Local government administrative occupations

Also called: Administrative officer, Administrative assistant, Local government officer, Local government official, Team clerk, Case worker, Case builder, Parish clerk, Rating clerk, Senior clerk, Clerk-typist, Tax assistant

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

Main tasks

• 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

How to become one

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.

Ways in

• University: Arts & Humanities degrees, Offered by 27 universities in the UK
• University: Business & Commerce degrees, Offered by 27 universities in the UK

Pay · Outlook

• Median full-time pay: £30,886 a year The middle half earn £26,393 to £36,188.
• About 147,500 people work in this job now, and about 140,100 are projected by 2035. (-5%)

Related jobs

• National government administrative occupations
• Officers of non-governmental organisations

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Sources

• Office for National Statistics: Annual Population Survey: employment by occupation (April 2025 to March 2026), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03
• Office for National Statistics: SOC 2020 Volume 1: structure and descriptions (2026-08-27 edition), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03
• Department for Education: Skills Imperative 2035: employment projections by occupation (2021 to 2035 (Warwick IER / Cambridge Econometrics)), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03
• Office for National Statistics: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Table 14 (2025 provisional), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03

Updated 2026-10-03

Graduate outcomes: Discover Uni dataset, HESA (www.hesa.ac.uk), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Aggregated by subject and adapted by Peernovo.