UK Council Staff Full-Time Equivalent Counts, Excluding Schools

Monthly snapshots of Full Time Equivalent staff employed directly by a UK council, excluding school-based employees. The data is derived from employee contractual hours stored within the HR system iTrent and is published by the Government Digital Service under an OGL-UK-3.0 license. The dataset provides insight into total staffing levels and the council's staffing delivery structure.

Use Cases

• Tracking monthly changes in council workforce size based on the reported FTE measure.
• Analyzing staffing delivery structure over time as described in the dataset's purpose.
• Benchmarking human resource allocation in local government, excluding the education sector.
• Modeling public sector employment trends using monthly-reported HR system data.

Strengths

• Data is reported monthly, providing a regular time-series.
• Derived from a primary HR system (iTrent), suggesting a direct operational source.
• Explicitly excludes school staff, allowing for focused analysis of core council functions.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Extracted from the HR system iTrent based on employee contractual hours.

Time Range

Monthly snapshots, but specific date range is unknown.

Freshness

Reported monthly, but last update date is unknown.

Geography

Likely United Kingdom, given the publisher and license, but specific council is not stated.