Police Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Police
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in contract job vacancies in the City of Westminster. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Police over the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Police 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 4.55% - -
As % of the General category 7.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% -2.17%

All General Skills
City of Westminster

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 general skills in the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 26 27 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 59.09% 56.25% 46.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 16
10th Percentile £394 £393 £331
25th Percentile £491 £413 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -24.14% +31.82%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £863
90th Percentile £711 £740 £1,000
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £20.78 - -
25th Percentile £24.21 - -
Median hourly rate £26.11 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £25.00
% change year-on-year -10.18% +16.28% -28.57%

Police
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Police job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Police
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Police.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Police

Police
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Police within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 31 March 2026. 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
Westminster - 2 - -
Police
Central London

Police
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Mockito
1 1 (50.00%) Vite
General
1 2 (100.00%) Law
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Material-UI
2 1 (50.00%) Next.js
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Redux
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes