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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 270 711
Rank change year-on-year -193 +441 +120
Permanent jobs citing Police 504 1,359 595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 1.35% 0.38%
As % of the General category 0.85% 1.97% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 355 207 222
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £31,178
25th Percentile £35,195 £38,966 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,250 £40,531
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +19.05% +1.81%
75th Percentile £57,000 £56,549 £50,000
90th Percentile £73,492 £70,000 £61,740
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,553 £42,500 £39,759
% change year-on-year -4.58% +6.89% +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 59,332 68,820 101,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.79% 68.21% 64.19%
Number of salaries quoted 39,684 37,197 50,962
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 £82,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,000 £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 11 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 11 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 -231 356 £45,000 -4.73% 97
UK excluding London -212 347 £40,553 -4.58% 87
Work from Home -112 186 £47,250 +16.05% 73
London -107 100 £51,196 +3.89% 19
Wales +31 81 £40,000 -51.52% 2
South East -131 76 £45,000 -17.15% 16
Midlands -59 67 £43,227 +7.56% 11
North of England -112 67 £35,000 -25.41% 29
West Midlands -4 56 £43,227 +7.56% 5
North East -34 37 £35,000 -28.43% 5
South West -41 27 £45,000 +86.44% 17
North West -69 24 £59,500 +33.48% 17
East of England -97 14 £30,000 -17.17% 1
Scotland -111 14 £46,500 -30.60% 11
East Midlands -55 11 £55,000 +4.22% 6
Yorkshire +7 6 £59,500 +23.96% 7
Northern Ireland +14 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 (4.76%) Apache
1 24 (4.76%) IIS
1 24 (4.76%) Tomcat
1 24 (4.76%) WebLogic
2 18 (3.57%) Confluence
3 16 (3.17%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.60%) SAS
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 34 (6.75%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.60%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.60%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.60%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.60%) SPSS
6 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 61 (12.10%) NEC Housing
2 12 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 77 (15.28%) Azure
2 26 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (3.97%) Power Platform
5 15 (2.98%) PowerApps
6 14 (2.78%) AWS
6 14 (2.78%) Power Automate
7 11 (2.18%) Entra ID
7 11 (2.18%) PaaS
7 11 (2.18%) SaaS
8 10 (1.98%) OCI
9 9 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.39%) IaaS
11 6 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (0.79%) Azure Service Fabric
13 4 (0.79%) GCP
14 3 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (0.60%) Dropbox
15 2 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.95%) Firewall
2 21 (4.17%) WAN
3 18 (3.57%) LAN
4 12 (2.38%) Network Security
5 11 (2.18%) Intranet
6 9 (1.79%) CTI
6 9 (1.79%) VLAN
7 8 (1.59%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.19%) Internet
8 6 (1.19%) SAN
8 6 (1.19%) Unified Communications
8 6 (1.19%) VPN
9 5 (0.99%) DNS
9 5 (0.99%) Extranet
9 5 (0.99%) MPLS
9 5 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.99%) Wireless
9 5 (0.99%) WLAN
10 4 (0.79%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.79%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.12%) Oracle Database
2 44 (8.73%) SQL Server
3 26 (5.16%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (3.77%) Oracle Database 12c
6 12 (2.38%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.18%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.19%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.99%) Power BI
10 4 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.60%) Big Data
11 3 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.60%) EDRMS
11 3 (0.60%) MySQL
12 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.20%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (5.75%) Git
2 24 (4.76%) JIRA
3 18 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.98%) Team Foundation Server
5 14 (2.78%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.79%) Selenium
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
General
1 138 (27.38%) Public Sector
2 130 (25.79%) Social Skills
3 111 (22.02%) Local Government
4 108 (21.43%) Finance
5 97 (19.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (17.66%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (6.75%) Law
8 33 (6.55%) Retail
9 29 (5.75%) Back Office
10 22 (4.37%) Legal
11 20 (3.97%) Electronics
12 18 (3.57%) Fire and Rescue
13 14 (2.78%) Marketing
13 14 (2.78%) Military
14 13 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (2.38%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.99%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 108 (21.43%) Analyst
1 108 (21.43%) Senior
2 64 (12.70%) Developer
3 46 (9.13%) Applications Support
3 46 (9.13%) Lead
4 36 (7.14%) Architect
5 33 (6.55%) Senior Analyst
6 25 (4.96%) DBA
7 24 (4.76%) Administrator
8 22 (4.37%) Applications Support Analyst
8 22 (4.37%) Project Manager
8 22 (4.37%) Senior Applications Support
8 22 (4.37%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
8 22 (4.37%) Senior Developer
8 22 (4.37%) Senior Support Analyst
8 22 (4.37%) Support Analyst
8 22 (4.37%) Test Analyst
9 20 (3.97%) Java Developer
10 19 (3.77%) Network Engineer
10 19 (3.77%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (10.91%) .NET
2 42 (8.33%) Spring
3 37 (7.34%) Web Services
4 22 (4.37%) J2EE
4 22 (4.37%) Java EE
5 18 (3.57%) RESTful
6 11 (2.18%) CSS
7 10 (1.98%) .NET Core
8 8 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.39%) React
9 7 (1.39%) YAML
10 6 (1.19%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.19%) Node.js
10 6 (1.19%) SOAP
11 5 (0.99%) XML
12 4 (0.79%) Entity Framework
12 4 (0.79%) SailPoint
12 4 (0.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 3 (0.60%) .NET Framework
13 3 (0.60%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.15%) Driving Licence
2 27 (5.36%) Public Cloud
3 24 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (4.56%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.98%) CCTV
6 10 (1.98%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.98%) NHS
7 8 (1.59%) Social Media
8 7 (1.39%) Blog
8 7 (1.39%) Cybercrime
8 7 (1.39%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.19%) PKI
10 5 (0.99%) Smartphone
11 4 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.79%) Digital Media
11 4 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.60%) IoT
12 3 (0.60%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.60%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 69 (13.69%) Windows
2 67 (13.29%) Unix
3 30 (5.95%) Linux
4 24 (4.76%) Solaris
5 16 (3.17%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.79%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.19%) Android
8 2 (0.40%) AIX
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (13.89%) ITIL
3 64 (12.70%) Customer Service
4 57 (11.31%) Agile
5 56 (11.11%) Business Strategy
6 46 (9.13%) Impact Assessments
7 45 (8.93%) Service Management
8 44 (8.73%) Mentoring
9 43 (8.53%) Decision-Making
10 40 (7.94%) Actionable Insight
11 38 (7.54%) Digital Forensics
12 36 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (7.14%) Risk Management
13 33 (6.55%) DevOps
13 33 (6.55%) Project Management
14 31 (6.15%) Data Security
14 31 (6.15%) Performance Tuning
15 29 (5.75%) Information Management
15 29 (5.75%) Task Automation
16 28 (5.56%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (10.52%) Java
2 46 (9.13%) Shell Script
3 38 (7.54%) C#
4 36 (7.14%) SQL
5 23 (4.56%) PL/1
6 8 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.39%) Python
8 6 (1.19%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.99%) VB
10 4 (0.79%) C++
11 3 (0.60%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.40%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.40%) VBA
13 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 209 (41.47%) Security Cleared
2 128 (25.40%) SC Cleared
3 95 (18.85%) Degree
4 34 (6.75%) DV Cleared
5 32 (6.35%) DBS Check
6 21 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.59%) HNC
8 8 (1.59%) HND
8 8 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.99%) APMP
9 5 (0.99%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.79%) CCIE
10 4 (0.79%) CCNP
10 4 (0.79%) CISSP
10 4 (0.79%) MCSA
11 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.60%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (13.10%) Accessibility
2 54 (10.71%) QA
3 27 (5.36%) SLA
4 8 (1.59%) GDPR
5 7 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 7 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.99%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.99%) PMO
7 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 3 (0.60%) NIST
9 2 (0.40%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
9 2 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.20%) COBIT
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.98%) Firmware
4 6 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.99%) Docker
6 4 (0.79%) vSphere
7 3 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (4.96%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (4.37%) OpenSSO
3 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.79%) SCCM
4 5 (0.99%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.99%) SCOM
4 5 (0.99%) Terraform
5 4 (0.79%) Ansible
6 3 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.60%) Nessus
Vendors
1 133 (26.39%) Microsoft
2 96 (19.05%) Oracle
3 61 (12.10%) NEC
4 22 (4.37%) Remedy
5 20 (3.97%) Cisco
6 14 (2.78%) VMware
7 10 (1.98%) HP
8 9 (1.79%) webMethods
9 6 (1.19%) Google
9 6 (1.19%) NetApp
10 5 (0.99%) Citrix
10 5 (0.99%) Dell
11 4 (0.79%) Avaya
11 4 (0.79%) Blue Prism
11 4 (0.79%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.79%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.60%) Adobe
12 3 (0.60%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.60%) UiPath
13 2 (0.40%) IBM