Job Title: Data Analyst - Supporting the Roads and Traffic Policing Command
Salary: The starting salary is £ 55,662 which includes allowances totalling £3,009.
The salary is broken down as £52,653 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £57,417. Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.
Location: Hendon, Lambeth, Sidcup, Southwark.
The main location for this role is Palestra House (TfL) with Met. offices in Hendon, Marlowe House, Lambeth, Southwark and Deer Park Road available for use. Travel across the Met Estate, to attend meetings as required by the business, is expected.
Employment: Permanent, Full-Time (36-hours p/w)
Policing London is a hugely complex challenge that evolves every day. To make sure the Met is up to the task, we need the right IT and systems across our organisation. As a Data Analyst, you will help to enable us to do our best for the London area. Join us and play your part in making London the safest capital in the world and delivering ‘More Trust, Less Crime and High Standards’.
As a member of the Met, you will also enjoy great benefits including annual leave, civil service pension arrangements, maternity/paternity support, as well as being part of a continuous learning culture.
Digital & Innovation Business Group
The Digital & Innovation Business Group brings together technology, the effective use of data, and our capability to deliver change and reform to drive the Met forward: this is central to progressing delivery of New Met for London 2. It includes the Met’s Transformation, Technology, Data and Analytics functions, as well as work underway to make the organisation more productive and efficient (referred to as Productivity & Efficiency or P&E). The Group was created in early 2026 and is led by Marie Heracleous, Chief Digital & Innovation Officer. It’s an exciting time to be part of D&I, as it builds new capabilities and ways of working to support the frontline and make a real difference to London.
D&I is committed to creating an inclusive working environment. We support hybrid working, and the hiring manager will be happy to discuss arrangements for this role.
Job Purpose
The Metropolitan Police Service owns unique datasets, unparalleled in size and complexity in law enforcement. These include calls to 999, recorded crime, stop & search, use of force, vetting and intelligence to name but a few. We are recruiting for Data Analysts who want to access these datasets to play a meaningful role in transforming the Met approach to data analysis and evidence-based policing.
As a Data Analyst, you will be a key member of an agile multi-disciplinary analytics team, collaborating with Performance Analysts, Data Engineers and Data Scientists to model and deliver large datasets and analytical reports. A focus on modelling data in its rawest form, ensuring data/statistics are accurate and suitable to meet the reporting requirements of the wider Met stakeholders. Utilising a variety of applications to deliver the best outcome.
You will be undertaking data modelling, cleansing and enrichment, building and reviewing data models, and using data integration tools and languages to integrate and store data. You will be working to our Data Standards and influence future best practices to present, communicate and disseminate data to inform and influence. At this level we expect you to be able to utilise multiple data visualisation tools and techniques including Advanced Excel, SQL, and either Power BI or Tableau.
In 2024 we implemented a new CONNECT system, which is underpinned by a POLE (Person, Object, Location, Event) database, this gives us even more comprehensive datasets for our analysts to work with.
Roads and Traffic Policing Command and Transport for London
These roles are funded to work in direct support of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Roads and Traffic Policing Command (RTPC), in conjunction with Transport for London (TfL) Security, Policing and Enforcement. This partnership aims to strengthen collaborative activity across London’s roads and transport network – reducing harm, improving public safety, and enhancing both enforcement and problem -solving activity. The analytical demands of this environment are complex and fast-moving, requiring the integration of policing, transport, safety, and operational datasets to produce insights that directly support tactical and strategic decision-making.
Data Analysts in this team will apply specialist skills in data visualisation, analytical modelling, SQL, API development, and data transformation to improve joint reporting and deliver more sophisticated insight products for RTPC and TfL. The analysts will sit within the Digital and Innovation – Data Analysis Team, ensuring access to an established technical community and shared learning environment, as well as cross-team resilience for high-priority outputs.
The role will require close collaboration with MPS intelligence, operational and investigative teams, RTPC analytical functions, and TfL Security, Policing and Enforcement to draw on a wide range of datasets. These may include police intelligence systems, crime data, custody records, collision and casualty data, traffic enforcement datasets, transport safety information, operational activity records, and broader performance metrics. Role-holders will develop new analytical processes and data pipelines, create new Power BI dashboards, and support the design of joint performance frameworks and insight products. They will also contribute to business-critical outputs such as recurring performance dashboards, operational insight packs, and annual strategic assessments covering risk, demand, threat, harm, and areas of emerging concern across London’s roads and transport network.
As part of a jointly funded initiative, the successful candidate(s) must be forward thinking, innovative, and confident in challenging existing practices to continually improve analytical standards. This includes producing analysis that demonstrates the impact of MPS-TfL partnership activity on shared outcomes such as reducing killed or seriously injured (KSI) incidents, enhancing enforcement effectiveness, addressing transport related violence and risk, and improving safety across London’s roads and transport system.
Key Role Responsibilities
- Apply tools and techniques for data analysis data visualisation, including the use of business information (BI) tools.
- Identify, collect and migrate data to and from a range of systems.
- Manage, clean, abstract and aggregate data alongside a range of analytical studies on that data.
- Manipulate and link different data sets.
- Summarise and present data and conclusions in the most appropriate format for users.
- Deliver standalone and regular products for a range of teams, including building dashboards which conform to principles identified by the Dashboard Oversight Group.
- Work with analytical teams, sharing knowledge with other analysts, contributing to a culture of personal development at all levels.
- Provide the business with accurate, relevant and timely data, research and performance information that contributes to a culture of continuous improvement, enhanced efficiency and evidence-based decision-making in the police.
Additional Information
Vetting Clearance
For this role the Vetting Clearance is Force Clearance Level, Recruitment Vetting (RV), and National Security Vetting (NSV) Level, Counter Terrorism Check (CTC).
Working Pattern
Hybrid Working available in line with the Metropolitan Police Service hybrid working policy.
GDaD Capability Framework
We are transforming and maturing our collective Data Analysis capability. As such we are the first Police Service to use the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework as a foundation for our skills development. For this role we are using the Data Analyst job family.
Data analyst - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework
We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate being at the “Working” level (you will be expected to apply the skills with some support and adopt the most appropriate tools and techniques) in a combination of skills.
How to apply
To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply button “. The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form. In your Personal Statement (1-page of A4, 500 words maximum), you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experience (see stated criteria) make you a suitable candidate. Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV, and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and Personal Statement.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 22nd May 2026.
Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager. The application review for this vacancy will commence in May.
Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview. Interview dates tbc.
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