Police Contracts in the UK excluding London

Police
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Police over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 385 416
Rank change year-on-year +76 +31 -33
Contract jobs citing Police 87 62 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the General category 0.78% 0.47% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 30 20
10th Percentile £158 £348 £302
25th Percentile £363 £455 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -11.36% +29.41%
75th Percentile £613 £609 £675
90th Percentile £675 £628 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £501 £550
% change year-on-year +4.79% -8.91% +26.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 0 1
10th Percentile £12.50 - -
25th Percentile £13.69 - £52.25
Median hourly rate £14.54 - £53.50
75th Percentile £19.75 - £54.75
90th Percentile £21.33 - -
UK median hourly rate £14.54 £80.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -81.83% +49.53% +249.10%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,128 13,244 16,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.33% 56.46% 55.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,349 9,050 11,652
10th Percentile £206 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,652 767 1,021
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.00 £13.89
Median hourly rate £28.42 £28.16 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +50.59% -4.10%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.59 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.69 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%

Police
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Police as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Police in the UK excluding London

Police
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Police in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Police in the UK excluding London

Police
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Police in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Police in the UK excluding London

Police
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Police in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Police in the UK excluding London

Police
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Police in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Police in the UK excluding London

Police
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Police within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +29 28 £650 +33.33% 15
South West +31 27 £165 -72.50% 15
North of England +28 18 £525 +5.00% 27
Midlands +42 11 £450 +23.29% 8
North West +9 11 £550 -8.33% 16
West Midlands +28 9 £450 +23.29% 5
Yorkshire +25 7 £525 +40.00% 6
Scotland +42 3 - - 11
East Midlands +25 2 - - 3
Police
UK

Police
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) Apache
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (9.20%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.49%) Azure
2 8 (9.20%) AWS
3 4 (4.60%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.15%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.60%) Power BI
2 3 (3.45%) Big Data
2 3 (3.45%) Tableau
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (14.94%) Cucumber
1 13 (14.94%) Jenkins
1 13 (14.94%) REST Assured
1 13 (14.94%) Selenium
1 13 (14.94%) SonarQube
2 8 (9.20%) GitLab
2 8 (9.20%) JIRA
General
1 33 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.44%) Public Sector
3 22 (25.29%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (17.24%) Finance
5 13 (14.94%) Law
6 11 (12.64%) Fire and Rescue
7 6 (6.90%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.45%) Electronics
8 3 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.30%) Environmental Health
9 2 (2.30%) Local Government
10 1 (1.15%) Advertising
10 1 (1.15%) Back Office
10 1 (1.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (13.79%) Consultant
2 9 (10.34%) Analyst
2 9 (10.34%) Data Consultant
2 9 (10.34%) Data Protection Consultant
2 9 (10.34%) Java Engineer
2 9 (10.34%) Senior
3 7 (8.05%) Data Technician
3 7 (8.05%) Forensic Technician
3 7 (8.05%) Project Manager
4 6 (6.90%) Field Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Field Support Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) IT Trainer
4 6 (6.90%) Support Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Support Specialist
4 6 (6.90%) Technical Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Technical Specialist
4 6 (6.90%) Technical Support
4 6 (6.90%) Technical Support Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Technical Support Specialist
4 6 (6.90%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.94%) Java EE
1 13 (14.94%) REST
2 8 (9.20%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.15%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.79%) Driving Licence
2 6 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.60%) CCTV
5 3 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.30%) PMI
7 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.15%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.30%) Windows
2 1 (1.15%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (36.78%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (24.14%) Decision-Making
3 19 (21.84%) Data Protection
4 18 (20.69%) Information Security
5 13 (14.94%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (14.94%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (14.94%) DevOps
5 13 (14.94%) ITIL
5 13 (14.94%) Software Architecture
5 13 (14.94%) Software Engineering
5 13 (14.94%) Technical Leadership
5 13 (14.94%) Test Automation
6 10 (11.49%) Project Management
7 8 (9.20%) Configuration Management
7 8 (9.20%) Containerisation
7 8 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (9.20%) Line Management
8 7 (8.05%) Digital Forensics
8 7 (8.05%) Service Delivery
9 6 (6.90%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.09%) Java
2 2 (2.30%) R
2 2 (2.30%) SQL
3 1 (1.15%) Python
3 1 (1.15%) Scala
3 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (49.43%) Security Cleared
2 31 (35.63%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (8.05%) CITP
5 6 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.60%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (3.45%) CISM
7 3 (3.45%) CISSP
7 3 (3.45%) Degree
7 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.45%) HNC
7 3 (3.45%) NVQ Level 4
8 2 (2.30%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.15%) CCNA
9 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.15%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.09%) GDPR
1 14 (16.09%) SLA
2 3 (3.45%) Government Security Classifications
2 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.45%) NCSC
3 1 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.15%) JSP 440
System Software
1 8 (9.20%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.15%) iptables
Systems Management
1 13 (14.94%) Ansible
2 8 (9.20%) Docker Swarm
2 8 (9.20%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.20%) Podman
2 8 (9.20%) Terraform
3 2 (2.30%) SCCM
4 1 (1.15%) Kibana
4 1 (1.15%) logstash
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.15%) OPNET
Vendors
1 17 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.90%) BT
3 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow