Police
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Police over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 431 609
Rank change year-on-year +71 +178 +200
Permanent jobs citing Police 525 370 663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.62% 0.47%
As % of the General category 1.19% 0.94% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 125 135 350
10th Percentile £32,700 £28,500 £30,294
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,500 £35,117
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,510 £44,047
Median % change year-on-year +12.34% +1.05% -15.77%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,372 £55,372
90th Percentile £71,200 £62,614 £71,265
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £40,188
% change year-on-year +17.65% +5.75% -21.43%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 44,101 39,349 95,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.29% 66.18% 68.25%
Number of salaries quoted 20,105 27,135 50,473
10th Percentile £31,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,309 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.62% -4.76% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Police.

Salary trend for Police in the UK

Police
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Police over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Police in the UK

Police
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Police within the UK over the 6 months to 23 October 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +104 444 £50,000 +4.39% 73
UK excluding London -1 324 £50,000 +17.65% 53
Work from Home -5 208 £50,000 +27.23% 43
North of England +19 123 £50,000 +3.54% 10
West Midlands +71 122 £51,251 +8.50% 17
Midlands +63 122 £51,251 +8.50% 18
London +62 116 £50,000 -7.74% 20
North West +40 100 £73,500 +54.74% 6
East of England -15 27 £95,000 -5.00%
South East -26 22 £23,000 -54.00% 15
Yorkshire +21 13 £50,000 -9.09% 3
South West -37 13 £45,000 +27.72% 11
North East -32 10 £37,500 -22.35% 1
Wales -5 8 £40,000 -3.84%
Scotland -37 8 £40,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 £39,000 -

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 27 (5.14%) Apache
1 27 (5.14%) IIS
1 27 (5.14%) Tomcat
2 19 (3.62%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 33 (6.29%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 386 (73.52%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 28 (5.33%) Figma
1 28 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (4.76%) Azure
3 15 (2.86%) SaaS
4 13 (2.48%) Power Platform
5 9 (1.71%) PowerApps
6 8 (1.52%) Power Automate
7 5 (0.95%) AWS
8 4 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.19%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.19%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.19%) IaaS
9 1 (0.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.52%) Firewall
2 5 (0.95%) Internet
3 3 (0.57%) Wireless
4 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.38%) VoIP
5 1 (0.19%) BGP
5 1 (0.19%) Broadband
5 1 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) LAN
5 1 (0.19%) OSPF
5 1 (0.19%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.19%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (19.81%) Oracle Database
2 64 (12.19%) BusinessObjects
3 28 (5.33%) SQL Server
4 22 (4.19%) Oracle Database 12c
4 22 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.14%) MySQL
5 6 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.95%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.95%) SQLite
7 3 (0.57%) Power BI
8 1 (0.19%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (5.71%) JIRA
2 10 (1.90%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 408 (77.71%) Public Sector
2 394 (75.05%) Finance
3 391 (74.48%) Local Government
4 160 (30.48%) Social Housing
5 141 (26.86%) Social Skills
6 38 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (4.95%) Back Office
9 25 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (3.43%) Legal
11 17 (3.24%) Marketing
12 15 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.90%) Fire and Rescue
14 8 (1.52%) Law
14 8 (1.52%) Retail
15 5 (0.95%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.76%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
18 2 (0.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 247 (47.05%) Consultant
2 177 (33.71%) Implementation Consultant
3 103 (19.62%) Senior
4 63 (12.00%) Senior Consultant
4 63 (12.00%) Senior Support Consultant
4 63 (12.00%) Support Consultant
5 45 (8.57%) Technical Consultant
5 45 (8.57%) Technical Implementation Consultant
6 33 (6.29%) Developer
7 29 (5.52%) Analyst
8 28 (5.33%) Product Manager
9 27 (5.14%) Applications Support
10 24 (4.57%) Administrator
10 24 (4.57%) DBA
11 22 (4.19%) Oracle DBA
11 22 (4.19%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 20 (3.81%) Software Developer
13 17 (3.24%) Lead
14 15 (2.86%) Bid Writer
14 15 (2.86%) Senior Bid Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.29%) Web Services
2 15 (2.86%) CSS
2 15 (2.86%) REST
3 11 (2.10%) HTML
3 11 (2.10%) XML
4 10 (1.90%) .NET
4 10 (1.90%) JSON
4 10 (1.90%) Ruby on Rails
4 10 (1.90%) SOAP
5 5 (0.95%) .NET Framework
5 5 (0.95%) Entity Framework
5 5 (0.95%) GraphQL
5 5 (0.95%) WinForms
6 4 (0.76%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.19%) Node.js
7 1 (0.19%) Spring
7 1 (0.19%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 132 (25.14%) Housing Association
2 33 (6.29%) Mobile App
3 30 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 29 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (4.38%) Management Information System
6 22 (4.19%) Driving Licence
7 21 (4.00%) NHS
8 8 (1.52%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.95%) PKI
11 4 (0.76%) Blog
12 2 (0.38%) Cybercrime
12 2 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
13 1 (0.19%) BYOD
13 1 (0.19%) Data Centre
13 1 (0.19%) Digital Media
13 1 (0.19%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.19%) Operational Technology
13 1 (0.19%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 181 (34.48%) Unix
2 105 (20.00%) Windows
3 91 (17.33%) Linux
4 90 (17.14%) Solaris
5 6 (1.14%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.38%) Android
7 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) SUSE
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (42.48%) Housing Management
2 93 (17.71%) Customer Requirements
3 69 (13.14%) Agile
4 58 (11.05%) Customer Service
5 56 (10.67%) ITIL
6 46 (8.76%) Project Management
7 45 (8.57%) Data Cleansing
7 45 (8.57%) Data Migration
7 45 (8.57%) Migration
8 39 (7.43%) Roadmaps
9 37 (7.05%) Business Case
9 37 (7.05%) Data Security
10 34 (6.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 33 (6.29%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (6.29%) User Experience
12 32 (6.10%) Decision-Making
12 32 (6.10%) Performance Tuning
13 31 (5.90%) Time Management
14 28 (5.33%) PLM
14 28 (5.33%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 258 (49.14%) SQL
2 55 (10.48%) PL/SQL
3 27 (5.14%) Shell Script
4 11 (2.10%) Java
5 10 (1.90%) C
5 10 (1.90%) C#
5 10 (1.90%) Ruby
6 5 (0.95%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.19%) C++
8 1 (0.19%) VB
8 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 332 (63.24%) DBS Check
2 119 (22.67%) Security Cleared
3 73 (13.90%) Degree
4 27 (5.14%) DV Cleared
5 25 (4.76%) SC Cleared
6 22 (4.19%) Oracle Certification
7 14 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.14%) CISSP
8 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (0.57%) PMP
11 2 (0.38%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.38%) CITP
12 1 (0.19%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.19%) CISMP
12 1 (0.19%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.19%) MCDST
12 1 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 386 (73.52%) Accessibility
2 63 (12.00%) ISO 9001
3 24 (4.57%) QA
4 7 (1.33%) SLA
5 5 (0.95%) NCSC
6 4 (0.76%) NIST
6 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.38%) COBIT
8 2 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) GDPR
9 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.38%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (0.95%) SCCM
2 4 (0.76%) Nessus
2 4 (0.76%) Terraform
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.19%) SCOM
3 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 386 (73.52%) NEC
2 155 (29.52%) Microsoft
3 105 (20.00%) Oracle
4 63 (12.00%) Citrix
5 4 (0.76%) VMware
6 3 (0.57%) Blue Prism
6 3 (0.57%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.19%) Cisco
7 1 (0.19%) Dell
7 1 (0.19%) TOWER Software