DBS Check Contracts in Manchester

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 93 105
Rank change year-on-year +22 +12 +25
Contract jobs citing DBS Check 8 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.86% 0.20% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.04% 0.83% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 13
10th Percentile £140 £156 £339
25th Percentile £155 £157 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £168 £425
Median % change year-on-year +86.57% -60.59% +51.11%
75th Percentile £544 £182 £456
90th Percentile £575 £185 £528
North West median daily rate £200 £159 £413
% change year-on-year +25.59% -61.39% +43.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 263 361 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.40% 23.80% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 214 369
10th Percentile £300 £313 £338
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £619
90th Percentile £713 £805 £700
North West median daily rate £494 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 25 17
10th Percentile - £24.14 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £25.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 £49.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +96.00% +54.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £73.75 £37.50
90th Percentile £74.13 £94.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for DBS Check in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DBS Check in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for DBS Check in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for DBS Check in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DBS Check in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for DBS Check in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Oldham +4 1 £200 +14.29%
Bolton - 1 - - 6
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Liferay
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Appium
2 1 (12.50%) Hudson
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (12.50%) Aviation
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Legal
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) EPoS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Delivery Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Technician
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Power Apps Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Chai
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (25.00%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) API Testing
2 1 (12.50%) BDD
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft
2 1 (12.50%) VMware