Police Contracts in London

Police
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Police over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 341 469
Rank change year-on-year +22 +128 +105
Contract jobs citing Police 35 48 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.27% 0.10%
As % of the General category 0.41% 0.43% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 31 20
10th Percentile £445 £441 £493
25th Percentile £463 £445 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% +5.12%
75th Percentile £638 £712 £600
90th Percentile £733 £775 £624
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - £11.95 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -85.06% -
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - £14.08 -
England median hourly rate £22.14 £14.54 £80.00
% change year-on-year +52.27% -81.83% +49.53%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,480 11,281 17,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.55% 63.22% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,731 8,058 12,397
10th Percentile £340 £336 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 245 220
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.59
25th Percentile £22.90 £18.25 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £28.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -10.94% -12.33%
75th Percentile £52.00 £43.75 £58.19
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.45 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £33.91
% change year-on-year -6.67% -11.53% +57.72%

Police
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Police in London

Police
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Police in London.

Daily rate trend for Police in London

Police
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Police in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Police in London

Police
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Police in London.

Hourly rate trend for Police in London

Police
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Police within the London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Central London +9 11 £550 -4.35% 2
East London +10 1 £750 -
South London - 1 £625 - 3
Police
England

Police
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (5.71%) Anypoint
1 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) AWS
1 6 (17.14%) Power Platform
2 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.71%) Azure
3 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (2.86%) SaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.86%) BGP
2 1 (2.86%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (2.86%) EIGRP
2 1 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) LAN
2 1 (2.86%) OSPF
2 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Power BI
2 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.71%) Data Mining
3 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.71%) Metadata
3 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.71%) Tableau
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Gatling
1 1 (2.86%) JMeter
1 1 (2.86%) LoadRunner
General
1 19 (54.29%) Public Sector
2 15 (42.86%) Law
2 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Military
5 3 (8.57%) Finance
5 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Fire and Rescue
6 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Legal
6 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Local Government
7 1 (2.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (14.29%) Architect
1 5 (14.29%) Consultant
1 5 (14.29%) Senior
2 4 (11.43%) Lead
3 3 (8.57%) Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Business Manager
3 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Senior Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Business Information Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Data Scientist
4 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Designer
4 2 (5.71%) Information Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Senior Designer
4 2 (5.71%) Senior Service Designer
4 2 (5.71%) Service Designer
4 2 (5.71%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) .NET
2 2 (5.71%) Kafka
2 2 (5.71%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (5.71%) Middleware
2 2 (5.71%) Pandas
2 2 (5.71%) scikit-learn
2 2 (5.71%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.86%) CSS
3 1 (2.86%) HTML
3 1 (2.86%) MIDP
3 1 (2.86%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Freedom of Information
1 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
1 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) Agile
2 8 (22.86%) Decision-Making
3 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (17.14%) Data Protection
4 6 (17.14%) ITIL
4 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (17.14%) Project Management
4 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (14.29%) Analytics
5 5 (14.29%) Change Management
5 5 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 5 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 4 (11.43%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (11.43%) Data Governance
6 4 (11.43%) Data Modelling
6 4 (11.43%) Data Science
6 4 (11.43%) TOGAF
7 3 (8.57%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) Python
2 6 (17.14%) SQL
3 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.71%) R
5 1 (2.86%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 25 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 16 (45.71%) SC Cleared
3 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) APMG
4 1 (2.86%) CISSP
4 1 (2.86%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) GDPR
2 3 (8.57%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.71%) NIST
4 1 (2.86%) NCSC
4 1 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 4 (11.43%) Cisco
4 2 (5.71%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.86%) Juniper
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow