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 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 450 588
Rank change year-on-year +12 +138 +58
Contract jobs citing Police 84 119 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the General category 0.46% 0.48% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 56 65
10th Percentile £428 £199 £381
25th Percentile £469 £375 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.28% +1.59% -14.53%
75th Percentile £631 £641 £600
90th Percentile £735 £688 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 £375 £488
% change year-on-year -33.33% -23.08% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 40 2
10th Percentile £19.13 £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% -
75th Percentile £30.30 £19.75 £87.50
90th Percentile £37.23 £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 18,259 24,655 33,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.29% 57.87% 58.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,578 15,555 22,933
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £770 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 778 1,954 1,000
10th Percentile £13.72 £12.76 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £17.61
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +44.44%
75th Percentile £55.19 £52.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.59 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.34 £28.00 £27.60
% change year-on-year -13.07% +1.45% +41.54%

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 25 May 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 25 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Police in the UK

Police
Top 13 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 25 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
England +42 83 £538 +6.71% 398
London +51 39 £550 +9.60% 48
UK excluding London +11 38 £250 -33.33% 380
Work from Home +28 27 £619 +25.28% 41
South West +23 11 £588 +256.06% 46
South East +33 10 £200 -69.23% 91
North of England +15 10 - - 88
Yorkshire +22 9 - - 37
Midlands +8 5 £475 +97.92% 75
East Midlands +6 4 - - 31
East of England - 2 - - 62
West Midlands +11 1 £475 +97.92% 40
North West -1 1 - - 37

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 4 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.38%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.29%) AWS
2 11 (13.10%) Azure
3 8 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.19%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.19%) IaaS
6 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.19%) PaaS
6 1 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.57%) Firewall
3 2 (2.38%) VoIP
4 1 (1.19%) 4G
4 1 (1.19%) 5G
4 1 (1.19%) BGP
4 1 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.19%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.19%) LAN
4 1 (1.19%) LTE
4 1 (1.19%) OSPF
4 1 (1.19%) PPP
4 1 (1.19%) TETRA
4 1 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) Power BI
2 4 (4.76%) Data Mining
2 4 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.76%) Metadata
2 4 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.76%) Tableau
3 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.19%) Big Data
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Cucumber
1 4 (4.76%) GitLab
1 4 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 4 (4.76%) JIRA
1 4 (4.76%) REST Assured
1 4 (4.76%) Selenium
1 4 (4.76%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.19%) Gatling
2 1 (1.19%) JMeter
2 1 (1.19%) LoadRunner
General
1 31 (36.90%) Public Sector
1 31 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 25 (29.76%) Law
3 16 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (16.67%) Fire and Rescue
5 10 (11.90%) Finance
5 10 (11.90%) Military
6 9 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.76%) Local Government
9 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.38%) Aviation
10 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.38%) Legal
10 2 (2.38%) Swedish Language
11 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.19%) French Language
11 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.19%) Marketing
11 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (16.67%) Analyst
2 11 (13.10%) Architect
3 7 (8.33%) Support Analyst
4 6 (7.14%) Consultant
5 5 (5.95%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.95%) Senior
6 4 (4.76%) Data Scientist
6 4 (4.76%) Java Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Lead
6 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.57%) Senior Architect
7 3 (3.57%) Support Officer
8 2 (2.38%) Business Information Manager
8 2 (2.38%) IT Support
8 2 (2.38%) Principal Advisor
8 2 (2.38%) Senior Service Designer
8 2 (2.38%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) .NET
1 4 (4.76%) ARM Templates
1 4 (4.76%) Java EE
1 4 (4.76%) Kafka
1 4 (4.76%) Pandas
1 4 (4.76%) REST
1 4 (4.76%) scikit-learn
1 4 (4.76%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.38%) CSS
2 2 (2.38%) HTML
2 2 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (2.38%) Middleware
3 1 (1.19%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.19%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.19%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.19%) MIDP
3 1 (1.19%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.76%) Freedom of Information
3 3 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.38%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.38%) Handset
4 2 (2.38%) Robotics
5 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.19%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.19%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.19%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Windows
2 6 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.57%) Linux
4 2 (2.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (23.81%) Decision-Making
2 17 (20.24%) Project Management
3 16 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (15.48%) Agile
5 12 (14.29%) Information Security
6 10 (11.90%) ITIL
7 9 (10.71%) Service Management
7 9 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
8 8 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (9.52%) Data Science
8 8 (9.52%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 8 (9.52%) Risk Management
9 7 (8.33%) Analytics
9 7 (8.33%) Change Management
9 7 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (8.33%) Data Governance
9 7 (8.33%) Data Management
9 7 (8.33%) DevOps
9 7 (8.33%) Performance Measurement
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.29%) Python
2 10 (11.90%) SQL
3 4 (4.76%) Java
3 4 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 4 (4.76%) R
4 1 (1.19%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.19%) Bash
4 1 (1.19%) C#
4 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 46 (54.76%) Security Cleared
2 29 (34.52%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.10%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) Degree
5 2 (2.38%) CISSP
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) SLA
2 6 (7.14%) GDPR
3 3 (3.57%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.38%) NCSC
4 2 (2.38%) NIST
4 2 (2.38%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 6 (7.14%) Terraform
2 5 (5.95%) Ansible
3 4 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.76%) Podman
4 2 (2.38%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.38%) Grafana
5 1 (1.19%) SCCM
5 1 (1.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.95%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.76%) Cisco
4 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.38%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.38%) Oracle
5 2 (2.38%) Ribbon
5 2 (2.38%) Tenable
6 1 (1.19%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.19%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.19%) Foundry
6 1 (1.19%) Google
6 1 (1.19%) Juniper
6 1 (1.19%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.19%) VMware