| Local Authority | Workforce | Public admininstration, education and health employees | State percent of workforce |
| Castle Morpeth | 23,874 | 13,632 | 57.1% |
| Wansbeck | 15,592 | 7,405 | 47.5% |
| Durham | 49,738 | 23,229 | 46.7% |
| Hastings | 29,520 | 12,902 | 43.7% |
| Cambridge | 87,830 | 37,864 | 43.1% |
| Oxford | 106,182 | 44,206 | 41.6% |
| Ceredigion | 25,774 | 10,482 | 40.7% |
| Torfaen | 35,227 | 14,241 | 40.4% |
| Stafford | 60,443 | 24,206 | 40.0% |
| Inverclyde | 30,414 | 12,156 | 40.0% |
| Exeter | 88,115 | 35,027 | 39.8% |
| Carrick | 48,714 | 19,343 | 39.7% |
| Canterbury | 58,261 | 23,112 | 39.7% |
| Denbighshire | 36,358 | 14,396 | 39.6% |
| Rushcliffe | 42,096 | 16,625 | 39.5% |
| Eilean Siar | 11,815 | 4,657 | 39.4% |
| Taunton Deane | 54,040 | 21,262 | 39.3% |
| Liverpool | 226,433 | 89,002 | 39.3% |
| Sefton | 97,501 | 38,169 | 39.1% |
| Argyll & Bute | 38,330 | 14,980 | 39.1% |
| Middlesbrough | 63,732 | 24,583 | 38.6% |
| Swansea | 105,932 | 40,574 | 38.3% |
| Lewisham | 59,681 | 22,807 | 38.2% |
| Merthyr Tydfil | 21,869 | 8,343 | 38.1% |
| Lancaster | 53,644 | 20,369 | 38.0% |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 180,534 | 68,402 | 37.9% |
| Blackpool | 59,705 | 22,552 | 37.8% |
| Eastbourne | 38,120 | 14,216 | 37.3% |
| West Dunbartonshire | 32,058 | 11,948 | 37.3% |
| Gwynedd | 45,557 | 16,721 | 36.7% |
| Vale of Glamorgan | 38,291 | 14,051 | 36.7% |
| Worthing | 44,813 | 16,350 | 36.5% |
| Wirral | 96,356 | 34,834 | 36.2% |
| Carmarthenshire | 59,664 | 21,554 | 36.1% |
| Greenwich | 64,223 | 23,150 | 36.0% |
| West Dorset | 42,190 | 15,122 | 35.8% |
| Gosport | 19,937 | 7,138 | 35.8% |
| Plymouth | 103,805 | 37,079 | 35.7% |
| Bath and North East Somerset | 79,409 | 28,324 | 35.7% |
| Thanet | 38,561 | 13,745 | 35.6% |