DBS Check Contracts in the UK excluding London

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DBS Check qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 337 359
Rank change year-on-year +15 +22 -61
Contract jobs citing DBS Check 79 93 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.41% 0.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.03% 1.26% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 67 116
10th Percentile £130 £136 £126
25th Percentile £160 £160 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £210 £178
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +18.31% +1.43%
75th Percentile £243 £447 £217
90th Percentile £503 £538 £444
UK median daily rate £250 £193 £200
% change year-on-year +29.87% -3.75% -36.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 10 13
10th Percentile £11.71 £9.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £11.97 £10.45 £15.31
Median hourly rate £15.00 £14.22 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% -16.34% -5.56%
75th Percentile £19.62 £20.00 £17.16
90th Percentile £26.66 - £20.00
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £14.22 £17.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% -16.34% -5.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,648 7,386 8,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.86% 32.55% 26.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,425 4,873 5,318
10th Percentile £275 £305 £263
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +10.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £713 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 967 571 539
10th Percentile £13.69 £13.88 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.90 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.27 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +50.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.25 £56.14
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.19 £67.60
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DBS Check as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DBS Check in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DBS Check in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DBS Check in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBS Check in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBS Check in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DBS Check in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DBS Check in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DBS Check in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DBS Check in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +25 28 £160 -62.35% 293
South East +21 24 £225 - 303
North West +14 15 £159 -62.65% 143
Yorkshire +23 12 £180 - 111
Midlands +9 8 £185 +23.33% 223
East of England +1 6 £300 +55.84% 137
South West -2 5 £110 -76.09% 194
Scotland +37 4 £200 +25.00% 17
Wales +21 4 £220 +37.50% 39
West Midlands +11 4 £185 +23.33% 116
East Midlands +6 4 - - 107
North East +9 1 - - 43
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (5.06%) WordPress
2 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (16.46%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (11.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (11.39%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.53%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.27%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 17 (21.52%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (6.33%) Azure
3 4 (5.06%) MailChimp
4 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.53%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.27%) GCP
5 1 (1.27%) IaaS
5 1 (1.27%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.27%) PaaS
5 1 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) Firewall
2 2 (2.53%) DHCP
2 2 (2.53%) DNS
2 2 (2.53%) LAN
2 2 (2.53%) Network Security
2 2 (2.53%) SMS
2 2 (2.53%) VLAN
2 2 (2.53%) Wireless
2 2 (2.53%) WLAN
3 1 (1.27%) Internet
3 1 (1.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.27%) Power BI
1 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Hudson
General
1 30 (37.97%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.66%) Finance
3 7 (8.86%) Legal
3 7 (8.86%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (5.06%) Local Government
4 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.53%) Billing
5 2 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.53%) Retail
6 1 (1.27%) Advertising
6 1 (1.27%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.27%) Military
6 1 (1.27%) Police
6 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (17.72%) IT Support
2 12 (15.19%) Support Engineer
3 9 (11.39%) IT Engineer
3 9 (11.39%) Lead
3 9 (11.39%) Project Manager
4 7 (8.86%) Field Engineer
4 7 (8.86%) IT Support Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) IT Technician
5 6 (7.59%) Team Leader
6 5 (6.33%) Database Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Network Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Senior
7 3 (3.80%) Analyst
7 3 (3.80%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) IT Support Technician
7 3 (3.80%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Support Technician
8 2 (2.53%) IT Analyst
8 2 (2.53%) Mobile Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.19%) Driving Licence
1 12 (15.19%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.53%) NHS
3 2 (2.53%) SCADA
4 1 (1.27%) Handset
4 1 (1.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.72%) Windows
2 6 (7.59%) Windows 10
3 4 (5.06%) Mac OS
3 4 (5.06%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.06%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (13.92%) Project Management
2 9 (11.39%) Customer Service
2 9 (11.39%) Decision-Making
2 9 (11.39%) Housing Management
2 9 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (8.86%) Case Management
4 5 (6.33%) Data Protection
5 4 (5.06%) Document Management
5 4 (5.06%) Resource Management
5 4 (5.06%) Time Management
6 3 (3.80%) Agile
6 3 (3.80%) Budget Management
6 3 (3.80%) Business Analysis
6 3 (3.80%) Customer Value Proposition
6 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (3.80%) ITIL
6 3 (3.80%) Line Management
6 3 (3.80%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (3.80%) Value Proposition
7 2 (2.53%) Break/Fix
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.27%) SQL
2 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (8.86%) Degree
2 4 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.80%) CCNA
4 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.27%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.27%) CCDA
5 1 (1.27%) CCIE
5 1 (1.27%) CCNP
5 1 (1.27%) JNCIA
5 1 (1.27%) MCDST
5 1 (1.27%) MCP
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.80%) GDPR
3 2 (2.53%) SLA
4 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (20.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.33%) Hyper-V
2 5 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (7.59%) SCCM
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.27%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 26 (32.91%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) Cisco
3 5 (6.33%) VMware
4 4 (5.06%) Google
4 4 (5.06%) Hootsuite
4 4 (5.06%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.06%) SAP
5 2 (2.53%) Aruba
5 2 (2.53%) Dell
5 2 (2.53%) NEC
5 2 (2.53%) Northgate
5 2 (2.53%) Remedy
5 2 (2.53%) SonicWALL
5 2 (2.53%) WatchGuard
6 1 (1.27%) Adobe
6 1 (1.27%) AlgoSec
6 1 (1.27%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.27%) Juniper
6 1 (1.27%) Veeam