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 have cited Police over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 276 747
Rank change year-on-year -201 +471 +85
Permanent jobs citing Police 477 1,371 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 1.31% 0.34%
As % of the General category 0.81% 1.91% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 351 213 197
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £31,588
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £49,280 £40,606
Median % change year-on-year -8.69% +21.36% +2.00%
75th Percentile £57,000 £57,500 £51,569
90th Percentile £73,894 £70,690 £64,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,553 £42,000 £39,810
% change year-on-year -3.45% +5.50% +5.42%

All General Skills
UK

Police is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58,670 71,907 98,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.71% 63.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39,462 38,624 51,085
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Police in the UK

Police
Top 17 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 27 April 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 -243 337 £45,000 -7.25% 86
UK excluding London -212 331 £40,553 -3.45% 85
Work from Home -137 169 £47,500 +17.71% 76
London -105 94 £51,196 -1.73% 16
Wales +35 81 £40,000 -50.77% 6
South East -106 79 £45,000 -17.15% 12
Midlands -49 60 £43,227 +7.56% 13
North of England -112 60 £35,000 -25.41% 25
West Midlands +3 49 £43,227 +7.56% 9
North East -33 35 £35,000 -28.43% 3
South West -14 26 £45,000 +86.44% 15
North West -68 19 £59,500 +30.06% 13
East of England -102 14 £30,000 -17.17% 2
East Midlands -52 11 £55,000 +4.22% 4
Scotland -120 10 £66,500 -0.75% 13
Yorkshire +17 6 £59,500 +23.96% 9
Northern Ireland +18 1 - -

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 24 (5.03%) WebLogic
2 18 (3.77%) Confluence
3 16 (3.35%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.94%) Apache
4 14 (2.94%) IIS
4 14 (2.94%) Tomcat
5 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.63%) SAS
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 31 (6.50%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.63%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.63%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.63%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.63%) SPSS
6 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 36 (7.55%) NEC Housing
2 12 (2.52%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 76 (15.93%) Azure
2 26 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (3.98%) Power Platform
4 14 (2.94%) Power Automate
4 14 (2.94%) PowerApps
5 13 (2.73%) AWS
6 11 (2.31%) Entra ID
6 11 (2.31%) SaaS
7 10 (2.10%) OCI
7 10 (2.10%) PaaS
8 8 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (1.26%) IaaS
11 5 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (0.84%) Azure Service Fabric
12 4 (0.84%) GCP
13 3 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (0.63%) Dropbox
14 2 (0.42%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.71%) Firewall
2 23 (4.82%) WAN
3 20 (4.19%) LAN
4 12 (2.52%) Network Security
5 11 (2.31%) Intranet
6 9 (1.89%) CTI
6 9 (1.89%) VLAN
7 8 (1.68%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.26%) Internet
8 6 (1.26%) SAN
8 6 (1.26%) Unified Communications
8 6 (1.26%) VPN
9 5 (1.05%) BGP
9 5 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (1.05%) Extranet
9 5 (1.05%) MPLS
9 5 (1.05%) Spanning Tree
9 5 (1.05%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.97%) SQL Server
2 35 (7.34%) Oracle Database
3 26 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.73%) Oracle Database 12c
6 11 (2.31%) RDBMS
6 11 (2.31%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.05%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.05%) Power BI
8 4 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.63%) Big Data
9 3 (0.63%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.42%) MySQL
10 2 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.21%) Metadata
11 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 29 (6.08%) Git
2 24 (5.03%) JIRA
3 18 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 15 (3.14%) Team Foundation Server
5 13 (2.73%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.84%) Selenium
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
General
1 117 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 112 (23.48%) Public Sector
3 97 (20.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 86 (18.03%) Finance
4 86 (18.03%) Local Government
5 83 (17.40%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (7.34%) Law
7 31 (6.50%) Retail
8 21 (4.40%) Back Office
9 20 (4.19%) Electronics
10 18 (3.77%) Fire and Rescue
10 18 (3.77%) Legal
10 18 (3.77%) Military
11 12 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.52%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.10%) Marketing
13 7 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.05%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 106 (22.22%) Analyst
1 106 (22.22%) Senior
2 61 (12.79%) Developer
3 43 (9.01%) Lead
4 36 (7.55%) Applications Support
5 35 (7.34%) Architect
6 33 (6.92%) Senior Analyst
7 22 (4.61%) Applications Support Analyst
7 22 (4.61%) Senior Applications Support
7 22 (4.61%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
7 22 (4.61%) Senior Developer
7 22 (4.61%) Senior Support Analyst
7 22 (4.61%) Support Analyst
7 22 (4.61%) Test Analyst
8 21 (4.40%) Network Engineer
8 21 (4.40%) Project Manager
9 20 (4.19%) Java Developer
10 19 (3.98%) DBA
11 18 (3.77%) Administrator
11 18 (3.77%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (10.90%) .NET
2 41 (8.60%) Spring
3 24 (5.03%) Web Services
4 22 (4.61%) J2EE
4 22 (4.61%) Java EE
5 18 (3.77%) RESTful
6 9 (1.89%) CSS
7 8 (1.68%) .NET Core
7 8 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.47%) React
8 7 (1.47%) YAML
9 6 (1.26%) ASP.NET
9 6 (1.26%) SOAP
10 5 (1.05%) Node.js
11 4 (0.84%) Entity Framework
11 4 (0.84%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 4 (0.84%) XML
12 3 (0.63%) .NET Framework
12 3 (0.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.24%) Driving Licence
2 19 (3.98%) Management Information System
3 18 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (3.35%) Public Cloud
5 15 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.10%) CCTV
6 10 (2.10%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.10%) NHS
7 8 (1.68%) Social Media
8 7 (1.47%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.26%) Blog
9 6 (1.26%) Cybercrime
9 6 (1.26%) PKI
10 5 (1.05%) Smartphone
11 4 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.84%) Digital Media
11 4 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.63%) IoT
12 3 (0.63%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.63%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 58 (12.16%) Windows
2 51 (10.69%) Unix
3 20 (4.19%) Linux
4 16 (3.35%) Windows 10
5 14 (2.94%) Solaris
6 8 (1.68%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.26%) Android
8 2 (0.42%) AIX
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (13.00%) ITIL
3 58 (12.16%) Customer Service
4 55 (11.53%) Agile
5 54 (11.32%) Business Strategy
6 44 (9.22%) Impact Assessments
6 44 (9.22%) Mentoring
7 42 (8.81%) Decision-Making
8 41 (8.60%) Service Management
9 40 (8.39%) Actionable Insight
10 38 (7.97%) Digital Forensics
11 35 (7.34%) Risk Management
12 30 (6.29%) DevOps
12 30 (6.29%) Incident Management
13 29 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (6.08%) Information Management
13 29 (6.08%) Project Management
14 26 (5.45%) Containerisation
14 26 (5.45%) Enterprise Architecture
15 25 (5.24%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 53 (11.11%) Java
2 36 (7.55%) C#
2 36 (7.55%) Shell Script
2 36 (7.55%) SQL
3 23 (4.82%) PL/1
4 8 (1.68%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.47%) Python
6 6 (1.26%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.84%) C++
7 4 (0.84%) VB
8 3 (0.63%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.42%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.42%) VBA
10 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 193 (40.46%) Security Cleared
2 130 (27.25%) SC Cleared
3 85 (17.82%) Degree
4 36 (7.55%) DV Cleared
5 25 (5.24%) DBS Check
6 15 (3.14%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.68%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.68%) HNC
8 8 (1.68%) HND
9 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.05%) APMP
10 5 (1.05%) Postgraduate
11 4 (0.84%) CCIE
11 4 (0.84%) CCNP
11 4 (0.84%) CISSP
11 4 (0.84%) MCSA
12 3 (0.63%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.63%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (9.85%) QA
2 41 (8.60%) Accessibility
3 27 (5.66%) SLA
4 8 (1.68%) GDPR
5 7 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 7 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.05%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.05%) PMO
7 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 3 (0.63%) NIST
9 2 (0.42%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
9 2 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.21%) COBIT
10 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (5.03%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.10%) Firmware
4 6 (1.26%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (1.05%) Docker
6 4 (0.84%) vSphere
7 3 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (5.24%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (4.61%) OpenSSO
3 9 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.89%) SCCM
4 5 (1.05%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.05%) SCOM
4 5 (1.05%) Terraform
5 4 (0.84%) Ansible
6 3 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.63%) Nessus
Vendors
1 116 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 79 (16.56%) Oracle
3 36 (7.55%) NEC
4 22 (4.61%) Cisco
4 22 (4.61%) Remedy
5 14 (2.94%) VMware
6 10 (2.10%) HP
7 9 (1.89%) webMethods
8 6 (1.26%) Google
8 6 (1.26%) NetApp
9 5 (1.05%) Citrix
9 5 (1.05%) Dell
10 4 (0.84%) Avaya
10 4 (0.84%) Blue Prism
10 4 (0.84%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.84%) Zscaler
11 3 (0.63%) Adobe
11 3 (0.63%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.63%) UiPath
12 2 (0.42%) IBM