Police Contract Job Trends in England

Police
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Police over the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 413 387
Rank change year-on-year -21 -26 +178
Contract jobs citing Police 138 71 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.29% 0.41%
As % of the General category 0.62% 0.46% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 36 87
10th Percentile £250 £426 £240
25th Percentile £350 £459 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £619
90th Percentile £650 £714 £688
UK median daily rate £498 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.24% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 37
10th Percentile £15.66 £21.76 £11.95
25th Percentile £15.72 - £13.69
Median hourly rate £17.85 £22.14 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year -19.38% +52.27% -81.83%
75th Percentile £25.50 £28.26 £19.75
90th Percentile £27.53 £31.90 £21.14
UK median hourly rate £17.85 £22.14 £14.54
% change year-on-year -19.38% +52.27% -81.83%

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 22,169 15,575 21,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.08% 64.08% 58.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,866 10,114 13,922
10th Percentile £305 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,461 674 1,777
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.08 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.27 £17.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.15 £28.17 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% -6.12% -11.53%
75th Percentile £61.50 £58.53 £51.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £28.08 £30.00
% change year-on-year +3.29% -6.42% -14.29%

Police
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Police job vacancy trend in England

Police
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Police.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Police

Police
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Police in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Police in England

Police
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Police.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Police

Police
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Police in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Police in England

Police
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Police within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
London -59 48 £495 -5.71% 8
Midlands -32 35 £550 +15.79% 4
West Midlands -33 26 £550 +15.79% 3
South East -43 23 £250 - 7
South West -28 15 £400 -31.91% 2
East Midlands -33 8 - - 1
North of England -74 7 £525 - 6
Yorkshire -64 4 - - 3
North East - 2 £575 - 1
East of England -37 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £263 - 2
Police
UK

Police
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (1.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.72%) Confluence
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) assyst
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.49%) Azure
2 12 (8.70%) AWS
3 11 (7.97%) Entra ID
4 10 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.62%) Serverless
7 4 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.17%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.45%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.45%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (1.45%) GCP
9 2 (1.45%) GitHub
9 2 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.45%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.72%) OCI
10 1 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.35%) Firewall
1 6 (4.35%) LAN
2 5 (3.62%) WAN
3 4 (2.90%) 3GPP
3 4 (2.90%) Network Security
3 4 (2.90%) RTP
3 4 (2.90%) Wireshark
4 3 (2.17%) BGP
4 3 (2.17%) DNS
4 3 (2.17%) OSPF
4 3 (2.17%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.45%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.45%) DHCP
5 2 (1.45%) DMVPN
5 2 (1.45%) MPLS
5 2 (1.45%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.45%) TETRA
6 1 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.72%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.35%) Power BI
2 2 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (1.45%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (5.80%) Git
2 4 (2.90%) GitLab
2 4 (2.90%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.45%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.45%) JIRA
4 2 (1.45%) JUnit
4 2 (1.45%) Mockito
4 2 (1.45%) Postman
5 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.72%) JMeter
5 1 (0.72%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.72%) Selenium
5 1 (0.72%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.72%) Vite
General
1 59 (42.75%) Public Sector
2 35 (25.36%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.67%) Law
4 15 (10.87%) Fire and Rescue
5 11 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (6.52%) Finance
7 7 (5.07%) Local Government
8 6 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.62%) Legal
9 5 (3.62%) Military
10 4 (2.90%) Aviation
10 4 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.17%) Back Office
11 3 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.72%) Banking
13 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (17.39%) Analyst
2 16 (11.59%) Business Analyst
3 12 (8.70%) Architect
4 10 (7.25%) Developer
5 9 (6.52%) Senior
6 8 (5.80%) Field Engineer
7 6 (4.35%) Consultant
7 6 (4.35%) Network Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Administrator
8 5 (3.62%) Configuration Analyst
8 5 (3.62%) Help Desk Technician
8 5 (3.62%) ICT Technician
8 5 (3.62%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.62%) Technical Architect
9 4 (2.90%) Software Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.17%) Information Assurance Manager
10 3 (2.17%) Information Manager
10 3 (2.17%) Network Architect
10 3 (2.17%) PMO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.35%) .NET
1 6 (4.35%) SailPoint
2 4 (2.90%) .NET Core
2 4 (2.90%) Middleware
3 3 (2.17%) RESTful
4 2 (1.45%) Kafka
4 2 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.45%) Spring
4 2 (1.45%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.45%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.72%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.72%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.72%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.72%) Jest
5 1 (0.72%) JSON
5 1 (0.72%) Material-UI
5 1 (0.72%) Next.js
5 1 (0.72%) React
5 1 (0.72%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.97%) Driving Licence
2 10 (7.25%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.07%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.62%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.90%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.90%) Robotics
7 3 (2.17%) CCTV
7 3 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.17%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.45%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.45%) CMDB
8 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.45%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.72%) Replication
9 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.72%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.32%) Windows
2 9 (6.52%) Linux
3 5 (3.62%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.72%) Android
5 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (18.12%) Migration
2 23 (16.67%) Agile
3 22 (15.94%) Records Management
4 18 (13.04%) Data Protection
5 15 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 14 (10.14%) ITIL
7 12 (8.70%) CI/CD
7 12 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (8.70%) Validation
8 11 (7.97%) Data Migration
9 10 (7.25%) Service Delivery
10 8 (5.80%) Business Continuity
10 8 (5.80%) Change Management
10 8 (5.80%) Customer Service
10 8 (5.80%) DevOps
10 8 (5.80%) Information Management
10 8 (5.80%) Project Management
11 7 (5.07%) Information Governance
11 7 (5.07%) Knowledge Transfer
11 7 (5.07%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.35%) C#
1 6 (4.35%) SQL
2 4 (2.90%) Java
3 2 (1.45%) Bash
3 2 (1.45%) Kotlin
3 2 (1.45%) Python
4 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 44 (31.88%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.59%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.52%) Degree
5 5 (3.62%) NVQ Level 3
6 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.17%) CCNP
7 3 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.45%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.72%) CBAP
9 1 (0.72%) CCNA
9 1 (0.72%) IIBA
9 1 (0.72%) ISEB
9 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.62%) NCSC
2 5 (3.62%) QA
3 4 (2.90%) GDPR
4 3 (2.17%) PMO
5 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.72%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.72%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.72%) NIST
5 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (10.87%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.52%) Docker
2 9 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.80%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.62%) SCCM
2 4 (2.90%) Ansible
2 4 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.90%) Terraform
3 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.45%) Grafana
4 2 (1.45%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.45%) Puppet
4 2 (1.45%) Salt
5 1 (0.72%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.72%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.25%) VMware
3 7 (5.07%) Cisco
4 5 (3.62%) Blue Prism
4 5 (3.62%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.90%) UiPath
6 3 (2.17%) Automation Anywhere
7 2 (1.45%) Cellebrite
7 2 (1.45%) IBM
7 2 (1.45%) Intel
8 1 (0.72%) Avaya
8 1 (0.72%) NetApp
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle
8 1 (0.72%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.72%) SAP
8 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.72%) Veeam