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 cited Local Government over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 399 381
Rank change year-on-year +168 -18 +3
Contract jobs citing Local Government 440 323 577
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 0.58% 0.66%
As % of the General category 1.76% 0.99% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 219 373
10th Percentile £313 £235 £246
25th Percentile £400 £366 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £538
90th Percentile £638 £605 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +11.76% - +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 17 88
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.45 £16.35
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.77 £17.87
Median hourly rate £25.78 £22.26 £24.53
Median % change year-on-year +15.81% -9.25% +16.53%
75th Percentile £35.16 £23.36 £49.25
90th Percentile £43.65 £27.39 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.89 £20.13 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.16% +0.65% -4.99%

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 24,967 32,502 49,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.17% 58.52% 56.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,678 22,562 34,571
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £768 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,003 996 1,390
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £31.96 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +38.96% +9.26%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £71.89 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £27.50 £19.59
% change year-on-year +7.27% +40.36% +3.12%

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 12 June 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 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Local Government in the UK

Local Government
Top 17 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 12 June 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 +137 408 £450 - 513
UK excluding London +103 214 £475 +11.76% 405
London +107 213 £450 - 141
Work from Home +97 118 £450 - 179
North of England +25 45 £500 +19.40% 114
South West +31 42 £450 +63.64% 54
East of England +31 41 £425 -19.05% 44
South East +25 36 £475 +12.75% 104
North West +19 35 £500 +21.21% 63
Midlands +17 29 £488 +2.63% 70
West Midlands +20 17 £519 +9.21% 46
Wales +32 12 £600 - 12
East Midlands +4 11 £638 +21.43% 23
Yorkshire +17 9 £500 +5.26% 41
Scotland +52 8 £204 -59.20% 28
Northern Ireland - 1 £160 - 2
North East - 1 £900 - 10

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 21 (4.77%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.36%) CMS
4 5 (1.14%) Drupal
4 5 (1.14%) govService
5 4 (0.91%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.91%) Jadu
5 4 (0.91%) WordPress
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.32%) Spreadsheet
3 16 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (2.50%) Acrobat
5 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.68%) SPSS
7 2 (0.45%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.45%) Revit
8 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (4.55%) NEC Housing
2 9 (2.05%) SAP ERP
2 9 (2.05%) SAP Payroll
3 6 (1.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (1.14%) Academy Housing
4 5 (1.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 3 (0.68%) Aareon QL
6 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.45%) iTrent
6 2 (0.45%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.23%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (6.59%) Azure
2 28 (6.36%) Power Platform
3 18 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (2.50%) Entra ID
5 10 (2.27%) AWS
6 9 (2.05%) SuccessFactors
7 8 (1.82%) Google Workspace
8 7 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.14%) GitHub
9 5 (1.14%) OCI
9 5 (1.14%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (0.91%) Google Analytics
10 4 (0.91%) SaaS
11 2 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.36%) DHCP
1 6 (1.36%) DNS
1 6 (1.36%) Firewall
2 5 (1.14%) WAN
3 4 (0.91%) Intranet
4 3 (0.68%) LAN
4 3 (0.68%) NetScaler
5 2 (0.45%) SMS
5 2 (0.45%) VPN
5 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.23%) 4G
6 1 (0.23%) 5G
6 1 (0.23%) BGP
6 1 (0.23%) FTP
6 1 (0.23%) HTTP
6 1 (0.23%) Internet
6 1 (0.23%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.23%) MPLS
6 1 (0.23%) SAN
6 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.23%) Power BI
1 23 (5.23%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.27%) Oracle Database
3 8 (1.82%) GIS
4 5 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.91%) Looker
5 4 (0.91%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.68%) BusinessObjects XI
6 3 (0.68%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.68%) Power Query
6 3 (0.68%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.45%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.45%) Metadata
7 2 (0.45%) Redis
7 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (1.36%) Git
2 4 (0.91%) SpecFlow
3 3 (0.68%) JIRA
4 2 (0.45%) Postman
5 1 (0.23%) GCC
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.23%) Selenium
5 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 105 (23.86%) Public Sector
2 75 (17.05%) Finance
3 68 (15.45%) Social Skills
4 43 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (3.86%) Social Housing
6 13 (2.95%) Marketing
7 12 (2.73%) Law
7 12 (2.73%) Legal
7 12 (2.73%) Police
8 11 (2.50%) Fire and Rescue
8 11 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.36%) Back Office
11 5 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.91%) Advertising
12 4 (0.91%) Publishing
13 3 (0.68%) Billing
13 3 (0.68%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (18.86%) Project Manager
2 81 (18.41%) Analyst
3 74 (16.82%) Senior
4 37 (8.41%) Developer
5 32 (7.27%) Architect
6 27 (6.14%) Lead
7 26 (5.91%) Consultant
8 25 (5.68%) Senior Manager
9 24 (5.45%) Business Analyst
10 20 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
11 15 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (3.18%) Senior Developer
13 11 (2.50%) Bid Manager
14 10 (2.27%) Data Analyst
15 9 (2.05%) ICT Analyst
15 9 (2.05%) IT Manager
15 9 (2.05%) Programme Manager
15 9 (2.05%) Senior Bid Manager
15 9 (2.05%) Senior Project Manager
15 9 (2.05%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.59%) .NET
2 14 (3.18%) React
3 8 (1.82%) .NET Core
3 8 (1.82%) XML
4 5 (1.14%) .NET Framework
5 4 (0.91%) ASP.NET
5 4 (0.91%) CSS
5 4 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.68%) HTML
7 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.45%) REST
7 2 (0.45%) Symfony
8 1 (0.23%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.23%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.23%) D3.js
8 1 (0.23%) jQuery
8 1 (0.23%) OAuth
8 1 (0.23%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.23%) RESTful
8 1 (0.23%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.36%) Management Information System
2 16 (3.64%) Housing Association
3 13 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.27%) NHS
6 7 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.59%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.36%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.14%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.68%) Linked Data
10 3 (0.68%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.45%) Freedom of Information
12 1 (0.23%) Contactless
12 1 (0.23%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Licensing
12 1 (0.23%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.23%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.09%) Windows
2 6 (1.36%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.14%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.91%) VMS
5 3 (0.68%) Linux
5 3 (0.68%) Unix
5 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (18.64%) Project Management
2 60 (13.64%) Agile
3 50 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (10.45%) PRINCE2
5 41 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (8.86%) Migration
7 36 (8.18%) Project Delivery
7 36 (8.18%) Service Delivery
7 36 (8.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 35 (7.95%) Business Case
9 30 (6.82%) Budget Management
9 30 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (6.59%) Change Management
11 28 (6.36%) Decision-Making
12 27 (6.14%) Performance Management
13 25 (5.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (5.68%) ERP
13 25 (5.68%) User Experience
14 24 (5.45%) Data Protection
15 23 (5.23%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 43 (9.77%) SQL
2 21 (4.77%) PowerShell
3 20 (4.55%) C#
4 8 (1.82%) Python
5 7 (1.59%) Bicep
6 4 (0.91%) C
6 4 (0.91%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.68%) PHP
7 3 (0.68%) PL/SQL
7 3 (0.68%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.45%) R
9 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.23%) Java
9 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.23%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (10.00%) Degree
2 26 (5.91%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.09%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.95%) PMP
5 12 (2.73%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.82%) CIPD
6 8 (1.82%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.68%) NVQ Level 4
9 2 (0.45%) ACCA
9 2 (0.45%) APMG
9 2 (0.45%) CIMA
9 2 (0.45%) CIPFA
9 2 (0.45%) CISSP
9 2 (0.45%) HNC
9 2 (0.45%) HND
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.86%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.73%) GDPR
4 9 (2.05%) PMO
5 8 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 6 (1.36%) COBIT
7 6 (1.36%) ISO 22301
7 6 (1.36%) QA
7 6 (1.36%) SLA
8 2 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.23%) GMP
9 1 (0.23%) NIST
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (4.32%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.68%) XenApp
4 3 (0.68%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.68%) SCCM
2 3 (0.68%) SCOM
3 1 (0.23%) Avamar
3 1 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.23%) Endace
3 1 (0.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 67 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.77%) Oracle
3 20 (4.55%) NEC
4 13 (2.95%) Northgate
5 12 (2.73%) SAP
6 11 (2.50%) Adobe
7 10 (2.27%) Capita
8 9 (2.05%) Google
9 7 (1.59%) VMware
10 6 (1.36%) Citrix
10 6 (1.36%) Sparx
11 4 (0.91%) CA
11 4 (0.91%) Granicus
11 4 (0.91%) Liquidlogic
12 3 (0.68%) Aareon
12 3 (0.68%) Civica
12 3 (0.68%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.45%) Ariba
13 2 (0.45%) OpenText
13 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow