Police Contracts 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 433 541
Rank change year-on-year +36 +108 +160
Contract jobs citing Police 101 119 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.32% 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.60% 0.56% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 60 68
10th Percentile £364 £205 £389
25th Percentile £475 £375 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £494 £520
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -5.02% -5.45%
75th Percentile £631 £653 £600
90th Percentile £712 £738 £658
UK median daily rate £550 £494 £501
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.42% -8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 33 2
10th Percentile £12.21 £11.95 -
25th Percentile £18.09 £13.69 £72.50
Median hourly rate £22.14 £14.79 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.70% -81.51% -
75th Percentile - £19.75 £87.50
90th Percentile £30.30 £21.53 -
UK median hourly rate £22.14 £14.54 £80.00
% change year-on-year +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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 16,961 21,330 28,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.87% 57.31% 59.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,881 13,604 19,999
10th Percentile £281 £300 £315
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -3.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 852 1,767 970
10th Percentile £13.35 £13.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.40 £15.92 £17.25
Median hourly rate £27.25 £33.00 £30.52
Median % change year-on-year -17.44% +8.13% +31.38%
75th Percentile £51.20 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.22 £31.89 £30.54
% change year-on-year -14.65% +4.40% +27.25%

Police
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Police as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Police in England

Police
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Police in England.

Daily rate trend for Police in England

Police
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Police in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Police in England

Police
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Police in England.

Hourly rate trend for Police in England

Police
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Police in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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 +39 41 £550 +4.40% 84
North of England +12 20 - - 57
Yorkshire +18 15 - - 23
South West +20 12 £588 +56.67% 35
South East +27 11 £225 -65.38% 40
North West +4 5 - - 25
Midlands +11 4 - - 50
East Midlands +3 4 - - 18
East of England +28 2 - - 21
Police
UK

Police
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.98%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.99%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.99%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.89%) Azure
2 10 (9.90%) AWS
3 8 (7.92%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (0.99%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (0.99%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.99%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (0.99%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.99%) Google Workspace
4 1 (0.99%) IaaS
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.99%) PaaS
4 1 (0.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (0.99%) Serverless
4 1 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) Firewall
2 2 (1.98%) VoIP
3 1 (0.99%) 4G
3 1 (0.99%) 5G
3 1 (0.99%) BGP
3 1 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.99%) DNS
3 1 (0.99%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.99%) LAN
3 1 (0.99%) LTE
3 1 (0.99%) OSPF
3 1 (0.99%) PPP
3 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.99%) TETRA
3 1 (0.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.92%) Power BI
2 4 (3.96%) Data Mining
2 4 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.96%) Metadata
2 4 (3.96%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.96%) Tableau
3 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.99%) Big Data
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.95%) GitLab
1 5 (4.95%) JIRA
2 4 (3.96%) Cucumber
2 4 (3.96%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.96%) REST Assured
2 4 (3.96%) Selenium
2 4 (3.96%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.99%) Gatling
3 1 (0.99%) JMeter
3 1 (0.99%) LoadRunner
General
1 40 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 37 (36.63%) Public Sector
3 27 (26.73%) Law
4 19 (18.81%) Fire and Rescue
5 17 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (13.86%) Finance
7 13 (12.87%) Military
8 12 (11.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (7.92%) Local Government
10 5 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (2.97%) Legal
13 2 (1.98%) Aviation
13 2 (1.98%) Swedish Language
14 1 (0.99%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.99%) French Language
14 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.99%) Marketing
14 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (18.81%) Analyst
2 12 (11.88%) Support Analyst
3 8 (7.92%) Architect
4 7 (6.93%) Support Officer
5 6 (5.94%) Consultant
6 5 (4.95%) Data Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Project Manager
6 5 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.96%) Data Scientist
7 4 (3.96%) Java Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Lead
7 4 (3.96%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Software Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) Configuration Specialist
8 3 (2.97%) Developer
9 2 (1.98%) Administrator
9 2 (1.98%) Java Developer
9 2 (1.98%) Service Analyst
9 2 (1.98%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.96%) ARM Templates
1 4 (3.96%) Java EE
1 4 (3.96%) Kafka
1 4 (3.96%) Pandas
1 4 (3.96%) REST
1 4 (3.96%) RESTful
1 4 (3.96%) scikit-learn
1 4 (3.96%) TensorFlow
2 3 (2.97%) Middleware
3 2 (1.98%) Spring
4 1 (0.99%) .NET
4 1 (0.99%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.99%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.99%) CSS
4 1 (0.99%) HTML
4 1 (0.99%) JSON
4 1 (0.99%) SOAP
4 1 (0.99%) Web Services
4 1 (0.99%) XML
4 1 (0.99%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.93%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.96%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.96%) Freedom of Information
3 3 (2.97%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.98%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.98%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.98%) Handset
4 2 (1.98%) Robotics
5 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.99%) Cybercrime
5 1 (0.99%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.99%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.99%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.99%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.94%) Windows
2 4 (3.96%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.98%) Linux
3 2 (1.98%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (25.74%) Decision-Making
2 25 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (19.80%) Project Management
4 16 (15.84%) Information Security
5 15 (14.85%) Service Management
6 13 (12.87%) Agile
7 12 (11.88%) Performance Measurement
8 10 (9.90%) Data Modelling
9 9 (8.91%) ITIL
9 9 (8.91%) Risk Management
9 9 (8.91%) Software Engineering
9 9 (8.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (7.92%) Actionable Insight
10 8 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (7.92%) Customer Service
10 8 (7.92%) Data Governance
10 8 (7.92%) Data Science
10 8 (7.92%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 8 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.90%) SQL
2 9 (8.91%) Python
3 6 (5.94%) Java
4 4 (3.96%) R
5 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.99%) Bash
Qualifications
1 50 (49.50%) Security Cleared
2 32 (31.68%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.88%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.94%) Degree
5 5 (4.95%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.98%) CISSP
7 1 (0.99%) APMG
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.99%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.99%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.87%) SLA
2 7 (6.93%) GDPR
3 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.97%) NCSC
3 3 (2.97%) NIST
3 3 (2.97%) PMO
4 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (3.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.99%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 6 (5.94%) Terraform
2 5 (4.95%) Ansible
2 5 (4.95%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.96%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (3.96%) Podman
4 2 (1.98%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.98%) Grafana
5 1 (0.99%) SCCM
5 1 (0.99%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.97%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.97%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.98%) MuleSoft
3 2 (1.98%) Oracle
3 2 (1.98%) Ribbon
3 2 (1.98%) Tenable
4 1 (0.99%) CheckPoint
4 1 (0.99%) Cisco
4 1 (0.99%) Fortinet
4 1 (0.99%) Foundry
4 1 (0.99%) Google
4 1 (0.99%) Juniper
4 1 (0.99%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (0.99%) SolarWinds
4 1 (0.99%) VMware