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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 269 695
Rank change year-on-year -201 +426 +157
Permanent jobs citing Police 500 1,360 590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 1.35% 0.38%
As % of the General category 0.84% 1.98% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 355 208 219
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £31,497
25th Percentile £35,195 £38,966 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,520 £40,455
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +19.94% +1.38%
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 59,322 68,855 101,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.79% 68.16% 64.21%
Number of salaries quoted 39,670 37,231 50,896
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 10 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 10 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 -224 353 £45,000 -4.73% 89
UK excluding London -224 344 £40,553 -4.58% 81
Work from Home -133 182 £47,250 +16.05% 72
London -102 99 £51,196 +3.13% 17
Wales +30 81 £40,000 -51.52% 2
South East -128 76 £45,000 -17.15% 15
Midlands -65 66 £43,227 +7.56% 8
North of England -105 66 £35,000 -25.41% 29
West Midlands -16 55 £43,227 +7.56% 5
North East -35 37 £35,000 -28.43% 6
South West -32 27 £45,000 +86.44% 15
North West -72 23 £59,500 +33.48% 16
East of England -95 14 £30,000 -17.17% 1
Scotland -110 13 £46,500 -30.60% 11
East Midlands -53 11 £55,000 +4.22% 3
Yorkshire +13 6 £59,500 +23.96% 7
Northern Ireland +9 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 (4.80%) WebLogic
2 21 (4.20%) Apache
2 21 (4.20%) IIS
2 21 (4.20%) Tomcat
3 18 (3.60%) Confluence
4 16 (3.20%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.60%) SAS
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 33 (6.60%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.80%) 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 57 (11.40%) NEC Housing
2 12 (2.40%) 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 (15.40%) Azure
2 26 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 15 (3.00%) PowerApps
6 14 (2.80%) AWS
6 14 (2.80%) Power Automate
7 11 (2.20%) Entra ID
7 11 (2.20%) PaaS
7 11 (2.20%) SaaS
8 10 (2.00%) OCI
9 9 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.40%) IaaS
11 6 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (0.80%) Azure Service Fabric
13 4 (0.80%) GCP
14 3 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (0.60%) Dropbox
15 2 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.00%) Firewall
2 21 (4.20%) WAN
3 18 (3.60%) LAN
4 12 (2.40%) Network Security
5 11 (2.20%) Intranet
6 9 (1.80%) CTI
6 9 (1.80%) VLAN
7 8 (1.60%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.20%) Internet
8 6 (1.20%) SAN
8 6 (1.20%) Unified Communications
8 6 (1.20%) VPN
9 5 (1.00%) DNS
9 5 (1.00%) Extranet
9 5 (1.00%) MPLS
9 5 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.00%) Wireless
9 5 (1.00%) WLAN
10 4 (0.80%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.80%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.60%) Oracle Database
2 44 (8.80%) SQL Server
3 26 (5.20%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (3.80%) Oracle Database 12c
6 12 (2.40%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.20%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.00%) Power BI
10 4 (0.80%) 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 (5.80%) Git
2 24 (4.80%) JIRA
3 18 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 15 (3.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 14 (2.80%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.80%) Selenium
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
General
1 134 (26.80%) Public Sector
2 129 (25.80%) Social Skills
3 107 (21.40%) Local Government
4 104 (20.80%) Finance
5 97 (19.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (6.80%) Law
8 33 (6.60%) Retail
9 29 (5.80%) Back Office
10 21 (4.20%) Legal
11 20 (4.00%) Electronics
12 18 (3.60%) Fire and Rescue
13 14 (2.80%) Military
14 13 (2.60%) Marketing
14 13 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (2.40%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (1.00%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 108 (21.60%) Analyst
2 107 (21.40%) Senior
3 64 (12.80%) Developer
4 46 (9.20%) Lead
5 43 (8.60%) Applications Support
6 36 (7.20%) Architect
7 33 (6.60%) Senior Analyst
8 25 (5.00%) DBA
9 24 (4.80%) Administrator
10 22 (4.40%) Applications Support Analyst
10 22 (4.40%) Project Manager
10 22 (4.40%) Senior Applications Support
10 22 (4.40%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
10 22 (4.40%) Senior Developer
10 22 (4.40%) Senior Support Analyst
10 22 (4.40%) Support Analyst
10 22 (4.40%) Test Analyst
11 20 (4.00%) Java Developer
12 19 (3.80%) Network Engineer
12 19 (3.80%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (11.00%) .NET
2 42 (8.40%) Spring
3 34 (6.80%) Web Services
4 22 (4.40%) J2EE
4 22 (4.40%) Java EE
5 18 (3.60%) RESTful
6 11 (2.20%) CSS
7 10 (2.00%) .NET Core
8 8 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.40%) React
9 7 (1.40%) YAML
10 6 (1.20%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.20%) Node.js
10 6 (1.20%) SOAP
11 5 (1.00%) XML
12 4 (0.80%) Entity Framework
12 4 (0.80%) SailPoint
12 4 (0.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 3 (0.60%) .NET Framework
13 3 (0.60%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.20%) Driving Licence
2 24 (4.80%) Public Cloud
2 24 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (4.40%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.00%) CCTV
5 10 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.00%) NHS
6 8 (1.60%) Social Media
7 7 (1.40%) Blog
7 7 (1.40%) Cybercrime
7 7 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.20%) PKI
9 5 (1.00%) Smartphone
10 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.80%) Digital Media
10 4 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.60%) IoT
11 3 (0.60%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.60%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 66 (13.20%) Windows
2 64 (12.80%) Unix
3 27 (5.40%) Linux
4 21 (4.20%) Solaris
5 16 (3.20%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.80%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.20%) 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 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (14.00%) ITIL
3 64 (12.80%) Customer Service
4 57 (11.40%) Agile
5 56 (11.20%) Business Strategy
6 46 (9.20%) Impact Assessments
7 45 (9.00%) Service Management
8 44 (8.80%) Mentoring
9 43 (8.60%) Decision-Making
10 40 (8.00%) Actionable Insight
11 38 (7.60%) Digital Forensics
12 36 (7.20%) Risk Management
13 35 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (6.60%) DevOps
15 32 (6.40%) Project Management
16 31 (6.20%) Performance Tuning
17 29 (5.80%) Information Management
18 28 (5.60%) Data Security
18 28 (5.60%) Incident Management
19 26 (5.20%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 53 (10.60%) Java
2 43 (8.60%) Shell Script
3 38 (7.60%) C#
4 36 (7.20%) SQL
5 23 (4.60%) PL/1
6 8 (1.60%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.40%) Python
8 6 (1.20%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.00%) VB
10 4 (0.80%) 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
1 206 (41.20%) Security Cleared
2 128 (25.60%) SC Cleared
3 92 (18.40%) Degree
4 34 (6.80%) DV Cleared
5 31 (6.20%) DBS Check
6 21 (4.20%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.60%) HNC
8 8 (1.60%) HND
8 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.00%) APMP
9 5 (1.00%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.80%) CCIE
10 4 (0.80%) CCNP
10 4 (0.80%) CISSP
10 4 (0.80%) 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 62 (12.40%) Accessibility
2 53 (10.60%) QA
3 27 (5.40%) SLA
4 8 (1.60%) GDPR
5 7 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 7 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.00%) PMO
7 4 (0.80%) 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 (4.80%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.00%) Firmware
4 6 (1.20%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (1.00%) Docker
6 4 (0.80%) vSphere
7 3 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (4.40%) OpenSSO
3 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.80%) SCCM
4 5 (1.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.00%) SCOM
4 5 (1.00%) Terraform
5 4 (0.80%) Ansible
6 3 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.60%) Nessus
Vendors
1 129 (25.80%) Microsoft
2 93 (18.60%) Oracle
3 57 (11.40%) NEC
4 22 (4.40%) Remedy
5 20 (4.00%) Cisco
6 14 (2.80%) VMware
7 10 (2.00%) HP
8 9 (1.80%) webMethods
9 6 (1.20%) Google
9 6 (1.20%) NetApp
10 5 (1.00%) Citrix
10 5 (1.00%) Dell
11 4 (0.80%) Avaya
11 4 (0.80%) Blue Prism
11 4 (0.80%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.80%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.60%) Adobe
12 3 (0.60%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.60%) UiPath
13 2 (0.40%) IBM