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 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 385 407
Rank change year-on-year -93 +22 +266
Contract jobs citing Police 63 115 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.41% 0.38%
As % of the General category 0.32% 0.66% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 50 91
10th Percentile £393 - £308
25th Percentile £463 £294 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £517 £581
90th Percentile £683 £638 £660
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 15
10th Percentile - - £14.03
25th Percentile £17.48 £18.16 £19.38
Median hourly rate £18.73 £18.32 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -13.79% -
75th Percentile £22.14 £18.48 £22.52
90th Percentile £23.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £18.73 £18.32 £21.25
% change year-on-year +2.24% -13.79% -

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 19,413 17,486 21,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 61.32% 61.79% 59.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,309 10,584 14,509
10th Percentile £284 £300 £275
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £661
90th Percentile £738 £775 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,232 598 1,007
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.42 £16.75
Median hourly rate £23.54 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% -9.09% +28.35%
75th Percentile £46.00 £57.90 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.42 £74.05 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £27.39 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.91% -17.02% +32.00%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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 -29 28 £537 +8.48% 13
West Midlands -24 9 £538 +12.57% 12
Midlands -29 9 £538 +12.57% 25
North of England -63 8 £500 +69.85% 32
Yorkshire -47 6 £438 -32.69% 10
South East -18 5 £463 +104.87% 35
South West -24 4 £300 - 20
North East - 2 £575 - 4
East of England -20 1 - - 25
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 (1.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.70%) AWS
2 6 (9.52%) Azure
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (3.17%) GCP
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) LAN
1 2 (3.17%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.17%) WAN
2 1 (1.59%) DMVPN
2 1 (1.59%) DNS
2 1 (1.59%) Firewall
2 1 (1.59%) MPLS
2 1 (1.59%) NAS
2 1 (1.59%) Network Security
2 1 (1.59%) SAN
2 1 (1.59%) SSL
2 1 (1.59%) TETRA
2 1 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) Power BI
2 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.59%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.17%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Postman
2 1 (1.59%) Selenium
General
1 24 (38.10%) Public Sector
2 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.46%) Law
4 5 (7.94%) Fire and Rescue
5 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Finance
7 2 (3.17%) Local Government
7 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.17%) Military
7 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Back Office
8 1 (1.59%) Billing
8 1 (1.59%) Electronics
8 1 (1.59%) Marketing
8 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (28.57%) Analyst
2 9 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 8 (12.70%) Architect
3 8 (12.70%) Consultant
4 7 (11.11%) Support Analyst
5 5 (7.94%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.35%) Product Owner
6 4 (6.35%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Technical Business Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) ERP Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) ERP Support
7 3 (4.76%) Resource Management Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Security Assurance Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Security Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Senior
7 3 (4.76%) Systems Support Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Security Consultant
8 2 (3.17%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.59%) .NET
1 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.59%) Apache Camel
1 1 (1.59%) HTML
1 1 (1.59%) HTML5
1 1 (1.59%) JDBC
1 1 (1.59%) jQuery
1 1 (1.59%) JSON
1 1 (1.59%) LDAP
1 1 (1.59%) ODBC
1 1 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (1.59%) REST
1 1 (1.59%) SAML
1 1 (1.59%) SOAP
1 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.35%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.59%) Replication
4 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Windows
2 1 (1.59%) VMS
2 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (17.46%) Information Security
1 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (12.70%) Agile
2 8 (12.70%) Service Management
2 8 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (9.52%) Incident Response
4 6 (9.52%) Migration
5 5 (7.94%) Cloud Security
5 5 (7.94%) ERP
5 5 (7.94%) Programme Governance
6 4 (6.35%) Decision-Making
6 4 (6.35%) DevOps
6 4 (6.35%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (6.35%) Performance Measurement
6 4 (6.35%) Project Management
6 4 (6.35%) Service Design
7 3 (4.76%) GAP Analysis
7 3 (4.76%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.76%) Java
2 2 (3.17%) Python
3 1 (1.59%) C#
3 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 32 (50.79%) Security Cleared
2 24 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.76%) CISM
4 3 (4.76%) CISSP
4 3 (4.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.17%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (3.17%) CISMP
6 1 (1.59%) CISA
6 1 (1.59%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.59%) Degree
6 1 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (11.11%) NCSC
3 4 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 4 (6.35%) SLA
4 3 (4.76%) JSP 440
4 3 (4.76%) NIST
5 2 (3.17%) GRC
6 1 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.59%) Def Stans
6 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Ansible
1 2 (3.17%) Terraform
2 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.17%) Cellebrite
2 2 (3.17%) Cisco
2 2 (3.17%) Fortinet
2 2 (3.17%) IBM
2 2 (3.17%) SAP
2 2 (3.17%) VMware
3 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.59%) Automation Anywhere
3 1 (1.59%) Blue Prism
3 1 (1.59%) CyberArk
3 1 (1.59%) Google
3 1 (1.59%) HP
3 1 (1.59%) Intel
3 1 (1.59%) Ivanti
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle
3 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.59%) UiPath
3 1 (1.59%) Veeam