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 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 398 387
Rank change year-on-year -46 -11 +189
Contract jobs citing Police 133 71 156
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.29% 0.42%
As % of the General category 0.60% 0.45% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 35 88
10th Percentile £250 £426 £240
25th Percentile £350 £461 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £597 £616 £625
90th Percentile £650 £697 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 37
10th Percentile £15.59 £21.76 £11.95
25th Percentile £15.72 - £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 £28.26 £19.75
90th Percentile £29.56 £31.90 £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 22,000 15,678 21,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.61% 63.96% 58.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,781 10,206 13,962
10th Percentile £304 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,424 653 1,765
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.61 £15.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £28.92
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.59% -17.37%
75th Percentile £61.18 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £28.60 £28.42
% change year-on-year -2.10% +0.63% -18.80%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 49 £500 -4.76% 15
Midlands -37 34 £550 +15.18% 5
West Midlands -38 25 £550 +15.18% 4
South East -42 21 £250 - 6
South West -26 14 £413 -29.79% 3
East Midlands -29 8 - - 1
North of England -64 6 £525 - 9
Yorkshire -69 3 - - 4
North East - 2 £575 - 2
East of England -32 1 - - 2
North West - 1 £263 - 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 1 (0.75%) Confluence
1 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.29%) Azure
2 12 (9.02%) AWS
3 11 (8.27%) Entra ID
4 8 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.76%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.76%) Serverless
6 4 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.26%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.50%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (1.50%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.75%) GCP
9 1 (0.75%) GitHub
9 1 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.76%) Firewall
1 5 (3.76%) LAN
1 5 (3.76%) WAN
2 3 (2.26%) 3GPP
2 3 (2.26%) BGP
2 3 (2.26%) DNS
2 3 (2.26%) Network Security
2 3 (2.26%) OSPF
2 3 (2.26%) RTP
2 3 (2.26%) SD-WAN
2 3 (2.26%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.50%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (1.50%) DHCP
3 2 (1.50%) DMVPN
3 2 (1.50%) MPLS
3 2 (1.50%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.50%) TETRA
4 1 (0.75%) SAN
4 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.76%) Power BI
2 2 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (1.50%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Git
2 3 (2.26%) GitLab
2 3 (2.26%) Postman
2 3 (2.26%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.50%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.50%) JIRA
3 2 (1.50%) Selenium
4 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.75%) JMeter
4 1 (0.75%) JUnit
4 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.75%) Mockito
4 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.75%) Vite
General
1 58 (43.61%) Public Sector
2 31 (23.31%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.29%) Law
4 12 (9.02%) Fire and Rescue
5 8 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.02%) Finance
6 6 (4.51%) Local Government
7 5 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.76%) Legal
7 5 (3.76%) Military
7 5 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.26%) Aviation
8 3 (2.26%) Back Office
9 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.75%) Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (18.05%) Analyst
2 15 (11.28%) Business Analyst
3 13 (9.77%) Architect
4 9 (6.77%) Developer
4 9 (6.77%) Senior
5 8 (6.02%) Field Engineer
6 7 (5.26%) Consultant
7 6 (4.51%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.76%) Administrator
8 5 (3.76%) Configuration Analyst
8 5 (3.76%) Help Desk Technician
8 5 (3.76%) ICT Technician
8 5 (3.76%) Network Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.26%) Information Assurance Manager
10 3 (2.26%) Information Manager
10 3 (2.26%) Network Architect
10 3 (2.26%) PMO Manager
10 3 (2.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.51%) .NET
1 6 (4.51%) SailPoint
2 4 (3.01%) Middleware
3 3 (2.26%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.50%) RESTful
5 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.75%) CSS
5 1 (0.75%) CSS3
5 1 (0.75%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.75%) HTML
5 1 (0.75%) HTML5
5 1 (0.75%) Jest
5 1 (0.75%) JSON
5 1 (0.75%) Kafka
5 1 (0.75%) Node.js
5 1 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.75%) Redux
5 1 (0.75%) Spring
5 1 (0.75%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (0.75%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.52%) Driving Licence
2 9 (6.77%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (6.77%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.76%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.01%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.26%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.26%) Robotics
6 2 (1.50%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.50%) CMDB
7 1 (0.75%) CCTV
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.75%) Replication
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.75%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.03%) Windows
2 8 (6.02%) Linux
3 4 (3.01%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) Android
5 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (18.80%) Migration
2 22 (16.54%) Records Management
3 21 (15.79%) Agile
4 18 (13.53%) Data Protection
5 15 (11.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 13 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (9.77%) ITIL
7 12 (9.02%) Data Migration
8 11 (8.27%) Validation
9 10 (7.52%) CI/CD
10 9 (6.77%) Service Delivery
11 8 (6.02%) Business Continuity
11 8 (6.02%) Change Management
11 8 (6.02%) Customer Service
11 8 (6.02%) Information Management
11 8 (6.02%) Information Security
11 8 (6.02%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (5.26%) Knowledge Transfer
12 7 (5.26%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.51%) C#
2 5 (3.76%) SQL
3 3 (2.26%) Java
4 2 (1.50%) Bash
4 2 (1.50%) Kotlin
4 2 (1.50%) Python
5 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (41.35%) Security Cleared
2 44 (33.08%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.28%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.76%) Degree
4 5 (3.76%) NVQ Level 3
5 3 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.26%) CCNP
5 3 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.50%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) CCNA
7 1 (0.75%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (0.75%) CISM
7 1 (0.75%) CISMP
7 1 (0.75%) CISSP
7 1 (0.75%) ISEB
7 1 (0.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.51%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.76%) QA
3 4 (3.01%) GDPR
3 4 (3.01%) NCSC
4 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.26%) PMO
5 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.75%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.75%) GRC
5 1 (0.75%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.75%) NIST
5 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.02%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.26%) Docker
5 2 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.76%) SCCM
2 3 (2.26%) Ansible
2 3 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.26%) Terraform
3 2 (1.50%) Grafana
3 2 (1.50%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.50%) Puppet
3 2 (1.50%) Salt
4 1 (0.75%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.52%) VMware
3 6 (4.51%) Cisco
4 5 (3.76%) Blue Prism
4 5 (3.76%) Fortinet
5 4 (3.01%) UiPath
6 3 (2.26%) Automation Anywhere
7 2 (1.50%) Cellebrite
7 2 (1.50%) IBM
7 2 (1.50%) Intel
8 1 (0.75%) Avaya
8 1 (0.75%) NetApp
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle
8 1 (0.75%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.75%) SAP
8 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.75%) Veeam