Police Contracts

Police
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in contract job vacancies. 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 448 441 609
Rank change year-on-year -7 +168 +66
Contract jobs citing Police 71 160 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.37% 0.17%
As % of the General category 0.38% 0.63% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 89 57
10th Percentile £426 £240 £400
25th Percentile £459 £441 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £600
90th Percentile £725 £690 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -9.52% +7.69% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 40 2
10th Percentile £21.76 £11.95 -
25th Percentile - £12.97 £72.50
Median hourly rate £22.14 £14.54 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.27% -81.83% +49.53%
75th Percentile £28.26 £19.75 £87.50
90th Percentile £31.90 £20.84 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 £14.54 -
% change year-on-year +52.27% - -

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,465 25,387 34,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.16% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,795 16,033 24,201
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,939 1,062
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £13.42
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £28.13 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.58% -7.91% +65.08%

Police
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Police in the UK

Police
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Police in the UK

Police
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Police in the UK

Police
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Police in the UK

Police
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Police over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Police in the UK

Police
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Police within the UK 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
England -18 71 £525 - 69
London +22 35 £525 -8.70% 34
UK excluding London -8 32 £475 -9.52% 42
Work from Home +18 23 £563 +7.14% 28
South West +26 10 £588 +256.06% 7
South East +19 8 £250 -60.78% 6
North of England +18 8 - - 13
Yorkshire +16 8 - - 7
Midlands +16 4 £475 -3.06% 10
East Midlands +11 3 - - 2
East of England - 2 - - 2
West Midlands +7 1 £475 -3.06% 8

Police
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.82%) Anypoint
1 2 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.08%) AWS
2 8 (11.27%) Azure
3 7 (9.86%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.23%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.41%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.41%) SaaS
6 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.23%) Firewall
3 1 (1.41%) BGP
3 1 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.41%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.41%) LAN
3 1 (1.41%) OSPF
3 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) Power BI
2 4 (5.63%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.82%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.82%) Metadata
4 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.82%) Tableau
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Cucumber
1 4 (5.63%) GitLab
1 4 (5.63%) Jenkins
1 4 (5.63%) JIRA
1 4 (5.63%) REST Assured
1 4 (5.63%) Selenium
1 4 (5.63%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.41%) Gatling
2 1 (1.41%) JMeter
2 1 (1.41%) LoadRunner
General
1 28 (39.44%) Public Sector
2 27 (38.03%) Social Skills
3 22 (30.99%) Law
4 12 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (16.90%) Fire and Rescue
5 11 (15.49%) Finance
6 10 (14.08%) Military
7 8 (11.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (5.63%) Local Government
8 4 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.82%) Aviation
10 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.82%) Legal
10 2 (2.82%) Swedish Language
11 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (18.31%) Analyst
2 8 (11.27%) Architect
3 7 (9.86%) Consultant
4 6 (8.45%) Support Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Senior
6 4 (5.63%) Java Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Lead
6 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Business Manager
7 3 (4.23%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Senior Architect
7 3 (4.23%) Service Manager
7 3 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.82%) Business Information Manager
8 2 (2.82%) IT Manager
8 2 (2.82%) Principal Advisor
8 2 (2.82%) Senior Service Designer
8 2 (2.82%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) .NET
1 4 (5.63%) ARM Templates
1 4 (5.63%) Java EE
1 4 (5.63%) REST
2 2 (2.82%) CSS
2 2 (2.82%) HTML
2 2 (2.82%) Kafka
2 2 (2.82%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (2.82%) Middleware
2 2 (2.82%) Pandas
2 2 (2.82%) scikit-learn
2 2 (2.82%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.41%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.41%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.41%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.41%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.41%) MIDP
3 1 (1.41%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.63%) Freedom of Information
3 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.82%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.82%) Robotics
5 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.41%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.41%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Windows
2 5 (7.04%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.82%) Linux
4 1 (1.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.94%) Project Management
2 15 (21.13%) Agile
3 14 (19.72%) Decision-Making
3 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (15.49%) Information Security
4 11 (15.49%) ITIL
5 9 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (12.68%) Service Management
5 9 (12.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (11.27%) Risk Management
6 8 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (9.86%) Change Management
7 7 (9.86%) Configuration Management
7 7 (9.86%) Data Protection
7 7 (9.86%) DevOps
8 6 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (8.45%) Performance Measurement
8 6 (8.45%) Software Engineering
9 5 (7.04%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 5 (7.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.27%) Python
2 6 (8.45%) SQL
3 4 (5.63%) Java
3 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.82%) R
5 1 (1.41%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.41%) Bash
5 1 (1.41%) C#
5 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (61.97%) Security Cleared
2 30 (42.25%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.49%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.63%) Degree
5 1 (1.41%) APMG
5 1 (1.41%) CISSP
5 1 (1.41%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) SLA
2 6 (8.45%) GDPR
3 3 (4.23%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.82%) NIST
4 2 (2.82%) PMO
5 1 (1.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (8.45%) Terraform
2 5 (7.04%) Ansible
3 4 (5.63%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.63%) Podman
4 2 (2.82%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.82%) Grafana
5 1 (1.41%) SCCM
5 1 (1.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.04%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.63%) Cisco
4 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.82%) Foundry
5 2 (2.82%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.82%) Oracle
5 2 (2.82%) Ribbon
5 2 (2.82%) Tenable
6 1 (1.41%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.41%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.41%) Google
6 1 (1.41%) Juniper
6 1 (1.41%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) SolarWinds