Local Government Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Local Government (Local Authority, Local Council)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Local Government in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Local Government over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 350 241
Rank change year-on-year +1 -109 +141
Permanent jobs citing Local Government 119 257 549
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.62% 0.74% 1.41%
As % of the General category 0.80% 1.22% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 60 193 196
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,500 £36,216
25th Percentile £42,250 £35,462 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,068 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.54% -12.25% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,151 £53,750 £69,063
90th Percentile £85,250 £71,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £39,882 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.10% -20.24% +10.50%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Local Government falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 14,946 21,021 25,478
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 78.37% 60.88% 65.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7,491 15,110 17,250
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £82,700
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Local Government
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Local Government as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Local Government trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Local Government
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Local Government.

Local Government salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Local Government
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Local Government over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Local Government salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Local Government
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (5.04%) IIS
2 5 (4.20%) Apache
3 4 (3.36%) OpenEdge
4 3 (2.52%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.68%) CMS
5 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (5.88%) Chatbot
2 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.36%) AutoCAD
4 2 (1.68%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.84%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 3 (2.52%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (2.52%) Shopify
3 2 (1.68%) NEC Housing
3 2 (1.68%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.68%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.68%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.68%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.68%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.68%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.13%) Azure
2 16 (13.45%) SaaS
3 14 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 12 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (8.40%) Power Automate
6 6 (5.04%) AWS
7 5 (4.20%) Google Workspace
7 5 (4.20%) PaaS
8 4 (3.36%) Azure Storage
8 4 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.52%) IaaS
10 2 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.68%) AWS CodeCommit
10 2 (1.68%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.68%) GitHub
10 2 (1.68%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (1.68%) OCI
10 2 (1.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.61%) Firewall
2 12 (10.08%) WPA
3 8 (6.72%) DNS
4 7 (5.88%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.04%) LAN
6 5 (4.20%) VPN
6 5 (4.20%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (3.36%) WAN
8 3 (2.52%) BGP
8 3 (2.52%) DHCP
8 3 (2.52%) IPsec
8 3 (2.52%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.52%) VLAN
9 2 (1.68%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.68%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (1.68%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (1.68%) OSPF
9 2 (1.68%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.68%) SAN
9 2 (1.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.24%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.40%) Power BI
3 6 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.20%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.36%) MySQL
6 2 (1.68%) Looker
6 2 (1.68%) Tableau
7 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.84%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.84%) MS Access
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.68%) Checkstyle
2 2 (1.68%) Git
2 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.68%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.84%) ERwin
3 1 (0.84%) JIRA
General
1 51 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 44 (36.97%) Public Sector
3 32 (26.89%) Finance
4 27 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (12.61%) Marketing
6 14 (11.76%) Legal
7 7 (5.88%) Fire and Rescue
8 6 (5.04%) Social Housing
9 5 (4.20%) Back Office
10 4 (3.36%) Law
10 4 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.52%) Police
11 3 (2.52%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.68%) Electronics
12 2 (1.68%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.68%) Music Industry
12 2 (1.68%) Retail
13 1 (0.84%) Advertising
13 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (15.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (14.29%) Developer
3 16 (13.45%) Civil Engineer
3 16 (13.45%) Development Engineer
4 14 (11.76%) Business Manager
5 12 (10.08%) Business Development Manager
5 12 (10.08%) Development Manager
5 12 (10.08%) Senior
6 11 (9.24%) Analyst
6 11 (9.24%) Lead
7 9 (7.56%) Principal Engineer
7 9 (7.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (6.72%) Project Manager
9 7 (5.88%) Architect
9 7 (5.88%) Automation Developer
9 7 (5.88%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
9 7 (5.88%) Robotics Developer
9 7 (5.88%) Senior Development Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) ICT Trainer
10 6 (5.04%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.24%) .NET
2 4 (3.36%) .NET Framework
2 4 (3.36%) NHibernate
2 4 (3.36%) REST
3 3 (2.52%) Web Services
4 2 (1.68%) EJB
4 2 (1.68%) HTML
4 2 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.68%) SOAP
5 1 (0.84%) COM+
5 1 (0.84%) CSS
5 1 (0.84%) Django
5 1 (0.84%) Middleware
5 1 (0.84%) RESTful
5 1 (0.84%) TAPI
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.13%) NHS
2 16 (13.45%) Onboarding
3 13 (10.92%) Social Media
4 10 (8.40%) Data Centre
5 8 (6.72%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (5.88%) Robotics
7 6 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (4.20%) Client/Server
8 5 (4.20%) Management Information System
9 4 (3.36%) Mobile App
10 3 (2.52%) Housing Association
11 2 (1.68%) Driving Licence
11 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.68%) PKI
11 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.84%) Blog
12 1 (0.84%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.84%) iPad
12 1 (0.84%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.81%) Windows
2 12 (10.08%) Windows Vista
3 8 (6.72%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.84%) Linux
5 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.84%) Solaris
5 1 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (26.89%) Project Delivery
2 27 (22.69%) Project Management
3 24 (20.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (19.33%) Agile
4 23 (19.33%) Mentoring
5 21 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (15.13%) Business Development
7 16 (13.45%) CRM
8 15 (12.61%) Business Strategy
9 14 (11.76%) Analytics
9 14 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
9 14 (11.76%) Strategic Planning
10 13 (10.92%) Change Management
10 13 (10.92%) Due Diligence
11 12 (10.08%) Business Forecasting
12 10 (8.40%) Data Governance
12 10 (8.40%) Line Management
13 9 (7.56%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.76%) SQL
2 13 (10.92%) JavaScript
3 12 (10.08%) C#
4 10 (8.40%) Python
5 7 (5.88%) VB.NET
6 6 (5.04%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.36%) Progress 4GL
7 4 (3.36%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.52%) Java
9 1 (0.84%) Bash
9 1 (0.84%) R
9 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (20.17%) DBS Check
2 15 (12.61%) Degree
3 7 (5.88%) Postgraduate
4 6 (5.04%) HNC
4 6 (5.04%) HND
4 6 (5.04%) MOS
5 5 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.20%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.36%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.52%) CCNP
7 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.68%) CCNA
8 2 (1.68%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.84%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.61%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.72%) QA
3 3 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.52%) GDPR
3 3 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.84%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.84%) Docker
3 1 (0.84%) LXC
3 1 (0.84%) Samba
Systems Management
1 5 (4.20%) ZABBIX
2 3 (2.52%) Terraform
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.68%) SmoothWall
4 1 (0.84%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 42 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.72%) Cisco
2 8 (6.72%) Oracle
3 7 (5.88%) Google
3 7 (5.88%) UiPath
3 7 (5.88%) VMware
4 6 (5.04%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.20%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.36%) Progress
7 3 (2.52%) Meraki
8 2 (1.68%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.68%) Databricks
8 2 (1.68%) EMC
8 2 (1.68%) NEC
9 1 (0.84%) Capita
9 1 (0.84%) dotdigital
9 1 (0.84%) Juniper