Local Government (Local Authority, Local Council)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Local Government in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Local Government over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 327 493
Rank change year-on-year +7 +166 +108
Permanent jobs citing Local Government 866 1,048 1,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 1.05% 0.71%
As % of the General category 1.45% 1.54% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 613 419 456
10th Percentile £26,250 £33,363 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,474 £40,048 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,882 £50,000 £45,183
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% +10.66% +0.41%
75th Percentile £52,500 £68,703 £59,097
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,000 £44,800 £42,074
% change year-on-year -12.95% +6.48% -0.37%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,592 67,843 105,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.64% 68.21% 64.61%
Number of salaries quoted 39,690 36,730 51,592
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Local Government.

Salary trend for Local Government in the UK

Local Government
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Local Government over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Local Government in the UK

Local Government
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Local Government within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +14 760 £39,870 -19.37% 508
UK excluding London -16 606 £39,000 -12.95% 418
Work from Home -86 259 £46,380 -13.31% 154
London +37 210 £48,831 -18.62% 128
North of England -36 160 £33,911 -14.15% 116
Midlands -11 147 £35,000 -44.00% 66
South East +77 123 £40,400 -23.05% 108
West Midlands +42 115 £34,995 -49.56% 39
North West -2 91 £33,250 -24.47% 47
South West -29 59 £39,316 -12.14% 51
East of England +11 58 £42,500 -8.60% 63
Yorkshire -6 50 £33,911 -11.07% 53
Wales +29 41 £36,476 - 13
East Midlands -52 32 £37,500 -19.32% 28
Scotland -100 20 £42,500 -2.30% 26
North East -11 19 £38,750 +3.47% 18

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 31 (3.58%) Apache
1 31 (3.58%) SharePoint
2 28 (3.23%) IIS
3 27 (3.12%) Tomcat
4 17 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.04%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.58%) CMS
7 3 (0.35%) Totara
8 1 (0.12%) Confluence
8 1 (0.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 57 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 57 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (6.35%) AutoCAD
3 9 (1.04%) Revit
4 7 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 87 (10.05%) NEC Housing
2 6 (0.69%) Sage 50
3 3 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 77 (8.89%) Azure
2 73 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (7.74%) Power Platform
4 29 (3.35%) AWS
5 27 (3.12%) dbt
6 25 (2.89%) Entra ID
6 25 (2.89%) SaaS
7 22 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 16 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (0.81%) PowerApps
11 6 (0.69%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.58%) Google Analytics
12 5 (0.58%) Google Tag Manager
12 5 (0.58%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.46%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.46%) OCI
14 3 (0.35%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.54%) Firewall
2 20 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (2.08%) LAN
4 16 (1.85%) Wireless
5 14 (1.62%) Internet
6 11 (1.27%) MPLS
6 11 (1.27%) WAN
7 10 (1.15%) VPN
8 9 (1.04%) Network Security
9 8 (0.92%) DNS
10 7 (0.81%) SMS
11 6 (0.69%) Intranet
11 6 (0.69%) SAN
11 6 (0.69%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.69%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.58%) Extranet
12 5 (0.58%) VLAN
12 5 (0.58%) WLAN
13 4 (0.46%) TETRA
14 3 (0.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (9.82%) SQL Server
2 54 (6.24%) Oracle Database
3 51 (5.89%) Power BI
4 36 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (2.77%) Relational Database
6 22 (2.54%) GIS
6 22 (2.54%) Oracle Database 12c
6 22 (2.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 19 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (1.73%) Tableau
9 14 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
10 10 (1.15%) RDBMS
11 9 (1.04%) Semantic Layer
11 9 (1.04%) Spatial Data
12 8 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (0.81%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
13 7 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.46%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Git
1 7 (0.81%) JIRA
1 7 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
2 5 (0.58%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (0.46%) RSpec
4 3 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.35%) Selenium
4 3 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 308 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 258 (29.79%) Finance
3 223 (25.75%) Public Sector
4 167 (19.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 120 (13.86%) Police
6 93 (10.74%) Legal
7 89 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
8 61 (7.04%) Presentation Skills
9 60 (6.93%) Back Office
10 57 (6.58%) Marketing
11 51 (5.89%) Retail
12 50 (5.77%) Telecoms
13 42 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (3.93%) Fire and Rescue
15 32 (3.70%) Billing
16 27 (3.12%) Digital Economy
17 15 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (0.92%) Law
18 8 (0.92%) Social Housing
19 7 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 102 (11.78%) Senior
2 98 (11.32%) Analyst
3 69 (7.97%) Lead
4 56 (6.47%) Project Manager
5 48 (5.54%) Coordinator
6 39 (4.50%) Technical Coordinator
7 33 (3.81%) Administrator
7 33 (3.81%) Applications Support
7 33 (3.81%) Development Manager
8 32 (3.70%) Audit Manager
9 28 (3.23%) IT Technician
10 23 (2.66%) Data Analyst
10 23 (2.66%) Developer
11 22 (2.54%) DBA
11 22 (2.54%) Oracle DBA
11 22 (2.54%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 17 (1.96%) Business Manager
12 17 (1.96%) Team Leader
13 16 (1.85%) Senior Manager
13 16 (1.85%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.50%) Web Services
2 27 (3.12%) .NET
3 17 (1.96%) .NET Core
4 11 (1.27%) HTML
5 10 (1.15%) CSS
6 9 (1.04%) Ruby on Rails
7 8 (0.92%) REST
8 6 (0.69%) JSON
8 6 (0.69%) XML
9 5 (0.58%) RESTful
9 5 (0.58%) SOAP
10 4 (0.46%) Sidekiq
11 2 (0.23%) TAPI
12 1 (0.12%) ASP.NET
12 1 (0.12%) HTML5
12 1 (0.12%) HTML5 Canvas
12 1 (0.12%) jQuery
12 1 (0.12%) Node.js
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Fusion
12 1 (0.12%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 82 (9.47%) Housing Association
2 76 (8.78%) Self-Motivation
3 70 (8.08%) Driving Licence
4 66 (7.62%) Management Information System
5 51 (5.89%) NHS
6 49 (5.66%) Social Media
7 32 (3.70%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.23%) Public Cloud
9 21 (2.42%) CCTV
9 21 (2.42%) Renewable Energy
10 16 (1.85%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.73%) Blog
12 12 (1.39%) PACS
12 12 (1.39%) Smartcard
13 11 (1.27%) Educational Technology
14 10 (1.15%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.92%) Acoustics
16 6 (0.69%) IoT
16 6 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
16 6 (0.69%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.93%) Windows
2 54 (6.24%) Unix
3 34 (3.93%) Linux
4 28 (3.23%) Solaris
5 11 (1.27%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.92%) Android
7 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.23%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.23%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (16.86%) Agile
2 137 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
3 120 (13.86%) Project Management
4 113 (13.05%) Customer Service
5 78 (9.01%) Business Development
6 75 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 65 (7.51%) Mathematics
8 61 (7.04%) Time Management
9 60 (6.93%) Project Delivery
10 59 (6.81%) Coaching
11 57 (6.58%) Business Intelligence
12 54 (6.24%) ITIL
13 53 (6.12%) Service Management
14 50 (5.77%) Performance Management
15 49 (5.66%) Thought Leadership
16 48 (5.54%) Collaborative Working
16 48 (5.54%) Data Analysis
17 47 (5.43%) Service Delivery
18 45 (5.20%) Line Management
19 43 (4.97%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (8.78%) SQL
2 30 (3.46%) C#
3 27 (3.12%) Shell Script
4 20 (2.31%) Python
5 16 (1.85%) Bicep
6 13 (1.50%) JavaScript
7 12 (1.39%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.27%) Java
9 10 (1.15%) Ruby
10 8 (0.92%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.58%) R
12 4 (0.46%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.23%) C
13 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.12%) PHP
14 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.12%) VB
14 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 211 (24.36%) Degree
2 78 (9.01%) Security Cleared
3 61 (7.04%) HND
4 52 (6.00%) DBS Check
4 52 (6.00%) HNC
5 33 (3.81%) ACCA
6 22 (2.54%) Oracle Certification
7 17 (1.96%) SC Cleared
8 12 (1.39%) A+ Certification
9 11 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
10 10 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.69%) MCP
13 5 (0.58%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.46%) CCNP
14 4 (0.46%) PMP
15 3 (0.35%) CCIE
15 3 (0.35%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (8.55%) Accessibility
2 33 (3.81%) QA
3 31 (3.58%) GAAP
3 31 (3.58%) IFRS
4 23 (2.66%) Data Quality
5 16 (1.85%) GDPR
6 8 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.81%) NEBOSH
7 7 (0.81%) SLA
8 6 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.58%) PMO
10 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.23%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
11 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
12 1 (0.12%) COBIT
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 50 (5.77%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.92%) Docker
2 8 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.58%) Firmware
5 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.35%) vSphere
6 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.58%) SCCM
2 5 (0.58%) SCOM
3 4 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (0.46%) AirWatch
3 4 (0.46%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.12%) QRadar
4 1 (0.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 234 (27.02%) Microsoft
2 88 (10.16%) NEC
3 72 (8.31%) Oracle
4 35 (4.04%) CA
5 22 (2.54%) Cisco
6 13 (1.50%) Google
6 13 (1.50%) VMware
7 12 (1.39%) SAP
8 11 (1.27%) Openreach
9 6 (0.69%) BT
9 6 (0.69%) Citrix
9 6 (0.69%) HP
9 6 (0.69%) Sage
10 5 (0.58%) ESRI
10 5 (0.58%) NetApp
10 5 (0.58%) Northgate
11 4 (0.46%) Apple
11 4 (0.46%) Civica
11 4 (0.46%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.35%) SolarWinds