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 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 406 381
Rank change year-on-year -60 -25 +210
Contract jobs citing Police 129 66 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.27% 0.43%
As % of the General category 0.59% 0.43% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 28 89
10th Percentile £250 £413 £240
25th Percentile £373 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -1.19% -
75th Percentile £600 £611 £625
90th Percentile £650 £692 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -3.61% -1.19% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 37
10th Percentile £15.59 £21.76 £11.95
25th Percentile £15.72 - £13.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.14 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year +13.60% +52.27% -81.83%
75th Percentile £25.50 £28.26 £19.75
90th Percentile £29.56 £31.90 £21.14
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £22.14 £14.54
% change year-on-year +13.60% +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 22,040 15,500 21,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.35% 63.64% 58.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,893 10,103 14,163
10th Percentile £304 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £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 1,403 632 1,738
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.13 £15.38
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.04 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% +5.58% -21.43%
75th Percentile £61.18 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £26.28 £29.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -9.40% +7.41% -22.86%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -33 51 £513 -2.38% 8
Midlands -35 33 £550 +15.18% 7
West Midlands -37 24 £550 +15.18% 5
South East -37 22 £250 - 18
South West -25 13 £425 -27.66% 1
East Midlands -28 8 - - 2
North of England -75 4 £525 - 11
North East - 2 £575 - 1
East of England -36 1 - - 3
Yorkshire -62 1 - - 6
North West - 1 £263 - 4
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 1 (0.78%) Confluence
1 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.95%) Azure
2 15 (11.63%) AWS
3 11 (8.53%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.10%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.10%) Serverless
6 3 (2.33%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.55%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (1.55%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.78%) GCP
8 1 (0.78%) GitHub
8 1 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.88%) Firewall
1 5 (3.88%) LAN
1 5 (3.88%) WAN
2 3 (2.33%) BGP
2 3 (2.33%) Network Security
2 3 (2.33%) OSPF
2 3 (2.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.55%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (1.55%) DMVPN
3 2 (1.55%) MPLS
3 2 (1.55%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.55%) TETRA
4 1 (0.78%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.78%) DNS
4 1 (0.78%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.78%) RTP
4 1 (0.78%) SAN
4 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.10%) Power BI
2 2 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (1.55%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Git
2 3 (2.33%) GitLab
2 3 (2.33%) Postman
3 2 (1.55%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.55%) JIRA
3 2 (1.55%) Selenium
4 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.78%) JMeter
4 1 (0.78%) JUnit
4 1 (0.78%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.78%) Mockito
4 1 (0.78%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.78%) Vite
General
1 55 (42.64%) Public Sector
2 30 (23.26%) Social Skills
3 20 (15.50%) Law
4 9 (6.98%) Fire and Rescue
5 8 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.65%) Finance
7 5 (3.88%) Legal
7 5 (3.88%) Local Government
8 4 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.10%) Military
8 4 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.33%) Back Office
10 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.78%) Aviation
11 1 (0.78%) Banking
11 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (17.83%) Analyst
2 15 (11.63%) Business Analyst
3 13 (10.08%) Architect
4 9 (6.98%) Senior
5 8 (6.20%) Field Engineer
6 7 (5.43%) Consultant
6 7 (5.43%) Developer
7 6 (4.65%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.88%) Help Desk Technician
8 5 (3.88%) ICT Technician
8 5 (3.88%) Network Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.10%) Configuration Analyst
9 4 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.33%) Administrator
10 3 (2.33%) Information Assurance Manager
10 3 (2.33%) Information Manager
10 3 (2.33%) Network Architect
10 3 (2.33%) PMO Manager
10 3 (2.33%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.65%) SailPoint
2 4 (3.10%) Middleware
3 3 (2.33%) .NET
4 2 (1.55%) RESTful
5 1 (0.78%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.78%) CSS
5 1 (0.78%) CSS3
5 1 (0.78%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.78%) HTML
5 1 (0.78%) HTML5
5 1 (0.78%) Jest
5 1 (0.78%) JSON
5 1 (0.78%) Kafka
5 1 (0.78%) Node.js
5 1 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.78%) Redux
5 1 (0.78%) Spring
5 1 (0.78%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.78%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (0.78%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.75%) Driving Licence
2 9 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (6.98%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.33%) e-Learning
4 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.55%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.55%) CMDB
5 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.78%) CCTV
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Replication
6 1 (0.78%) Robotics
6 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.78%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.85%) Windows
2 6 (4.65%) Linux
3 4 (3.10%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.78%) Android
4 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.78%) VMS
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (17.83%) Migration
2 20 (15.50%) Records Management
3 18 (13.95%) Agile
3 18 (13.95%) Data Protection
4 16 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (8.53%) ITIL
6 11 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (7.75%) Data Migration
7 10 (7.75%) Validation
8 9 (6.98%) Information Security
9 8 (6.20%) Business Continuity
9 8 (6.20%) Change Management
9 8 (6.20%) CI/CD
9 8 (6.20%) Customer Service
9 8 (6.20%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (6.20%) Service Delivery
10 7 (5.43%) Information Governance
10 7 (5.43%) Programme Delivery
10 7 (5.43%) Programme Governance
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.33%) C#
1 3 (2.33%) Java
1 3 (2.33%) SQL
2 2 (1.55%) Bash
2 2 (1.55%) Kotlin
2 2 (1.55%) Python
3 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (44.19%) Security Cleared
2 46 (35.66%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.63%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.88%) NVQ Level 3
5 3 (2.33%) CCNP
5 3 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.33%) Degree
6 2 (1.55%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.55%) CISM
6 2 (1.55%) CISMP
6 2 (1.55%) CISSP
6 2 (1.55%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.65%) NCSC
3 5 (3.88%) QA
4 4 (3.10%) GDPR
5 3 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 3 (2.33%) PMO
6 2 (1.55%) GRC
7 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.78%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.78%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.78%) NIST
7 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.65%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.88%) Docker
5 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.88%) SCCM
2 3 (2.33%) Ansible
2 3 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.33%) Terraform
3 2 (1.55%) Grafana
3 2 (1.55%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.55%) Puppet
3 2 (1.55%) Salt
4 1 (0.78%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.20%) VMware
3 6 (4.65%) Cisco
4 5 (3.88%) Fortinet
5 4 (3.10%) Blue Prism
5 4 (3.10%) UiPath
6 3 (2.33%) Automation Anywhere
7 2 (1.55%) Cellebrite
7 2 (1.55%) IBM
7 2 (1.55%) Intel
8 1 (0.78%) Avaya
8 1 (0.78%) NetApp
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle
8 1 (0.78%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.78%) SAP
8 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.78%) Veeam