Police
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Police 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 475 262 708
Rank change year-on-year -213 +446 +162
Permanent jobs citing Police 503 1,342 643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 1.42% 0.38%
As % of the General category 0.82% 2.09% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 354 198 229
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £31,133
25th Percentile £35,195 £44,003 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,886 £49,280 £40,606
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +21.36% +1.52%
75th Percentile £57,000 £62,614 £51,579
90th Percentile £72,771 £70,207 £65,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,553 £47,236 £39,540
% change year-on-year -14.15% +19.46% -0.68%

All General Skills
UK

Police is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 61,146 64,155 110,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.10% 67.68% 65.14%
Number of salaries quoted 40,306 35,663 51,819
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,725 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Police
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Police as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Police in the UK

Police
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Police.

Salary trend for Police in the UK

Police
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Police over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Police in the UK

Police
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Police within the UK 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
England -247 355 £45,000 -8.69% 90
UK excluding London -232 346 £40,553 -14.15% 77
Work from Home -150 182 £47,000 -5.78% 39
London -126 98 £51,196 +3.89% 22
Wales +31 80 £40,000 - 2
South East -157 72 £49,881 -8.16% 15
Midlands -46 71 £43,227 -8.49% 18
North of England -112 70 £37,500 -24.33% 21
West Midlands -11 61 £43,227 +7.56% 9
North East -38 37 £35,000 -29.37% 3
North West -81 26 £59,500 +44.86% 14
South West -44 25 £45,000 +22.62% 9
East of England -111 14 £30,000 -17.17% 4
Scotland -121 14 £40,000 -40.30% 8
East Midlands -53 10 £55,000 +4.22% 9
Yorkshire -5 7 £54,750 -18.29% 4

Police
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (5.37%) Apache
1 27 (5.37%) IIS
1 27 (5.37%) Tomcat
2 24 (4.77%) WebLogic
3 18 (3.58%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.19%) Confluence
4 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.60%) SAS
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 37 (7.36%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.60%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (0.60%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.60%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.60%) SPSS
5 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 75 (14.91%) NEC Housing
2 12 (2.39%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 73 (14.51%) Azure
2 27 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (3.98%) Power Platform
5 15 (2.98%) PowerApps
6 14 (2.78%) AWS
6 14 (2.78%) Power Automate
7 11 (2.19%) SaaS
8 10 (1.99%) OCI
9 9 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (1.79%) PaaS
10 8 (1.59%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.39%) IaaS
12 5 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (0.80%) GCP
14 3 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (0.60%) Dropbox
15 2 (0.40%) Azure Service Fabric
15 2 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.77%) Firewall
2 20 (3.98%) WAN
3 16 (3.18%) LAN
4 12 (2.39%) Network Security
5 11 (2.19%) Intranet
6 9 (1.79%) CTI
6 9 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.79%) VLAN
7 6 (1.19%) DNS
7 6 (1.19%) Internet
7 6 (1.19%) SAN
7 6 (1.19%) Unified Communications
7 6 (1.19%) VPN
8 5 (0.99%) Extranet
8 5 (0.99%) MPLS
8 5 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.99%) Wireless
8 5 (0.99%) WLAN
9 4 (0.80%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.80%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (11.33%) Oracle Database
2 47 (9.34%) SQL Server
3 26 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (4.37%) Oracle Database 12c
6 12 (2.39%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.19%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.19%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.99%) Power BI
10 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.60%) Big Data
11 3 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.60%) EDRMS
11 3 (0.60%) MySQL
12 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.20%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (3.38%) Git
2 15 (2.98%) Team Foundation Server
3 14 (2.78%) Visual Studio
4 12 (2.39%) JIRA
5 6 (1.19%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.80%) Selenium
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
General
1 152 (30.22%) Public Sector
2 133 (26.44%) Social Skills
3 123 (24.45%) Local Government
4 119 (23.66%) Finance
5 100 (19.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (6.56%) Retail
8 32 (6.36%) Back Office
9 31 (6.16%) Law
10 26 (5.17%) Legal
11 20 (3.98%) Electronics
11 20 (3.98%) Fire and Rescue
12 19 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (3.58%) Marketing
14 12 (2.39%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.99%) Military
16 7 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.99%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 107 (21.27%) Analyst
2 99 (19.68%) Senior
3 52 (10.34%) Developer
4 49 (9.74%) Applications Support
5 46 (9.15%) Lead
6 35 (6.96%) Architect
7 33 (6.56%) Senior Analyst
8 28 (5.57%) DBA
9 27 (5.37%) Administrator
10 22 (4.37%) Applications Support Analyst
10 22 (4.37%) Oracle DBA
10 22 (4.37%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 22 (4.37%) Senior Applications Support
10 22 (4.37%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
10 22 (4.37%) Senior Support Analyst
10 22 (4.37%) Support Analyst
10 22 (4.37%) Test Analyst
11 21 (4.17%) Project Manager
12 19 (3.78%) Forensic Manager
13 18 (3.58%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (10.93%) .NET
2 40 (7.95%) Web Services
3 30 (5.96%) Spring
4 22 (4.37%) J2EE
4 22 (4.37%) Java EE
5 11 (2.19%) CSS
6 10 (1.99%) .NET Core
7 8 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.39%) React
9 6 (1.19%) ASP.NET
9 6 (1.19%) Node.js
9 6 (1.19%) RESTful
9 6 (1.19%) SOAP
10 5 (0.99%) XML
10 5 (0.99%) YAML
11 4 (0.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 3 (0.60%) .NET Framework
12 3 (0.60%) jQuery
12 3 (0.60%) JSON
13 2 (0.40%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.76%) Driving Licence
2 30 (5.96%) Public Cloud
3 27 (5.37%) Management Information System
3 27 (5.37%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.19%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.99%) NHS
7 9 (1.79%) CCTV
8 8 (1.59%) Social Media
9 7 (1.39%) Blog
9 7 (1.39%) Cybercrime
9 7 (1.39%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.19%) PKI
11 5 (0.99%) Smartphone
12 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.80%) Digital Media
12 4 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.60%) IoT
13 3 (0.60%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.60%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 73 (14.51%) Unix
1 73 (14.51%) Windows
2 34 (6.76%) Linux
3 27 (5.37%) Solaris
4 16 (3.18%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.99%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.19%) Android
7 2 (0.40%) AIX
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.20%) SUSE
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (14.91%) ITIL
2 65 (12.92%) Customer Service
3 61 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (11.73%) Agile
5 56 (11.13%) Business Strategy
6 46 (9.15%) Impact Assessments
7 45 (8.95%) Mentoring
7 45 (8.95%) Service Management
8 43 (8.55%) Decision-Making
9 38 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (7.55%) Digital Forensics
10 36 (7.16%) Project Management
10 36 (7.16%) Risk Management
11 34 (6.76%) Data Security
11 34 (6.76%) Performance Tuning
12 32 (6.36%) Task Automation
13 31 (6.16%) DevOps
14 29 (5.77%) Information Management
15 28 (5.57%) Actionable Insight
16 27 (5.37%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (9.74%) Shell Script
2 41 (8.15%) Java
3 38 (7.55%) C#
4 34 (6.76%) SQL
5 23 (4.57%) PL/1
6 8 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.39%) Python
8 6 (1.19%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.99%) VB
10 4 (0.80%) C++
11 3 (0.60%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.40%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.40%) VBA
13 1 (0.20%) Ruby
13 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 204 (40.56%) Security Cleared
2 117 (23.26%) SC Cleared
3 99 (19.68%) Degree
4 40 (7.95%) DBS Check
4 40 (7.95%) DV Cleared
5 24 (4.77%) Oracle Certification
6 9 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.59%) HNC
7 8 (1.59%) HND
7 8 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.39%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.99%) APMP
9 5 (0.99%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.80%) CISSP
10 4 (0.80%) MCSA
11 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.60%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (0.60%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (15.90%) Accessibility
2 60 (11.93%) QA
3 27 (5.37%) SLA
4 8 (1.59%) GDPR
5 7 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 7 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.99%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 3 (0.60%) NIST
8 3 (0.60%) PMO
9 2 (0.40%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
9 2 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (4.37%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.99%) Firmware
4 6 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.99%) Docker
6 4 (0.80%) vSphere
7 3 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (4.57%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (4.37%) OpenSSO
3 12 (2.39%) SCCM
4 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.19%) SCOM
6 5 (0.99%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.99%) Terraform
7 4 (0.80%) Ansible
8 3 (0.60%) Nessus
9 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 141 (28.03%) Microsoft
2 102 (20.28%) Oracle
3 75 (14.91%) NEC
4 22 (4.37%) Remedy
5 19 (3.78%) Cisco
6 15 (2.98%) VMware
7 10 (1.99%) HP
8 9 (1.79%) webMethods
9 6 (1.19%) Google
9 6 (1.19%) NetApp
10 5 (0.99%) Citrix
10 5 (0.99%) Dell
11 4 (0.80%) Avaya
11 4 (0.80%) Blue Prism
11 4 (0.80%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.80%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.60%) Adobe
12 3 (0.60%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.60%) UiPath
13 2 (0.40%) Cadence