Police Contract Job Trends in Reading

Police
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Police over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 54 86
Rank change year-on-year -30 +32 -11
Contract jobs citing Police 3 4 13
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.29% 0.76% 1.08%
As % of the General category 0.61% 1.19% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile £540 - £598
25th Percentile £600 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile - - £688
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £485 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +33.33%

All General Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 493 335 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 48.19% 64.05% 59.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 206 331
10th Percentile £310 £350 £213
25th Percentile £412 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £608
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.70% +0.70% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 5 51
10th Percentile £31.08 £19.55 £17.50
25th Percentile £80.75 £26.75 £50.13
Median hourly rate £84.00 £45.00 £60.46
Median % change year-on-year +86.67% -25.56% -6.52%
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.75 £72.33
90th Percentile £106.20 - £87.53
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.25 £57.50 £58.49
% change year-on-year +44.78% -1.69% +58.08%

Police
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Police relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Police job vacancy trend in Reading

Police
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Police.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Police

Police
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Police in Reading over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Police in Reading

Police
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DMVPN
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TETRA
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Business Test Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Senior UAT Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) UAT Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) UAT Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Case Management
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) Line Management
1 1 (33.33%) Matrix Management
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) QMS
1 1 (33.33%) Quality Management
1 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Avaya
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) VMware