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 11 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 392 423
Rank change year-on-year -51 +31 +128
Contract jobs citing Police 150 91 116
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the General category 0.65% 0.58% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 44 60
10th Percentile £250 £426 £232
25th Percentile £329 £475 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £550 £502
Median % change year-on-year -10.23% +9.60% -2.55%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £650
90th Percentile £651 £718 £693
UK median daily rate £493 £550 £502
% change year-on-year -10.45% +9.60% +0.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 37
10th Percentile - £12.21 £11.95
25th Percentile £15.72 £19.32 £13.69
Median hourly rate £17.85 £22.14 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year -19.38% +52.27% -81.83%
75th Percentile £25.50 - £19.75
90th Percentile £169.16 £32.90 £21.14
UK median hourly rate £17.85 £22.14 £14.54
% change year-on-year -19.38% +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 23,184 15,739 21,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.44% 64.32% 57.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,170 10,135 13,770
10th Percentile £313 £281 £281
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £631 £644 £650
90th Percentile £749 £770 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.08% -3.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,600 736 1,832
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.30 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.85 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.70% -11.59% +2.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £27.70 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.72% -7.67% -6.25%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -56 56 £483 -12.27% 16
Midlands -34 35 £550 - 8
West Midlands - 26 £563 - 8
South East -44 25 £250 +25.00% 19
South West -19 15 £413 -29.79% 4
East Midlands -23 8 - -
North of England -84 8 £375 - 7
Yorkshire -58 6 £625 - 2
North West -45 1 £263 - 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 4 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.00%) Confluence
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.33%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.33%) assyst
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.67%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 20 (13.33%) Azure
2 14 (9.33%) AWS
3 12 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (7.33%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.67%) GCP
6 4 (2.67%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.67%) Serverless
7 3 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.00%) GitHub
7 3 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.33%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.33%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (1.33%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.33%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.33%) Network Security
2 7 (4.67%) Firewall
3 6 (4.00%) LAN
4 5 (3.33%) 3GPP
4 5 (3.33%) DHCP
4 5 (3.33%) DNS
4 5 (3.33%) RTP
4 5 (3.33%) WAN
4 5 (3.33%) Wireshark
5 4 (2.67%) BGP
5 4 (2.67%) OSPF
6 2 (1.33%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.33%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.33%) EIGRP
6 2 (1.33%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.33%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.33%) VLAN
7 1 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.67%) Junos
7 1 (0.67%) MVNO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.00%) Power BI
2 2 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (1.33%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (6.67%) Git
2 5 (3.33%) GitLab
2 5 (3.33%) TeamCity
3 4 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.67%) JIRA
4 3 (2.00%) JUnit
4 3 (2.00%) Mockito
5 2 (1.33%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.33%) Postman
6 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.67%) JMeter
6 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.67%) Selenium
6 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.67%) Vite
General
1 72 (48.00%) Public Sector
2 39 (26.00%) Social Skills
3 31 (20.67%) Law
4 17 (11.33%) Fire and Rescue
5 13 (8.67%) Finance
6 10 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.00%) Local Government
8 6 (4.00%) Aviation
8 6 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.33%) Legal
9 5 (3.33%) Military
10 4 (2.67%) Back Office
10 4 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.67%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.67%) Banking
12 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (16.00%) Analyst
2 16 (10.67%) Business Analyst
3 11 (7.33%) Senior
4 10 (6.67%) Architect
4 10 (6.67%) Developer
5 9 (6.00%) Administrator
6 8 (5.33%) Field Engineer
6 8 (5.33%) Project Manager
7 7 (4.67%) Consultant
8 5 (3.33%) Configuration Analyst
8 5 (3.33%) Help Desk Technician
8 5 (3.33%) ICT Technician
8 5 (3.33%) Lead
8 5 (3.33%) Network Engineer
8 5 (3.33%) Software Engineer
9 4 (2.67%) IT Administrator
9 4 (2.67%) IT Systems Administrator
9 4 (2.67%) Support Officer
9 4 (2.67%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (2.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.67%) .NET
2 6 (4.00%) SailPoint
3 5 (3.33%) .NET Core
4 4 (2.67%) Middleware
4 4 (2.67%) RESTful
5 3 (2.00%) Kafka
5 3 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.00%) Spring
5 3 (2.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.00%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.67%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.67%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.67%) CSS
7 1 (0.67%) CSS3
7 1 (0.67%) HTML
7 1 (0.67%) HTML5
7 1 (0.67%) JSON
7 1 (0.67%) React
7 1 (0.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.67%) Driving Licence
2 10 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.33%) Robotics
5 4 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.67%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.00%) CCTV
6 3 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.00%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.00%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.33%) CMDB
7 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.67%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.00%) Windows
2 12 (8.00%) Linux
3 5 (3.33%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.67%) Android
5 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.00%) Agile
2 23 (15.33%) Migration
3 22 (14.67%) Records Management
4 20 (13.33%) Data Protection
4 20 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (10.00%) ITIL
5 15 (10.00%) Validation
6 14 (9.33%) CI/CD
7 13 (8.67%) Decision-Making
8 12 (8.00%) DevOps
8 12 (8.00%) Project Management
9 11 (7.33%) Service Delivery
9 11 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (6.67%) Change Management
10 10 (6.67%) Data Migration
10 10 (6.67%) Programme Delivery
11 9 (6.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 9 (6.00%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (5.33%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.67%) C#
1 7 (4.67%) SQL
2 4 (2.67%) Java
3 3 (2.00%) Python
4 2 (1.33%) Bash
5 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 51 (34.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.33%) DV Cleared
4 10 (6.67%) Degree
5 5 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.33%) NVQ Level 3
6 3 (2.00%) CCNP
6 3 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.67%) CBAP
8 1 (0.67%) CCNA
8 1 (0.67%) IIBA
8 1 (0.67%) ISEB
8 1 (0.67%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.00%) QA
2 5 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.33%) NCSC
3 4 (2.67%) PMO
4 3 (2.00%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.67%) GRC
5 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (11.33%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.33%) Docker
3 10 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 10 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.67%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.00%) Ansible
1 6 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (4.00%) Terraform
2 5 (3.33%) SCCM
3 3 (2.00%) Grafana
3 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.33%) Puppet
4 2 (1.33%) Salt
5 1 (0.67%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 28 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.33%) VMware
3 7 (4.67%) Cisco
4 6 (4.00%) Blue Prism
5 5 (3.33%) Fortinet
5 5 (3.33%) UiPath
6 4 (2.67%) Automation Anywhere
7 3 (2.00%) Oracle
8 2 (1.33%) Google
8 2 (1.33%) Intel
8 2 (1.33%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.67%) Aruba
9 1 (0.67%) Avaya
9 1 (0.67%) Blue Coat
9 1 (0.67%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.67%) F5
9 1 (0.67%) IBM
9 1 (0.67%) Juniper
9 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow