DBS Check Jobs in England

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DBS Check qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 385 463
Rank change year-on-year +232 +78 +103
Permanent jobs citing DBS Check 1,592 788 962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.88% 0.84% 0.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.59% 2.56% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 989 204 381
10th Percentile £24,699 £24,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,965 £30,000 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% +3.20%
75th Percentile £48,058 £55,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £69,649 £71,250
UK median annual salary £35,000 £42,500 £40,455
% change year-on-year -17.65% +5.05% +1.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,151 30,731 34,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.55% 32.64% 26.39%
Number of salaries quoted 15,760 13,803 16,727
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,863
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £57,810 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.59% +5.11% -

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 23 April 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 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +342 589 £37,934 +14.95% 114
South East +107 414 £39,870 +15.72% 109
North of England +43 200 £32,500 -31.58% 125
Midlands +76 192 £34,834 -7.11% 71
South West +82 109 £30,000 -13.67% 53
East Midlands +55 99 £35,000 +7.69% 36
North West +34 94 £31,500 -31.52% 67
West Midlands +34 93 £32,882 -34.24% 35
Yorkshire +59 88 £32,500 -26.71% 39
East of England +35 75 £37,528 +44.34% 33
North East +2 18 £57,000 +19.57% 21
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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 40 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.63%) Confluence
4 6 (0.38%) WordPress
5 3 (0.19%) Apache
5 3 (0.19%) CMS
5 3 (0.19%) IIS
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.063%) Drupal
7 1 (0.063%) Moodle
7 1 (0.063%) nginx
7 1 (0.063%) SAS
Applications
1 325 (20.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 215 (13.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 202 (12.69%) Microsoft Office
4 96 (6.03%) Spreadsheet
5 11 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.13%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 9 (0.57%) Primavera
2 6 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.38%) SAP PLM
2 6 (0.38%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.31%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.25%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.19%) iTrent
5 3 (0.19%) Raiser’s Edge
5 3 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.13%) Shopify
6 2 (0.13%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.063%) ContrOCC
7 1 (0.063%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 213 (13.38%) Azure
2 178 (11.18%) Microsoft 365
3 148 (9.30%) Power Platform
4 122 (7.66%) AWS
5 39 (2.45%) Serverless
6 34 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 31 (1.95%) Google Workspace
8 29 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 21 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (1.32%) GCP
10 19 (1.19%) Entra ID
11 12 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (0.69%) Google Analytics
12 11 (0.69%) SaaS
13 10 (0.63%) IaaS
14 9 (0.57%) Asana
14 9 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (0.57%) Google Tag Manager
14 9 (0.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.64%) Wireless
2 49 (3.08%) DNS
3 48 (3.02%) TCP/IP
4 44 (2.76%) DHCP
5 43 (2.70%) LAN
6 39 (2.45%) Firewall
7 38 (2.39%) WAN
8 34 (2.14%) Network Security
9 27 (1.70%) VoIP
10 26 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.44%) Internet
12 16 (1.01%) Broadband
13 13 (0.82%) VLAN
14 11 (0.69%) VPN
15 10 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
16 8 (0.50%) Intranet
17 7 (0.44%) SMS
18 6 (0.38%) SAN
19 4 (0.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
19 4 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (8.61%) Power BI
2 100 (6.28%) Tableau
3 49 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 42 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (2.26%) SQL Server
6 33 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 30 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (1.63%) DynamoDB
9 25 (1.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 18 (1.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 11 (0.69%) Data Lake
12 10 (0.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 10 (0.63%) Power Query
13 9 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (0.44%) Big Data
14 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.44%) Looker
14 7 (0.44%) MySQL
15 6 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 114 (7.16%) Git
2 29 (1.82%) GitLab
3 13 (0.82%) JIRA
4 4 (0.25%) Katalon Studio
4 4 (0.25%) Postman
5 3 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.13%) gulp
6 2 (0.13%) JMeter
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.063%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.063%) fastlane
7 1 (0.063%) Gradle
7 1 (0.063%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.063%) MSI
7 1 (0.063%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.063%) Selenium
7 1 (0.063%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.063%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 889 (55.84%) Social Skills
2 414 (26.01%) Analytical Skills
3 410 (25.75%) Retail
4 245 (15.39%) German Language
5 236 (14.82%) Finance
6 161 (10.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 136 (8.54%) Marketing
8 134 (8.42%) Organisational Skills
9 122 (7.66%) Public Sector
10 94 (5.90%) Presentation Skills
11 58 (3.64%) Advertising
12 46 (2.89%) Legal
13 42 (2.64%) Local Government
14 38 (2.39%) Games
15 33 (2.07%) Telecoms
16 25 (1.57%) Aerospace
17 22 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
17 22 (1.38%) Police
18 18 (1.13%) Fire and Rescue
19 11 (0.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 239 (15.01%) Graduate
2 148 (9.30%) Senior
3 121 (7.60%) Analyst
4 113 (7.10%) Lead
5 79 (4.96%) Data Analyst
5 79 (4.96%) IT Support
6 72 (4.52%) Support Engineer
7 69 (4.33%) Developer
8 68 (4.27%) IT Engineer
9 60 (3.77%) IT Technician
10 46 (2.89%) IT Manager
10 46 (2.89%) IT Support Engineer
11 45 (2.83%) Administrator
11 45 (2.83%) Coordinator
11 45 (2.83%) Field Engineer
12 43 (2.70%) Consultant
13 41 (2.58%) Project Manager
13 41 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
14 36 (2.26%) Support Technician
15 35 (2.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.45%) .NET
2 33 (2.07%) EDI
3 30 (1.88%) GraphQL
4 29 (1.82%) Django
5 26 (1.63%) RESTful
6 22 (1.38%) PySpark
7 20 (1.26%) Pandas
7 20 (1.26%) scikit-learn
7 20 (1.26%) TensorFlow
8 18 (1.13%) CSS
9 16 (1.01%) React
10 13 (0.82%) .NET Core
11 12 (0.75%) HTML
11 12 (0.75%) Web Services
12 6 (0.38%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.38%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.38%) XML
13 5 (0.31%) Entity Framework
13 5 (0.31%) Next.js
13 5 (0.31%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 323 (20.29%) Self-Motivation
2 292 (18.34%) Driving Licence
3 90 (5.65%) Management Information System
4 82 (5.15%) Social Media
5 61 (3.83%) NHS
6 56 (3.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 54 (3.39%) Photography
8 51 (3.20%) Onboarding
9 27 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 23 (1.44%) CCTV
11 22 (1.38%) Data Centre
12 20 (1.26%) e-Learning
13 12 (0.75%) Educational Technology
13 12 (0.75%) Learning Management System
14 9 (0.57%) PKI
15 8 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
16 7 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
16 7 (0.44%) VLE
17 6 (0.38%) Chip and PIN
17 6 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 244 (15.33%) Windows
2 94 (5.90%) Windows Server
3 68 (4.27%) Windows 10
4 46 (2.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 43 (2.70%) Mac OS
5 43 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 29 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 19 (1.19%) Windows 7
8 17 (1.07%) Android
9 16 (1.01%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.63%) Windows Vista
11 7 (0.44%) Windows 8
12 6 (0.38%) Linux
13 2 (0.13%) Unix
14 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (23.74%) Problem-Solving
2 285 (17.90%) Customer Service
3 187 (11.75%) Customer Insight
4 145 (9.11%) Agile
5 139 (8.73%) Business Intelligence
6 131 (8.23%) Visualisation
7 130 (8.17%) Line Management
7 130 (8.17%) Project Management
8 127 (7.98%) Mathematics
9 126 (7.91%) Analytics
10 115 (7.22%) Actionable Insight
11 112 (7.04%) Data Analysis
12 104 (6.53%) Storytelling
13 96 (6.03%) Data Pipeline
14 94 (5.90%) Mentoring
14 94 (5.90%) Root Cause Analysis
15 92 (5.78%) Project Delivery
15 92 (5.78%) Stakeholder Management
16 91 (5.72%) Case Management
17 90 (5.65%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 249 (15.64%) SQL
2 135 (8.48%) Python
3 56 (3.52%) C#
4 30 (1.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 30 (1.88%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.38%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.13%) Java
7 16 (1.01%) TypeScript
8 14 (0.88%) T-SQL
9 12 (0.75%) VBA
10 6 (0.38%) PHP
11 5 (0.31%) VB
12 4 (0.25%) C++
12 4 (0.25%) Groovy
13 3 (0.19%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.13%) C
14 2 (0.13%) FoxPro (VFP)
14 2 (0.13%) JSX
14 2 (0.13%) R
14 2 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 550 (34.55%) Degree
2 70 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
3 66 (4.15%) Security Cleared
4 45 (2.83%) MCP
5 41 (2.58%) A+ Certification
6 39 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 36 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 28 (1.76%) SC Cleared
9 25 (1.57%) CIPD
10 22 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (0.94%) CCNP
12 12 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
12 12 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
13 8 (0.50%) APMG
13 8 (0.50%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.50%) PMP
14 7 (0.44%) CCNA
15 6 (0.38%) CEH
15 6 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (8.92%) GDPR
2 50 (3.14%) QA
3 23 (1.44%) SLA
4 21 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
9 6 (0.38%) PMO
10 5 (0.31%) NEBOSH
11 4 (0.25%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.19%) NCSC
12 3 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 158 (9.92%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.44%) Hyper-V
4 13 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
5 10 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.63%) vSphere
6 4 (0.25%) Docker
6 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (0.25%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.25%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.13%) KVM
7 2 (0.13%) XenApp
7 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (1.32%) SCCM
2 15 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.50%) Autotask
4 6 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (0.38%) PaperCut
5 5 (0.31%) SmoothWall
5 5 (0.31%) WSUS
6 4 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
6 4 (0.25%) SCOM
7 3 (0.19%) Consul
7 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.19%) Packer
7 3 (0.19%) Terraform
8 2 (0.13%) Ansible
8 2 (0.13%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.063%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.063%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 461 (28.96%) Microsoft
2 95 (5.97%) Databricks
3 69 (4.33%) Google
4 38 (2.39%) Apple
4 38 (2.39%) VMware
5 27 (1.70%) ServiceNow
6 26 (1.63%) Sun
7 24 (1.51%) Thales
8 20 (1.26%) HP
9 19 (1.19%) Cisco
9 19 (1.19%) Oracle
10 12 (0.75%) Meraki
10 12 (0.75%) Salesforce
11 11 (0.69%) Datto
11 11 (0.69%) Veeam
12 10 (0.63%) Adobe
13 9 (0.57%) Aruba
14 7 (0.44%) Sage
14 7 (0.44%) SAP
15 6 (0.38%) Dell