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 21 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 375 404
Rank change year-on-year -104 +29 +240
Contract jobs citing Police 69 110 149
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.41% 0.40%
As % of the General category 0.35% 0.66% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 49 93
10th Percentile £383 - £319
25th Percentile £463 £294 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.52% -11.44% +3.70%
75th Percentile £641 £526 £588
90th Percentile £685 £640 £648
UK median daily rate £537 £465 £525
% change year-on-year +15.50% -11.44% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 27
10th Percentile £15.57 - £11.37
25th Percentile £16.28 - £13.41
Median hourly rate £18.73 - £18.78
75th Percentile £22.57 - £22.52
90th Percentile £24.12 - -
UK median hourly rate £18.73 - £16.66

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 19,502 16,626 21,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 60.40% 62.38% 58.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,449 10,030 14,481
10th Percentile £288 £300 £270
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £532 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% -3.32% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,206 554 1,266
10th Percentile £14.19 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.57 £19.06 £15.27
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £28.13
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +6.67% +8.90%
75th Percentile £46.00 £57.59 £56.47
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.83 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £27.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -16.36% - +10.00%

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 21 January 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
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 21 January 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 -47 27 £519 +4.22% 3
Midlands -30 19 £600 +25.65% 17
West Midlands -25 16 £600 +25.65% 12
South West -30 6 £475 - 8
South East -25 5 £450 +120.72% 15
North of England -66 5 £500 +69.85% 23
Yorkshire -55 3 £438 -32.69% 9
East Midlands - 3 - - 5
North East - 2 £575 - 2
East of England -21 1 - - 7
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:

Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.94%) AWS
2 10 (14.49%) Azure
3 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.90%) GCP
5 2 (2.90%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) LAN
1 3 (4.35%) WAN
2 2 (2.90%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.45%) BGP
3 1 (1.45%) DMVPN
3 1 (1.45%) DNS
3 1 (1.45%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.45%) Firewall
3 1 (1.45%) MPLS
3 1 (1.45%) NAS
3 1 (1.45%) Network Security
3 1 (1.45%) OSPF
3 1 (1.45%) SAN
3 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.45%) TETRA
3 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) Power BI
2 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Postman
2 1 (1.45%) Selenium
General
1 25 (36.23%) Public Sector
2 17 (24.64%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.59%) Fire and Rescue
4 6 (8.70%) Law
5 3 (4.35%) Local Government
5 3 (4.35%) Military
6 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Back Office
6 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Finance
6 2 (2.90%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.45%) Billing
7 1 (1.45%) Electronics
7 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (21.74%) Analyst
2 12 (17.39%) Architect
3 9 (13.04%) Business Analyst
4 8 (11.59%) Consultant
5 5 (7.25%) Technical Architect
6 4 (5.80%) Product Owner
6 4 (5.80%) Project Manager
6 4 (5.80%) Support Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) ERP Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) ERP Support
7 3 (4.35%) Help Desk Technician
7 3 (4.35%) ICT Technician
7 3 (4.35%) Resource Management Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Security Assurance Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Security Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Systems Support Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Technical Business Analyst
8 2 (2.90%) Business Consultant
8 2 (2.90%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.45%) .NET
1 1 (1.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
1 9 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.25%) Driving Licence
2 5 (7.25%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.80%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.80%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.45%) Replication
4 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) Windows
2 3 (4.35%) Linux
3 2 (2.90%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.45%) VMS
4 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.39%) Migration
2 10 (14.49%) Agile
2 10 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (11.59%) Records Management
3 8 (11.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (10.14%) Information Security
4 7 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (8.70%) Business Continuity
5 6 (8.70%) Incident Response
6 5 (7.25%) Cloud Security
6 5 (7.25%) Data Migration
6 5 (7.25%) Data Protection
6 5 (7.25%) ITIL
6 5 (7.25%) Programme Governance
6 5 (7.25%) Service Management
7 4 (5.80%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 4 (5.80%) Project Management
7 4 (5.80%) Service Delivery
7 4 (5.80%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.35%) Java
2 2 (2.90%) Python
3 1 (1.45%) C#
3 1 (1.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 31 (44.93%) Security Cleared
2 23 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.35%) NVQ Level 3
5 2 (2.90%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (2.90%) CISM
5 2 (2.90%) CISMP
5 2 (2.90%) CISSP
5 2 (2.90%) Degree
5 2 (2.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.45%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.25%) NCSC
3 4 (5.80%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 2 (2.90%) GRC
5 1 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.45%) Def Stans
5 1 (1.45%) GDPR
5 1 (1.45%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.45%) NIST
5 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.35%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (2.90%) Ansible
1 2 (2.90%) Terraform
2 1 (1.45%) SCCM
2 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.25%) VMware
3 2 (2.90%) Automation Anywhere
3 2 (2.90%) Blue Prism
3 2 (2.90%) Cellebrite
3 2 (2.90%) Cisco
3 2 (2.90%) Fortinet
3 2 (2.90%) Intel
3 2 (2.90%) SAP
3 2 (2.90%) UiPath
4 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.45%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.45%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.45%) Google
4 1 (1.45%) IBM
4 1 (1.45%) NetApp
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle
4 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.45%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.45%) Veeam