DBS Check Contracts in the East of England

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for DBS Check qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 103 112
Rank change year-on-year +32 +9 +22
Contract jobs citing DBS Check 11 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.17% 0.47% 0.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.44% 1.51% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 11
10th Percentile £170 £164 £120
25th Percentile £178 £183 £141
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £186 £200 £190
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +5.26% +35.71%
75th Percentile £401 £305 £210
90th Percentile £470 - £550
England median daily rate £186 £200 £193
% change year-on-year -6.88% +3.90% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.63 £15.00 £19.75
% change year-on-year +44.17% -24.05% +16.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

DBS Check falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 320 595 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 34.12% 31.17% 37.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 224 380
10th Percentile £189 £206 £222
25th Percentile £231 £349 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £645
90th Percentile £675 £721 £735
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 220 195
10th Percentile £15.23 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% +66.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.94 £43.19 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing DBS Check as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for DBS Check in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DBS Check in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for DBS Check in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBS Check in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DBS Check in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DBS Check in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for DBS Check in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBS Check within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +13 5 £467 - 25
Suffolk - 5 £185 - 1
Essex +12 1 - - 18
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) VLAN
2 3 (27.27%) Fibre Channel
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) IT Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) IT Support
1 3 (27.27%) IT Support Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Support Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (9.09%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (9.09%) Database Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Clustering
1 3 (27.27%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 1 (9.09%) FreeBSD
4 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Customer Service
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Capacity Management
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Proactive Maintenance
2 3 (27.27%) Proactive Management
2 3 (27.27%) Problem Management
2 3 (27.27%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (9.09%) Coaching
3 1 (9.09%) Migration
3 1 (9.09%) Network Management
3 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (27.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (27.27%) Podman
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Apple
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) ZyXEL
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Openreach