Local Government Contracts in Yorkshire

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Local Government in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Local Government over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 91 117
Rank change year-on-year +19 +26 -2
Contract jobs citing Local Government 20 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.97% 0.53% 0.43%
As % of the General category 3.17% 0.93% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £363 £433 £165
25th Percentile £434 £444 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £506 £506
90th Percentile £544 £518 £519
England median daily rate £475 £475 £446
% change year-on-year - +6.43% -0.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £12.97 -
England median hourly rate £25.52 £25.00 £22.34
% change year-on-year +2.08% +11.93% -7.71%

All General Skills
Yorkshire

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 in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 630 966 1,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 61.95% 57.19% 60.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 558 954
10th Percentile £254 £198 £304
25th Percentile £360 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 79 14
10th Percentile £11.60 £12.07 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £12.15 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.55 £14.63 £17.86
Median % change year-on-year +26.84% -18.11% -4.49%
75th Percentile £22.14 £15.19 £35.24
90th Percentile £38.68 £23.37 £63.82
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Local Government
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Local Government in Yorkshire

Local Government
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Local Government in Yorkshire

Local Government
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Local Government in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Local Government in Yorkshire

Local Government
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Local Government in Yorkshire

Local Government
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South Yorkshire +13 10 - - 4
West Yorkshire +19 7 £475 -5.00% 15
Local Government
England

Local Government
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 14 (70.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft Office
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (15.00%) IaaS
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (15.00%) PaaS
2 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) Intranet
2 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) Network Security
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (55.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (55.00%) Public Speaking
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Communications Officer
2 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 3 (15.00%) IT Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 2 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Change Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Service Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Service Transformation Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Transformation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Business Continuity
1 11 (55.00%) Business Development
2 4 (20.00%) Project Management
3 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (15.00%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (10.00%) Agile
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (5.00%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (5.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.00%) Customer Journey Map
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Journey Map
5 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) CCNA
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (15.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (15.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco
1 3 (15.00%) Meraki
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (15.00%) Veeam
1 3 (15.00%) VMware
2 2 (10.00%) Liquidlogic