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 26 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 404 425
Rank change year-on-year -40 +21 +95
Contract jobs citing Police 186 114 93
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.41% 0.28%
As % of the General category 0.74% 0.64% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 62 51
10th Percentile £250 £401 £300
25th Percentile £350 £463 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £518
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.28% +2.05%
75th Percentile £600 £605 £669
90th Percentile £699 £687 £725
UK median daily rate £506 £550 £518
% change year-on-year -7.95% +6.28% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 9
10th Percentile £13.07 £12.21 -
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.48 £13.69
Median hourly rate £17.16 £22.14 £14.79
Median % change year-on-year -22.52% +49.70% -7.69%
75th Percentile £19.01 - £15.73
90th Percentile £42.25 £30.30 £18.93
UK median hourly rate £15.72 £22.14 £14.46
% change year-on-year -29.00% +53.11% -9.75%

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 25,243 17,730 19,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.26% 64.36% 57.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,983 11,269 12,137
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £420 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -6.05% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £656
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 2,041 992 1,117
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.38 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.30 £17.44
Median hourly rate £31.93 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +26.94% -34.02% +35.80%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £71.35
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £35.36
% change year-on-year +25.25% -28.87% +27.47%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -51 68 £530 -3.64% 18
South East -47 37 £250 -28.57% 8
Midlands -32 30 £475 -19.15% 13
North of England -75 20 £500 +14.29% 12
West Midlands -46 18 £500 -14.89% 5
South West -41 14 £525 -10.64% 11
Yorkshire -43 13 £500 +14.29% 4
East Midlands -8 11 £205 - 8
North West -48 6 £456 - 6
North East - 1 £375 - 2
East of England - 1 £700 - 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 6 (3.23%) Confluence
2 4 (2.15%) 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 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.61%) 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 34 (18.28%) Azure
2 18 (9.68%) AWS
3 12 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (5.38%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.23%) GCP
6 6 (3.23%) OCI
7 4 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.15%) GitHub
7 4 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.15%) Serverless
8 3 (1.61%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.08%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (0.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.99%) Firewall
2 11 (5.91%) DNS
3 10 (5.38%) DHCP
3 10 (5.38%) LAN
4 8 (4.30%) BGP
4 8 (4.30%) Network Security
4 8 (4.30%) OSPF
5 7 (3.76%) VLAN
6 6 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (3.23%) IPsec
6 6 (3.23%) VoIP
6 6 (3.23%) VPN
6 6 (3.23%) WAN
7 5 (2.69%) 3GPP
7 5 (2.69%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (2.69%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.69%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (2.69%) Wireless
7 5 (2.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.84%) Power BI
2 6 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.69%) Metadata
4 4 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.15%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.61%) 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 (5.38%) Git
2 7 (3.76%) JIRA
3 6 (3.23%) GitLab
4 5 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.69%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.61%) JUnit
5 3 (1.61%) 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 (45.16%) Public Sector
2 45 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 38 (20.43%) Law
4 18 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.99%) Finance
6 10 (5.38%) Legal
6 10 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.84%) Fire and Rescue
8 8 (4.30%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.76%) Local Government
10 6 (3.23%) Aviation
11 5 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.15%) Military
13 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.54%) Back Office
14 1 (0.54%) Banking
14 1 (0.54%) Publishing
14 1 (0.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 25 (13.44%) Analyst
2 23 (12.37%) Architect
3 21 (11.29%) Business Analyst
4 17 (9.14%) Developer
5 14 (7.53%) Senior
6 11 (5.91%) Administrator
6 11 (5.91%) Lead
7 9 (4.84%) Network Engineer
8 8 (4.30%) Field Engineer
9 7 (3.76%) Configuration Analyst
9 7 (3.76%) Security Architect
10 6 (3.23%) Consultant
10 6 (3.23%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.23%) Project Manager
10 6 (3.23%) ServiceNow Architect
10 6 (3.23%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
10 6 (3.23%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (3.23%) Technical Business Analyst
11 5 (2.69%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.69%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.91%) Terraform
2 6 (3.23%) .NET
3 5 (2.69%) .NET Core
3 5 (2.69%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.69%) RESTful
3 5 (2.69%) Spring
4 4 (2.15%) Kafka
4 4 (2.15%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.61%) 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 11 (5.91%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.84%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.84%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.30%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.69%) PKI
5 5 (2.69%) Robotics
6 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.61%) CCTV
7 3 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.61%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.61%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.61%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.08%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.08%) PMI
8 2 (1.08%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.91%) Windows
2 7 (3.76%) Linux
3 4 (2.15%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.15%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (18.28%) Agile
2 28 (15.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 27 (14.52%) DevOps
4 23 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (12.37%) Validation
5 22 (11.83%) User Acceptance Testing
6 20 (10.75%) Data Protection
7 19 (10.22%) CI/CD
7 19 (10.22%) Decision-Making
7 19 (10.22%) Migration
8 18 (9.68%) Data Modelling
8 18 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (8.60%) ITIL
10 13 (6.99%) AI
10 13 (6.99%) Analytics
10 13 (6.99%) Business Analysis
10 13 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (6.45%) Information Management
11 12 (6.45%) Records Management
12 11 (5.91%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.38%) SQL
2 8 (4.30%) Python
3 7 (3.76%) Java
4 6 (3.23%) 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 91 (48.92%) Security Cleared
2 63 (33.87%) SC Cleared
3 31 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 20 (10.75%) Degree
5 8 (4.30%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (4.30%) CISM
5 8 (4.30%) CISSP
6 7 (3.76%) CCNP
6 7 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.15%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (1.61%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.61%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.61%) IIBA
9 3 (1.61%) ISEB
10 2 (1.08%) APMG
10 2 (1.08%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.08%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.54%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.91%) QA
2 7 (3.76%) Government Security Classifications
2 7 (3.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 6 (3.23%) NCSC
4 5 (2.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.15%) PMO
6 3 (1.61%) 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 (6.99%) Docker
2 12 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.69%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.54%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.76%) Ansible
3 3 (1.61%) Grafana
3 3 (1.61%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.61%) SCCM
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.08%) Puppet
4 2 (1.08%) Salt
5 1 (0.54%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.68%) ServiceNow
3 13 (6.99%) Oracle
4 11 (5.91%) Cisco
5 6 (3.23%) CheckPoint
5 6 (3.23%) VMware
6 5 (2.69%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.15%) Google
8 2 (1.08%) Blue Prism
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%) Blue Coat
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