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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 403 435
Rank change year-on-year -43 +32 +107
Contract jobs citing Police 181 101 120
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.37% 0.32%
As % of the General category 0.73% 0.59% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 48 61
10th Percentile £250 £364 £240
25th Percentile £329 £475 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £550 £494
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +11.36% -5.92%
75th Percentile £578 £631 £650
90th Percentile £651 £712 £738
UK median daily rate £498 £550 £494
% change year-on-year -9.55% +11.36% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 33
10th Percentile £15.72 £12.21 £11.95
25th Percentile £16.70 £18.09 £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 £153.73 £30.30 £21.53
UK median hourly rate £17.97 £22.14 £14.54
% change year-on-year -18.83% +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 24,687 17,210 21,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.21% 63.78% 57.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,906 11,035 13,658
10th Percentile £313 £282 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -3.38% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,786 874 1,756
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.01 £16.37 £15.92
Median hourly rate £33.06 £27.13 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -17.80% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.38 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £31.97
% change year-on-year +19.82% -15.15% +6.57%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -46 64 £475 -13.64% 15
Midlands -23 41 £550 - 9
South East -31 35 £250 +11.11% 27
West Midlands - 29 £550 - 1
South West -30 16 £475 -19.15% 7
East Midlands -6 11 £205 - 8
North of England -89 10 £500 - 10
Yorkshire -57 8 £500 - 4
North West -45 1 £263 - 6
North East - 1 £375 -
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 (2.76%) Confluence
1 5 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.10%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.55%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) assyst
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.55%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 31 (17.13%) Azure
2 16 (8.84%) AWS
3 12 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.08%) Entra ID
5 10 (5.52%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.31%) GCP
7 4 (2.21%) Serverless
8 3 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.66%) GitHub
8 3 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (1.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.10%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (1.10%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.10%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.10%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.52%) Firewall
2 8 (4.42%) DNS
2 8 (4.42%) Network Security
3 7 (3.87%) DHCP
3 7 (3.87%) LAN
4 5 (2.76%) 3GPP
4 5 (2.76%) BGP
4 5 (2.76%) OSPF
4 5 (2.76%) RTP
4 5 (2.76%) WAN
4 5 (2.76%) Wireshark
5 4 (2.21%) VLAN
6 3 (1.66%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.66%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.66%) IPsec
6 3 (1.66%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.66%) VoIP
6 3 (1.66%) VPN
7 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.97%) Power BI
2 4 (2.21%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.66%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.55%) Big Data
5 1 (0.55%) Metadata
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (5.52%) Git
2 6 (3.31%) JIRA
3 5 (2.76%) GitLab
3 5 (2.76%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.21%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.66%) JUnit
5 3 (1.66%) Mockito
6 2 (1.10%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.10%) Postman
7 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.55%) JMeter
7 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.55%) Selenium
7 1 (0.55%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.55%) Vite
General
1 85 (46.96%) Public Sector
2 45 (24.86%) Social Skills
3 34 (18.78%) Law
4 16 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.29%) Finance
5 15 (8.29%) Fire and Rescue
6 9 (4.97%) Local Government
7 7 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.87%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.31%) Aviation
8 6 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.31%) Legal
9 4 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.21%) Military
10 3 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Back Office
12 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.55%) Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Publishing
12 1 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 28 (15.47%) Analyst
2 20 (11.05%) Business Analyst
3 17 (9.39%) Architect
4 16 (8.84%) Developer
5 14 (7.73%) Senior
6 9 (4.97%) Administrator
7 8 (4.42%) Field Engineer
7 8 (4.42%) Project Manager
8 7 (3.87%) Consultant
8 7 (3.87%) Network Engineer
8 7 (3.87%) Technical Architect
9 6 (3.31%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Lead
10 5 (2.76%) Configuration Analyst
10 5 (2.76%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
10 5 (2.76%) Software Engineer
10 5 (2.76%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (2.76%) Technical Business Analyst
11 4 (2.21%) IT Administrator
11 4 (2.21%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.87%) .NET
2 6 (3.31%) SailPoint
3 5 (2.76%) .NET Core
4 4 (2.21%) Middleware
4 4 (2.21%) RESTful
4 4 (2.21%) Spring
5 3 (1.66%) Kafka
5 3 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.66%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.66%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.66%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.55%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.55%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.55%) HTML5
6 1 (0.55%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.55%) Jest
6 1 (0.55%) Material-UI
6 1 (0.55%) Next.js
6 1 (0.55%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.18%) Driving Licence
2 9 (4.97%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.87%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.31%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.76%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.76%) Robotics
7 3 (1.66%) CCTV
7 3 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.66%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.66%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.10%) CMDB
8 2 (1.10%) PKI
9 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.55%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.55%) Life Science
9 1 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.84%) Windows
2 10 (5.52%) Linux
3 5 (2.76%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.21%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (19.34%) Agile
2 27 (14.92%) Migration
3 25 (13.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 23 (12.71%) Records Management
5 22 (12.15%) Validation
6 18 (9.94%) Data Protection
7 17 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (9.39%) DevOps
8 16 (8.84%) ITIL
8 16 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (8.29%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (7.73%) CI/CD
10 14 (7.73%) Data Migration
10 14 (7.73%) Decision-Making
11 13 (7.18%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (7.18%) Workshop Facilitation
12 12 (6.63%) Change Management
12 12 (6.63%) Project Management
13 11 (6.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 10 (5.52%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.08%) SQL
2 7 (3.87%) C#
3 6 (3.31%) Java
4 4 (2.21%) Python
5 2 (1.10%) Bash
5 2 (1.10%) R
6 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 79 (43.65%) Security Cleared
2 61 (33.70%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.05%) DV Cleared
4 13 (7.18%) Degree
5 7 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.76%) CCNP
8 3 (1.66%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (1.66%) NVQ Level 3
9 2 (1.10%) ISEB
10 1 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.55%) CBAP
10 1 (0.55%) CCNA
10 1 (0.55%) CISSP
10 1 (0.55%) IIBA
10 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.31%) Data Quality
1 6 (3.31%) QA
2 5 (2.76%) GDPR
2 5 (2.76%) NCSC
3 4 (2.21%) PMO
4 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.55%) GRC
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.55%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.55%) NIST
5 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (9.39%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.08%) Docker
3 8 (4.42%) Hyper-V
3 8 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (4.42%) Kubernetes
1 8 (4.42%) Terraform
2 6 (3.31%) Ansible
3 5 (2.76%) SCCM
4 3 (1.66%) Grafana
4 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.10%) Puppet
5 2 (1.10%) Salt
6 1 (0.55%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 30 (16.57%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.73%) ServiceNow
3 9 (4.97%) Cisco
3 9 (4.97%) VMware
4 7 (3.87%) Oracle
5 5 (2.76%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.21%) Blue Prism
6 4 (2.21%) Google
7 3 (1.66%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.66%) UiPath
8 2 (1.10%) Automation Anywhere
8 2 (1.10%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.55%) Aruba
9 1 (0.55%) Avaya
9 1 (0.55%) Blue Coat
9 1 (0.55%) F5
9 1 (0.55%) IBM
9 1 (0.55%) Juniper
9 1 (0.55%) Salesforce