Local Government Jobs in the UK excluding London

Local Government (Local Authority, Local Council)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 289 396
Rank change year-on-year -19 +107 +87
Permanent jobs citing Local Government 618 641 603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.81% 1.13% 0.81%
As % of the General category 1.46% 1.67% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 415 260 268
10th Percentile £25,500 £33,000 £30,198
25th Percentile £31,345 £38,209 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £45,000 £41,586
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +8.21% -1.53%
75th Percentile £47,054 £62,500 £52,189
90th Percentile £64,674 £73,751 £65,000
UK median annual salary £39,882 £50,193 £45,183
% change year-on-year -20.54% +11.09% +0.41%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 42,329 38,368 45,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 55.54% 67.87% 61.07%
Number of salaries quoted 27,091 18,143 24,509
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,200 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Local Government
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Local Government as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Local Government in the UK excluding London

Local Government
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Local Government in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Local Government in the UK excluding London

Local Government
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Local Government in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Local Government in the UK excluding London

Local Government
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -23 169 £33,911 -15.16% 105
Midlands -2 145 £37,500 -40.00% 78
South East +65 125 £40,293 -23.98% 112
West Midlands +23 113 £35,000 -49.55% 48
North West -5 96 £33,250 -24.47% 54
East of England +5 58 £42,500 -8.60% 54
South West -46 58 £38,750 -13.89% 53
Yorkshire -15 54 £33,911 -12.50% 36
Wales +24 41 £36,476 - 15
East Midlands -44 32 £37,500 -21.81% 31
Scotland -100 24 £43,750 +6.03% 28
North East -12 19 £38,750 -42.17% 15
Local Government
UK

Local Government
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 20 (3.24%) Apache
3 17 (2.75%) IIS
3 17 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (2.59%) Tomcat
5 9 (1.46%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.49%) Totara
7 1 (0.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Confluence
7 1 (0.16%) Drupal
Applications
1 52 (8.41%) AutoCAD
2 51 (8.25%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (6.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.46%) Revit
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (11.17%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.16%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 60 (9.71%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (7.28%) Power Platform
3 43 (6.96%) Azure
4 24 (3.88%) Entra ID
5 20 (3.24%) SaaS
6 6 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (0.97%) Power Automate
7 5 (0.81%) AWS
7 5 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (0.49%) OCI
8 3 (0.49%) OneDrive
8 3 (0.49%) Smartsheet
9 2 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.32%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.16%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.16%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (0.16%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.16%) GitHub
10 1 (0.16%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.16%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.24%) Firewall
2 15 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (2.27%) LAN
4 13 (2.10%) Wireless
5 11 (1.78%) MPLS
6 10 (1.62%) Internet
6 10 (1.62%) VPN
7 9 (1.46%) Network Security
7 9 (1.46%) WAN
8 8 (1.29%) DNS
9 7 (1.13%) SMS
10 6 (0.97%) Intranet
10 6 (0.97%) SAN
10 6 (0.97%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.97%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.81%) Extranet
11 5 (0.81%) VLAN
11 5 (0.81%) WLAN
12 4 (0.65%) TETRA
13 3 (0.49%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 34 (5.50%) Oracle Database
3 32 (5.18%) Power BI
4 22 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (3.24%) GIS
6 14 (2.27%) Oracle Database 12c
6 14 (2.27%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.62%) RDBMS
8 9 (1.46%) Spatial Data
9 8 (1.29%) Geospatial Data
10 7 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.81%) Tableau
12 4 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
12 4 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.65%) Triplestore
13 3 (0.49%) EDMS
13 3 (0.49%) MS Access
13 3 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
14 2 (0.32%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.32%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Git
1 4 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.16%) JIRA
3 1 (0.16%) RSpec
General
1 205 (33.17%) Social Skills
2 192 (31.07%) Finance
3 146 (23.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 141 (22.82%) Public Sector
5 91 (14.72%) Police
6 87 (14.08%) Legal
7 49 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
8 47 (7.61%) Presentation Skills
8 47 (7.61%) Telecoms
9 40 (6.47%) Retail
10 37 (5.99%) Back Office
11 31 (5.02%) Billing
11 31 (5.02%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (4.53%) Marketing
13 26 (4.21%) Fire and Rescue
14 7 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.13%) Social Housing
15 6 (0.97%) Games
16 5 (0.81%) Environmental Health
16 5 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (11.97%) Senior
2 56 (9.06%) Analyst
3 44 (7.12%) Coordinator
4 43 (6.96%) Project Manager
5 39 (6.31%) Lead
6 37 (5.99%) Technical Coordinator
7 31 (5.02%) Audit Manager
8 26 (4.21%) IT Technician
9 25 (4.05%) Administrator
10 20 (3.24%) Applications Support
10 20 (3.24%) Developer
10 20 (3.24%) Development Manager
11 17 (2.75%) Team Leader
12 16 (2.59%) Business Manager
12 16 (2.59%) Technical Manager
13 15 (2.43%) Data Analyst
13 15 (2.43%) ICT Engineer
14 14 (2.27%) IT Manager
14 14 (2.27%) Oracle DBA
14 14 (2.27%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.40%) Web Services
2 11 (1.78%) .NET
3 6 (0.97%) CSS
3 6 (0.97%) HTML
4 5 (0.81%) JSON
4 5 (0.81%) RESTful
4 5 (0.81%) Ruby on Rails
4 5 (0.81%) XML
5 4 (0.65%) REST
5 4 (0.65%) SOAP
6 1 (0.16%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.16%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.16%) jQuery
6 1 (0.16%) Node.js
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.16%) Sidekiq
6 1 (0.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 74 (11.97%) Housing Association
2 46 (7.44%) NHS
3 45 (7.28%) Driving Licence
4 38 (6.15%) Management Information System
5 32 (5.18%) Onboarding
6 31 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (3.24%) CCTV
7 20 (3.24%) Renewable Energy
8 17 (2.75%) Public Cloud
9 16 (2.59%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.10%) Educational Technology
11 12 (1.94%) PACS
11 12 (1.94%) Smartcard
12 10 (1.62%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.46%) Blog
14 8 (1.29%) Acoustics
15 7 (1.13%) Social Media
16 6 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
17 5 (0.81%) Smartphone
18 4 (0.65%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.15%) Windows
2 34 (5.50%) Unix
3 23 (3.72%) Linux
4 17 (2.75%) Solaris
5 6 (0.97%) Android
5 6 (0.97%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) VMS
7 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.16%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (17.96%) Agile
2 99 (16.02%) Project Management
3 96 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (14.72%) Customer Service
5 62 (10.03%) Mathematics
6 60 (9.71%) Business Development
7 58 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 57 (9.22%) Time Management
9 53 (8.58%) Coaching
10 49 (7.93%) Service Management
11 46 (7.44%) Performance Management
12 40 (6.47%) Project Delivery
13 38 (6.15%) Business Intelligence
14 37 (5.99%) People Management
15 35 (5.66%) ITIL
16 29 (4.69%) Line Management
17 28 (4.53%) Data Security
18 27 (4.37%) Data Analysis
19 25 (4.05%) Decision-Making
20 24 (3.88%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 51 (8.25%) SQL
2 16 (2.59%) Python
2 16 (2.59%) Shell Script
3 13 (2.10%) C#
4 9 (1.46%) Java
4 9 (1.46%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.97%) Ruby
6 4 (0.65%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.65%) SPARQL
7 3 (0.49%) R
8 2 (0.32%) C
9 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 137 (22.17%) Degree
2 54 (8.74%) HND
3 53 (8.58%) Security Cleared
4 50 (8.09%) DBS Check
5 48 (7.77%) HNC
6 31 (5.02%) ACCA
7 14 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
8 13 (2.10%) SC Cleared
9 11 (1.78%) A+ Certification
9 11 (1.78%) Network+ Certification
10 10 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.81%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.81%) MCP
12 5 (0.81%) PMP
13 4 (0.65%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.49%) CCNP
14 3 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.90%) Accessibility
2 31 (5.02%) GAAP
2 31 (5.02%) IFRS
3 27 (4.37%) QA
4 11 (1.78%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.13%) NEBOSH
5 7 (1.13%) SLA
6 6 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.65%) PMO
8 3 (0.49%) GDPR
8 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.32%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
9 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.81%) Docker
5 3 (0.49%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.81%) SCCM
2 5 (0.81%) SCOM
3 4 (0.65%) AirWatch
3 4 (0.65%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 175 (28.32%) Microsoft
2 70 (11.33%) NEC
3 47 (7.61%) Oracle
4 34 (5.50%) CA
5 15 (2.43%) Cisco
6 13 (2.10%) VMware
7 11 (1.78%) Openreach
8 9 (1.46%) SAP
9 6 (0.97%) BT
9 6 (0.97%) Citrix
10 5 (0.81%) ESRI
10 5 (0.81%) HP
10 5 (0.81%) NetApp
10 5 (0.81%) Northgate
11 4 (0.65%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.49%) Civica
12 3 (0.49%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.32%) Liquidlogic
14 1 (0.16%) Databricks
14 1 (0.16%) Samsung