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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 398 432
Rank change year-on-year -43 +34 +103
Contract jobs citing Police 176 98 122
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.38% 0.33%
As % of the General category 0.73% 0.59% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 47 62
10th Percentile £250 £348 £213
25th Percentile £329 £475 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £494
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.36% -5.02%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £658 £714 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £494
% change year-on-year -9.09% +11.36% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 35
10th Percentile £15.72 £12.21 £11.95
25th Percentile £15.96 £17.94 £13.69
Median hourly rate £17.91 £22.14 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year -19.11% +52.27% -81.83%
75th Percentile £25.50 - £19.75
90th Percentile £153.73 £30.30 £21.33
UK median hourly rate £17.91 £22.14 £14.54
% change year-on-year -19.11% +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 24,102 16,522 21,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.93% 63.97% 57.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,571 10,620 13,652
10th Percentile £313 £282 £298
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,735 817 1,789
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.31 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -16.40% +9.65%
75th Percentile £63.38 £52.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.35 £31.71
% change year-on-year +17.00% -13.75% +3.97%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -49 62 £490 -10.91% 13
Midlands -14 39 £550 - 13
South East -34 34 £250 +25.00% 20
West Midlands - 27 £550 - 4
South West -29 16 £425 -27.66% 7
East Midlands -11 11 £205 - 9
North of England -83 10 £500 - 10
Yorkshire -50 8 £500 - 4
North West -54 1 £263 - 6
North East - 1 £375 - 1
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 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.70%) Confluence
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) assyst
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.57%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 27 (15.34%) Azure
2 17 (9.66%) AWS
3 12 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 8 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.41%) GCP
7 4 (2.27%) Serverless
8 3 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.70%) GitHub
8 3 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (1.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.14%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (1.14%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.14%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.14%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.57%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.68%) Firewall
2 9 (5.11%) Network Security
3 8 (4.55%) DNS
3 8 (4.55%) LAN
4 7 (3.98%) DHCP
5 6 (3.41%) BGP
5 6 (3.41%) OSPF
5 6 (3.41%) WAN
6 5 (2.84%) 3GPP
6 5 (2.84%) RTP
6 5 (2.84%) Wireshark
7 4 (2.27%) VLAN
8 3 (1.70%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (1.70%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (1.70%) IPsec
8 3 (1.70%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.70%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.70%) VoIP
8 3 (1.70%) VPN
9 2 (1.14%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.98%) Power BI
2 2 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (1.14%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.57%) Big Data
3 1 (0.57%) Metadata
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (5.68%) Git
2 5 (2.84%) GitLab
2 5 (2.84%) TeamCity
3 4 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.27%) JIRA
4 3 (1.70%) JUnit
4 3 (1.70%) Mockito
5 2 (1.14%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.14%) Postman
6 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.57%) JMeter
6 1 (0.57%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.57%) Selenium
6 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.57%) Vite
General
1 83 (47.16%) Public Sector
2 42 (23.86%) Social Skills
3 33 (18.75%) Law
4 16 (9.09%) Fire and Rescue
5 14 (7.95%) Finance
6 13 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.68%) Local Government
8 7 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.41%) Aviation
10 5 (2.84%) Legal
10 5 (2.84%) Military
10 5 (2.84%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.14%) Back Office
12 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.57%) Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (14.20%) Analyst
2 18 (10.23%) Architect
3 17 (9.66%) Business Analyst
4 14 (7.95%) Developer
4 14 (7.95%) Senior
5 9 (5.11%) Administrator
6 8 (4.55%) Field Engineer
6 8 (4.55%) Project Manager
7 7 (3.98%) Consultant
7 7 (3.98%) Network Engineer
7 7 (3.98%) Technical Architect
8 6 (3.41%) Lead
9 5 (2.84%) Configuration Analyst
9 5 (2.84%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.27%) Help Desk Technician
10 4 (2.27%) ICT Technician
10 4 (2.27%) IT Administrator
10 4 (2.27%) Java Developer
10 4 (2.27%) Systems Administrator
10 4 (2.27%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.98%) .NET
2 6 (3.41%) SailPoint
3 5 (2.84%) .NET Core
4 4 (2.27%) Middleware
4 4 (2.27%) RESTful
4 4 (2.27%) Spring
5 3 (1.70%) Kafka
5 3 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.70%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.70%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.70%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (0.57%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.57%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.57%) CSS3
6 1 (0.57%) HTML5
6 1 (0.57%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.57%) Node.js
6 1 (0.57%) React
6 1 (0.57%) REST
6 1 (0.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.39%) Driving Licence
2 10 (5.68%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.98%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.84%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.84%) Robotics
5 3 (1.70%) CCTV
5 3 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.70%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.70%) Freedom of Information
5 3 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.14%) CMDB
6 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.14%) PKI
7 1 (0.57%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.57%) PMI
7 1 (0.57%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.66%) Windows
2 11 (6.25%) Linux
3 5 (2.84%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (18.75%) Agile
2 25 (14.20%) Migration
3 23 (13.07%) Records Management
3 23 (13.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 20 (11.36%) Validation
5 19 (10.80%) Data Protection
6 17 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (9.09%) ITIL
8 15 (8.52%) DevOps
9 14 (7.95%) CI/CD
9 14 (7.95%) Decision-Making
10 13 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (6.82%) Data Migration
11 12 (6.82%) Project Management
12 11 (6.25%) Change Management
12 11 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (6.25%) Service Delivery
12 11 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
13 10 (5.68%) Programme Delivery
13 10 (5.68%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.68%) SQL
2 7 (3.98%) C#
3 6 (3.41%) Java
4 4 (2.27%) Python
5 2 (1.14%) Bash
5 2 (1.14%) R
6 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 75 (42.61%) Security Cleared
2 60 (34.09%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.80%) DV Cleared
4 11 (6.25%) Degree
5 7 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.84%) CCNP
8 4 (2.27%) NVQ Level 3
9 3 (1.70%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.57%) CCNA
10 1 (0.57%) CCSP
10 1 (0.57%) CISM
10 1 (0.57%) CISSP
10 1 (0.57%) ISEB
10 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.41%) Data Quality
1 6 (3.41%) QA
2 5 (2.84%) GDPR
2 5 (2.84%) NCSC
3 4 (2.27%) PMO
4 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.57%) GRC
5 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.57%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.57%) NIST
5 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (9.66%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.25%) Docker
3 9 (5.11%) Hyper-V
3 9 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.57%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 8 (4.55%) Terraform
2 6 (3.41%) Ansible
3 5 (2.84%) SCCM
4 3 (1.70%) Grafana
4 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.14%) Puppet
5 2 (1.14%) Salt
6 1 (0.57%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.57%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 28 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 10 (5.68%) VMware
4 9 (5.11%) Cisco
5 6 (3.41%) Oracle
6 5 (2.84%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.27%) Blue Prism
7 4 (2.27%) Google
8 3 (1.70%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.70%) UiPath
9 2 (1.14%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (1.14%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.57%) Aruba
10 1 (0.57%) Avaya
10 1 (0.57%) Blue Coat
10 1 (0.57%) F5
10 1 (0.57%) IBM
10 1 (0.57%) Juniper