DBS Check Jobs

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 153 422 600
Rank change year-on-year +269 +178 +18
Permanent jobs citing DBS Check 1,565 584 896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.73% 0.72% 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.58% 2.15% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 741 244 458
10th Percentile £24,011 £24,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £27,375 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,528 £41,009 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.49% -2.94% +9.18%
75th Percentile £48,449 £62,971 £56,075
90th Percentile £61,250 £69,649 £73,322
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £44,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year -20.45% +6.02% +20.30%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 23,768 27,219 48,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.30% 33.73% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 13,396 13,767 20,158
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 £72,425 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +2.11%

DBS Check
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DBS Check in the UK

DBS Check
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DBS Check in the UK

DBS Check
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for DBS Check in the UK

DBS Check
Top 17 Job Locations

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 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
England +265 1,447 £36,107 -3.73% 1,064
UK excluding London +142 916 £35,000 -20.45% 909
Work from Home +244 623 £45,000 -5.60% 203
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
Scotland +7 61 £48,000 -28.36% 17
East of England -31 52 £38,350 +39.45% 93
Wales +22 11 £35,000 -30.00% 34
North East -10 10 £25,163 -56.11% 32
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

DBS Check
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.47%) SharePoint
2 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.19%) IIS
5 2 (0.13%) Apache
5 2 (0.13%) CMS
5 2 (0.13%) Confluence
6 1 (0.064%) SAS
6 1 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 282 (18.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 205 (13.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 172 (10.99%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.064%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 59 (3.77%) NEC Housing
2 19 (1.21%) Unit4 Business World
3 9 (0.58%) Primavera
4 5 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.064%) ContrOCC
7 1 (0.064%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.064%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.064%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.064%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 204 (13.04%) AWS
2 162 (10.35%) Microsoft 365
3 140 (8.95%) Azure
4 72 (4.60%) Power Platform
5 47 (3.00%) Serverless
6 39 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (2.30%) Google Workspace
8 20 (1.28%) Figma
9 17 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (0.96%) Entra ID
12 13 (0.83%) GCP
13 12 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.70%) SaaS
15 9 (0.58%) Asana
16 7 (0.45%) IaaS
17 6 (0.38%) BigCommerce
17 6 (0.38%) Google Ads
18 5 (0.32%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.39%) Wireless
2 44 (2.81%) TCP/IP
3 39 (2.49%) LAN
4 37 (2.36%) WAN
5 36 (2.30%) Network Security
6 31 (1.98%) DNS
7 29 (1.85%) Firewall
8 27 (1.73%) DHCP
9 16 (1.02%) VLAN
10 15 (0.96%) Broadband
10 15 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.89%) Internet
12 11 (0.70%) VoIP
13 7 (0.45%) Fibre Channel
13 7 (0.45%) Intranet
13 7 (0.45%) SAN
13 7 (0.45%) VPN
14 6 (0.38%) SD-WAN
15 5 (0.32%) Structured Cabling
16 3 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (12.40%) Tableau
2 71 (4.54%) Power BI
3 36 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (2.30%) DynamoDB
4 26 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 20 (1.28%) SQL Server
7 16 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 16 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (0.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 11 (0.70%) Big Data
9 11 (0.70%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.45%) Power Query
11 6 (0.38%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.32%) MySQL
13 4 (0.26%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.26%) Looker
13 4 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 210 (13.42%) Git
2 39 (2.49%) GitLab
3 24 (1.53%) JIRA
4 10 (0.64%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.19%) Axure RP
5 3 (0.19%) Hudson
5 3 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.13%) gulp
6 2 (0.13%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (0.13%) Postman
6 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.064%) fastlane
7 1 (0.064%) Gradle
7 1 (0.064%) JMeter
7 1 (0.064%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.064%) Selenium
7 1 (0.064%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.064%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.064%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 894 (57.12%) Social Skills
2 504 (32.20%) Retail
3 476 (30.42%) Analytical Skills
4 238 (15.21%) German Language
5 231 (14.76%) Finance
6 182 (11.63%) Presentation Skills
7 132 (8.43%) Marketing
8 121 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 119 (7.60%) Organisational Skills
10 88 (5.62%) Local Government
10 88 (5.62%) Public Sector
11 76 (4.86%) Police
12 56 (3.58%) Advertising
13 55 (3.51%) Legal
14 35 (2.24%) Games
15 23 (1.47%) Aerospace
16 22 (1.41%) Telecoms
17 21 (1.34%) Billing
18 20 (1.28%) Social Housing
19 18 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 256 (16.36%) Senior
2 237 (15.14%) Graduate
3 187 (11.95%) Analyst
4 151 (9.65%) Data Analyst
5 113 (7.22%) Senior Analyst
6 110 (7.03%) Senior Data Analyst
7 82 (5.24%) IT Support
8 78 (4.98%) Lead
9 71 (4.54%) IT Technician
10 66 (4.22%) Support Engineer
11 59 (3.77%) Developer
12 52 (3.32%) IT Engineer
13 48 (3.07%) Consultant
13 48 (3.07%) Data Scientist
14 46 (2.94%) Senior Data Scientist
15 45 (2.88%) Support Technician
16 41 (2.62%) Project Manager
17 39 (2.49%) Smart Metering Engineer
18 38 (2.43%) 2nd Line Support
18 38 (2.43%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.94%) PySpark
2 45 (2.88%) Pandas
2 45 (2.88%) scikit-learn
2 45 (2.88%) TensorFlow
3 41 (2.62%) GraphQL
4 39 (2.49%) Django
5 36 (2.30%) RESTful
6 30 (1.92%) EDI
7 29 (1.85%) .NET
8 23 (1.47%) CSS
9 18 (1.15%) REST
10 15 (0.96%) HTML
11 14 (0.89%) .NET Core
12 13 (0.83%) XML
13 12 (0.77%) JSON
14 11 (0.70%) SOAP
15 10 (0.64%) Ruby on Rails
15 10 (0.64%) Web Services
16 9 (0.58%) React
17 5 (0.32%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 286 (18.27%) Self-Motivation
2 252 (16.10%) Driving Licence
3 97 (6.20%) Management Information System
3 97 (6.20%) Social Media
4 63 (4.03%) NHS
5 62 (3.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 57 (3.64%) Photography
7 53 (3.39%) Algorithms
8 44 (2.81%) Onboarding
9 39 (2.49%) Mobile App
9 39 (2.49%) Smart Meter
10 22 (1.41%) CCTV
11 15 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
12 13 (0.83%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.58%) PKI
14 8 (0.51%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.51%) Replication
14 8 (0.51%) Video\Live Streaming
15 7 (0.45%) Clustering
15 7 (0.45%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 226 (14.44%) Windows
2 83 (5.30%) Windows Server
3 61 (3.90%) Windows 10
4 45 (2.88%) Mac OS
5 33 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (2.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 23 (1.47%) Windows Vista
7 16 (1.02%) Android
8 15 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (0.77%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.58%) Windows 7
11 8 (0.51%) Linux
12 3 (0.19%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (28.63%) Problem-Solving
2 311 (19.87%) Customer Service
3 213 (13.61%) Mathematics
4 210 (13.42%) Visualisation
5 206 (13.16%) Actionable Insight
6 199 (12.72%) Storytelling
7 186 (11.88%) Customer Insight
7 186 (11.88%) Statistics
8 185 (11.82%) Analytics
9 177 (11.31%) Root Cause Analysis
10 170 (10.86%) Data Pipeline
11 157 (10.03%) Data Analysis
12 145 (9.27%) Agile
13 142 (9.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 139 (8.88%) Business Strategy
15 137 (8.75%) Decision-Making
16 136 (8.69%) Project Management
17 126 (8.05%) Customer Intelligence
18 114 (7.28%) Line Management
19 99 (6.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 298 (19.04%) SQL
2 248 (15.85%) Python
3 35 (2.24%) C#
4 27 (1.73%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.34%) Java
6 13 (0.83%) C
7 11 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (0.64%) PL/SQL
8 10 (0.64%) Ruby
9 9 (0.58%) JavaScript
10 8 (0.51%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.45%) VBA
12 6 (0.38%) Scala
13 4 (0.26%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.19%) R
14 3 (0.19%) VB
15 2 (0.13%) C++
15 2 (0.13%) Fortran
15 2 (0.13%) Groovy
15 2 (0.13%) Julia
Qualifications
1 637 (40.70%) Degree
2 72 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 64 (4.09%) Security Cleared
4 57 (3.64%) Master's Degree
5 51 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.88%) A+ Certification
7 42 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (2.11%) MCP
9 24 (1.53%) SC Cleared
10 20 (1.28%) CIPD
11 14 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
12 13 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.70%) CCNP
13 11 (0.70%) CEH
14 10 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.64%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.64%) PMP
15 8 (0.51%) APMG
16 6 (0.38%) ACCA
16 6 (0.38%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (4.15%) Accessibility
2 55 (3.51%) QA
3 45 (2.88%) GDPR
4 23 (1.47%) SLA
5 16 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (0.89%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.32%) NEBOSH
8 4 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.19%) NIST
9 3 (0.19%) PMO
10 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.064%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.064%) NCSC
System Software
1 124 (7.92%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 14 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (0.45%) Terminal Services
6 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.38%) vSphere
7 2 (0.13%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (0.64%) Autotask
2 9 (0.58%) SCCM
3 7 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (0.45%) SCOM
4 3 (0.19%) Consul
4 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
4 3 (0.19%) Packer
4 3 (0.19%) Terraform
5 2 (0.13%) Ansible
5 2 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
5 2 (0.13%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.064%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 387 (24.73%) Microsoft
2 197 (12.59%) Databricks
3 68 (4.35%) Google
4 59 (3.77%) NEC
5 47 (3.00%) Apple
6 41 (2.62%) VMware
7 20 (1.28%) Cisco
7 20 (1.28%) Oracle
8 19 (1.21%) Sun
8 19 (1.21%) Thales
9 14 (0.89%) ServiceNow
10 9 (0.58%) Datto
10 9 (0.58%) Salesforce
10 9 (0.58%) Veeam
11 8 (0.51%) Fortinet
11 8 (0.51%) Meraki
11 8 (0.51%) Sage
12 7 (0.45%) HP
13 6 (0.38%) Aruba
13 6 (0.38%) Facebook