Police
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Police over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 439 616 665
Rank change year-on-year +177 +49 -75
Contract jobs citing Police 159 103 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.63% 0.29% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 57 59
10th Percentile £240 £400 £372
25th Percentile £437 £481 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +28.65%
75th Percentile £616 £600 £681
90th Percentile £688 £650 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +7.69% -11.36% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 2 1
10th Percentile £11.95 - -
25th Percentile £12.97 £72.50 £52.25
Median hourly rate £14.54 £80.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -81.83% +49.53% +249.10%
75th Percentile £19.75 £87.50 £54.75
90th Percentile £20.84 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.54 - £53.50
% change year-on-year - - +249.10%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,217 34,983 49,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.24% 58.49% 56.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,921 24,245 34,457
10th Percentile £270 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,077 1,444
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.46 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.48 £18.13 £14.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.75 £61.25 £46.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.51 £30.54 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.93% +65.08% -7.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Police.

Daily rate trend for Police in the UK

Police
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Police over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Police in the UK

Police
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Police.

Hourly rate trend for Police in the UK

Police
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Police over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Police in the UK

Police
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +191 152 £525 -2.33% 85
UK excluding London +98 94 £525 +7.69% 85
Work from Home +153 54 £525 - 76
London +120 47 £570 +0.97% 15
South East +36 32 £638 +30.77% 12
South West +38 29 £165 -72.50% 15
North of England +34 18 £525 -4.55% 25
Midlands +30 12 £490 -2.00% 13
North West +11 11 £550 -8.33% 13
West Midlands +36 10 £490 -2.00% 9
Yorkshire - 7 £525 - 9
Scotland +34 3 - - 13
East Midlands +19 2 - - 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 4 (2.52%) Confluence
2 3 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.26%) SAS
4 1 (0.63%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.63%) Moodle
Applications
1 18 (11.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (6.29%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (5.03%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.63%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.63%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.63%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (13.21%) Azure
2 11 (6.92%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.03%) AWS
4 5 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.14%) SaaS
5 3 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (1.89%) Azure Stack
5 3 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (1.89%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.63%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.63%) GitHub
6 1 (0.63%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.89%) CTI
1 3 (1.89%) H.323
1 3 (1.89%) Skype
2 2 (1.26%) BGP
2 2 (1.26%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (1.26%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (1.26%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (1.26%) Firewall
2 2 (1.26%) LAN
2 2 (1.26%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (1.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.66%) Power BI
2 3 (1.89%) Big Data
2 3 (1.89%) Tableau
3 2 (1.26%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.63%) DTS
4 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (8.18%) Cucumber
1 13 (8.18%) Jenkins
1 13 (8.18%) REST Assured
1 13 (8.18%) Selenium
1 13 (8.18%) SonarQube
2 11 (6.92%) JIRA
3 8 (5.03%) GitLab
4 1 (0.63%) Git
General
1 52 (32.70%) Public Sector
2 49 (30.82%) Social Skills
3 32 (20.13%) Law
4 30 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (15.72%) Finance
6 17 (10.69%) Fire and Rescue
7 6 (3.77%) Legal
7 6 (3.77%) Local Government
7 6 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.89%) Electronics
8 3 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.26%) Environmental Health
9 2 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.26%) Military
9 2 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 16 (10.06%) Consultant
2 15 (9.43%) Analyst
3 12 (7.55%) Project Manager
4 11 (6.92%) Architect
4 11 (6.92%) Senior
5 10 (6.29%) Data Consultant
5 10 (6.29%) Data Protection Consultant
6 9 (5.66%) Administrator
6 9 (5.66%) Java Engineer
7 7 (4.40%) Data Technician
7 7 (4.40%) Developer
7 7 (4.40%) Field Engineer
7 7 (4.40%) Forensic Technician
8 6 (3.77%) Business Process Trainer
8 6 (3.77%) Lead
8 6 (3.77%) Support Engineer
8 6 (3.77%) Support Specialist
8 6 (3.77%) Technical Support
8 6 (3.77%) Technical Support Engineer
8 6 (3.77%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.18%) Java EE
1 13 (8.18%) REST
2 8 (5.03%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.63%) .NET
3 1 (0.63%) CSS
3 1 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.63%) HTML
3 1 (0.63%) HTML5
3 1 (0.63%) Kafka
3 1 (0.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.18%) Driving Licence
2 10 (6.29%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.40%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.77%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.52%) CCTV
6 4 (2.52%) Freedom of Information
6 4 (2.52%) Freedom of Information Act
7 3 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.26%) PMI
9 1 (0.63%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.63%) NHS
9 1 (0.63%) PKI
9 1 (0.63%) Robotics
9 1 (0.63%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.77%) Windows
2 2 (1.26%) Linux
2 2 (1.26%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (17.61%) Data Protection
3 24 (15.09%) Decision-Making
4 21 (13.21%) Project Management
5 20 (12.58%) Information Security
6 19 (11.95%) Agile
6 19 (11.95%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (10.69%) ITIL
7 17 (10.69%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (10.06%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (8.81%) DevOps
9 14 (8.81%) Line Management
10 13 (8.18%) Software Architecture
10 13 (8.18%) Software Engineering
10 13 (8.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (8.18%) Test Automation
11 11 (6.92%) Migration
12 10 (6.29%) Analytics
13 9 (5.66%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (5.03%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.81%) Java
2 10 (6.29%) SQL
3 7 (4.40%) Python
3 7 (4.40%) R
4 2 (1.26%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.63%) Ruby
5 1 (0.63%) Scala
5 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (61.64%) Security Cleared
2 72 (45.28%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.32%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.66%) CTC Cleared
5 8 (5.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (4.40%) CITP
7 6 (3.77%) Degree
8 3 (1.89%) CISM
8 3 (1.89%) CISSP
8 3 (1.89%) HNC
8 3 (1.89%) NVQ Level 4
9 2 (1.26%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.63%) CCNA
10 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.63%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.95%) GDPR
2 15 (9.43%) SLA
3 10 (6.29%) PMO
4 3 (1.89%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.89%) NCSC
5 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.63%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 8 (5.03%) Docker
2 2 (1.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.63%) iptables
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (8.18%) Ansible
2 8 (5.03%) Docker Swarm
2 8 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.03%) Podman
2 8 (5.03%) Terraform
3 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.26%) SCCM
4 1 (0.63%) Kibana
4 1 (0.63%) logstash
4 1 (0.63%) OPNET
Vendors
1 32 (20.13%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.77%) BT
2 6 (3.77%) Databricks
3 5 (3.14%) Cisco
4 3 (1.89%) Avaya
4 3 (1.89%) Oracle
5 2 (1.26%) Adobe
5 2 (1.26%) PeopleSoft
5 2 (1.26%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.26%) VMware
6 1 (0.63%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.63%) Veritas