The Datum Report

Occupation 4112 · Administrative and secretarial occupations

Local government administrative occupations

Half of full-time local government administrative occupations in the UK earn more than £30,886 a year, and half earn less.

Local government administrative occupations undertake a variety of administrative and clerical duties in local government offices and departments.

How people enter it

Entry is most common with GCSEs/S grades. Evidence of keyboard skills may also be required in some posts. Off and on-the-job training is provided. NVQs/SVQs in Administration are available at levels 2 and 3.

What the work involves

• computes cost of product/services and maintains and balances records of financial transactions
• prepares and checks invoices and verifies accuracy of records
• receives and pays out cash and cheques and performs closely related clerical duties
• updates and maintains data, correspondence and other records for storage or despatch
• arranges, classifies and indexes publications, correspondence and other material in libraries and offices
• performs other clerical duties not elsewhere classified including preparing financial information for management, proof reading printed material and drafting letters in reply to correspondence or telephone enquiries

Also called

Administrative assistant (local government) · Administrative officer (police service) · Benefits assistant (local government) · Clerical officer (local government) · Local government officer · Parish clerk

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for local government administrative occupations, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 9 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

National government administrative occupations · Officers of non-governmental organisations