Police Job Trends in the West Midlands

Police
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Police over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 142 152
Rank change year-on-year -68 +10 +34
Permanent jobs citing Police 3 32 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.034% 0.97% 0.97%
As % of the General category 0.078% 1.55% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 0 25 15
10th Percentile - £27,500 £36,851
25th Percentile - £38,754 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £53,688 £43,227
Median % change year-on-year - +24.20% -8.49%
75th Percentile - - £50,000
90th Percentile - - £58,900
England median annual salary £55,000 £41,355 £50,000
% change year-on-year +32.99% -17.29% +0.89%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 general skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,845 2,060 3,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 43.62% 62.42% 55.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,581 1,254 1,566
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%

Police
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Police relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Police job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Police
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Police.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Police

Police
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Police within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Birmingham -36 2 - - 3
Police
England

Police
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Law
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Java SE
1 1 (33.33%) OpenLayers
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cybercrime
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 1 (33.33%) Handset
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Photography
1 1 (33.33%) Social Media
1 1 (33.33%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Feasibility Study
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
1 1 (33.33%) OSINT
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (33.33%) Telematics
1 1 (33.33%) Vehicle Telematics
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) FIS
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) VMware