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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 458 269 714
Rank change year-on-year -189 +445 +146
Permanent jobs citing Police 511 1,370 608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 1.38% 0.37%
As % of the General category 0.86% 2.02% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 354 207 219
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £31,133
25th Percentile £35,195 £39,469 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £49,280 £40,606
Median % change year-on-year -8.69% +21.36% +1.52%
75th Percentile £57,375 £56,549 £50,785
90th Percentile £73,592 £70,000 £62,192
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,553 £44,543 £39,759
% change year-on-year -8.96% +12.03% +1.95%

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 59,592 67,843 105,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.64% 68.21% 64.61%
Number of salaries quoted 39,690 36,730 51,592
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,125 £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 £81,250 £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 20 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 20 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 -233 360 £45,000 -6.74% 87
UK excluding London -211 351 £40,553 -8.96% 73
Work from Home -107 192 £47,250 +11.18% 34
London -110 102 £51,196 +3.13% 27
Wales +36 81 £40,000 - 2
South East -124 74 £47,441 -12.65% 15
North of England -112 71 £37,500 -20.08% 20
Midlands -54 69 £43,227 +7.56% 11
West Midlands +2 58 £43,227 +7.56% 2
North East -30 38 £35,000 -28.43% 2
North West -74 26 £59,500 +33.48% 12
South West -37 25 £45,000 +86.44% 16
Scotland -116 16 £40,000 -40.30% 9
East of England -108 14 £30,000 -17.17% 1
East Midlands -58 11 £55,000 +4.22% 9
Yorkshire +8 7 £59,500 +23.96% 6
Northern Ireland +16 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 27 (5.28%) Apache
1 27 (5.28%) IIS
1 27 (5.28%) Tomcat
2 24 (4.70%) WebLogic
3 18 (3.52%) Confluence
4 16 (3.13%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.59%) SAS
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 35 (6.85%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.59%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.59%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.59%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.59%) SPSS
6 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 70 (13.70%) NEC Housing
2 12 (2.35%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.59%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 76 (14.87%) Azure
2 25 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (3.91%) Power Platform
5 15 (2.94%) PowerApps
6 14 (2.74%) AWS
6 14 (2.74%) Power Automate
7 11 (2.15%) PaaS
7 11 (2.15%) SaaS
8 10 (1.96%) Entra ID
8 10 (1.96%) OCI
9 9 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.37%) IaaS
11 5 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (0.78%) Azure Service Fabric
12 4 (0.78%) GCP
13 3 (0.59%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (0.59%) Dropbox
14 2 (0.39%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.48%) Firewall
2 19 (3.72%) WAN
3 16 (3.13%) LAN
4 12 (2.35%) Network Security
5 11 (2.15%) Intranet
6 9 (1.76%) CTI
6 9 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.76%) VLAN
7 6 (1.17%) DNS
7 6 (1.17%) Internet
7 6 (1.17%) SAN
7 6 (1.17%) Unified Communications
7 6 (1.17%) VPN
8 5 (0.98%) Extranet
8 5 (0.98%) MPLS
8 5 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.98%) Wireless
8 5 (0.98%) WLAN
9 4 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (11.15%) Oracle Database
2 47 (9.20%) SQL Server
3 26 (5.09%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (4.31%) Oracle Database 12c
6 12 (2.35%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.15%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.17%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.98%) Power BI
10 4 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.59%) Big Data
11 3 (0.59%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.59%) EDRMS
11 3 (0.59%) MySQL
12 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.20%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (5.68%) Git
2 24 (4.70%) JIRA
3 18 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
5 14 (2.74%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.78%) Selenium
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
General
1 147 (28.77%) Public Sector
2 131 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 120 (23.48%) Local Government
4 115 (22.50%) Finance
5 98 (19.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (6.65%) Law
8 33 (6.46%) Retail
9 32 (6.26%) Back Office
10 24 (4.70%) Legal
11 20 (3.91%) Electronics
12 19 (3.72%) Fire and Rescue
13 16 (3.13%) Marketing
14 14 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (2.35%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.96%) Military
17 7 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
19 5 (0.98%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 108 (21.14%) Analyst
1 108 (21.14%) Senior
2 64 (12.52%) Developer
3 49 (9.59%) Applications Support
4 46 (9.00%) Lead
5 36 (7.05%) Architect
6 33 (6.46%) Senior Analyst
7 28 (5.48%) DBA
8 27 (5.28%) Administrator
9 22 (4.31%) Applications Support Analyst
9 22 (4.31%) Oracle DBA
9 22 (4.31%) PostgreSQL DBA
9 22 (4.31%) Project Manager
9 22 (4.31%) Senior Applications Support
9 22 (4.31%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 22 (4.31%) Senior Developer
9 22 (4.31%) Senior Support Analyst
9 22 (4.31%) Support Analyst
9 22 (4.31%) Test Analyst
10 20 (3.91%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (10.76%) .NET
2 42 (8.22%) Spring
3 40 (7.83%) Web Services
4 22 (4.31%) J2EE
4 22 (4.31%) Java EE
5 18 (3.52%) RESTful
6 11 (2.15%) CSS
7 10 (1.96%) .NET Core
8 8 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.37%) React
9 7 (1.37%) YAML
10 6 (1.17%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.17%) Node.js
10 6 (1.17%) SOAP
11 5 (0.98%) XML
12 4 (0.78%) Entity Framework
12 4 (0.78%) SailPoint
12 4 (0.78%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 3 (0.59%) .NET Framework
13 3 (0.59%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.65%) Driving Licence
2 30 (5.87%) Public Cloud
3 27 (5.28%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (4.89%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.74%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.15%) Data Centre
7 10 (1.96%) CCTV
7 10 (1.96%) NHS
8 8 (1.57%) Social Media
9 7 (1.37%) Blog
9 7 (1.37%) Cybercrime
9 7 (1.37%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.17%) PKI
11 5 (0.98%) Smartphone
12 4 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.78%) Digital Media
12 4 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.59%) IoT
13 3 (0.59%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.59%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 73 (14.29%) Unix
1 73 (14.29%) Windows
2 34 (6.65%) Linux
3 27 (5.28%) Solaris
4 16 (3.13%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.96%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.17%) Android
7 2 (0.39%) AIX
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.20%) SUSE
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (14.29%) ITIL
2 70 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (12.72%) Customer Service
4 58 (11.35%) Agile
5 56 (10.96%) Business Strategy
6 46 (9.00%) Impact Assessments
7 45 (8.81%) Mentoring
7 45 (8.81%) Service Management
8 43 (8.41%) Decision-Making
9 40 (7.83%) Actionable Insight
10 38 (7.44%) Digital Forensics
11 36 (7.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (7.05%) Risk Management
12 35 (6.85%) Project Management
13 34 (6.65%) Data Security
13 34 (6.65%) Performance Tuning
14 33 (6.46%) DevOps
15 32 (6.26%) Task Automation
16 29 (5.68%) Information Management
17 27 (5.28%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (10.37%) Java
2 49 (9.59%) Shell Script
3 38 (7.44%) C#
4 36 (7.05%) SQL
5 23 (4.50%) PL/1
6 8 (1.57%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.37%) Python
8 6 (1.17%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.98%) VB
10 4 (0.78%) C++
11 3 (0.59%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.39%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.39%) VBA
13 1 (0.20%) Ruby
13 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 214 (41.88%) Security Cleared
2 129 (25.24%) SC Cleared
3 99 (19.37%) Degree
4 35 (6.85%) DBS Check
4 35 (6.85%) DV Cleared
5 24 (4.70%) Oracle Certification
6 9 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.57%) HNC
7 8 (1.57%) HND
7 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.98%) APMP
9 5 (0.98%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.78%) CISSP
10 4 (0.78%) MCSA
11 3 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.59%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (0.59%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (14.68%) Accessibility
2 57 (11.15%) QA
3 27 (5.28%) SLA
4 8 (1.57%) GDPR
5 7 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 7 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.98%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.98%) PMO
7 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 3 (0.59%) NIST
9 2 (0.39%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
9 2 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.39%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.20%) COBIT
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (4.70%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.96%) Firmware
4 6 (1.17%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.98%) Docker
6 4 (0.78%) vSphere
7 3 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (4.89%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (4.31%) OpenSSO
3 10 (1.96%) SCCM
4 9 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.17%) SCOM
6 5 (0.98%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.98%) Terraform
7 4 (0.78%) Ansible
8 3 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.59%) Nessus
9 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 138 (27.01%) Microsoft
2 102 (19.96%) Oracle
3 70 (13.70%) NEC
4 22 (4.31%) Remedy
5 18 (3.52%) Cisco
6 15 (2.94%) VMware
7 10 (1.96%) HP
8 9 (1.76%) webMethods
9 6 (1.17%) Google
9 6 (1.17%) NetApp
10 5 (0.98%) Citrix
10 5 (0.98%) Dell
11 4 (0.78%) Avaya
11 4 (0.78%) Blue Prism
11 4 (0.78%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.78%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.59%) Adobe
12 3 (0.59%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.59%) UiPath
13 2 (0.39%) Cadence