DBS Check Job Trends in the City of London

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for DBS Check qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 123 89
Rank change year-on-year +3 -34 +171
Permanent jobs citing DBS Check 11 41 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.51% 1.53% 2.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.24% 4.90% 12.25%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 73
10th Percentile £28,500 £65,375 £26,085
25th Percentile £30,875 £73,438 £27,965
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,750 £88,750 £39,085
Median % change year-on-year -54.08% +127.07% +5.64%
75th Percentile £62,771 £105,938 -
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,125 -
Central London median annual salary £29,211 £76,250 £39,085
% change year-on-year -61.69% +95.09% +5.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 492 837 653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.81% 31.21% 23.16%
Number of salaries quoted 365 468 556
10th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £37,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -9.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £121,625 £115,625
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DBS Check relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

DBS Check job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing DBS Check.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing DBS Check

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBS Check in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DBS Check in the City of London

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Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBS Check within the City of London region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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
London Bridge - 1 £43,500 - 1
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Central London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Alation
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Composer
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
1 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
1 4 (36.36%) LAN
1 4 (36.36%) VPN
1 4 (36.36%) WAN
2 3 (27.27%) Network Security
2 3 (27.27%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (27.27%) VoIP
2 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (27.27%) Wireless
2 3 (27.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
1 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) DataStage
1 2 (18.18%) Metadata
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
1 2 (18.18%) QlikView
1 2 (18.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) ER Studio
1 2 (18.18%) ERwin
1 2 (18.18%) PowerDesigner
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (18.18%) Marketing
2 2 (18.18%) Retail
2 2 (18.18%) Retail Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Network Support
1 3 (27.27%) Network Support Technician
1 3 (27.27%) Network Technician
1 3 (27.27%) Support Technician
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
2 2 (18.18%) GCP Architect
2 2 (18.18%) GCP Data Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
1 2 (18.18%) Reinsurance
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Life Science
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
2 3 (27.27%) AI
2 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (27.27%) Zero Trust
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
3 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
3 2 (18.18%) Data Management
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (18.18%) Data Science
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Metadata Management
3 2 (18.18%) Storytelling
3 2 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (18.18%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) KVM
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco
1 3 (27.27%) Zscaler
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) IBM
2 2 (18.18%) Informatica