DBS Check Jobs in England

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DBS Check qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 408 553
Rank change year-on-year +265 +145 +55
Permanent jobs citing DBS Check 1,447 522 849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.85% 0.73% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.81% 2.20% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 662 204 433
10th Percentile £24,011 £24,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,813 £26,344 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,107 £37,504 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% -9.63% +13.70%
75th Percentile £48,740 £62,971 £51,696
90th Percentile £61,813 £69,649 £72,000
UK median annual salary £37,528 £41,009 £42,250
% change year-on-year -8.49% -2.94% +9.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 21,233 23,740 40,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.10% 33.40% 27.54%
Number of salaries quoted 12,087 12,302 17,912
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,770 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

DBS Check
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DBS Check in England

DBS Check
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBS Check in England.

Salary trend for DBS Check in England

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBS Check in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for DBS Check in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBS Check within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +329 582 £42,847 +29.84% 245
South East +72 340 £39,939 -8.06% 233
North of England +116 184 £28,500 -38.04% 228
Midlands +84 170 £32,500 -36.27% 159
South West +61 96 £30,000 -29.41% 160
Yorkshire +121 88 £32,500 -39.53% 77
East Midlands +55 88 £35,868 +24.76% 75
North West +44 86 £27,500 -26.67% 121
West Midlands +33 82 £30,000 -45.45% 83
East of England -31 52 £38,350 +39.45% 93
North East -10 10 £25,163 -56.11% 32
South Coast - 1 £35,000 -
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UK

DBS Check
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (1.59%) SharePoint
2 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.21%) IIS
5 2 (0.14%) Apache
5 2 (0.14%) CMS
5 2 (0.14%) Confluence
6 1 (0.069%) SAS
6 1 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 282 (19.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 205 (14.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 157 (10.85%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.069%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 44 (3.04%) NEC Housing
2 17 (1.17%) Unit4 Business World
3 9 (0.62%) Primavera
4 5 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.069%) ContrOCC
7 1 (0.069%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.069%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.069%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 204 (14.10%) AWS
2 158 (10.92%) Microsoft 365
3 129 (8.91%) Azure
4 66 (4.56%) Power Platform
5 47 (3.25%) Serverless
6 39 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (2.49%) Google Workspace
8 20 (1.38%) Figma
9 17 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (0.97%) Entra ID
12 13 (0.90%) GCP
13 12 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (0.76%) SaaS
15 9 (0.62%) Asana
16 7 (0.48%) IaaS
17 6 (0.41%) BigCommerce
17 6 (0.41%) Google Ads
18 5 (0.35%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.59%) Wireless
2 44 (3.04%) TCP/IP
3 38 (2.63%) LAN
4 36 (2.49%) Network Security
4 36 (2.49%) WAN
5 31 (2.14%) DNS
6 29 (2.00%) Firewall
7 27 (1.87%) DHCP
8 16 (1.11%) VLAN
9 15 (1.04%) Broadband
9 15 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.90%) Internet
11 11 (0.76%) VoIP
12 7 (0.48%) Fibre Channel
12 7 (0.48%) Intranet
12 7 (0.48%) SAN
12 7 (0.48%) VPN
13 5 (0.35%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.35%) Structured Cabling
14 3 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (13.41%) Tableau
2 65 (4.49%) Power BI
3 36 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (2.49%) DynamoDB
4 26 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 15 (1.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 14 (0.97%) SQL Server
8 11 (0.76%) Big Data
8 11 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 11 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.69%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.48%) Power Query
11 6 (0.41%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.35%) MySQL
13 4 (0.28%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.28%) Looker
13 4 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 209 (14.44%) Git
2 39 (2.70%) GitLab
3 24 (1.66%) JIRA
4 10 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.21%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.14%) gulp
6 2 (0.14%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (0.14%) Postman
6 2 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.069%) fastlane
7 1 (0.069%) Gradle
7 1 (0.069%) JMeter
7 1 (0.069%) Selenium
7 1 (0.069%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.069%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 842 (58.19%) Social Skills
2 467 (32.27%) Analytical Skills
3 456 (31.51%) Retail
4 238 (16.45%) German Language
5 201 (13.89%) Finance
6 182 (12.58%) Presentation Skills
7 116 (8.02%) Marketing
8 111 (7.67%) Organisational Skills
9 109 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 73 (5.04%) Local Government
11 72 (4.98%) Public Sector
12 58 (4.01%) Police
13 56 (3.87%) Advertising
14 40 (2.76%) Legal
15 35 (2.42%) Games
16 21 (1.45%) Billing
16 21 (1.45%) Telecoms
17 20 (1.38%) Social Housing
18 19 (1.31%) Aerospace
19 18 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 237 (16.38%) Graduate
2 235 (16.24%) Senior
3 184 (12.72%) Analyst
4 149 (10.30%) Data Analyst
5 113 (7.81%) Senior Analyst
6 110 (7.60%) Senior Data Analyst
7 79 (5.46%) IT Support
8 77 (5.32%) Lead
9 67 (4.63%) IT Technician
10 66 (4.56%) Support Engineer
11 55 (3.80%) Developer
12 51 (3.52%) IT Engineer
13 48 (3.32%) Data Scientist
14 47 (3.25%) Consultant
15 46 (3.18%) Senior Data Scientist
16 42 (2.90%) Support Technician
17 41 (2.83%) Project Manager
18 38 (2.63%) 2nd Line Support
19 37 (2.56%) Coordinator
19 37 (2.56%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (3.18%) PySpark
2 45 (3.11%) Pandas
2 45 (3.11%) scikit-learn
2 45 (3.11%) TensorFlow
3 41 (2.83%) GraphQL
4 39 (2.70%) Django
5 36 (2.49%) RESTful
6 30 (2.07%) EDI
7 25 (1.73%) .NET
8 19 (1.31%) CSS
9 18 (1.24%) REST
10 14 (0.97%) HTML
11 13 (0.90%) XML
12 12 (0.83%) JSON
13 11 (0.76%) SOAP
14 10 (0.69%) .NET Core
14 10 (0.69%) Ruby on Rails
15 8 (0.55%) React
16 7 (0.48%) Web Services
17 4 (0.28%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 280 (19.35%) Self-Motivation
2 245 (16.93%) Driving Licence
3 92 (6.36%) Social Media
4 72 (4.98%) Management Information System
5 63 (4.35%) NHS
6 56 (3.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 53 (3.66%) Algorithms
8 51 (3.52%) Photography
9 44 (3.04%) Onboarding
10 37 (2.56%) Mobile App
11 20 (1.38%) CCTV
12 15 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (0.76%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.62%) PKI
15 8 (0.55%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.55%) Replication
15 8 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
16 7 (0.48%) Clustering
17 5 (0.35%) Chip and PIN
18 4 (0.28%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 223 (15.41%) Windows
2 83 (5.74%) Windows Server
3 61 (4.22%) Windows 10
4 45 (3.11%) Mac OS
5 33 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (2.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (1.45%) Windows Vista
7 16 (1.11%) Android
8 15 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (0.83%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.62%) Windows 7
11 8 (0.55%) Linux
12 3 (0.21%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
2 254 (17.55%) Customer Service
3 212 (14.65%) Mathematics
4 210 (14.51%) Visualisation
5 206 (14.24%) Actionable Insight
6 199 (13.75%) Storytelling
7 186 (12.85%) Customer Insight
7 186 (12.85%) Statistics
8 184 (12.72%) Analytics
9 177 (12.23%) Root Cause Analysis
10 170 (11.75%) Data Pipeline
11 157 (10.85%) Data Analysis
12 142 (9.81%) Agile
13 141 (9.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 139 (9.61%) Business Strategy
15 137 (9.47%) Decision-Making
16 126 (8.71%) Customer Intelligence
17 116 (8.02%) Project Management
18 112 (7.74%) Line Management
19 96 (6.63%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 291 (20.11%) SQL
2 248 (17.14%) Python
3 31 (2.14%) C#
4 27 (1.87%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.45%) Java
6 13 (0.90%) C
7 11 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (0.69%) PL/SQL
8 10 (0.69%) Ruby
9 8 (0.55%) JavaScript
10 7 (0.48%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.48%) VBA
11 6 (0.41%) Scala
12 4 (0.28%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.21%) R
13 3 (0.21%) VB
14 2 (0.14%) C++
14 2 (0.14%) Fortran
14 2 (0.14%) Groovy
14 2 (0.14%) Julia
Qualifications
1 616 (42.57%) Degree
2 67 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 60 (4.15%) Security Cleared
4 57 (3.94%) Master's Degree
5 50 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.90%) A+ Certification
7 41 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (2.28%) MCP
9 24 (1.66%) SC Cleared
10 20 (1.38%) CIPD
11 12 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.76%) CCNP
12 11 (0.76%) CEH
12 11 (0.76%) Network+ Certification
13 10 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (0.55%) APMG
14 8 (0.55%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.55%) PMP
15 6 (0.41%) ACCA
15 6 (0.41%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (3.32%) Accessibility
2 45 (3.11%) GDPR
3 37 (2.56%) QA
4 23 (1.59%) SLA
5 16 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (0.83%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.35%) NEBOSH
8 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.21%) NIST
9 3 (0.21%) PMO
10 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.069%) NCSC
System Software
1 124 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.59%) Hyper-V
4 14 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (0.48%) Terminal Services
6 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.41%) vSphere
7 2 (0.14%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (0.69%) Autotask
2 9 (0.62%) SCCM
3 7 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (0.48%) SCOM
4 3 (0.21%) Consul
4 3 (0.21%) FortiGate
4 3 (0.21%) Packer
4 3 (0.21%) Terraform
5 2 (0.14%) Ansible
5 2 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.14%) PaperCut
5 2 (0.14%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.069%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 362 (25.02%) Microsoft
2 197 (13.61%) Databricks
3 68 (4.70%) Google
4 44 (3.04%) NEC
5 41 (2.83%) Apple
5 41 (2.83%) VMware
6 19 (1.31%) Cisco
6 19 (1.31%) Oracle
6 19 (1.31%) Sun
7 15 (1.04%) Thales
8 14 (0.97%) ServiceNow
9 9 (0.62%) Datto
9 9 (0.62%) Salesforce
9 9 (0.62%) Veeam
10 8 (0.55%) Meraki
11 7 (0.48%) HP
11 7 (0.48%) Sage
12 6 (0.41%) Facebook
13 5 (0.35%) Aruba
13 5 (0.35%) Fortinet