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 have cited Local Government over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 402 390
Rank change year-on-year +154 -12 -3
Contract jobs citing Local Government 410 341 583
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 0.58% 0.66%
As % of the General category 1.63% 0.99% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 241 376
10th Percentile £344 £223 £283
25th Percentile £400 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £538
90th Percentile £644 £600 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £403 £425
% change year-on-year +22.67% -5.29% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 21 95
10th Percentile £15.39 £16.77 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.65 £18.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.49 £22.26 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.49% +1.18% +4.51%
75th Percentile £36.27 £23.36 £49.25
90th Percentile £43.65 £37.34 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.26 £22.26 £19.86
% change year-on-year +8.96% +12.08% -5.65%

All General Skills
UK

Local Government is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,090 34,580 49,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.15% 58.46% 56.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,823 23,988 34,549
10th Percentile £275 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £766 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.05% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,939 1,061 1,440
10th Percentile £12.77 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.98 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.39 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +51.75% -2.22%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.05
90th Percentile £65.01 £72.50 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -2.59% +54.67% -6.02%

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 May 2024.

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 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Local Government in the UK

Local Government
Top 16 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 May 2024. 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 +121 380 £475 +5.56% 444
London +131 225 £475 +5.56% 114
UK excluding London +86 167 £494 +22.67% 356
Work from Home +81 106 £450 - 152
North of England +26 38 £500 +17.65% 86
South East +20 37 £475 +45.04% 87
East of England +26 32 £500 -2.44% 41
North West +20 28 £500 +17.65% 37
South West +28 24 £439 +59.72% 62
Midlands +25 22 £438 - 61
West Midlands +26 17 £463 -2.63% 37
Wales +25 11 £600 - 11
Yorkshire +19 9 £475 - 39
East Midlands +17 4 - - 24
Scotland +39 3 £200 -61.90% 21
North East - 1 £900 - 11

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 20 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.22%) CMS
3 5 (1.22%) govService
4 4 (0.98%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.98%) Drupal
4 4 (0.98%) Jadu
4 4 (0.98%) WordPress
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
1 19 (4.63%) Spreadsheet
2 17 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.68%) Acrobat
4 9 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.73%) SPSS
7 2 (0.49%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.49%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (2.93%) NEC Housing
2 7 (1.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (1.22%) Academy Housing
3 5 (1.22%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 4 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.73%) Aareon QL
5 3 (0.73%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.49%) iTrent
7 1 (0.24%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.24%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 36 (8.78%) Azure
2 30 (7.32%) Power Platform
3 18 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (2.68%) AWS
4 11 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (2.68%) Entra ID
5 8 (1.95%) Google Workspace
5 8 (1.95%) Power Automate
6 7 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.22%) GitHub
7 5 (1.22%) OCI
7 5 (1.22%) PowerApps
8 4 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (0.98%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (0.98%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (0.98%) Google Analytics
8 4 (0.98%) SaaS
8 4 (0.98%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.95%) Firewall
2 4 (0.98%) Intranet
2 4 (0.98%) WAN
3 3 (0.73%) SMS
4 2 (0.49%) SAN
4 2 (0.49%) VPN
5 1 (0.24%) BGP
5 1 (0.24%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.24%) DMZ
5 1 (0.24%) FTP
5 1 (0.24%) HTTP
5 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.24%) Internet
5 1 (0.24%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.24%) LAN
5 1 (0.24%) MPLS
5 1 (0.24%) Network Security
5 1 (0.24%) SSL
5 1 (0.24%) VSAN
5 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.10%) Power BI
2 18 (4.39%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.20%) GIS
4 7 (1.71%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.98%) Looker
6 3 (0.73%) BusinessObjects XI
6 3 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.73%) Power Query
6 3 (0.73%) PowerPivot
6 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.49%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.49%) Metadata
7 2 (0.49%) MS Access
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.49%) Redis
7 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.49%) Tableau
8 1 (0.24%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (1.46%) Git
2 3 (0.73%) JIRA
2 3 (0.73%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.24%) RStudio
General
1 100 (24.39%) Public Sector
2 72 (17.56%) Social Skills
3 71 (17.32%) Finance
4 42 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (3.66%) Marketing
6 12 (2.93%) Legal
6 12 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (1.95%) Social Housing
8 7 (1.71%) Fire and Rescue
8 7 (1.71%) Law
9 6 (1.46%) Police
10 5 (1.22%) Back Office
11 4 (0.98%) Advertising
12 3 (0.73%) Billing
12 3 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.73%) Publishing
13 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (19.02%) Analyst
2 74 (18.05%) Senior
3 67 (16.34%) Project Manager
4 39 (9.51%) Architect
5 36 (8.78%) Developer
6 27 (6.59%) Lead
7 26 (6.34%) Senior Manager
8 23 (5.61%) Business Analyst
9 21 (5.12%) Senior Analyst
10 18 (4.39%) Consultant
11 15 (3.66%) Programme Manager
12 14 (3.41%) IT Manager
12 14 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (3.17%) Senior Developer
14 11 (2.68%) Bid Manager
15 9 (2.20%) Data Analyst
15 9 (2.20%) ICT Analyst
15 9 (2.20%) Senior Bid Manager
15 9 (2.20%) Support Officer
16 8 (1.95%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.56%) .NET
2 16 (3.90%) React
3 9 (2.20%) XML
4 8 (1.95%) .NET Core
5 4 (0.98%) .NET Framework
5 4 (0.98%) ASP.NET
5 4 (0.98%) CSS
5 4 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.73%) HTML
7 2 (0.49%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.49%) REST
8 1 (0.24%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.24%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.24%) D3.js
8 1 (0.24%) JSON
8 1 (0.24%) OAuth
8 1 (0.24%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.24%) RESTful
8 1 (0.24%) Software Packaging
8 1 (0.24%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.10%) Management Information System
2 15 (3.66%) Housing Association
3 11 (2.68%) NHS
4 10 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.71%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.22%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (0.98%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.73%) Linked Data
9 2 (0.49%) AS400
9 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.49%) IoT
10 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.24%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.24%) Mobile Payment
10 1 (0.24%) Robotics
10 1 (0.24%) Social Media
10 1 (0.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.17%) Windows
2 4 (0.98%) VMS
3 3 (0.73%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.24%) Linux
4 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (19.02%) Project Management
2 53 (12.93%) Agile
2 53 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (10.24%) PRINCE2
4 40 (9.76%) Business Case
4 40 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (9.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 34 (8.29%) Service Delivery
7 32 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (7.80%) Decision-Making
8 31 (7.56%) Migration
8 31 (7.56%) Performance Management
8 31 (7.56%) Project Delivery
9 30 (7.32%) Budget Management
10 24 (5.85%) CRM
10 24 (5.85%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (5.61%) User Experience
12 22 (5.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (5.37%) Programme Management
13 21 (5.12%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.02%) SQL
2 24 (5.85%) C#
3 18 (4.39%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.44%) Python
5 7 (1.71%) Bicep
6 6 (1.46%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.98%) C
8 3 (0.73%) Java
8 3 (0.73%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.49%) R
9 2 (0.49%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.49%) VBA
10 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.24%) PHP
10 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (10.49%) Degree
2 26 (6.34%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.15%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.17%) PMP
5 12 (2.93%) PMI Certification
6 9 (2.20%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 7 (1.71%) CISSP
8 7 (1.71%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.22%) CCSK
11 3 (0.73%) NVQ Level 4
12 2 (0.49%) ACCA
12 2 (0.49%) APMG
12 2 (0.49%) CIMA
12 2 (0.49%) CIPFA
12 2 (0.49%) HNC
12 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.24%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.37%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.68%) PMO
5 10 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 9 (2.20%) ISO 22301
7 8 (1.95%) GDPR
8 7 (1.71%) NIST
8 7 (1.71%) QA
9 6 (1.46%) COBIT
9 6 (1.46%) NCSC
10 5 (1.22%) SLA
11 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.49%) Firmware
4 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.98%) SCCM
3 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.24%) Avamar
4 1 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.24%) Endace
4 1 (0.24%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.24%) SCOM
4 1 (0.24%) SCOrch
4 1 (0.24%) SCVMM
4 1 (0.24%) Simpana
4 1 (0.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 67 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.15%) Oracle
3 13 (3.17%) Northgate
4 12 (2.93%) NEC
5 11 (2.68%) Adobe
6 9 (2.20%) Capita
7 8 (1.95%) Google
8 7 (1.71%) Sparx
9 5 (1.22%) SAP
10 4 (0.98%) Blue Prism
10 4 (0.98%) CA
10 4 (0.98%) Civica
10 4 (0.98%) Granicus
10 4 (0.98%) UiPath
11 3 (0.73%) Aareon
12 2 (0.49%) Automation Anywhere
12 2 (0.49%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.49%) Dell
12 2 (0.49%) Liquidlogic
12 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow