Police Contracts in the North of England

Police
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Police over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 157 188
Rank change year-on-year -11 +31 +46
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Police 21 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.53% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.86% 0.27% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £406 £404 £105
25th Percentile £416 £409 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% +16.06% -22.50%
75th Percentile £466 £495 £431
90th Percentile £479 £509 £456
England median daily rate £550 £518 £513
% change year-on-year +6.28% +0.85% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.21 - £13.13
Median hourly rate £18.73 £20.74 £13.27
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +56.35% -
75th Percentile £22.14 - £13.40
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.14 £14.79 £16.02
% change year-on-year +49.70% -7.69% -

All General Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,455 2,262 2,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 61.44% 53.78% 56.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,559 1,303 1,896
10th Percentile £253 £300 £256
25th Percentile £375 £412 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £569 £587 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 151 143
10th Percentile £12.82 £12.15 £14.53
25th Percentile £14.88 £15.29 £16.78
Median hourly rate £22.14 £23.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% +7.93% +12.16%
75th Percentile £45.26 £42.50 £35.39
90th Percentile £74.13 £52.50 £56.17
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £28.58
% change year-on-year -34.02% +33.38% +16.46%

Police
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Police in the North of England

Police
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Police.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Police

Police
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Police.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Police

Police
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +5 16 £438 - 2
North West -11 5 - - 4
Police
England

Police
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) AWS
1 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
1 2 (9.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (52.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Law
4 5 (23.81%) Local Government
5 3 (14.29%) Fire and Rescue
6 2 (9.52%) Aviation
6 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 2 (9.52%) Swedish Language
7 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Analyst
2 11 (52.38%) Support Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Support Officer
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Service Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (9.52%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
1 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (57.14%) Information Security
2 12 (57.14%) Service Management
3 11 (52.38%) Decision-Making
3 11 (52.38%) Performance Measurement
4 5 (23.81%) Customer Service
5 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (9.52%) Incident Response
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (9.52%) Security Operations
5 2 (9.52%) SIEM
5 2 (9.52%) SOAR
5 2 (9.52%) Software Delivery
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
5 2 (9.52%) Threat Detection
5 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Java
1 2 (9.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (52.38%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Ansible
1 2 (9.52%) FortiGate
1 2 (9.52%) Grafana
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Ribbon
1 2 (9.52%) Tenable
2 1 (4.76%) Google