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 8 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 390 389
Rank change year-on-year -82 -1 +210
Contract jobs citing Police 97 98 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.39% 0.44%
As % of the General category 0.46% 0.62% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 41 92
10th Percentile £250 - £241
25th Percentile £413 £294 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £611 £519 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £649
UK median daily rate £513 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +13.89% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 45
10th Percentile £20.12 £21.01 £11.95
25th Percentile £25.24 - £13.69
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.14 £19.38
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% +14.27% -75.78%
75th Percentile - - £22.52
90th Percentile £35.64 £29.39 -
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £22.14 £14.79
% change year-on-year +15.18% +49.70% -81.51%

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 21,071 15,894 22,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.31% 63.10% 58.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,334 10,038 14,554
10th Percentile £300 £300 £266
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,315 572 1,666
10th Percentile £14.11 £15.01 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.50 £19.75 £15.29
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.31 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +16.56% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.13 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £25.50
% change year-on-year -17.44% +14.00% -20.31%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -39 41 £537 +8.48% 15
Midlands -41 29 £575 +20.42% 5
West Midlands -37 21 £575 +20.42% 3
South West -25 10 £475 - 4
South East -41 10 £250 +22.62% 17
East Midlands -22 8 - - 2
North of England -83 2 £575 +95.33% 7
North East - 2 £575 -
East of England -28 1 - - 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 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.40%) Azure
2 12 (12.37%) AWS
3 7 (7.22%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.09%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.06%) Serverless
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.03%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) LAN
1 2 (2.06%) WAN
2 1 (1.03%) BGP
2 1 (1.03%) DMVPN
2 1 (1.03%) DNS
2 1 (1.03%) EIGRP
2 1 (1.03%) Firewall
2 1 (1.03%) MPLS
2 1 (1.03%) NAS
2 1 (1.03%) Network Security
2 1 (1.03%) OSPF
2 1 (1.03%) SAN
2 1 (1.03%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.03%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.12%) Power BI
2 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Postman
1 2 (2.06%) Selenium
2 1 (1.03%) JIRA
General
1 43 (44.33%) Public Sector
2 25 (25.77%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.34%) Law
4 8 (8.25%) Fire and Rescue
5 6 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.15%) Local Government
7 4 (4.12%) Finance
8 3 (3.09%) Back Office
8 3 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.06%) Legal
9 2 (2.06%) Military
10 1 (1.03%) Banking
10 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (19.59%) Analyst
2 13 (13.40%) Business Analyst
3 11 (11.34%) Architect
4 7 (7.22%) Consultant
5 6 (6.19%) Project Manager
6 5 (5.15%) Help Desk Technician
6 5 (5.15%) ICT Technician
6 5 (5.15%) Technical Architect
7 4 (4.12%) Developer
7 4 (4.12%) Field Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Product Owner
7 4 (4.12%) Senior
8 3 (3.09%) IAM Specialist
8 3 (3.09%) Information Assurance Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Information Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Security Assurance Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Security Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Technical Business Analyst
9 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) SailPoint
2 4 (4.12%) Middleware
3 2 (2.06%) .NET
4 1 (1.03%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Driving Licence
2 9 (9.28%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.15%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.12%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.03%) CMDB
6 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.03%) Replication
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.37%) Windows
2 5 (5.15%) Linux
3 4 (4.12%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.03%) VMS
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (21.65%) Migration
2 18 (18.56%) Records Management
3 14 (14.43%) Data Protection
4 13 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (12.37%) Agile
5 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (10.31%) ITIL
7 9 (9.28%) Data Migration
7 9 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (8.25%) Business Continuity
8 8 (8.25%) Information Security
8 8 (8.25%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (8.25%) Service Delivery
9 7 (7.22%) Information Governance
9 7 (7.22%) Programme Governance
9 7 (7.22%) Validation
10 6 (6.19%) Mathematics
11 5 (5.15%) Identity Access Management
11 5 (5.15%) ITSM
11 5 (5.15%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.06%) C#
1 2 (2.06%) Java
1 2 (2.06%) Kotlin
1 2 (2.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (47.42%) Security Cleared
2 38 (39.18%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.31%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.15%) NVQ Level 3
5 2 (2.06%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (2.06%) CISM
5 2 (2.06%) CISMP
5 2 (2.06%) CISSP
5 2 (2.06%) Degree
5 2 (2.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.03%) CCNP
6 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.19%) NCSC
3 4 (4.12%) GDPR
3 4 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 2 (2.06%) GRC
5 1 (1.03%) Def Stans
5 1 (1.03%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.03%) NIST
5 1 (1.03%) PMO
5 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.25%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.15%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.12%) SCCM
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.22%) VMware
3 4 (4.12%) Blue Prism
3 4 (4.12%) UiPath
4 3 (3.09%) Automation Anywhere
5 2 (2.06%) Cellebrite
5 2 (2.06%) Cisco
5 2 (2.06%) Intel
6 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.03%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.03%) IBM
6 1 (1.03%) NetApp
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.03%) SAP
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.03%) Veeam