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 28 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 387 429
Rank change year-on-year -74 +42 +126
Contract jobs citing Police 133 83 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the General category 0.59% 0.54% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 42 55
10th Percentile £250 £416 £191
25th Percentile £350 £475 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +9.19% -2.20%
75th Percentile £588 £634 £644
90th Percentile £650 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £498 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -9.55% +8.28% +1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 37
10th Percentile - £19.51 £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 £169.16 £36.36 £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 22,668 15,283 21,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.28% 64.13% 57.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,915 9,888 13,661
10th Percentile £313 £284 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,552 678 1,798
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.32 £12.96
25th Percentile £18.32 £16.79 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.78 £27.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.93% -8.82% -5.63%
75th Percentile £61.18 £53.75 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.74
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -61 44 £493 -10.45% 11
Midlands -32 33 £550 - 4
South East -40 24 £250 +25.00% 11
West Midlands - 24 £550 - 4
South West -21 14 £400 -31.91% 4
East Midlands -22 8 - -
North of England -77 7 £444 - 6
Yorkshire -62 6 £625 - 3
North West -38 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 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.50%) Confluence
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.53%) Azure
2 12 (9.02%) AWS
3 11 (8.27%) Entra ID
3 11 (8.27%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.01%) Power Automate
5 4 (3.01%) Serverless
6 3 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.50%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.50%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (1.50%) GCP
7 2 (1.50%) GitHub
7 2 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.50%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.50%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.26%) Firewall
2 6 (4.51%) LAN
3 5 (3.76%) 3GPP
3 5 (3.76%) DHCP
3 5 (3.76%) DNS
3 5 (3.76%) Network Security
3 5 (3.76%) RTP
3 5 (3.76%) WAN
3 5 (3.76%) Wireshark
4 4 (3.01%) BGP
4 4 (3.01%) OSPF
5 2 (1.50%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (1.50%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.50%) EIGRP
5 2 (1.50%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.50%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.50%) VLAN
6 1 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.75%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.75%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.51%) Power BI
2 2 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (1.50%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (7.52%) Git
2 5 (3.76%) TeamCity
3 4 (3.01%) GitLab
4 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.26%) JIRA
5 2 (1.50%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.50%) JUnit
5 2 (1.50%) Mockito
5 2 (1.50%) Postman
6 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.75%) JMeter
6 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.75%) Selenium
6 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.75%) Vite
General
1 59 (44.36%) Public Sector
2 34 (25.56%) Social Skills
3 28 (21.05%) Law
4 17 (12.78%) Fire and Rescue
5 11 (8.27%) Finance
6 10 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (6.02%) Local Government
8 6 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.76%) Aviation
9 5 (3.76%) Legal
10 4 (3.01%) Back Office
10 4 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (3.01%) Military
11 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.75%) Banking
13 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (17.29%) Analyst
2 15 (11.28%) Business Analyst
3 10 (7.52%) Senior
4 9 (6.77%) Developer
5 8 (6.02%) Administrator
5 8 (6.02%) Architect
5 8 (6.02%) Consultant
5 8 (6.02%) Field Engineer
6 5 (3.76%) Configuration Analyst
6 5 (3.76%) Help Desk Technician
6 5 (3.76%) ICT Technician
6 5 (3.76%) Network Engineer
6 5 (3.76%) Software Engineer
7 4 (3.01%) IT Administrator
7 4 (3.01%) IT Systems Administrator
7 4 (3.01%) Lead
7 4 (3.01%) Support Officer
7 4 (3.01%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (3.01%) Technical Architect
8 3 (2.26%) IAM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.26%) .NET
2 6 (4.51%) SailPoint
3 5 (3.76%) .NET Core
4 4 (3.01%) Middleware
5 3 (2.26%) RESTful
6 2 (1.50%) Kafka
6 2 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.50%) Spring
6 2 (1.50%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.50%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.75%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.75%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.75%) CSS3
7 1 (0.75%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.75%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.75%) Node.js
7 1 (0.75%) React
7 1 (0.75%) Redux
7 1 (0.75%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.27%) Driving Licence
2 10 (7.52%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.76%) Robotics
5 4 (3.01%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.01%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.26%) CCTV
6 3 (2.26%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.26%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.50%) CMDB
7 2 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.75%) PMI
8 1 (0.75%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.53%) Windows
2 12 (9.02%) Linux
3 5 (3.76%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.01%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) Android
5 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (18.05%) Agile
2 22 (16.54%) Migration
2 22 (16.54%) Records Management
3 17 (12.78%) Data Protection
4 15 (11.28%) ITIL
5 13 (9.77%) CI/CD
5 13 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (9.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 13 (9.77%) Validation
6 10 (7.52%) Data Migration
6 10 (7.52%) DevOps
6 10 (7.52%) Service Delivery
7 9 (6.77%) Decision-Making
8 8 (6.02%) Change Management
8 8 (6.02%) Data Analysis
8 8 (6.02%) Information Management
8 8 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (6.02%) Workshop Facilitation
9 7 (5.26%) AI
9 7 (5.26%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.26%) C#
1 7 (5.26%) SQL
2 3 (2.26%) Java
2 3 (2.26%) Python
3 2 (1.50%) Bash
4 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (39.85%) Security Cleared
2 47 (35.34%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.27%) DV Cleared
4 10 (7.52%) Degree
5 5 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.76%) NVQ Level 3
6 3 (2.26%) CCNP
6 3 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.50%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.75%) CBAP
8 1 (0.75%) CCNA
8 1 (0.75%) IIBA
8 1 (0.75%) ISEB
8 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.76%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.76%) NCSC
1 5 (3.76%) QA
2 3 (2.26%) GDPR
2 3 (2.26%) PMO
3 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (12.78%) Active Directory
2 10 (7.52%) Docker
2 10 (7.52%) Hyper-V
2 10 (7.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.75%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.76%) Ansible
1 5 (3.76%) SCCM
2 4 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.01%) Terraform
3 3 (2.26%) Grafana
3 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.50%) Puppet
4 2 (1.50%) Salt
5 1 (0.75%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 26 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.27%) VMware
3 7 (5.26%) Cisco
4 6 (4.51%) Blue Prism
5 5 (3.76%) Fortinet
5 5 (3.76%) UiPath
6 4 (3.01%) Automation Anywhere
7 2 (1.50%) Intel
7 2 (1.50%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.75%) Aruba
8 1 (0.75%) Avaya
8 1 (0.75%) Blue Coat
8 1 (0.75%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.75%) F5
8 1 (0.75%) IBM
8 1 (0.75%) Juniper
8 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow