Police Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Police
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Police over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 307 409
Rank change year-on-year +25 +102 +166
Contract jobs citing Police 29 40 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.27% 0.18%
As % of the General category 0.47% 0.46% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 27
10th Percentile £507 £158 £445
25th Percentile £513 £372 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £494 £515
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -4.10% +0.24%
75th Percentile £691 £631 £586
90th Percentile £745 £688 £615
UK median daily rate £550 £502 £515
% change year-on-year +9.60% -2.55% -7.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 2
10th Percentile - £15.44 -
25th Percentile - £19.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -75.63% -
75th Percentile - £19.75 £87.50
90th Percentile - £20.05 -
UK median hourly rate £22.14 £14.54 £80.00
% change year-on-year +52.27% -81.83% -

All General Skills
Work from Home

Police falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,134 8,617 13,915
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.71% 58.31% 58.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,097 5,670 9,830
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% +3.38%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £785
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 460 315
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £18.66
25th Percentile £16.92 £22.05 £25.71
Median hourly rate £33.94 £38.12 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.97% -22.20% +40.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £78.45
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £30.50 £30.52
% change year-on-year -9.38% -0.07% +27.17%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Police as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Police trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Police.

Police daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Police over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Police daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Police.

Police hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.90%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.45%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) AWS
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) 4G
2 1 (3.45%) 5G
2 1 (3.45%) BGP
2 1 (3.45%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (3.45%) EIGRP
2 1 (3.45%) LAN
2 1 (3.45%) LTE
2 1 (3.45%) OSPF
2 1 (3.45%) PPP
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) TETRA
2 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Cucumber
1 4 (13.79%) GitLab
1 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
1 4 (13.79%) JIRA
1 4 (13.79%) REST Assured
1 4 (13.79%) Selenium
1 4 (13.79%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Public Sector
3 10 (34.48%) Law
4 9 (31.03%) Fire and Rescue
5 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (20.69%) Finance
6 5 (17.24%) Military
7 2 (6.90%) Aviation
7 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (6.90%) Swedish Language
8 1 (3.45%) French Language
8 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.45%) Legal
8 1 (3.45%) Marketing
8 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Consultant
2 4 (13.79%) Java Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Software Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Information Assurance Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) IT Support
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Support Officer
5 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Data Migration Lead
5 1 (3.45%) Head of Mobile
5 1 (3.45%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) ARM Templates
1 4 (13.79%) Java EE
1 4 (13.79%) REST
2 3 (10.34%) Middleware
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (3.45%) CSS
3 1 (3.45%) HTML
3 1 (3.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.45%) RESTful
3 1 (3.45%) SOAP
3 1 (3.45%) Web Services
3 1 (3.45%) XML
3 1 (3.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.90%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Robotics
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
1 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
2 3 (10.34%) Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Project Management
2 6 (20.69%) DevOps
2 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
3 5 (17.24%) Configuration Management
3 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
4 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
4 4 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (13.79%) Data Protection
4 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (13.79%) Risk Management
4 4 (13.79%) Software Architecture
4 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (13.79%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
5 3 (10.34%) Incident Response
5 3 (10.34%) Line Management
5 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (10.34%) Process Improvement
5 3 (10.34%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) Java
2 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.90%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
3 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (65.52%) Security Cleared
2 17 (58.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) CISSP
5 1 (3.45%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.90%) NCSC
1 2 (6.90%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Terraform
2 5 (17.24%) Ansible
3 4 (13.79%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.79%) Podman
4 2 (6.90%) FortiGate
4 2 (6.90%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) MuleSoft
2 2 (6.90%) Ribbon
2 2 (6.90%) Tenable
3 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco
3 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.45%) Juniper
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) VMware