Local Government Contracts in England

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Local Government in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Local Government over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 353 363
Rank change year-on-year +119 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing Local Government 375 314 492
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.03% 0.65% 0.70%
As % of the General category 1.77% 1.10% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 222 327
10th Percentile £350 £223 £300
25th Percentile £400 £353 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £446 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% -0.82% +20.00%
75th Percentile £571 £514 £538
90th Percentile £656 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 19 88
10th Percentile £14.95 £15.82 £16.70
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.38 £17.87
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.41 £23.37
Median % change year-on-year +11.56% -4.09% +11.00%
75th Percentile £31.71 £23.41 £49.25
90th Percentile £38.28 £39.87 -
UK median hourly rate £25.62 £22.34 £22.68
% change year-on-year +14.71% -1.52% +7.74%

All General Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,180 28,636 39,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.25% 59.30% 56.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,654 20,110 27,909
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,769 931 1,302
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £32.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +51.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.91 £61.25 £47.38
90th Percentile £66.25 £72.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.60 £22.45
% change year-on-year -10.72% +49.68% -0.22%

Local Government
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Local Government in England

Local Government
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Local Government in England

Local Government
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Local Government in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Local Government in England

Local Government
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Local Government in England

Local Government
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Local Government in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Local Government in England

Local Government
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 15 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
London +129 219 £475 +5.56% 123
North of England +21 39 £500 +17.65% 93
South East +26 37 £475 +45.04% 90
East of England +28 32 £500 -2.44% 60
North West +19 29 £500 +21.21% 44
South West +25 25 £439 +59.72% 62
Midlands +25 20 £488 +2.63% 56
West Midlands +18 15 £519 +9.21% 34
Yorkshire +19 9 £475 -1.30% 36
East Midlands +8 4 - - 23
North East - 1 £900 - 14
Local Government
UK

Local Government
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.33%) CMS
3 5 (1.33%) govService
4 4 (1.07%) ArcGIS
4 4 (1.07%) Drupal
4 4 (1.07%) Jadu
4 4 (1.07%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (5.07%) Spreadsheet
2 18 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.80%) SPSS
7 2 (0.53%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.53%) Revit
Business Applications
1 14 (3.73%) NEC Housing
2 7 (1.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.80%) Aareon QL
4 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Academy Housing
5 1 (0.27%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.27%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (9.33%) Azure
2 26 (6.93%) Power Platform
3 16 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (2.93%) AWS
4 11 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (2.93%) Entra ID
5 8 (2.13%) Google Workspace
6 7 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.33%) GitHub
7 5 (1.33%) OCI
8 4 (1.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (1.07%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (1.07%) Google Analytics
8 4 (1.07%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.07%) SaaS
9 2 (0.53%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.53%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.53%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.87%) Firewall
2 4 (1.07%) Intranet
3 3 (0.80%) WAN
4 2 (0.53%) SMS
4 2 (0.53%) VPN
5 1 (0.27%) BGP
5 1 (0.27%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.27%) DMZ
5 1 (0.27%) FTP
5 1 (0.27%) HTTP
5 1 (0.27%) Internet
5 1 (0.27%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.27%) LAN
5 1 (0.27%) MPLS
5 1 (0.27%) Network Security
5 1 (0.27%) SAN
5 1 (0.27%) SSL
5 1 (0.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.60%) Power BI
2 19 (5.07%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.13%) GIS
4 7 (1.87%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.07%) Looker
6 3 (0.80%) BusinessObjects XI
6 3 (0.80%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.80%) Power Query
6 3 (0.80%) PowerPivot
6 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.53%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.53%) Metadata
7 2 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.53%) Redis
7 2 (0.53%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.53%) Tableau
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.27%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (1.60%) Git
2 4 (1.07%) SpecFlow
3 2 (0.53%) JIRA
3 2 (0.53%) Postman
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.27%) RStudio
4 1 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 92 (24.53%) Public Sector
2 66 (17.60%) Finance
3 63 (16.80%) Social Skills
4 33 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (1.87%) Fire and Rescue
6 7 (1.87%) Legal
6 7 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (1.87%) Police
7 6 (1.60%) Back Office
8 5 (1.33%) Law
8 5 (1.33%) Social Housing
9 4 (1.07%) Advertising
10 3 (0.80%) Billing
10 3 (0.80%) General Ledger
10 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.53%) Publishing
11 2 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (19.20%) Analyst
2 65 (17.33%) Senior
3 61 (16.27%) Project Manager
4 37 (9.87%) Architect
5 32 (8.53%) Developer
6 24 (6.40%) Business Analyst
6 24 (6.40%) Lead
7 21 (5.60%) Consultant
7 21 (5.60%) Senior Analyst
8 17 (4.53%) Senior Manager
9 14 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (3.47%) IT Manager
10 13 (3.47%) Programme Manager
10 13 (3.47%) Senior Developer
11 8 (2.13%) Product Manager
11 8 (2.13%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (2.13%) Software Engineer
11 8 (2.13%) Support Analyst
12 7 (1.87%) Data Analyst
12 7 (1.87%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.00%) .NET
2 16 (4.27%) React
3 8 (2.13%) .NET Core
3 8 (2.13%) XML
4 4 (1.07%) .NET Framework
4 4 (1.07%) ASP.NET
4 4 (1.07%) CSS
4 4 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.80%) HTML
6 2 (0.53%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (0.53%) REST
6 2 (0.53%) Symfony
7 1 (0.27%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.27%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.27%) D3.js
7 1 (0.27%) jQuery
7 1 (0.27%) OAuth
7 1 (0.27%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.27%) RESTful
7 1 (0.27%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.33%) Management Information System
2 12 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.93%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.67%) NHS
5 9 (2.40%) Housing Association
6 5 (1.33%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.33%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.07%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.80%) Linked Data
9 2 (0.53%) AS400
9 2 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.53%) IoT
10 1 (0.27%) Animation
10 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.27%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.27%) Graphic Design
10 1 (0.27%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.27%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.13%) Windows
2 4 (1.07%) VMS
3 3 (0.80%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (17.33%) Project Management
2 56 (14.93%) Agile
3 40 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 39 (10.40%) Business Case
5 35 (9.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 34 (9.07%) PRINCE2
6 34 (9.07%) Service Delivery
7 33 (8.80%) Migration
8 31 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (8.00%) Decision-Making
9 30 (8.00%) Project Delivery
10 28 (7.47%) Performance Management
11 26 (6.93%) Budget Management
11 26 (6.93%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (6.13%) CRM
12 23 (6.13%) Programme Management
13 21 (5.60%) Change Management
13 21 (5.60%) Customer Service
13 21 (5.60%) Data Protection
14 19 (5.07%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 33 (8.80%) SQL
2 22 (5.87%) C#
3 15 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.13%) Python
5 7 (1.87%) Bicep
6 4 (1.07%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.80%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.53%) PHP
8 2 (0.53%) R
9 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.27%) Java
9 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (8.53%) Degree
2 15 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.67%) DV Cleared
4 9 (2.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 6 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (1.60%) CISSP
6 5 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 5 (1.33%) CCSK
6 5 (1.33%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.80%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.80%) NVQ Level 4
8 2 (0.53%) ACCA
8 2 (0.53%) APMG
8 2 (0.53%) CIMA
8 2 (0.53%) CIPFA
8 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.53%) PMP
9 1 (0.27%) CCNA
9 1 (0.27%) CISM
9 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.73%) PMO
4 13 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.67%) GDPR
5 10 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 9 (2.40%) ISO 22301
7 6 (1.60%) COBIT
7 6 (1.60%) NCSC
7 6 (1.60%) NIST
8 5 (1.33%) QA
8 5 (1.33%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.80%) SCCM
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.27%) Avamar
4 1 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.27%) Endace
4 1 (0.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.53%) Oracle
3 14 (3.73%) NEC
4 13 (3.47%) Northgate
5 8 (2.13%) Google
6 7 (1.87%) Sparx
7 5 (1.33%) Capita
8 4 (1.07%) CA
8 4 (1.07%) Civica
8 4 (1.07%) Granicus
8 4 (1.07%) Liquidlogic
9 3 (0.80%) Aareon
9 3 (0.80%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.53%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.53%) Citrix
10 2 (0.53%) SAP
11 1 (0.27%) Cisco
11 1 (0.27%) Dell
11 1 (0.27%) Juniper
11 1 (0.27%) Remedy