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 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 414 445
Rank change year-on-year -34 +31 +78
Contract jobs citing Police 184 104 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.38% 0.29%
As % of the General category 0.74% 0.59% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 49 55
10th Percentile £250 £380 £278
25th Percentile £329 £475 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +9.19% -3.14%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £669
90th Percentile £675 £710 £738
UK median daily rate £494 £550 £502
% change year-on-year -10.23% +9.60% -3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 26 17
10th Percentile £15.72 £12.21 -
25th Percentile £16.70 £17.48 £13.69
Median hourly rate £17.97 £22.14 £14.79
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +49.70% -81.51%
75th Percentile £25.50 - £19.75
90th Percentile £138.31 £30.30 £21.14
UK median hourly rate £17.97 £22.14 £14.79
% change year-on-year -18.83% +49.70% -81.51%

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 24,904 17,593 19,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.33% 63.73% 57.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,956 11,237 12,731
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £415 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £656
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,842 930 1,385
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.34 £13.88
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.37 £16.82
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.66 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +32.46% -32.69% +27.07%
75th Percentile £64.77 £50.94 £58.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.88 £70.11
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £25.32 £36.17
% change year-on-year +30.33% -29.99% +18.42%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -29 68 £490 -10.91% 13
South East -46 38 £250 - 12
Midlands -27 30 £488 -2.50% 8
West Midlands -33 19 £500 - 5
South West -35 17 £525 -10.64% 7
North of England -82 15 £500 - 8
Yorkshire -53 12 £500 - 3
East Midlands -6 10 £205 - 3
North West -51 2 £456 - 3
North East - 1 £375 - 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 5 (2.72%) Confluence
1 5 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.54%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) assyst
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.54%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 32 (17.39%) Azure
2 15 (8.15%) AWS
3 14 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (5.98%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.80%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.26%) GCP
7 4 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.17%) Serverless
8 3 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.63%) GitHub
8 3 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (1.63%) OCI
8 3 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.09%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.09%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (1.09%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.09%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.52%) Firewall
2 10 (5.43%) DNS
3 9 (4.89%) DHCP
3 9 (4.89%) LAN
4 8 (4.35%) Network Security
5 7 (3.80%) BGP
5 7 (3.80%) OSPF
6 6 (3.26%) VLAN
7 5 (2.72%) 3GPP
7 5 (2.72%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (2.72%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (2.72%) IPsec
7 5 (2.72%) RTP
7 5 (2.72%) VoIP
7 5 (2.72%) VPN
7 5 (2.72%) WAN
7 5 (2.72%) Wireshark
8 4 (2.17%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (2.17%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.43%) Power BI
2 5 (2.72%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.09%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.54%) Big Data
6 1 (0.54%) Metadata
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (5.43%) Git
2 6 (3.26%) JIRA
3 5 (2.72%) GitLab
3 5 (2.72%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.17%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.63%) JUnit
5 3 (1.63%) Mockito
6 2 (1.09%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.09%) Postman
7 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.54%) JMeter
7 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.54%) Selenium
7 1 (0.54%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.54%) Vite
General
1 83 (45.11%) Public Sector
2 46 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 32 (17.39%) Law
4 17 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.15%) Finance
6 13 (7.07%) Fire and Rescue
7 8 (4.35%) Local Government
7 8 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.80%) Legal
8 7 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.26%) Aviation
9 6 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.17%) Military
11 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.09%) Back Office
13 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.54%) Banking
13 1 (0.54%) Publishing
13 1 (0.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 32 (17.39%) Analyst
2 26 (14.13%) Business Analyst
3 18 (9.78%) Architect
3 18 (9.78%) Developer
4 16 (8.70%) Senior
5 9 (4.89%) Administrator
5 9 (4.89%) Lead
5 9 (4.89%) Network Engineer
6 8 (4.35%) Field Engineer
6 8 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 7 (3.80%) Configuration Analyst
8 6 (3.26%) Consultant
8 6 (3.26%) Data Engineer
8 6 (3.26%) ServiceNow Architect
8 6 (3.26%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
8 6 (3.26%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (3.26%) Technical Business Analyst
9 5 (2.72%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (2.72%) Software Engineer
9 5 (2.72%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.80%) .NET
2 5 (2.72%) .NET Core
2 5 (2.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (2.72%) RESTful
2 5 (2.72%) Spring
3 4 (2.17%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.63%) Kafka
4 3 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (1.63%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (0.54%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.54%) CSS
5 1 (0.54%) CSS3
5 1 (0.54%) EJB
5 1 (0.54%) Java SE
5 1 (0.54%) JDBC
5 1 (0.54%) JSON
5 1 (0.54%) Node.js
5 1 (0.54%) REST
5 1 (0.54%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.54%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.98%) Driving Licence
2 8 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.72%) Robotics
4 5 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.17%) PKI
6 3 (1.63%) CCTV
6 3 (1.63%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.63%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.09%) CMDB
8 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.54%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.07%) Windows
2 8 (4.35%) Linux
3 4 (2.17%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (19.02%) Agile
2 29 (15.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 25 (13.59%) Validation
4 24 (13.04%) Migration
5 20 (10.87%) User Acceptance Testing
6 19 (10.33%) DevOps
7 17 (9.24%) Data Protection
7 17 (9.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (8.70%) CI/CD
8 16 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (8.70%) Data Modelling
9 15 (8.15%) Decision-Making
9 15 (8.15%) ITIL
9 15 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (7.61%) Data Migration
11 13 (7.07%) Business Analysis
11 13 (7.07%) Workshop Facilitation
12 12 (6.52%) Change Management
12 12 (6.52%) Project Management
12 12 (6.52%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.98%) SQL
2 8 (4.35%) Java
3 7 (3.80%) C#
4 4 (2.17%) Python
5 2 (1.09%) Bash
5 2 (1.09%) R
6 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 88 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 65 (35.33%) SC Cleared
3 24 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 14 (7.61%) Degree
5 8 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.80%) CCNP
6 7 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.17%) CISM
8 4 (2.17%) CISSP
8 4 (2.17%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (1.63%) IIBA
10 2 (1.09%) APMG
10 2 (1.09%) ISEB
11 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.54%) CBAP
11 1 (0.54%) CCNA
11 1 (0.54%) CCSP
11 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.89%) QA
2 5 (2.72%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (2.72%) GDPR
2 5 (2.72%) NCSC
2 5 (2.72%) PMO
3 4 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.63%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (1.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.54%) GRC
6 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.54%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.54%) NIST
6 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (7.07%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.52%) Docker
3 6 (3.26%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.54%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (4.89%) Kubernetes
1 9 (4.89%) Terraform
2 6 (3.26%) Ansible
3 4 (2.17%) SCCM
4 3 (1.63%) Grafana
4 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.09%) Puppet
5 2 (1.09%) Salt
6 1 (0.54%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 27 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.78%) ServiceNow
3 11 (5.98%) Cisco
4 10 (5.43%) Oracle
5 7 (3.80%) VMware
6 5 (2.72%) CheckPoint
6 5 (2.72%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.17%) Blue Prism
7 4 (2.17%) Google
8 3 (1.63%) UiPath
9 2 (1.09%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (1.09%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.54%) Aruba
10 1 (0.54%) Avaya
10 1 (0.54%) Blue Coat
10 1 (0.54%) F5
10 1 (0.54%) IBM
10 1 (0.54%) Juniper
10 1 (0.54%) Salesforce