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 6 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 417 430
Rank change year-on-year -33 +13 +80
Contract jobs citing Police 185 104 88
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.38% 0.27%
As % of the General category 0.73% 0.59% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 60 46
10th Percentile £251 £446 £366
25th Percentile £361 £463 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £519
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.02% -0.24%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £675
90th Percentile £696 £689 £731
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.02% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 5
10th Percentile £13.10 £12.21 -
25th Percentile £15.72 £13.53 £13.69
Median hourly rate £17.85 £20.44 £14.79
Median % change year-on-year -12.65% +38.17% -21.25%
75th Percentile £19.01 £22.14 £18.48
90th Percentile £24.72 £30.30 £19.84
UK median hourly rate £15.72 £20.44 £14.79
% change year-on-year -23.07% +38.17% -21.25%

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 25,464 17,752 18,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.40% 64.44% 57.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,095 11,246 11,839
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £424 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £651
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 2,070 990 1,032
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.46 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.31
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -34.35% +39.31%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £72.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +21.59% -32.93% +36.36%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 6 September 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 67 £550 - 34
South East -48 34 £306 -31.94% 18
Midlands -32 33 £475 -19.15% 17
North of England -70 20 £500 +14.29% 18
West Midlands -34 18 £500 -14.89% 6
East Midlands -5 14 £205 - 11
South West -36 13 £525 -10.64% 6
Yorkshire -38 13 £500 +14.29% 2
North West -54 6 £456 - 12
North East - 1 £375 - 4
East of England - 1 £700 - 4
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 6 (3.24%) Confluence
2 4 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) assyst
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.54%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 33 (17.84%) Azure
2 20 (10.81%) AWS
3 12 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (5.41%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.24%) GCP
6 6 (3.24%) OCI
7 5 (2.70%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.16%) GitHub
8 4 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.16%) Serverless
9 3 (1.62%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (1.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.08%) AWS Control Tower
11 1 (0.54%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (0.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.03%) Firewall
2 11 (5.95%) DNS
3 10 (5.41%) DHCP
3 10 (5.41%) LAN
4 8 (4.32%) BGP
4 8 (4.32%) Network Security
4 8 (4.32%) OSPF
5 7 (3.78%) VLAN
6 6 (3.24%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (3.24%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (3.24%) IPsec
6 6 (3.24%) VoIP
6 6 (3.24%) VPN
6 6 (3.24%) WAN
7 5 (2.70%) 3GPP
7 5 (2.70%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (2.70%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (2.70%) Wireless
7 5 (2.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.86%) Power BI
2 6 (3.24%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.70%) Metadata
4 4 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.16%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.08%) EDMS
6 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.54%) Big Data
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.54%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 10 (5.41%) Git
2 7 (3.78%) JIRA
3 6 (3.24%) GitLab
4 5 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.70%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.62%) JUnit
5 3 (1.62%) Mockito
6 2 (1.08%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.08%) JMeter
6 2 (1.08%) Postman
7 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.54%) Selenium
7 1 (0.54%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.54%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.54%) Vite
General
1 84 (45.41%) Public Sector
2 48 (25.95%) Social Skills
3 38 (20.54%) Law
4 17 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.49%) Finance
6 11 (5.95%) Fire and Rescue
7 10 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (4.86%) Legal
9 8 (4.32%) Telecoms
10 7 (3.78%) Local Government
11 6 (3.24%) Aviation
12 5 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (2.16%) Military
14 3 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.54%) Back Office
15 1 (0.54%) Publishing
15 1 (0.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 23 (12.43%) Analyst
1 23 (12.43%) Architect
2 20 (10.81%) Business Analyst
3 17 (9.19%) Developer
4 13 (7.03%) Senior
5 11 (5.95%) Administrator
5 11 (5.95%) Lead
6 9 (4.86%) Network Engineer
7 7 (3.78%) Configuration Analyst
7 7 (3.78%) Security Architect
8 6 (3.24%) Data Engineer
8 6 (3.24%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.24%) ServiceNow Architect
8 6 (3.24%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
8 6 (3.24%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (3.24%) Technical Business Analyst
9 5 (2.70%) Consultant
9 5 (2.70%) Java Developer
9 5 (2.70%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (2.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.95%) Terraform
2 6 (3.24%) .NET
3 5 (2.70%) .NET Core
3 5 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.70%) RESTful
3 5 (2.70%) Spring
4 4 (2.16%) Kafka
4 4 (2.16%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.62%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.62%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (1.08%) REST
7 1 (0.54%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.54%) CSS3
7 1 (0.54%) HTML5
7 1 (0.54%) Jest
7 1 (0.54%) Next.js
7 1 (0.54%) Node.js
7 1 (0.54%) React
7 1 (0.54%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.54%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.03%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.86%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.32%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.32%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.24%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.70%) Freedom of Information
5 5 (2.70%) PKI
5 5 (2.70%) Robotics
6 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.62%) CCTV
7 3 (1.62%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.62%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.08%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.08%) Freedom of Information Act
8 2 (1.08%) PMI
8 2 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.41%) Windows
2 7 (3.78%) Linux
3 4 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.62%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.54%) Android
5 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (18.92%) Agile
2 29 (15.68%) DevOps
3 25 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 25 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (12.97%) Validation
5 22 (11.89%) Data Protection
5 22 (11.89%) Decision-Making
5 22 (11.89%) User Acceptance Testing
6 21 (11.35%) CI/CD
7 19 (10.27%) Migration
7 19 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (9.73%) Data Modelling
9 16 (8.65%) ITIL
10 15 (8.11%) Records Management
11 13 (7.03%) AI
11 13 (7.03%) Business Analysis
11 13 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (6.49%) Analytics
12 12 (6.49%) Information Management
13 11 (5.95%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.41%) SQL
2 8 (4.32%) Python
3 7 (3.78%) Java
4 6 (3.24%) C#
5 2 (1.08%) Bash
5 2 (1.08%) R
6 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 92 (49.73%) Security Cleared
2 64 (34.59%) SC Cleared
3 31 (16.76%) DV Cleared
4 21 (11.35%) Degree
5 8 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (4.32%) CISM
5 8 (4.32%) CISSP
6 7 (3.78%) CCNP
6 7 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.70%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.16%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (2.16%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.62%) IIBA
10 3 (1.62%) ISEB
11 2 (1.08%) APMG
11 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.49%) QA
2 7 (3.78%) Government Security Classifications
2 7 (3.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 6 (3.24%) NCSC
4 5 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.16%) PMO
6 3 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.08%) GDPR
8 1 (0.54%) GRC
8 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.54%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.54%) NIST
8 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (7.03%) Docker
2 11 (5.95%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.70%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.54%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.78%) Ansible
3 3 (1.62%) Grafana
3 3 (1.62%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.08%) Puppet
4 2 (1.08%) Salt
4 2 (1.08%) SCCM
5 1 (0.54%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 31 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.19%) ServiceNow
3 13 (7.03%) Oracle
4 11 (5.95%) Cisco
5 6 (3.24%) CheckPoint
5 6 (3.24%) VMware
6 5 (2.70%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.16%) Google
8 2 (1.08%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.08%) NEC
8 2 (1.08%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.54%) Aruba
9 1 (0.54%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.54%) Avaya
9 1 (0.54%) F5
9 1 (0.54%) IBM
9 1 (0.54%) Informatica
9 1 (0.54%) Juniper
9 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.54%) UiPath