (0.54%) SNMP
11 2 (0.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.88%) Power BI
2 9 (2.45%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.17%) GIS
3 8 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.09%) Data Vault
5 4 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.09%) Star Schema
6 3 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (0.82%) Power Query
6 3 (0.82%) Tableau
7 2 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.54%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.54%) Metadata
7 2 (0.54%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.27%) OLTP
8 1 (0.27%) QlikView
8 1 (0.27%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (1.63%) JIRA
2 3 (0.82%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.27%) Selenium
3 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 139 (37.77%) Public Sector
2 87 (23.64%) Social Skills
3 80 (21.74%) Finance
4 36 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.07%) Law
6 17 (4.62%) Fire and Rescue
7 11 (2.99%) Legal
8 10 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.63%) Back Office
9 6 (1.63%) Police
10 5 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Publishing
13 2 (0.54%) Retail
13 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.54%) Welsh Language
14 1 (0.27%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.27%) Social Housing
14 1 (0.27%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 59 (16.03%) Analyst
2 41 (11.14%) Senior
3 38 (10.33%) Lead
4 26 (7.07%) Business Analyst
5 24 (6.52%) Consultant
6 23 (6.25%) Project Manager
7 21 (5.71%) Support Officer
8 19 (5.16%) Architect
9 15 (4.08%) Project Officer
10 12 (3.26%) Applications Support
11 11 (2.99%) Developer
12 9 (2.45%) Data Analyst
12 9 (2.45%) Programme Manager
12 9 (2.45%) Support Analyst
13 8 (2.17%) Migration Specialist
13 8 (2.17%) Network Engineer
13 8 (2.17%) Service Analyst
14 7 (1.90%) Data Manager
14 7 (1.90%) ERP Support
14 7 (1.90%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.72%) EDI
2 6 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (1.36%) Middleware
4 4 (1.09%) HTML
5 3 (0.82%) .NET
5 3 (0.82%) CSS
5 3 (0.82%) REST
6 2 (0.54%) JSON
7 1 (0.27%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.27%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.27%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.27%) FHIR
7 1 (0.27%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.27%) OAuth
7 1 (0.27%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 19 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (3.80%) Public Cloud
4 11 (2.99%) NHS
5 8 (2.17%) Housing Association
6 7 (1.90%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.63%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.82%) Clustering
8 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.82%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.54%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.54%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (0.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.54%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.54%) IVR
9 2 (0.54%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.99%) Windows
2 7 (1.90%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.82%) Android
3 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.82%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (15.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 53 (14.40%) Migration
3 50 (13.59%) Project Management
4 46 (12.50%) ERP
5 39 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (10.33%) Data Migration
7 37 (10.05%) Agile
8 34 (9.24%) Decision-Making
8 34 (9.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (8.42%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (7.88%) User Acceptance Testing
11 26 (7.07%) Change Management
12 25 (6.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 25 (6.79%) Roadmaps
13 24 (6.52%) Collaborative Working
14 23 (6.25%) PRINCE2
15 22 (5.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (5.98%) Customer Service
15 22 (5.98%) Risk Management
15 22 (5.98%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 37 (10.05%) SQL
2 8 (2.17%) Python
3 6 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (1.36%) C#
5 4 (1.09%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.82%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.82%) R
7 2 (0.54%) Bicep
7 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (5.43%) DBS Check
1 20 (5.43%) Degree
2 10 (2.72%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (2.17%) CISSP
3 8 (2.17%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (1.90%) HND
5 6 (1.63%) CCAB
5 6 (1.63%) CISM
5 6 (1.63%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.36%) CCNP
7 4 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.09%) CCNA
7 4 (1.09%) CISA
7 4 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.82%) JNCIA
8 3 (0.82%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.53%) GDPR
3 12 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.26%) QA
4 11 (2.99%) PMO
5 9 (2.45%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.63%) SLA
7 5 (1.36%) NCSC
7 5 (1.36%) NIST
8 3 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.27%) HL7
10 1 (0.27%) IFRS
10 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.17%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.82%) vSphere
4 1 (0.27%) Docker
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.63%) FortiGate
3 5 (1.36%) SCCM
4 4 (1.09%) CSIRT
4 4 (1.09%) QRadar
5 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.54%) Terraform
6 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 66 (17.93%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.78%) Oracle
3 35 (9.51%) SAP
4 13 (3.53%) VMware
5 12 (3.26%) NEC
6 8 (2.17%) Liquidlogic
7 6 (1.63%) Cisco
7 6 (1.63%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.36%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.36%) HP
8 5 (1.36%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.36%) Splunk
8 5 (1.36%) Workday
9 4 (1.09%) Capita
9 4 (1.09%) Citrix
10 3 (0.82%) ESRI
10 3 (0.82%) Juniper
10 3 (0.82%) Northgate
10 3 (0.82%) OneLogin
10 3 (0.82%) SolarWinds
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