Police Job Trends in Wigan

Police
Manchester > Wigan

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in permanent job vacancies in Wigan. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Police over the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	10	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing Police	3	0	0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wigan	7.50%	-	-
As % of the General category	8.33%	-	-
Number of salaries quoted	1	0	0
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£45,000	-	-
Manchester median annual salary	£45,000	£38,000	£45,000
% change year-on-year	+18.42%	-15.56%	-5.26%

All General Skills
Wigan

Police falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies citing general skills in Wigan.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing general skills	36	29	28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wigan	90.00%	70.73%	52.83%
Number of salaries quoted	25	19	14
10^th Percentile	£28,800	£24,930	£26,250
25^th Percentile	£30,500	£26,715	£26,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£37,500	£29,000	£38,500
Median % change year-on-year	+29.31%	-24.68%	+13.24%
75^th Percentile	£45,000	£41,875	£42,625
90^th Percentile	£73,500	£45,750	£56,375
Manchester median annual salary	£55,000	£47,500	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+15.79%	-9.52%	-11.80%

Police Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wigan

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, job vacancies citing Police also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Wigan region citing Police.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Coaching	100.0%	3
1	Cybersecurity	100.0%	3
1	Incident Management	100.0%	3
1	Incident Response	100.0%	3
1	Internet	100.0%	3
1	Line Management	100.0%	3
1	Microsoft	100.0%	3
1	Microsoft Office	100.0%	3
1	Network Architecture	100.0%	3
1	Protective Monitoring	100.0%	3
1	SC Cleared	100.0%	3
1	Security Cleared	100.0%	3
1	SIEM	100.0%	3
1	Situational Awareness	100.0%	3
1	Threat Detection	100.0%	3
1	Trend Analysis	100.0%	3

Police Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wigan by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

General

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Inclusion and Diversity	100.0%	3
1	Retail	100.0%	3
1	Social Skills	100.0%	3