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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 268 718
Rank change year-on-year -211 +450 +125
Permanent jobs citing Police 486 1,359 579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 1.34% 0.37%
As % of the General category 0.83% 1.96% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 353 205 212
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £31,178
25th Percentile £35,195 £38,966 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,790 £40,606
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +20.15% +1.76%
75th Percentile £57,000 £56,549 £50,392
90th Percentile £73,693 £70,000 £61,740
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,553 £42,250 £39,810
% change year-on-year -4.02% +6.13% +2.08%

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 58,908 69,287 100,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.82% 68.22% 64.09%
Number of salaries quoted 39,488 37,345 51,003
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £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 £101,250 £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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -246 342 £45,000 -4.73% 89
UK excluding London -223 335 £40,553 -4.02% 81
Work from Home -135 172 £47,250 +16.05% 76
London -109 96 £51,196 +3.13% 17
Wales +36 81 £40,000 -51.52% 3
South East -120 76 £45,000 -17.15% 15
Midlands -53 63 £43,227 +7.56% 9
North of England -118 61 £35,000 -25.41% 27
West Midlands 0 52 £43,227 +7.56% 6
North East -38 35 £35,000 -28.43% 5
South West -42 27 £45,000 +86.44% 15
North West -65 20 £59,500 +33.48% 16
East of England -101 14 £30,000 -17.17% 1
Scotland -117 12 £53,000 -20.90% 11
East Midlands -53 11 £55,000 +4.22% 3
Yorkshire +5 6 £59,500 +23.96% 6
Northern Ireland +17 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 (4.94%) WebLogic
2 18 (3.70%) Confluence
3 16 (3.29%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.88%) Apache
4 14 (2.88%) IIS
4 14 (2.88%) Tomcat
5 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.62%) SAS
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 32 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.62%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.62%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.62%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.62%) SPSS
6 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 44 (9.05%) NEC Housing
2 12 (2.47%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.62%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 77 (15.84%) Azure
2 26 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (4.12%) Power Platform
5 15 (3.09%) PowerApps
6 14 (2.88%) Power Automate
7 13 (2.67%) AWS
8 11 (2.26%) Entra ID
8 11 (2.26%) SaaS
9 10 (2.06%) OCI
9 10 (2.06%) PaaS
10 8 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (1.23%) IaaS
12 5 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (0.82%) Azure Service Fabric
13 4 (0.82%) GCP
14 3 (0.62%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (0.62%) Dropbox
15 2 (0.41%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.17%) Firewall
2 21 (4.32%) WAN
3 18 (3.70%) LAN
4 12 (2.47%) Network Security
5 11 (2.26%) Intranet
6 9 (1.85%) CTI
6 9 (1.85%) VLAN
7 8 (1.65%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.23%) Internet
8 6 (1.23%) SAN
8 6 (1.23%) Unified Communications
8 6 (1.23%) VPN
9 5 (1.03%) DNS
9 5 (1.03%) Extranet
9 5 (1.03%) MPLS
9 5 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.03%) Wireless
9 5 (1.03%) WLAN
10 4 (0.82%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.82%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.44%) SQL Server
2 38 (7.82%) Oracle Database
3 26 (5.35%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (3.29%) Oracle Database 12c
6 11 (2.26%) RDBMS
6 11 (2.26%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.03%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.03%) Power BI
8 4 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.62%) Big Data
9 3 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.62%) EDRMS
9 3 (0.62%) MySQL
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.21%) Metadata
11 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 29 (5.97%) Git
2 24 (4.94%) JIRA
3 18 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 15 (3.09%) Team Foundation Server
5 14 (2.88%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.82%) Selenium
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
General
1 124 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 121 (24.90%) Public Sector
3 97 (19.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 94 (19.34%) Local Government
5 91 (18.72%) Finance
6 86 (17.70%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (7.00%) Law
8 33 (6.79%) Retail
9 26 (5.35%) Back Office
10 20 (4.12%) Electronics
10 20 (4.12%) Legal
11 18 (3.70%) Fire and Rescue
12 14 (2.88%) Military
13 13 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (2.47%) Marketing
14 12 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (1.03%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 106 (21.81%) Analyst
1 106 (21.81%) Senior
2 64 (13.17%) Developer
3 45 (9.26%) Lead
4 36 (7.41%) Applications Support
5 35 (7.20%) Architect
6 33 (6.79%) Senior Analyst
7 22 (4.53%) Applications Support Analyst
7 22 (4.53%) DBA
7 22 (4.53%) Project Manager
7 22 (4.53%) Senior Applications Support
7 22 (4.53%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
7 22 (4.53%) Senior Developer
7 22 (4.53%) Senior Support Analyst
7 22 (4.53%) Support Analyst
7 22 (4.53%) Test Analyst
8 21 (4.32%) Administrator
9 20 (4.12%) Java Developer
10 19 (3.91%) Forensic Manager
10 19 (3.91%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (11.32%) .NET
2 41 (8.44%) Spring
3 27 (5.56%) Web Services
4 22 (4.53%) J2EE
4 22 (4.53%) Java EE
5 18 (3.70%) RESTful
6 11 (2.26%) CSS
7 10 (2.06%) .NET Core
8 8 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.44%) React
9 7 (1.44%) YAML
10 6 (1.23%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.23%) SOAP
11 5 (1.03%) Node.js
11 5 (1.03%) XML
12 4 (0.82%) Entity Framework
12 4 (0.82%) SailPoint
12 4 (0.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 3 (0.62%) .NET Framework
13 3 (0.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.76%) Driving Licence
2 21 (4.32%) Management Information System
2 21 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (3.29%) Public Cloud
4 14 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.06%) CCTV
5 10 (2.06%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.06%) NHS
6 8 (1.65%) Social Media
7 7 (1.44%) Cybercrime
7 7 (1.44%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.23%) Blog
8 6 (1.23%) PKI
9 5 (1.03%) Smartphone
10 4 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.82%) Digital Media
10 4 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.62%) IoT
11 3 (0.62%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.62%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 59 (12.14%) Windows
2 54 (11.11%) Unix
3 20 (4.12%) Linux
4 16 (3.29%) Windows 10
5 14 (2.88%) Solaris
6 9 (1.85%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.23%) Android
8 2 (0.41%) AIX
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (13.37%) ITIL
3 59 (12.14%) Customer Service
4 56 (11.52%) Business Strategy
5 55 (11.32%) Agile
6 44 (9.05%) Impact Assessments
6 44 (9.05%) Mentoring
7 43 (8.85%) Decision-Making
7 43 (8.85%) Service Management
8 40 (8.23%) Actionable Insight
9 38 (7.82%) Digital Forensics
10 36 (7.41%) Risk Management
11 33 (6.79%) DevOps
12 31 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (6.38%) Project Management
13 29 (5.97%) Information Management
14 28 (5.76%) Incident Management
14 28 (5.76%) Performance Tuning
15 26 (5.35%) Containerisation
15 26 (5.35%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 52 (10.70%) Java
2 38 (7.82%) C#
3 36 (7.41%) Shell Script
3 36 (7.41%) SQL
4 23 (4.73%) PL/1
5 8 (1.65%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.44%) Python
7 6 (1.23%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.03%) VB
9 4 (0.82%) C++
10 3 (0.62%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.41%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.41%) VBA
12 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 194 (39.92%) Security Cleared
2 128 (26.34%) SC Cleared
3 85 (17.49%) Degree
4 34 (7.00%) DV Cleared
5 30 (6.17%) DBS Check
6 18 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.65%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.65%) HNC
8 8 (1.65%) HND
8 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.03%) APMP
9 5 (1.03%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.82%) CCIE
10 4 (0.82%) CCNP
10 4 (0.82%) CISSP
10 4 (0.82%) MCSA
11 3 (0.62%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.62%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (10.70%) QA
2 49 (10.08%) Accessibility
3 27 (5.56%) SLA
4 8 (1.65%) GDPR
5 7 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 7 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.03%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.03%) PMO
7 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 3 (0.62%) NIST
9 2 (0.41%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
9 2 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.21%) COBIT
10 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.06%) Firmware
4 6 (1.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (1.03%) Docker
6 4 (0.82%) vSphere
7 3 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (5.14%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (4.53%) OpenSSO
3 9 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.85%) SCCM
4 5 (1.03%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.03%) SCOM
4 5 (1.03%) Terraform
5 4 (0.82%) Ansible
6 3 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.62%) Nessus
Vendors
1 119 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 83 (17.08%) Oracle
3 44 (9.05%) NEC
4 22 (4.53%) Remedy
5 20 (4.12%) Cisco
6 14 (2.88%) VMware
7 10 (2.06%) HP
8 9 (1.85%) webMethods
9 6 (1.23%) Google
9 6 (1.23%) NetApp
10 5 (1.03%) Citrix
10 5 (1.03%) Dell
11 4 (0.82%) Avaya
11 4 (0.82%) Blue Prism
11 4 (0.82%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.82%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.62%) Adobe
12 3 (0.62%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.62%) UiPath
13 2 (0.41%) IBM