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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 419 492
Rank change year-on-year -3 +73 +203
Contract jobs citing Police 97 107 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the General category 0.54% 0.56% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 56 76
10th Percentile £435 - £258
25th Percentile £463 £294 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £406 £525
Median % change year-on-year +35.50% -22.68% -
75th Percentile £619 £554 £578
90th Percentile £695 £706 £666
UK median daily rate £550 £413 £521
% change year-on-year +33.04% -20.57% +2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 9
10th Percentile £12.21 £14.14 £17.65
25th Percentile £13.53 £14.81 £19.99
Median hourly rate £20.44 £16.39 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.68% -22.87% -
75th Percentile £22.14 £17.67 £22.52
90th Percentile £30.30 £18.16 £23.41
UK median hourly rate £20.44 £16.39 £21.25
% change year-on-year +24.68% -22.87% -

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 17,915 19,197 25,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.41% 58.26% 59.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,348 11,698 17,331
10th Percentile £275 £300 £310
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,020 975 996
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.44 £16.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +29.41% +20.01%
75th Percentile £47.50 £61.30 £58.63
90th Percentile £71.28 £71.40 £71.26
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.87% +28.58% +12.43%

Police
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Police as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Police 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 +1 39 £550 +5.77% 28
North of England -30 18 £438 +48.62% 2
Yorkshire -6 13 £438 -
Midlands -6 10 £588 - 8
South East +20 9 £450 -33.33% 27
South West +2 8 £588 +56.67% 11
West Midlands -1 7 £588 - 4
North West -22 5 - - 1
East Midlands -3 3 - - 4
Police
UK

Police
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.03%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.40%) Azure
2 12 (12.37%) AWS
3 8 (8.25%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.06%) GCP
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.03%) IaaS
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.03%) PaaS
6 1 (1.03%) Route 53
6 1 (1.03%) Serverless
6 1 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Firewall
1 2 (2.06%) VoIP
2 1 (1.03%) 4G
2 1 (1.03%) 5G
2 1 (1.03%) DNS
2 1 (1.03%) LAN
2 1 (1.03%) LTE
2 1 (1.03%) Network Security
2 1 (1.03%) PPP
2 1 (1.03%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.03%) SSL
2 1 (1.03%) TETRA
2 1 (1.03%) WAN
2 1 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.25%) Power BI
2 4 (4.12%) Data Mining
2 4 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.12%) Metadata
2 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.12%) Tableau
3 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.03%) Big Data
3 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.03%) DataStage
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Jenkins
1 6 (6.19%) JIRA
2 5 (5.15%) GitLab
3 4 (4.12%) Cucumber
3 4 (4.12%) REST Assured
3 4 (4.12%) Selenium
3 4 (4.12%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.03%) Gatling
4 1 (1.03%) JMeter
4 1 (1.03%) LoadRunner
General
1 37 (38.14%) Public Sector
2 35 (36.08%) Social Skills
3 28 (28.87%) Law
4 17 (17.53%) Fire and Rescue
5 16 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (9.28%) Finance
6 9 (9.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (8.25%) Local Government
7 8 (8.25%) Military
8 6 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.03%) Aviation
11 1 (1.03%) Billing
11 1 (1.03%) Electronics
11 1 (1.03%) French Language
11 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.03%) Marketing
11 1 (1.03%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (19.59%) Analyst
2 12 (12.37%) Support Analyst
3 9 (9.28%) Architect
4 7 (7.22%) Support Officer
5 6 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (5.15%) Consultant
6 5 (5.15%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Senior
7 4 (4.12%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Data Scientist
7 4 (4.12%) Developer
7 4 (4.12%) Java Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Lead
7 4 (4.12%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.12%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Configuration Specialist
8 3 (3.09%) ERP Support
8 3 (3.09%) Resource Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) REST
2 4 (4.12%) ARM Templates
2 4 (4.12%) Java EE
2 4 (4.12%) Kafka
2 4 (4.12%) Pandas
2 4 (4.12%) RESTful
2 4 (4.12%) scikit-learn
2 4 (4.12%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.06%) JSON
3 2 (2.06%) SOAP
3 2 (2.06%) Spring
3 2 (2.06%) Web Services
4 1 (1.03%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.03%) HTML
4 1 (1.03%) LDAP
4 1 (1.03%) Middleware
4 1 (1.03%) ODBC
4 1 (1.03%) SAML
4 1 (1.03%) XML
4 1 (1.03%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.19%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.12%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.09%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (2.06%) Handset
5 2 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.03%) Cybercrime
6 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.03%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.03%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.03%) Robotics
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.03%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.12%) Windows
2 3 (3.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.03%) Linux
3 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (22.68%) Decision-Making
3 13 (13.40%) Agile
3 13 (13.40%) Information Security
3 13 (13.40%) Project Management
3 13 (13.40%) Service Management
4 11 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (10.31%) Data Modelling
6 9 (9.28%) Actionable Insight
6 9 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (9.28%) DevOps
6 9 (9.28%) Performance Measurement
7 8 (8.25%) Data Governance
7 8 (8.25%) Data Science
7 8 (8.25%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 8 (8.25%) Risk Management
7 8 (8.25%) Software Engineering
8 7 (7.22%) Analytics
8 7 (7.22%) Customer Service
9 6 (6.19%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.34%) Python
2 9 (9.28%) SQL
3 8 (8.25%) Java
4 4 (4.12%) R
5 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (44.33%) Security Cleared
2 28 (28.87%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.28%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.15%) DBS Check
5 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.09%) Degree
6 2 (2.06%) CISSP
7 1 (1.03%) APMG
7 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.03%) CISA
7 1 (1.03%) CISM
7 1 (1.03%) City & Guilds
7 1 (1.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.03%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) SLA
2 6 (6.19%) GDPR
3 4 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.12%) NCSC
3 4 (4.12%) NIST
4 2 (2.06%) JSP 440
4 2 (2.06%) PMO
5 1 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (4.12%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.03%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 7 (7.22%) Terraform
2 6 (6.19%) Ansible
3 5 (5.15%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.12%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (4.12%) Podman
5 1 (1.03%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.03%) Grafana
5 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle
3 1 (1.03%) BMC
3 1 (1.03%) CheckPoint
3 1 (1.03%) Cisco
3 1 (1.03%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.03%) Foundry
3 1 (1.03%) Google
3 1 (1.03%) HP
3 1 (1.03%) IBM
3 1 (1.03%) Ivanti
3 1 (1.03%) Remedy
3 1 (1.03%) Ribbon
3 1 (1.03%) SAP
3 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.03%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.03%) Tenable
3 1 (1.03%) VMware