DBS Check Jobs

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DBS Check qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 395 558
Rank change year-on-year +233 +163 +50
Permanent jobs citing DBS Check 1,833 797 987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.74% 0.84% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.56% 2.49% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,065 240 410
10th Percentile £24,196 £24,806 £25,988
25th Percentile £27,965 £29,063 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £44,173 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.11% +3.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £48,449 £60,000 £51,696
90th Percentile £61,250 £69,649 £73,322
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £44,345 £41,500
% change year-on-year -21.07% +6.86% +20.30%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

DBS Check is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,942 32,039 45,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.55% 33.80% 27.07%
Number of salaries quoted 17,249 14,523 19,205
10th Percentile £28,668 £32,000 £30,932
25th Percentile £38,524 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,818 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

DBS Check
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DBS Check as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DBS Check in the UK

DBS Check
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBS Check.

Salary trend for DBS Check in the UK

DBS Check
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBS Check over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DBS Check in the UK

DBS Check
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBS Check within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +246 1,724 £37,055 -16.44% 1,421
UK excluding London +122 1,105 £35,000 -21.07% 1,173
Work from Home +185 681 £44,589 -6.47% 276
London +330 667 £41,800 +7.87% 369
South East +101 414 £40,000 +16.25% 313
North of England +87 237 £32,500 -31.58% 282
Midlands +93 211 £32,500 -35.00% 201
East Midlands +75 117 £34,834 -0.48% 83
Yorkshire +78 110 £32,500 -26.71% 88
South West +63 108 £31,000 -38.00% 148
North West +31 108 £31,000 -32.61% 156
West Midlands +21 94 £30,075 -41.03% 118
East of England -19 72 £37,528 +44.34% 138
Scotland -41 54 £45,000 -32.84% 57
North East -5 19 £39,000 -18.19% 39
Wales -4 11 £35,000 -39.13% 44
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1

DBS Check
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 41 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.55%) Confluence
4 6 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.27%) CMS
6 4 (0.22%) WordPress
7 3 (0.16%) Apache
7 3 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.055%) Drupal
8 1 (0.055%) Moodle
8 1 (0.055%) nginx
8 1 (0.055%) SAS
Applications
1 326 (17.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 221 (12.06%) Microsoft Office
3 216 (11.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.22%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.11%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 20 (1.09%) NEC Housing
2 9 (0.49%) Primavera
3 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.33%) SAP PLM
3 6 (0.33%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.22%) Raiser’s Edge
4 4 (0.22%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.16%) iTrent
5 3 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.11%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.11%) Shopify
7 1 (0.055%) ContrOCC
7 1 (0.055%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 238 (12.98%) Azure
2 200 (10.91%) AWS
3 195 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
4 170 (9.27%) Power Platform
5 47 (2.56%) Serverless
6 42 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 34 (1.85%) Google Workspace
9 29 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 26 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (0.93%) GCP
12 16 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (0.76%) Entra ID
14 13 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (0.65%) Google Analytics
16 11 (0.60%) IaaS
16 11 (0.60%) SaaS
17 10 (0.55%) Google Tag Manager
18 9 (0.49%) Asana
18 9 (0.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.22%) Wireless
2 48 (2.62%) TCP/IP
3 45 (2.45%) DNS
3 45 (2.45%) LAN
4 41 (2.24%) DHCP
4 41 (2.24%) WAN
5 35 (1.91%) Firewall
5 35 (1.91%) Network Security
6 24 (1.31%) Internet
6 24 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (1.20%) VoIP
8 16 (0.87%) Broadband
9 12 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
10 11 (0.60%) VLAN
11 8 (0.44%) Intranet
12 7 (0.38%) SAN
12 7 (0.38%) SMS
12 7 (0.38%) VPN
13 5 (0.27%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (10.58%) Tableau
2 159 (8.67%) Power BI
3 57 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 51 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (2.24%) SQL Server
6 39 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 36 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
7 36 (1.96%) DynamoDB
8 31 (1.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 18 (0.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 13 (0.71%) Data Lake
11 12 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 11 (0.60%) Big Data
13 10 (0.55%) Power Query
14 8 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (0.38%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.38%) Looker
16 6 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
17 5 (0.27%) MySQL
18 3 (0.16%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 213 (11.62%) Git
2 39 (2.13%) GitLab
3 13 (0.71%) JIRA
4 4 (0.22%) gulp
4 4 (0.22%) Katalon Studio
4 4 (0.22%) Postman
4 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.16%) Hudson
6 2 (0.11%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.11%) JMeter
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.055%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.055%) Gradle
7 1 (0.055%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.055%) MSI
7 1 (0.055%) Selenium
7 1 (0.055%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.055%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,074 (58.59%) Social Skills
2 514 (28.04%) Retail
3 497 (27.11%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (14.51%) Finance
5 245 (13.37%) German Language
6 186 (10.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 163 (8.89%) Presentation Skills
8 162 (8.84%) Organisational Skills
9 158 (8.62%) Marketing
10 76 (4.15%) Public Sector
11 60 (3.27%) Advertising
12 59 (3.22%) Local Government
13 58 (3.16%) Legal
14 41 (2.24%) Games
15 40 (2.18%) Police
16 37 (2.02%) Telecoms
17 32 (1.75%) Aerospace
18 27 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
19 22 (1.20%) Billing
20 21 (1.15%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 261 (14.24%) Senior
2 239 (13.04%) Graduate
3 214 (11.67%) Analyst
4 147 (8.02%) Data Analyst
5 115 (6.27%) Lead
6 109 (5.95%) Senior Analyst
7 102 (5.56%) Senior Data Analyst
8 92 (5.02%) IT Support
9 88 (4.80%) Developer
10 78 (4.26%) IT Technician
11 74 (4.04%) Support Engineer
12 70 (3.82%) IT Engineer
13 51 (2.78%) Administrator
14 48 (2.62%) Consultant
14 48 (2.62%) Coordinator
14 48 (2.62%) IT Support Engineer
15 47 (2.56%) Support Technician
16 46 (2.51%) Data Scientist
17 45 (2.45%) Senior Data Scientist
18 44 (2.40%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (2.56%) PySpark
2 46 (2.51%) .NET
3 45 (2.45%) Pandas
3 45 (2.45%) scikit-learn
3 45 (2.45%) TensorFlow
4 41 (2.24%) GraphQL
5 39 (2.13%) Django
6 36 (1.96%) RESTful
7 34 (1.85%) EDI
8 23 (1.25%) CSS
9 19 (1.04%) React
10 17 (0.93%) .NET Core
11 15 (0.82%) Web Services
12 13 (0.71%) HTML
13 7 (0.38%) .NET Framework
14 6 (0.33%) REST
14 6 (0.33%) XML
15 5 (0.27%) Entity Framework
15 5 (0.27%) Next.js
15 5 (0.27%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 326 (17.79%) Self-Motivation
2 291 (15.88%) Driving Licence
3 113 (6.16%) Management Information System
4 83 (4.53%) Social Media
5 67 (3.66%) NHS
6 63 (3.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 60 (3.27%) Photography
8 52 (2.84%) Algorithms
9 51 (2.78%) Onboarding
10 28 (1.53%) CCTV
11 26 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 20 (1.09%) e-Learning
13 15 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
14 14 (0.76%) Educational Technology
15 13 (0.71%) Smart Meter
16 12 (0.65%) Learning Management System
17 11 (0.60%) Data Structures
18 10 (0.55%) PKI
19 8 (0.44%) Video\Live Streaming
20 7 (0.38%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 255 (13.91%) Windows
2 105 (5.73%) Windows Server
3 68 (3.71%) Windows 10
4 45 (2.45%) Mac OS
4 45 (2.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 42 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 28 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 19 (1.04%) Windows 7
8 17 (0.93%) Android
8 17 (0.93%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.71%) Linux
10 9 (0.49%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.16%) Windows Vista
12 2 (0.11%) Unix
13 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (27.44%) Problem-Solving
2 337 (18.39%) Customer Service
3 225 (12.27%) Mathematics
4 224 (12.22%) Visualisation
5 208 (11.35%) Actionable Insight
6 200 (10.91%) Analytics
7 198 (10.80%) Storytelling
8 187 (10.20%) Customer Insight
9 180 (9.82%) Root Cause Analysis
9 180 (9.82%) Statistics
10 175 (9.55%) Data Analysis
10 175 (9.55%) Data Pipeline
11 163 (8.89%) Agile
11 163 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
12 151 (8.24%) Project Management
13 148 (8.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 146 (7.97%) Line Management
15 140 (7.64%) Business Strategy
16 126 (6.87%) Customer Intelligence
17 125 (6.82%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 368 (20.08%) SQL
2 248 (13.53%) Python
3 62 (3.38%) C#
4 35 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 31 (1.69%) PowerShell
6 24 (1.31%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.15%) Java
8 18 (0.98%) TypeScript
9 14 (0.76%) T-SQL
10 12 (0.65%) VBA
11 5 (0.27%) VB
12 4 (0.22%) C++
12 4 (0.22%) Groovy
12 4 (0.22%) PHP
12 4 (0.22%) Scala
13 3 (0.16%) JSX
13 3 (0.16%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.11%) C
14 2 (0.11%) FoxPro (VFP)
14 2 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 677 (36.93%) Degree
2 78 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 74 (4.04%) Security Cleared
4 60 (3.27%) Master's Degree
5 46 (2.51%) MCP
6 45 (2.45%) A+ Certification
7 41 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (1.64%) SC Cleared
10 29 (1.58%) CIPD
11 22 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
13 13 (0.71%) CEH
14 12 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.60%) CCNP
15 11 (0.60%) CISSP
16 10 (0.55%) CCNA
17 8 (0.44%) APMG
17 8 (0.44%) PMI Certification
17 8 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (4.42%) GDPR
2 66 (3.60%) QA
3 32 (1.75%) SLA
4 22 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 19 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.93%) Data Quality
7 12 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
9 8 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.38%) PMO
11 5 (0.27%) NEBOSH
12 3 (0.16%) NCSC
12 3 (0.16%) NIST
13 1 (0.055%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 162 (8.84%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 14 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
5 10 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.33%) vSphere
7 5 (0.27%) Terminal Services
8 4 (0.22%) Docker
8 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.22%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.11%) XenApp
9 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (1.53%) SCCM
2 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.44%) Autotask
4 6 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (0.27%) SCOM
6 3 (0.16%) Consul
6 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.16%) Packer
6 3 (0.16%) Terraform
7 2 (0.11%) Ansible
7 2 (0.11%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.11%) PaperCut
7 2 (0.11%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.055%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.055%) MobiControl
8 1 (0.055%) SmoothWall
8 1 (0.055%) WSUS
Vendors
1 524 (28.59%) Microsoft
2 195 (10.64%) Databricks
3 73 (3.98%) Google
4 48 (2.62%) Apple
5 33 (1.80%) VMware
6 31 (1.69%) ServiceNow
7 30 (1.64%) Thales
8 26 (1.42%) Sun
9 20 (1.09%) NEC
10 19 (1.04%) Cisco
10 19 (1.04%) Oracle
11 17 (0.93%) HP
12 12 (0.65%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.60%) Datto
13 11 (0.60%) Veeam
14 10 (0.55%) Adobe
15 9 (0.49%) SAP
16 8 (0.44%) Aruba
16 8 (0.44%) Meraki
16 8 (0.44%) Sage