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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 415 432
Rank change year-on-year -15 +17 +90
Contract jobs citing Police 182 106 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.38% 0.27%
As % of the General category 0.72% 0.60% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 52 53
10th Percentile £250 £401 £313
25th Percentile £323 £463 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £512
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +7.38% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £663
90th Percentile £675 £706 £728
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £512
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.38% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 12
10th Percentile £14.93 £12.21 -
25th Percentile £15.91 £17.48 £13.69
Median hourly rate £17.91 £22.14 £14.79
Median % change year-on-year -19.11% +49.70% -81.51%
75th Percentile £24.72 - £19.05
90th Percentile £77.85 £30.30 £21.63
UK median hourly rate £17.85 £22.14 £14.63
% change year-on-year -19.38% +51.38% -81.72%

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 25,213 17,692 19,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.38% 64.03% 57.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,067 11,295 12,382
10th Percentile £313 £279 £300
25th Percentile £418 £401 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
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 1,949 945 1,256
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.36 £18.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +31.21% -34.02% +30.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.12 £73.75 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +27.07%

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 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 6 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 6 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 -34 65 £495 -10.00% 28
South East -32 37 £250 - 9
Midlands -30 27 £475 -5.00% 7
North of England -75 19 £500 +14.29% 10
West Midlands -39 17 £500 - 4
South West -40 17 £525 -10.64% 4
Yorkshire -55 12 £500 +14.29% 3
East Midlands -2 9 £205 - 3
North West -50 6 £456 - 5
North East - 1 £375 - 2
East of England - 1 £700 - 1
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 5 (2.75%) Confluence
1 5 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.10%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.55%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) assyst
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.55%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 31 (17.03%) Azure
2 14 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (7.14%) AWS
4 11 (6.04%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.30%) GCP
7 5 (2.75%) OCI
8 4 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.65%) GitHub
9 3 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (1.65%) Serverless
9 3 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.10%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.10%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.10%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.10%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.59%) Firewall
2 10 (5.49%) DNS
3 9 (4.95%) DHCP
3 9 (4.95%) LAN
4 8 (4.40%) Network Security
5 7 (3.85%) BGP
5 7 (3.85%) OSPF
6 6 (3.30%) VLAN
7 5 (2.75%) 3GPP
7 5 (2.75%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (2.75%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (2.75%) IPsec
7 5 (2.75%) RTP
7 5 (2.75%) VoIP
7 5 (2.75%) VPN
7 5 (2.75%) WAN
7 5 (2.75%) Wireshark
8 4 (2.20%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (2.20%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.49%) Power BI
2 5 (2.75%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.65%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.10%) EDMS
4 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.55%) Big Data
5 1 (0.55%) Metadata
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (5.49%) Git
2 6 (3.30%) JIRA
3 5 (2.75%) GitLab
3 5 (2.75%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.20%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.65%) JUnit
5 3 (1.65%) Mockito
6 2 (1.10%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.55%) JMeter
7 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.55%) Postman
7 1 (0.55%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.55%) Vite
General
1 82 (45.05%) Public Sector
2 45 (24.73%) Social Skills
3 33 (18.13%) Law
4 19 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.69%) Finance
6 11 (6.04%) Fire and Rescue
7 9 (4.95%) Legal
8 8 (4.40%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.85%) Local Government
9 7 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.30%) Aviation
11 5 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.20%) Military
13 3 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.10%) Back Office
14 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.55%) Banking
15 1 (0.55%) Publishing
15 1 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 30 (16.48%) Analyst
2 25 (13.74%) Business Analyst
3 20 (10.99%) Architect
4 17 (9.34%) Developer
5 14 (7.69%) Senior
6 11 (6.04%) Administrator
7 10 (5.49%) Lead
8 9 (4.95%) Network Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Field Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Configuration Analyst
11 6 (3.30%) Consultant
11 6 (3.30%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Project Manager
11 6 (3.30%) ServiceNow Architect
11 6 (3.30%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
11 6 (3.30%) Technical Analyst
11 6 (3.30%) Technical Business Analyst
12 5 (2.75%) Senior Network Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.30%) .NET
2 5 (2.75%) .NET Core
2 5 (2.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (2.75%) RESTful
2 5 (2.75%) Spring
3 4 (2.20%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.65%) Kafka
4 3 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (1.65%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (0.55%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.55%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.55%) CSS3
5 1 (0.55%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.55%) Java SE
5 1 (0.55%) JSON
5 1 (0.55%) Node.js
5 1 (0.55%) React
5 1 (0.55%) REST
5 1 (0.55%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.55%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.49%) Driving Licence
2 9 (4.95%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.40%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.40%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.75%) Robotics
5 5 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.20%) PKI
7 3 (1.65%) CCTV
7 3 (1.65%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.65%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.10%) CMDB
8 2 (1.10%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.59%) Windows
2 7 (3.85%) Linux
3 4 (2.20%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.55%) Android
4 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (18.68%) Agile
2 29 (15.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 24 (13.19%) Validation
4 22 (12.09%) User Acceptance Testing
5 20 (10.99%) Migration
6 19 (10.44%) Data Protection
6 19 (10.44%) DevOps
7 18 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (8.79%) Data Modelling
8 16 (8.79%) Decision-Making
8 16 (8.79%) ITIL
9 15 (8.24%) CI/CD
9 15 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (7.14%) Business Analysis
11 13 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
12 12 (6.59%) AI
12 12 (6.59%) Information Management
13 11 (6.04%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (6.04%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.49%) SQL
2 7 (3.85%) Java
3 6 (3.30%) C#
4 4 (2.20%) Python
5 2 (1.10%) Bash
5 2 (1.10%) R
6 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 87 (47.80%) Security Cleared
2 61 (33.52%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.84%) DV Cleared
4 17 (9.34%) Degree
5 8 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.85%) CCNP
6 7 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.30%) CISM
7 6 (3.30%) CISSP
8 5 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.20%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (1.65%) IIBA
11 2 (1.10%) APMG
11 2 (1.10%) ISEB
11 2 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.55%) CCNA
12 1 (0.55%) CCSP
12 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.49%) QA
2 5 (2.75%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (2.75%) Government Security Classifications
2 5 (2.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 5 (2.75%) NCSC
2 5 (2.75%) PMO
3 4 (2.20%) GDPR
4 3 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.55%) GRC
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.59%) Docker
3 5 (2.75%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (4.95%) Kubernetes
1 9 (4.95%) Terraform
2 6 (3.30%) Ansible
3 4 (2.20%) SCCM
4 3 (1.65%) Grafana
4 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.10%) Puppet
5 2 (1.10%) Salt
6 1 (0.55%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 28 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.89%) ServiceNow
3 12 (6.59%) Oracle
4 11 (6.04%) Cisco
5 6 (3.30%) VMware
6 5 (2.75%) CheckPoint
6 5 (2.75%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.20%) Blue Prism
7 4 (2.20%) Google
8 3 (1.65%) UiPath
9 2 (1.10%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (1.10%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.55%) Aruba
10 1 (0.55%) Avaya
10 1 (0.55%) Blue Coat
10 1 (0.55%) F5
10 1 (0.55%) IBM
10 1 (0.55%) Juniper
10 1 (0.55%) Salesforce