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 25 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 386 439
Rank change year-on-year -56 +53 +102
Contract jobs citing Police 165 98 120
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.39% 0.32%
As % of the General category 0.69% 0.61% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 46 65
10th Percentile £250 £331 £222
25th Percentile £335 £475 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £634 £650
90th Percentile £656 £714 £718
UK median daily rate £495 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 22 35
10th Percentile - £12.21 £11.95
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.94 £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 - £19.75
90th Percentile £169.16 £30.30 £21.33
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 23,836 16,141 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.89% 64.30% 57.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,503 10,399 13,692
10th Percentile £313 £281 £288
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,694 774 1,825
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.58 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.97 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +16.20% -13.38% +15.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.89 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +16.36% -12.70% +5.00%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -49 60 £475 -13.64% 8
Midlands -28 35 £550 - 17
South East -41 32 £250 +25.00% 16
West Midlands - 26 £563 - 8
South West -39 17 £475 -19.15% 5
East Midlands -13 8 - - 9
North of England -85 8 £375 - 6
Yorkshire -62 6 £625 - 5
North West -43 1 £263 - 1
North East - 1 £375 - 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 4 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.82%) Confluence
3 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.21%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.61%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) assyst
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.61%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.33%) Azure
2 16 (9.70%) AWS
3 11 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 11 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.64%) GCP
4 6 (3.64%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.42%) Serverless
6 3 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.82%) GitHub
6 3 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (1.82%) Power Automate
6 3 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.21%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.21%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (1.21%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.21%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.61%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.45%) Network Security
2 8 (4.85%) Firewall
3 6 (3.64%) DNS
3 6 (3.64%) LAN
4 5 (3.03%) 3GPP
4 5 (3.03%) DHCP
4 5 (3.03%) RTP
4 5 (3.03%) WAN
4 5 (3.03%) Wireshark
5 4 (2.42%) BGP
5 4 (2.42%) OSPF
6 2 (1.21%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.21%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.21%) EIGRP
6 2 (1.21%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.21%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.21%) VLAN
7 1 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.61%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.61%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.03%) Power BI
2 2 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (1.21%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (6.06%) Git
2 5 (3.03%) GitLab
2 5 (3.03%) TeamCity
3 4 (2.42%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.42%) JIRA
4 3 (1.82%) JUnit
4 3 (1.82%) Mockito
5 2 (1.21%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.21%) Postman
6 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.61%) JMeter
6 1 (0.61%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.61%) Selenium
6 1 (0.61%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.61%) Vite
General
1 77 (46.67%) Public Sector
2 38 (23.03%) Social Skills
3 31 (18.79%) Law
4 17 (10.30%) Fire and Rescue
5 14 (8.48%) Finance
6 11 (6.67%) Local Government
7 10 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.64%) Aviation
8 6 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.03%) Legal
9 5 (3.03%) Military
9 5 (3.03%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.82%) Back Office
12 2 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.61%) Banking
13 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (15.15%) Analyst
2 17 (10.30%) Business Analyst
3 15 (9.09%) Architect
4 13 (7.88%) Developer
5 12 (7.27%) Senior
6 9 (5.45%) Administrator
7 8 (4.85%) Field Engineer
7 8 (4.85%) Project Manager
8 7 (4.24%) Consultant
9 6 (3.64%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.03%) Configuration Analyst
10 5 (3.03%) Help Desk Technician
10 5 (3.03%) ICT Technician
10 5 (3.03%) Lead
10 5 (3.03%) Network Engineer
10 5 (3.03%) Software Engineer
11 4 (2.42%) IT Administrator
11 4 (2.42%) IT Systems Administrator
11 4 (2.42%) Java Developer
11 4 (2.42%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.24%) .NET
2 6 (3.64%) SailPoint
3 5 (3.03%) .NET Core
4 4 (2.42%) Middleware
4 4 (2.42%) RESTful
4 4 (2.42%) Spring
5 3 (1.82%) Kafka
5 3 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.82%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.82%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (0.61%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.61%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.61%) HTML5
6 1 (0.61%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.61%) Jest
6 1 (0.61%) Material-UI
6 1 (0.61%) Next.js
6 1 (0.61%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.88%) Driving Licence
2 10 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.24%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.03%) Robotics
5 4 (2.42%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.82%) CCTV
6 3 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.82%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.82%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.21%) CMDB
7 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.91%) Windows
2 12 (7.27%) Linux
3 5 (3.03%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.61%) Android
5 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.39%) Agile
2 23 (13.94%) Migration
3 22 (13.33%) Records Management
4 20 (12.12%) Data Protection
4 20 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 18 (10.91%) Validation
6 17 (10.30%) ITIL
7 16 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (8.48%) CI/CD
8 14 (8.48%) DevOps
9 13 (7.88%) Decision-Making
10 12 (7.27%) Project Management
10 12 (7.27%) Service Delivery
10 12 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (6.67%) Change Management
12 10 (6.06%) AI
12 10 (6.06%) Data Migration
12 10 (6.06%) Programme Delivery
13 9 (5.45%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 9 (5.45%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.85%) SQL
2 7 (4.24%) C#
3 5 (3.03%) Java
4 3 (1.82%) Python
5 2 (1.21%) Bash
6 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (40.61%) Security Cleared
2 57 (34.55%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.52%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.45%) Degree
5 5 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.03%) NVQ Level 3
6 4 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.82%) CCNP
8 2 (1.21%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.61%) CBAP
9 1 (0.61%) CCNA
9 1 (0.61%) CCSP
9 1 (0.61%) IIBA
9 1 (0.61%) ISEB
9 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.64%) QA
2 5 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.03%) NCSC
3 4 (2.42%) PMO
4 3 (1.82%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.61%) GRC
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (10.30%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.67%) Docker
3 10 (6.06%) Hyper-V
3 10 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.61%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (4.85%) Kubernetes
1 8 (4.85%) Terraform
2 6 (3.64%) Ansible
3 5 (3.03%) SCCM
4 3 (1.82%) Grafana
4 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.21%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.21%) Puppet
5 2 (1.21%) Salt
6 1 (0.61%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.61%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 27 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.67%) VMware
3 9 (5.45%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.24%) Cisco
5 5 (3.03%) Blue Prism
5 5 (3.03%) Fortinet
5 5 (3.03%) Oracle
6 4 (2.42%) Google
6 4 (2.42%) UiPath
7 3 (1.82%) Automation Anywhere
8 2 (1.21%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.61%) Aruba
9 1 (0.61%) Avaya
9 1 (0.61%) Blue Coat
9 1 (0.61%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.61%) F5
9 1 (0.61%) IBM
9 1 (0.61%) Intel
9 1 (0.61%) Juniper