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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 414 424
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 +62
Contract jobs citing Police 190 97 110
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.35% 0.34%
As % of the General category 0.73% 0.55% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 57 57
10th Percentile £300 £435 -
25th Percentile £425 £463 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £412
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +33.55% -20.19%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £566
90th Percentile £705 £695 £703
UK median daily rate £536 £550 £415
% change year-on-year -2.50% +32.53% -19.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 1
10th Percentile £13.10 £12.21 -
25th Percentile £16.46 £13.53 £18.16
Median hourly rate £17.85 £20.44 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -12.65% +11.54% -13.79%
75th Percentile £19.01 £22.14 £18.48
90th Percentile £24.72 £30.30 -
UK median hourly rate £15.72 £20.44 £18.32
% change year-on-year -23.07% +11.54% -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 26,068 17,724 18,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.01% 64.21% 58.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,310 11,214 11,424
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 2,281 1,015 930
10th Percentile £13.63 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.17 £17.63
Median hourly rate £30.90 £25.08 £39.18
Median % change year-on-year +23.23% -35.99% +36.26%
75th Percentile £57.00 £45.97 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £25.11 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.48% -28.26% +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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -53 70 £550 - 41
Midlands -24 35 £500 -14.89% 20
South East -42 30 £485 +7.78% 22
North of England -72 24 £500 +14.29% 32
West Midlands -28 19 £525 -10.64% 6
East Midlands -6 16 £205 - 14
South West -32 13 £525 -10.64% 23
Yorkshire -45 13 £500 +14.29% 6
North West -44 10 £456 - 23
North East - 1 £375 - 3
East of England - 1 £700 - 1
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 6 (3.16%) Confluence
2 4 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) assyst
1 2 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.53%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 34 (17.89%) Azure
2 20 (10.53%) AWS
3 13 (6.84%) Power Platform
4 12 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (3.68%) OCI
6 6 (3.16%) GCP
7 5 (2.63%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.11%) GitHub
8 4 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.11%) Serverless
9 3 (1.58%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (1.58%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.05%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.32%) DNS
1 12 (6.32%) Firewall
2 10 (5.26%) DHCP
3 9 (4.74%) LAN
4 7 (3.68%) BGP
4 7 (3.68%) OSPF
5 6 (3.16%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (3.16%) IPsec
5 6 (3.16%) Network Security
5 6 (3.16%) VLAN
5 6 (3.16%) VoIP
5 6 (3.16%) VPN
6 5 (2.63%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (2.63%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (2.63%) RTP
6 5 (2.63%) WAN
6 5 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (2.63%) Wireless
6 5 (2.63%) Wireshark
6 5 (2.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.26%) Power BI
2 6 (3.16%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.63%) Metadata
4 4 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.11%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.05%) EDMS
6 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.53%) Big Data
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.53%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 10 (5.26%) Git
2 7 (3.68%) JIRA
3 6 (3.16%) GitLab
4 5 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.63%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.58%) JUnit
5 3 (1.58%) Mockito
6 2 (1.05%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.05%) JMeter
6 2 (1.05%) Postman
7 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.53%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.53%) Selenium
7 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.53%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 89 (46.84%) Public Sector
2 52 (27.37%) Social Skills
3 38 (20.00%) Law
4 19 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.37%) Finance
6 11 (5.79%) Fire and Rescue
7 9 (4.74%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.68%) Legal
8 7 (3.68%) Local Government
8 7 (3.68%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.16%) Aviation
10 5 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.63%) Military
11 4 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.53%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.53%) Publishing
14 1 (0.53%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 26 (13.68%) Analyst
2 23 (12.11%) Architect
3 20 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 18 (9.47%) Developer
5 13 (6.84%) Lead
5 13 (6.84%) Senior
6 9 (4.74%) Administrator
7 7 (3.68%) Configuration Analyst
7 7 (3.68%) Network Engineer
7 7 (3.68%) Security Architect
8 6 (3.16%) Data Engineer
8 6 (3.16%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.16%) ServiceNow Architect
8 6 (3.16%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
8 6 (3.16%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (3.16%) Technical Business Analyst
9 5 (2.63%) Consultant
9 5 (2.63%) Java Developer
9 5 (2.63%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (2.63%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.79%) Terraform
2 6 (3.16%) .NET
2 6 (3.16%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.63%) .NET Core
3 5 (2.63%) RESTful
3 5 (2.63%) Spring
4 4 (2.11%) Kafka
4 4 (2.11%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.58%) HTML
5 3 (1.58%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.58%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (1.05%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (1.05%) REST
7 1 (0.53%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.53%) CSS3
7 1 (0.53%) HTML5
7 1 (0.53%) Node.js
7 1 (0.53%) React
7 1 (0.53%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.53%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.84%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.74%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.21%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.68%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.68%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.16%) PKI
6 5 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.63%) Freedom of Information
6 5 (2.63%) Robotics
7 4 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.58%) CCTV
8 3 (1.58%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.58%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.05%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.05%) Freedom of Information Act
9 2 (1.05%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.79%) Windows
2 7 (3.68%) Linux
3 5 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.58%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.53%) Android
5 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (18.42%) Agile
2 30 (15.79%) DevOps
2 30 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (14.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 24 (12.63%) Decision-Making
4 24 (12.63%) Validation
5 22 (11.58%) CI/CD
5 22 (11.58%) User Acceptance Testing
6 21 (11.05%) Migration
6 21 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (10.53%) Data Modelling
8 19 (10.00%) Data Protection
9 16 (8.42%) ITIL
10 15 (7.89%) Records Management
11 13 (6.84%) AI
11 13 (6.84%) Business Analysis
11 13 (6.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (6.32%) Data Migration
12 12 (6.32%) Service Management
12 12 (6.32%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.26%) SQL
2 8 (4.21%) Python
3 7 (3.68%) Java
4 6 (3.16%) C#
5 3 (1.58%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.05%) Bash
6 2 (1.05%) R
7 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 102 (53.68%) Security Cleared
2 74 (38.95%) SC Cleared
3 36 (18.95%) DV Cleared
4 25 (13.16%) Degree
5 8 (4.21%) CISM
5 8 (4.21%) CISSP
6 7 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.16%) DBS Check
8 5 (2.63%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.63%) CCNP
9 4 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.58%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (1.58%) IIBA
11 2 (1.05%) APMG
11 2 (1.05%) ISEB
11 2 (1.05%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.37%) QA
2 7 (3.68%) Government Security Classifications
2 7 (3.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 6 (3.16%) NCSC
4 5 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (2.11%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.11%) PMO
6 3 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.05%) GDPR
8 1 (0.53%) GRC
8 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.53%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.53%) NIST
8 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (6.84%) Docker
2 12 (6.32%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.16%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.53%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.68%) Ansible
3 3 (1.58%) Grafana
3 3 (1.58%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.05%) Puppet
4 2 (1.05%) Salt
4 2 (1.05%) SCCM
5 1 (0.53%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 33 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.95%) ServiceNow
3 15 (7.89%) Oracle
4 9 (4.74%) Cisco
5 7 (3.68%) VMware
6 6 (3.16%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.11%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.11%) Google
8 3 (1.58%) NEC
9 2 (1.05%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.53%) Aruba
10 1 (0.53%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.53%) Avaya
10 1 (0.53%) Blue Coat
10 1 (0.53%) F5
10 1 (0.53%) IBM
10 1 (0.53%) Juniper
10 1 (0.53%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.53%) UiPath