Police Contract Job Trends in Central London

Police
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Police over the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 123 143
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 +60
Contract jobs citing Police 6 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.32% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the General category 0.43% 0.45% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile £506 £270 £471
25th Percentile - £360 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -3.26% -2.27%
75th Percentile - £609 £585
90th Percentile £584 £656 £618
London median daily rate £565 £509 £550
% change year-on-year +11.06% -7.50% -15.38%

All General Skills
Central London

Police falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,396 1,564 1,938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 74.18% 67.21% 64.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 954 968 1,369
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £789 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 14
10th Percentile £17.08 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £29.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +55.56% -44.44%
75th Percentile £47.50 £70.00 £41.24
90th Percentile £63.75 £92.50 £62.15
London median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +7.69%

Police
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Police relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Police job vacancy trend in Central London

Police
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Police.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Police

Police
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Police in Central London over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Police in Central London

Police
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Police.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Police

Police
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 30 October 2025. 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
City of London -1 6 £550 +5.77% 1
Police
London

Police
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (16.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Mining
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (33.33%) Metadata
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
1 2 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) Pandas
1 2 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (66.67%) Data Science
1 4 (66.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 4 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Data Lineage
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Security
3 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 2 (33.33%) Regression Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) R
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) APMG
3 1 (16.67%) Degree