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 26 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 418 412
Rank change year-on-year -27 -6 +69
Contract jobs citing Police 185 96 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.34% 0.35%
As % of the General category 0.71% 0.54% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 58 56
10th Percentile £300 £409 -
25th Percentile £388 £463 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £406
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +35.50% -21.33%
75th Percentile £638 £616 £544
90th Percentile £720 £693 £706
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £413
% change year-on-year -4.55% +33.04% -19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 17 1
10th Percentile £13.10 - -
25th Percentile £16.46 £12.21 £18.16
Median hourly rate £17.85 £18.73 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +2.24% -13.79%
75th Percentile £19.01 £22.14 £18.48
90th Percentile £24.72 £25.40 -
UK median hourly rate £15.72 £18.73 £18.32
% change year-on-year -16.07% +2.24% -13.79%

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 26,112 17,927 19,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.09% 64.16% 58.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,307 11,369 11,549
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,307 1,031 924
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.77 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -33.38% +32.46%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.47 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.01 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.35% -28.14% +27.27%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -56 67 £550 - 44
Midlands -22 32 £475 -19.15% 19
South East -49 30 £485 +7.78% 27
North of England -64 24 £500 +14.29% 31
East Midlands -1 16 £205 - 13
West Midlands -36 16 £500 -14.89% 6
South West -33 14 £525 -10.64% 25
Yorkshire -40 13 £500 +14.29% 6
North West -39 10 £456 - 23
North East - 1 £375 - 2
East of England - 1 £700 - 6
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 5 (2.70%) Confluence
2 4 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) assyst
1 2 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.54%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 33 (17.84%) Azure
2 20 (10.81%) AWS
3 13 (7.03%) Power Platform
4 12 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.24%) OCI
7 5 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.70%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.70%) GCP
7 5 (2.70%) Serverless
8 4 (2.16%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.62%) GitHub
9 3 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (1.62%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.08%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.08%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.49%) DNS
1 12 (6.49%) Firewall
2 10 (5.41%) DHCP
3 9 (4.86%) LAN
4 7 (3.78%) BGP
4 7 (3.78%) OSPF
5 6 (3.24%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (3.24%) IPsec
5 6 (3.24%) Network Security
5 6 (3.24%) VLAN
5 6 (3.24%) VoIP
5 6 (3.24%) VPN
6 5 (2.70%) 3GPP
6 5 (2.70%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (2.70%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (2.70%) WAN
6 5 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (2.70%) Wireless
6 5 (2.70%) Wireshark
6 5 (2.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.41%) Power BI
2 6 (3.24%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.70%) Metadata
4 4 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.16%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.08%) EDMS
6 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.54%) Big Data
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.54%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 8 (4.32%) Git
2 6 (3.24%) GitLab
3 5 (2.70%) JIRA
3 5 (2.70%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.16%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.08%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.08%) JMeter
5 2 (1.08%) JUnit
5 2 (1.08%) Mockito
5 2 (1.08%) Postman
5 2 (1.08%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.08%) Selenium
5 2 (1.08%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 86 (46.49%) Public Sector
2 53 (28.65%) Social Skills
3 35 (18.92%) Law
4 19 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.57%) Finance
6 11 (5.95%) Fire and Rescue
7 10 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.78%) Legal
8 7 (3.78%) Local Government
8 7 (3.78%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.24%) Aviation
10 5 (2.70%) Military
11 4 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.54%) Back Office
14 1 (0.54%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (12.97%) Analyst
2 23 (12.43%) Architect
3 20 (10.81%) Business Analyst
4 15 (8.11%) Developer
5 13 (7.03%) Lead
5 13 (7.03%) Senior
6 10 (5.41%) Administrator
7 7 (3.78%) Network Engineer
7 7 (3.78%) Security Architect
8 6 (3.24%) Data Engineer
8 6 (3.24%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.24%) ServiceNow Architect
8 6 (3.24%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
8 6 (3.24%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (3.24%) Technical Business Analyst
9 5 (2.70%) Configuration Analyst
9 5 (2.70%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (2.70%) Service Manager
9 5 (2.70%) Software Engineer
9 5 (2.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.95%) Terraform
2 6 (3.24%) .NET
2 6 (3.24%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.70%) .NET Core
4 4 (2.16%) Kafka
4 4 (2.16%) Spring
5 3 (1.62%) REST
5 3 (1.62%) RESTful
5 3 (1.62%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.08%) HTML
6 2 (1.08%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (1.08%) Playwright
6 2 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.08%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (0.54%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.54%) EJB
7 1 (0.54%) JDBC
7 1 (0.54%) JSP
7 1 (0.54%) ODBC
7 1 (0.54%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.57%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.86%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.78%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.78%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.24%) PKI
6 5 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.70%) Freedom of Information
6 5 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.70%) Robotics
7 4 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.62%) CCTV
8 3 (1.62%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.62%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.62%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.08%) Freedom of Information Act
9 2 (1.08%) PMI
9 2 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.95%) Windows
2 7 (3.78%) Linux
3 5 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.62%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.54%) Android
5 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (17.30%) Agile
2 30 (16.22%) DevOps
2 30 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (14.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 23 (12.43%) Decision-Making
4 23 (12.43%) Validation
5 22 (11.89%) User Acceptance Testing
6 21 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (10.81%) CI/CD
7 20 (10.81%) Data Modelling
7 20 (10.81%) Migration
8 19 (10.27%) Data Protection
9 16 (8.65%) ITIL
10 13 (7.03%) AI
10 13 (7.03%) Business Analysis
10 13 (7.03%) Records Management
11 12 (6.49%) Service Management
11 12 (6.49%) Workshop Facilitation
12 11 (5.95%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (5.95%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.41%) SQL
2 9 (4.86%) Python
3 6 (3.24%) C#
3 6 (3.24%) Java
4 2 (1.08%) Bash
4 2 (1.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.08%) R
5 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (53.51%) Security Cleared
2 71 (38.38%) SC Cleared
3 36 (19.46%) DV Cleared
4 25 (13.51%) Degree
5 8 (4.32%) CISM
5 8 (4.32%) CISSP
6 7 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.24%) DBS Check
8 5 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.70%) CCNP
9 4 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.62%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (1.62%) IIBA
10 3 (1.62%) ISEB
11 2 (1.08%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.03%) QA
2 7 (3.78%) Government Security Classifications
2 7 (3.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 6 (3.24%) NCSC
4 5 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (2.70%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.16%) PMO
6 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.08%) GDPR
7 1 (0.54%) GRC
7 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.54%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (6.49%) Active Directory
1 12 (6.49%) Docker
2 6 (3.24%) Hyper-V
2 6 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (0.54%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.78%) Ansible
3 3 (1.62%) Grafana
3 3 (1.62%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.08%) Puppet
4 2 (1.08%) Salt
4 2 (1.08%) SCCM
5 1 (0.54%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.54%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.19%) ServiceNow
3 15 (8.11%) Oracle
4 9 (4.86%) Cisco
5 7 (3.78%) VMware
6 6 (3.24%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.16%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.16%) Google
8 3 (1.62%) NEC
9 2 (1.08%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.54%) Aruba
10 1 (0.54%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.54%) Avaya
10 1 (0.54%) F5
10 1 (0.54%) IBM
10 1 (0.54%) Informatica
10 1 (0.54%) Juniper
10 1 (0.54%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.54%) UiPath