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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 462 264 698
Rank change year-on-year -198 +434 +149
Permanent jobs citing Police 514 1,358 605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 1.36% 0.38%
As % of the General category 0.86% 2.00% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 357 207 219
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% +2.00%
75th Percentile £57,000 £56,549 £50,785
90th Percentile £73,290 £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 59,604 67,868 104,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.64% 68.20% 64.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39,720 36,787 51,225
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,100 £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 19 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 19 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 -241 363 £45,000 -6.74% 89
UK excluding London -204 354 £40,553 -8.96% 72
Work from Home -123 191 £47,000 +10.59% 35
London -121 102 £51,196 +3.13% 28
Wales +33 81 £40,000 - 2
South East -139 75 £45,000 -17.15% 14
Midlands -46 70 £43,227 +7.56% 10
North of England -110 70 £36,250 -22.74% 22
West Midlands +4 59 £43,227 +7.56% 2
North East -31 38 £35,000 -28.43% 2
South West -21 27 £45,000 +86.44% 15
North West -71 26 £59,500 +33.48% 14
Scotland -122 16 £40,000 -40.30% 9
East of England -107 14 £30,000 -17.17% 1
East Midlands -50 11 £55,000 +4.22% 8
Yorkshire +8 6 £59,500 +23.96% 6
Northern Ireland +10 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 (5.25%) Apache
1 27 (5.25%) IIS
1 27 (5.25%) Tomcat
2 24 (4.67%) WebLogic
3 18 (3.50%) Confluence
4 16 (3.11%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.58%) SAS
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 36 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.58%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.58%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.58%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.58%) SPSS
6 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 70 (13.62%) NEC Housing
2 12 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 77 (14.98%) Azure
2 26 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (3.89%) Power Platform
5 15 (2.92%) PowerApps
6 14 (2.72%) AWS
6 14 (2.72%) Power Automate
7 11 (2.14%) Entra ID
7 11 (2.14%) PaaS
7 11 (2.14%) SaaS
8 10 (1.95%) OCI
9 9 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.36%) IaaS
11 6 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (0.78%) Azure Service Fabric
13 4 (0.78%) GCP
14 3 (0.58%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (0.58%) Dropbox
15 2 (0.39%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.84%) Firewall
2 21 (4.09%) WAN
3 18 (3.50%) LAN
4 12 (2.33%) Network Security
5 11 (2.14%) Intranet
6 9 (1.75%) CTI
6 9 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.75%) 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 (0.97%) Extranet
8 5 (0.97%) MPLS
8 5 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.97%) Wireless
8 5 (0.97%) WLAN
9 4 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (11.09%) Oracle Database
2 47 (9.14%) SQL Server
3 26 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (4.28%) Oracle Database 12c
6 12 (2.33%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.14%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.17%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.97%) Power BI
10 4 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.58%) Big Data
11 3 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.58%) EDRMS
11 3 (0.58%) MySQL
12 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.19%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (5.64%) Git
2 24 (4.67%) JIRA
3 18 (3.50%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.92%) Team Foundation Server
5 14 (2.72%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.78%) Selenium
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
General
1 147 (28.60%) Public Sector
2 134 (26.07%) Social Skills
3 120 (23.35%) Local Government
4 116 (22.57%) Finance
5 98 (19.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (17.90%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (6.61%) Law
8 33 (6.42%) Retail
9 32 (6.23%) Back Office
10 24 (4.67%) Legal
11 20 (3.89%) Electronics
12 18 (3.50%) Fire and Rescue
13 16 (3.11%) Marketing
14 14 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (2.53%) Military
16 12 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (2.33%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
19 5 (0.97%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 110 (21.40%) Senior
2 109 (21.21%) Analyst
3 64 (12.45%) Developer
4 49 (9.53%) Applications Support
5 46 (8.95%) Lead
6 36 (7.00%) Architect
7 33 (6.42%) Senior Analyst
8 28 (5.45%) DBA
9 27 (5.25%) Administrator
10 22 (4.28%) Applications Support Analyst
10 22 (4.28%) Oracle DBA
10 22 (4.28%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 22 (4.28%) Project Manager
10 22 (4.28%) Senior Applications Support
10 22 (4.28%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
10 22 (4.28%) Senior Developer
10 22 (4.28%) Senior Support Analyst
10 22 (4.28%) Support Analyst
10 22 (4.28%) Test Analyst
11 20 (3.89%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (10.70%) .NET
2 42 (8.17%) Spring
3 40 (7.78%) Web Services
4 22 (4.28%) J2EE
4 22 (4.28%) Java EE
5 18 (3.50%) RESTful
6 11 (2.14%) CSS
7 10 (1.95%) .NET Core
8 8 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.36%) React
9 7 (1.36%) YAML
10 6 (1.17%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.17%) Node.js
10 6 (1.17%) SOAP
11 5 (0.97%) XML
12 4 (0.78%) Entity Framework
12 4 (0.78%) SailPoint
12 4 (0.78%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 3 (0.58%) .NET Framework
13 3 (0.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.61%) Driving Licence
2 30 (5.84%) Public Cloud
3 27 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (4.86%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 10 (1.95%) CCTV
7 10 (1.95%) NHS
8 8 (1.56%) Social Media
9 7 (1.36%) Blog
9 7 (1.36%) Cybercrime
9 7 (1.36%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.17%) PKI
11 5 (0.97%) Smartphone
12 4 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.78%) Digital Media
12 4 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.58%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.58%) Operational Technology
13 3 (0.58%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 73 (14.20%) Unix
1 73 (14.20%) Windows
2 34 (6.61%) Linux
3 27 (5.25%) Solaris
4 16 (3.11%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.95%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.17%) Android
7 2 (0.39%) AIX
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) SUSE
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (14.20%) ITIL
2 72 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (12.84%) Customer Service
4 58 (11.28%) Agile
5 56 (10.89%) Business Strategy
6 46 (8.95%) Impact Assessments
7 45 (8.75%) Mentoring
7 45 (8.75%) Service Management
8 43 (8.37%) Decision-Making
9 40 (7.78%) Actionable Insight
10 38 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (7.39%) Digital Forensics
11 36 (7.00%) Risk Management
12 35 (6.81%) Project Management
13 34 (6.61%) Data Security
13 34 (6.61%) Performance Tuning
14 33 (6.42%) DevOps
15 32 (6.23%) Task Automation
16 29 (5.64%) Information Management
17 28 (5.45%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (10.31%) Java
2 49 (9.53%) Shell Script
3 38 (7.39%) C#
4 36 (7.00%) SQL
5 23 (4.47%) PL/1
6 8 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.36%) Python
8 6 (1.17%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.97%) VB
10 4 (0.78%) C++
11 3 (0.58%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.39%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.39%) VBA
13 1 (0.19%) Ruby
13 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 217 (42.22%) Security Cleared
2 130 (25.29%) SC Cleared
3 99 (19.26%) Degree
4 35 (6.81%) DBS Check
4 35 (6.81%) DV Cleared
5 24 (4.67%) Oracle Certification
6 11 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.56%) HNC
7 8 (1.56%) HND
7 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.97%) APMP
8 5 (0.97%) Postgraduate
9 4 (0.78%) CCIE
9 4 (0.78%) CCNP
9 4 (0.78%) CISSP
9 4 (0.78%) MCSA
10 3 (0.58%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.58%) CESG Certified Professional
10 3 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (14.59%) Accessibility
2 57 (11.09%) QA
3 27 (5.25%) SLA
4 8 (1.56%) GDPR
5 7 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 7 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.97%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.97%) PMO
7 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 3 (0.58%) 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 (0.19%) COBIT
10 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (4.86%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.95%) Firmware
4 6 (1.17%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.97%) Docker
6 4 (0.78%) vSphere
7 3 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (4.86%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (4.28%) OpenSSO
3 10 (1.95%) SCCM
4 9 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.17%) SCOM
6 5 (0.97%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.97%) Terraform
7 4 (0.78%) Ansible
8 3 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.58%) Nessus
9 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 139 (27.04%) Microsoft
2 102 (19.84%) Oracle
3 70 (13.62%) NEC
4 22 (4.28%) Remedy
5 20 (3.89%) Cisco
6 15 (2.92%) VMware
7 10 (1.95%) HP
8 9 (1.75%) webMethods
9 6 (1.17%) Google
9 6 (1.17%) NetApp
10 5 (0.97%) Citrix
10 5 (0.97%) Dell
11 4 (0.78%) Avaya
11 4 (0.78%) Blue Prism
11 4 (0.78%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.78%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.58%) Adobe
12 3 (0.58%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.58%) UiPath
13 2 (0.39%) IBM