Police Contracts in the South East

Police
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Police over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 174 199
Rank change year-on-year +23 +25 +56
Contract jobs citing Police 8 31 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.27% 0.56% 0.40%
As % of the General category 0.43% 1.10% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 11
10th Percentile £190 £331 £213
25th Percentile £213 £363 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £638 £488
Median % change year-on-year -60.78% +30.77% -18.75%
75th Percentile £384 £678 £558
90th Percentile £465 £688 £623
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 0
Median hourly rate £46.30 £19.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +137.44% - -
England median hourly rate £22.14 £14.54 £80.00
% change year-on-year +52.27% -81.83% +49.53%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,848 2,816 3,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 61.40% 50.67% 58.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,546 2,305
10th Percentile £228 £205 £242
25th Percentile £389 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £663 £688 £721
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 327 167
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.93 £18.40
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%
75th Percentile £59.69 £61.30 £64.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.07 £72.98
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Police
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Police as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Police in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Police in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Police in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Police in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Police in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Police in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Police in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Police within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +25 6 £250 -61.54% 5
Berkshire +22 4 - - 2
Hampshire +26 2 £344 -8.33%
Oxfordshire -4 2 £250 -33.33% 2
Police
England

Police
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Google Workspace
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
1 4 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 4 (50.00%) Selenium
1 4 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Law
4 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Operations Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 4 (50.00%) Java EE
1 4 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Gantt Chart
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Podman
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM
3 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds