DBS Check Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DBS Check qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 287 298
Rank change year-on-year +94 +11 +137
Permanent jobs citing DBS Check 1,042 681 798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.49% 1.10% 1.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.37% 3.02% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 758 182 312
10th Percentile £23,875 £24,000 £25,512
25th Percentile £27,063 £30,265 £29,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £40,228
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +5.65% +14.94%
75th Percentile £46,293 £57,375 £52,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £69,649 £73,322
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,398 22,587 22,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.66% 36.52% 31.38%
Number of salaries quoted 12,234 8,291 10,269
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,122 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £75,750
UK median annual salary £54,043 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.82% +5.45% -

DBS Check
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

DBS Check
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for DBS Check in the UK excluding London

DBS Check
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBS Check in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DBS Check in the UK excluding London

DBS Check
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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
South East +98 416 £39,870 +15.87% 116
North of England +46 204 £32,500 -29.35% 116
Midlands +67 195 £34,834 -22.99% 72
South West +71 108 £30,000 -13.67% 45
East Midlands +47 101 £35,000 +7.69% 38
North West +37 94 £31,500 -31.52% 59
West Midlands +33 94 £32,741 -35.17% 34
Yorkshire +70 92 £32,500 -26.71% 39
East of England +25 76 £37,528 +44.34% 32
Scotland -51 35 £39,000 -41.79% 17
North East -1 18 £57,000 +19.57% 20
Wales -5 10 £35,000 -22.18% 15
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
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DBS Check
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 31 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.48%) Confluence
4 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.19%) CMS
5 1 (0.096%) IIS
5 1 (0.096%) Moodle
5 1 (0.096%) SAS
5 1 (0.096%) WordPress
Applications
1 155 (14.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (13.63%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (7.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (3.26%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.67%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.29%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.19%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 9 (0.86%) Primavera
2 7 (0.67%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.58%) SAP PLM
3 6 (0.58%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.38%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.19%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.096%) ContrOCC
7 1 (0.096%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.096%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 213 (20.44%) Azure
2 155 (14.88%) Power Platform
3 154 (14.78%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (3.74%) AWS
5 29 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (2.59%) Google Workspace
7 22 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (1.25%) Entra ID
10 12 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (1.15%) GCP
11 10 (0.96%) IaaS
11 10 (0.96%) SaaS
12 9 (0.86%) Google Analytics
12 9 (0.86%) Google Tag Manager
12 9 (0.86%) PaaS
13 6 (0.58%) Snowflake
14 5 (0.48%) OCI
14 5 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.51%) TCP/IP
2 43 (4.13%) Wireless
3 40 (3.84%) DNS
3 40 (3.84%) LAN
4 36 (3.45%) DHCP
5 34 (3.26%) WAN
6 31 (2.98%) Firewall
7 30 (2.88%) Network Security
8 26 (2.50%) VoIP
9 18 (1.73%) Internet
10 17 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.86%) VPN
12 8 (0.77%) Intranet
12 8 (0.77%) VLAN
13 7 (0.67%) SMS
14 6 (0.58%) SAN
15 5 (0.48%) Broadband
16 4 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 4 (0.38%) Fibre Channel
16 4 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (13.82%) Power BI
2 57 (5.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 39 (3.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 38 (3.65%) SQL Server
5 37 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (2.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 29 (2.78%) Tableau
8 13 (1.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 12 (1.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.96%) Power Query
11 9 (0.86%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.67%) Big Data
12 7 (0.67%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.67%) Looker
13 6 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
15 2 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
15 2 (0.19%) Metadata
15 2 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (1.82%) Git
2 9 (0.86%) JIRA
3 4 (0.38%) Katalon Studio
3 4 (0.38%) Postman
3 4 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.19%) Apache Continuum
5 2 (0.19%) gulp
5 2 (0.19%) JMeter
5 2 (0.19%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.096%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.096%) Gradle
6 1 (0.096%) Selenium
6 1 (0.096%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.096%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.096%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.096%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 561 (53.84%) Social Skills
2 193 (18.52%) Retail
3 186 (17.85%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (16.41%) Finance
5 134 (12.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 102 (9.79%) Organisational Skills
7 80 (7.68%) German Language
8 74 (7.10%) Marketing
9 50 (4.80%) Public Sector
10 42 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
11 39 (3.74%) Local Government
12 31 (2.98%) Aerospace
13 25 (2.40%) Telecoms
14 24 (2.30%) Police
15 23 (2.21%) Games
16 22 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
17 21 (2.02%) Advertising
18 19 (1.82%) Legal
19 18 (1.73%) Fire and Rescue
20 10 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 80 (7.68%) Graduate
2 75 (7.20%) Analyst
2 75 (7.20%) IT Support
3 69 (6.62%) Senior
3 69 (6.62%) Support Engineer
4 68 (6.53%) Developer
4 68 (6.53%) Lead
5 67 (6.43%) IT Engineer
6 45 (4.32%) Field Engineer
6 45 (4.32%) IT Support Engineer
7 41 (3.93%) IT Technician
8 38 (3.65%) Administrator
9 36 (3.45%) Consultant
9 36 (3.45%) Support Technician
10 35 (3.36%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 33 (3.17%) IT Manager
12 32 (3.07%) 2nd Line Support
13 30 (2.88%) DBA
13 30 (2.88%) Project Manager
14 29 (2.78%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (3.36%) .NET
2 27 (2.59%) EDI
3 17 (1.63%) CSS
4 13 (1.25%) .NET Core
4 13 (1.25%) React
5 11 (1.06%) HTML
5 11 (1.06%) Web Services
6 6 (0.58%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.48%) Entity Framework
7 5 (0.48%) XML
8 4 (0.38%) Blazor
8 4 (0.38%) Gherkin
8 4 (0.38%) LINQ
8 4 (0.38%) Middleware
8 4 (0.38%) WPF
8 4 (0.38%) XSLT
9 3 (0.29%) jQuery
10 2 (0.19%) Node.js
10 2 (0.19%) Razor View Engine
10 2 (0.19%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 154 (14.78%) Self-Motivation
2 146 (14.01%) Driving Licence
3 54 (5.18%) Management Information System
4 49 (4.70%) NHS
5 42 (4.03%) Onboarding
6 37 (3.55%) Social Media
7 20 (1.92%) e-Learning
8 19 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 19 (1.82%) Data Centre
9 16 (1.54%) Photography
10 14 (1.34%) CCTV
11 10 (0.96%) Learning Management System
12 9 (0.86%) PKI
13 8 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.67%) VLE
15 6 (0.58%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.58%) Chip and PIN
16 5 (0.48%) Acoustics
16 5 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 216 (20.73%) Windows
2 84 (8.06%) Windows Server
3 52 (4.99%) Windows 10
4 41 (3.93%) Mac OS
5 33 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 30 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 29 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (1.82%) Windows 7
9 15 (1.44%) Android
10 14 (1.34%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.96%) Windows Vista
12 9 (0.86%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.29%) Linux
14 2 (0.19%) Unix
15 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (24.66%) Customer Service
2 245 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
3 142 (13.63%) Business Intelligence
4 111 (10.65%) Line Management
5 104 (9.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 89 (8.54%) Project Management
7 86 (8.25%) Mentoring
8 85 (8.16%) Agile
9 75 (7.20%) Project Delivery
10 72 (6.91%) ITIL
11 64 (6.14%) Customer Insight
12 57 (5.47%) Analytics
12 57 (5.47%) Migration
13 56 (5.37%) Mathematics
14 55 (5.28%) Visualisation
15 54 (5.18%) Time Management
16 48 (4.61%) Coaching
16 48 (4.61%) Decision-Making
17 43 (4.13%) Data Analysis
17 43 (4.13%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 177 (16.99%) SQL
2 55 (5.28%) C#
3 35 (3.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 32 (3.07%) Python
5 21 (2.02%) PowerShell
6 20 (1.92%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.73%) Java
8 14 (1.34%) T-SQL
9 13 (1.25%) TypeScript
10 12 (1.15%) VBA
11 5 (0.48%) VB
12 4 (0.38%) C++
12 4 (0.38%) Groovy
13 3 (0.29%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.19%) C
14 2 (0.19%) JSX
14 2 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 268 (25.72%) Degree
2 74 (7.10%) Microsoft Certification
3 70 (6.72%) Security Cleared
4 43 (4.13%) MCP
5 35 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (2.69%) A+ Certification
8 27 (2.59%) SC Cleared
9 22 (2.11%) CIPD
10 11 (1.06%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.77%) APMG
11 8 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.58%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.58%) HND
14 5 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 5 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.38%) CCNP
15 4 (0.38%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.53%) GDPR
2 33 (3.17%) QA
3 21 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (1.44%) SLA
5 10 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.77%) Disclosure Scotland
6 8 (0.77%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.58%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.58%) PMO
9 5 (0.48%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.38%) NEBOSH
11 3 (0.29%) NCSC
12 1 (0.096%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 132 (12.67%) Active Directory
2 22 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.34%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.77%) vSphere
6 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (0.38%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.38%) VMware Server
7 3 (0.29%) Docker
7 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.19%) KVM
8 2 (0.19%) XenApp
8 2 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (0.96%) SCCM
2 8 (0.77%) Autotask
3 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (0.38%) SCOM
4 4 (0.38%) SmoothWall
4 4 (0.38%) WSUS
5 3 (0.29%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.096%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.096%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 378 (36.28%) Microsoft
2 46 (4.41%) Google
3 30 (2.88%) Thales
4 29 (2.78%) Apple
5 26 (2.50%) Sun
6 24 (2.30%) VMware
7 23 (2.21%) Databricks
8 20 (1.92%) HP
9 18 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.25%) Oracle
11 11 (1.06%) Datto
12 9 (0.86%) Aruba
12 9 (0.86%) Veeam
13 8 (0.77%) Cisco
13 8 (0.77%) SAP
14 7 (0.67%) NEC
14 7 (0.67%) Salesforce
15 6 (0.58%) Dell
15 6 (0.58%) Meraki
16 5 (0.48%) Northgate