Police Contract Job Trends

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 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 444 439
Rank change year-on-year -23 -5 +147
Contract jobs citing Police 160 75 147
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the General category 0.62% 0.41% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 41 81
10th Percentile £250 £425 £240
25th Percentile £350 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +4.79%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £250 £525
% change year-on-year +100.00% -52.38% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 40
10th Percentile - £21.76 £11.95
25th Percentile £15.72 - £12.97
Median hourly rate £17.85 £22.14 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year -19.38% +52.27% -81.83%
75th Percentile £25.50 £28.26 £19.75
90th Percentile - £31.90 £20.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.61 £22.14 £14.54
% change year-on-year -6.91% +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 general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 25,814 18,467 25,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.09% 63.31% 58.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,819 11,773 15,784
10th Percentile £306 £294 £275
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +0.63% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,647 781 1,939
10th Percentile £13.86 £14.00 £12.77
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.82% -10.24%
75th Percentile £61.18 £56.00 £52.78
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.74 £24.66 £28.50
% change year-on-year +12.49% -13.47% -1.72%

Police
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Police job vacancy trend in the UK

Police
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Police.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Police

Police
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Police over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Police in the UK

Police
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Police.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Police

Police
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Police over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Police in the UK

Police
Top 15 Contract Job 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 9 May 2026. 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 -42 142 £500 -4.76% 25
UK excluding London -53 83 £500 +100.00% 18
Work from Home +1 54 £538 -10.42% 12
London -54 51 £500 -9.09% 7
Midlands -30 33 £550 +15.79% 4
West Midlands -33 24 £550 +15.79% 3
South East -52 23 £250 +25.00% 7
South West -28 16 £375 -36.17% 1
East Midlands -27 8 - - 1
North of England -63 7 £525 - 5
Yorkshire -56 4 - - 3
Scotland - 3 - - 1
North East - 2 £575 - 2
East of England -39 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £263 - 1

Police
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.25%) Confluence
1 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.75%) Azure
2 16 (10.00%) AWS
3 11 (6.88%) Entra ID
3 11 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.38%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.75%) Serverless
6 5 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.13%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.25%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.25%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (1.25%) GCP
8 2 (1.25%) GitHub
8 2 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.25%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.63%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.38%) Firewall
2 6 (3.75%) 3GPP
2 6 (3.75%) LAN
2 6 (3.75%) RTP
3 5 (3.13%) DNS
3 5 (3.13%) WAN
4 4 (2.50%) DHCP
4 4 (2.50%) Network Security
4 4 (2.50%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.88%) BGP
5 3 (1.88%) OSPF
5 3 (1.88%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.25%) DMVPN
6 2 (1.25%) HTTP
6 2 (1.25%) MPLS
6 2 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.25%) RTCP
6 2 (1.25%) TETRA
6 2 (1.25%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.38%) Power BI
2 2 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (1.25%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (5.00%) Git
2 4 (2.50%) GitLab
2 4 (2.50%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.88%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.88%) JIRA
4 2 (1.25%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.25%) JUnit
4 2 (1.25%) Mockito
4 2 (1.25%) Postman
5 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.63%) JMeter
5 1 (0.63%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.63%) Selenium
5 1 (0.63%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.63%) Vite
General
1 68 (42.50%) Public Sector
2 37 (23.13%) Social Skills
3 28 (17.50%) Law
4 16 (10.00%) Fire and Rescue
5 13 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.88%) Finance
7 10 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (5.00%) Local Government
9 5 (3.13%) Legal
9 5 (3.13%) Military
10 4 (2.50%) Aviation
10 4 (2.50%) Back Office
10 4 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.88%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.63%) Banking
13 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (15.63%) Analyst
2 17 (10.63%) Business Analyst
3 16 (10.00%) Developer
4 14 (8.75%) Architect
5 13 (8.13%) Senior
6 8 (5.00%) Field Engineer
7 7 (4.38%) Administrator
7 7 (4.38%) Consultant
8 6 (3.75%) Network Engineer
9 5 (3.13%) Configuration Analyst
9 5 (3.13%) Help Desk Technician
9 5 (3.13%) ICT Technician
9 5 (3.13%) Lead
9 5 (3.13%) Technical Architect
10 4 (2.50%) IT Systems Administrator
10 4 (2.50%) Project Manager
10 4 (2.50%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
10 4 (2.50%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.50%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.00%) .NET
2 6 (3.75%) .NET Core
2 6 (3.75%) SailPoint
3 4 (2.50%) Middleware
4 3 (1.88%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.88%) RESTful
5 2 (1.25%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.25%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (1.25%) Entity Framework
5 2 (1.25%) Kafka
5 2 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.25%) React
5 2 (1.25%) SignalR
5 2 (1.25%) Spring
5 2 (1.25%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.25%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (1.25%) WCF
5 2 (1.25%) XML
5 2 (1.25%) XML Schema
5 2 (1.25%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.50%) Driving Licence
2 10 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.38%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.50%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.50%) Robotics
7 3 (1.88%) CCTV
7 3 (1.88%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.88%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (1.25%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.25%) CMDB
8 2 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.13%) Windows
2 10 (6.25%) Linux
3 5 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 5 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.63%) Android
4 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (15.63%) Agile
2 24 (15.00%) Migration
3 22 (13.75%) Records Management
4 19 (11.88%) Data Protection
5 18 (11.25%) CI/CD
5 18 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 15 (9.38%) ITIL
7 14 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (8.75%) Decision-Making
8 13 (8.13%) Validation
9 11 (6.88%) Business Continuity
9 11 (6.88%) Service Delivery
10 10 (6.25%) Data Migration
10 10 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (5.63%) Change Management
11 9 (5.63%) DevOps
11 9 (5.63%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (5.00%) Data Analysis
12 8 (5.00%) Information Management
12 8 (5.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.00%) C#
2 7 (4.38%) Java
3 6 (3.75%) SQL
4 4 (2.50%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.25%) Bash
5 2 (1.25%) Python
6 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 55 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.75%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.63%) Degree
5 5 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.13%) NVQ Level 3
6 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.88%) CCNP
8 2 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.25%) CCSP
8 2 (1.25%) CISA
8 2 (1.25%) CISM
8 2 (1.25%) CISSP
8 2 (1.25%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.63%) CBAP
9 1 (0.63%) IIBA
9 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.38%) NCSC
2 6 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.75%) GDPR
3 5 (3.13%) QA
4 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.88%) NIST
4 3 (1.88%) PMO
5 2 (1.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.63%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.63%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.63%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.63%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (10.63%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.63%) Docker
5 2 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.13%) SCCM
2 4 (2.50%) Ansible
2 4 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.50%) Terraform
3 3 (1.88%) Grafana
3 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.25%) Puppet
4 2 (1.25%) Salt
5 1 (0.63%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.50%) VMware
3 7 (4.38%) Cisco
4 6 (3.75%) Blue Prism
5 5 (3.13%) Fortinet
5 5 (3.13%) UiPath
6 4 (2.50%) Automation Anywhere
7 3 (1.88%) IBM
8 2 (1.25%) Cellebrite
8 2 (1.25%) Intel
8 2 (1.25%) Veeam
9 1 (0.63%) Avaya
9 1 (0.63%) NetApp
9 1 (0.63%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow