DBS Check Contracts in Wales

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for DBS Check qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 60 71
Rank change year-on-year +21 +11 -30
Contract jobs citing DBS Check 6 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.49% 0.47% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.83% 1.33% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £215 - £121
25th Percentile £220 - £141
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £366 £130 £225
Median % change year-on-year +181.73% -42.22% -55.00%
75th Percentile £620 £163 £300
90th Percentile £650 £182 £444
UK median daily rate £200 £191 £200
% change year-on-year +4.58% -4.38% -36.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 103 226 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 25.56% 35.48% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 165 242
10th Percentile £210 £185 £204
25th Percentile £453 £390 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £634 £613 £625
90th Percentile £723 £658 £678
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.84% +4.76% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 13
10th Percentile £11.01 - £19.98
25th Percentile £15.51 £16.98 £20.75
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -60.78% +158.81%
75th Percentile £85.50 £20.47 £47.40
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.25 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.28 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.31% +31.25% +7.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for DBS Check in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for DBS Check in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBS Check in Wales over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBS Check in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for DBS Check in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
South Wales +17 6 £366 +181.73% 10
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) WLAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Database Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Field Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Community of Practice
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Line Management
3 2 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) User Stories
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Dell
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) SonicWALL
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
1 2 (33.33%) WatchGuard