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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 161 364
Rank change year-on-year +39 +203 +248
Permanent jobs citing DBS Check 1,510 1,707 736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.50% 1.71% 0.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.07% 6.48% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 872 876 241
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,011 £24,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £28,250 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,325 £37,722 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -11.24% +2.41%
75th Percentile £47,685 £48,750 £62,971
90th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £69,649
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,325 £35,000 £43,721
% change year-on-year +9.50% -19.95% +6.42%

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 24,892 26,330 28,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.21% 26.45% 33.56%
Number of salaries quoted 10,594 15,479 14,066
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,995 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.01% -8.34% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,600 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,700 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +8.25%

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 19 July 2025.

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 19 July 2025. 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 +26 1,348 £38,325 +4.95% 1,023
UK excluding London +87 1,235 £38,325 +9.50% 811
North of England +90 379 £42,000 +44.47% 250
South East +40 370 £40,000 +0.15% 218
Work from Home -59 335 £45,390 +0.87% 417
Midlands +90 276 £36,925 +13.62% 148
West Midlands +122 223 £36,925 +24.81% 85
North West +69 220 £39,500 +43.64% 155
London -150 134 £40,000 -5.88% 299
South West +101 108 £33,500 -1.47% 81
Yorkshire +37 105 £50,000 +55.04% 76
East of England +35 90 £30,000 -30.23% 78
North East +72 52 £49,000 -5.83% 24
East Midlands -14 48 £28,500 -18.18% 63
Wales +41 20 £38,094 +8.84% 36
Scotland +44 15 - - 10
Northern Ireland +35 1 - - 6

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 75 (4.97%) Oracle Application Server
2 32 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.99%) CMS
5 6 (0.40%) WordPress
6 4 (0.26%) SAS
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.13%) Drupal
7 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.066%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.066%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.066%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.066%) IIS
8 1 (0.066%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 105 (6.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.46%) Trello
5 18 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.73%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.13%) Sketch
11 1 (0.066%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.066%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 12 (0.79%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 5 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.33%) Raiser’s Edge
3 3 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.13%) iTrent
4 2 (0.13%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.13%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.066%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.066%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.066%) FastStats
5 1 (0.066%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.066%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.066%) Shopify
5 1 (0.066%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 258 (17.09%) Azure
2 124 (8.21%) Power Platform
3 110 (7.28%) Entra ID
4 93 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (2.98%) SaaS
6 30 (1.99%) AWS
7 25 (1.66%) IaaS
7 25 (1.66%) PaaS
8 22 (1.46%) Power Automate
9 21 (1.39%) Google Analytics
10 18 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.13%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (1.06%) Azure AI
12 16 (1.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 16 (1.06%) Azure Key Vault
12 16 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (0.93%) Serverless
14 13 (0.86%) Google Ads
15 10 (0.66%) Canva
15 10 (0.66%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.72%) DNS
2 33 (2.19%) Firewall
3 32 (2.12%) WAN
4 21 (1.39%) VPN
5 17 (1.13%) DHCP
5 17 (1.13%) LAN
5 17 (1.13%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.86%) Wireless
7 12 (0.79%) WPA
8 11 (0.73%) VoIP
9 8 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.46%) Internet
11 6 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.26%) SAN
12 4 (0.26%) VLAN
13 3 (0.20%) MPLS
13 3 (0.20%) Network Security
13 3 (0.20%) TCP/IP
14 2 (0.13%) Intranet
14 2 (0.13%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (8.08%) Power BI
2 82 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (4.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 75 (4.97%) Oracle Reports
4 61 (4.04%) SQL Server
5 31 (2.05%) Tableau
6 24 (1.59%) MySQL
7 19 (1.26%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.40%) GIS
11 5 (0.33%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.26%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.20%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.20%) Looker
13 3 (0.20%) Power Query
14 2 (0.13%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.13%) Parquet
14 2 (0.13%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 40 (2.65%) Git
2 27 (1.79%) JIRA
3 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.13%) GitLab
5 1 (0.066%) ESLint
5 1 (0.066%) NUnit
5 1 (0.066%) Selenium
5 1 (0.066%) Storybook
5 1 (0.066%) webpack
General
1 437 (28.94%) Social Skills
2 259 (17.15%) Finance
3 198 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (12.32%) Organisational Skills
5 100 (6.62%) Esports
6 77 (5.10%) Military
7 71 (4.70%) Marketing
8 67 (4.44%) Local Government
9 63 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 53 (3.51%) Legal
11 40 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (2.38%) Retail
13 35 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.79%) Advertising
15 25 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 20 (1.32%) Public Sector
17 19 (1.26%) Welsh Language
18 15 (0.99%) Manufacturing
19 13 (0.86%) Police
20 10 (0.66%) Billing
Job Titles
1 112 (7.42%) Analyst
2 83 (5.50%) Senior
3 77 (5.10%) Lead
4 74 (4.90%) Technology Specialist
5 71 (4.70%) Developer
6 52 (3.44%) Business Manager
7 49 (3.25%) Administrator
8 48 (3.18%) SQL Developer
9 46 (3.05%) Business Development Manager
9 46 (3.05%) Development Manager
10 40 (2.65%) Identity Management Specialist
10 40 (2.65%) Instructor
11 35 (2.32%) IT Support
11 35 (2.32%) Support Engineer
12 32 (2.12%) Database Developer
12 32 (2.12%) SQL Database Developer
13 29 (1.92%) IT Engineer
14 28 (1.85%) Support Analyst
15 27 (1.79%) Database Engineer
16 25 (1.66%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (0.79%) .NET
1 12 (0.79%) PySpark
2 10 (0.66%) React Native
3 9 (0.60%) Flutter
3 9 (0.60%) Pandas
3 9 (0.60%) scikit-learn
3 9 (0.60%) TensorFlow
4 7 (0.46%) HTML
5 6 (0.40%) Blazor
5 6 (0.40%) REST
6 4 (0.26%) EDI
6 4 (0.26%) JSON
7 3 (0.20%) CSS
7 3 (0.20%) HTML5
7 3 (0.20%) JWT
7 3 (0.20%) OAuth
7 3 (0.20%) SOAP
8 2 (0.13%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (0.13%) TAPI
8 2 (0.13%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 714 (47.28%) Social Media
2 113 (7.48%) NHS
3 53 (3.51%) Driving Licence
3 53 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
4 37 (2.45%) Management Information System
5 26 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 24 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 19 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 14 (0.93%) Biopharmaceutical
9 12 (0.79%) CCTV
10 11 (0.73%) Algorithms
11 10 (0.66%) Credit Risk
11 10 (0.66%) iPad
12 8 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.53%) IoT
13 7 (0.46%) Robotics
14 6 (0.40%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.40%) Security Posture
15 5 (0.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 669 (44.30%) Windows
2 601 (39.80%) Windows Vista
3 26 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.66%) Mac OS
5 10 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.53%) Android
7 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (16.56%) Computer Science
2 223 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
3 222 (14.70%) ITIL
4 185 (12.25%) Analytics
5 178 (11.79%) Agile
6 128 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 126 (8.34%) Customer Service
8 119 (7.88%) Business Intelligence
9 111 (7.35%) DevOps
10 108 (7.15%) Customer Experience
11 107 (7.09%) Service Management
12 104 (6.89%) Data Management
13 94 (6.23%) Data Modelling
14 93 (6.16%) Data Integration
15 91 (6.03%) Project Management
16 89 (5.89%) Business Analysis
17 85 (5.63%) Line Management
18 83 (5.50%) Stakeholder Management
19 81 (5.36%) Identity Management
20 80 (5.30%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 129 (8.54%) SQL
2 55 (3.64%) Python
3 49 (3.25%) T-SQL
4 25 (1.66%) PowerShell
5 16 (1.06%) Bicep
5 16 (1.06%) R
6 14 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (0.33%) VB
7 5 (0.33%) VBA
8 4 (0.26%) C#
9 3 (0.20%) Java
9 3 (0.20%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.13%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.13%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.066%) Ada
11 1 (0.066%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.066%) C++
11 1 (0.066%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.066%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.066%) Perl
Qualifications
1 283 (18.74%) Degree
2 38 (2.52%) Master's Degree
3 28 (1.85%) Azure Certification
4 22 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (1.46%) PMI Certification
4 22 (1.46%) PMP
5 21 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.19%) CIMA
6 18 (1.19%) HNC
7 16 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.06%) Security Cleared
8 15 (0.99%) ACCA
9 14 (0.93%) HND
10 12 (0.79%) MCSA
11 10 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (0.60%) MCSE
12 9 (0.60%) MOS
13 8 (0.53%) CISA
13 8 (0.53%) CISSP
14 7 (0.46%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (3.84%) SLA
2 33 (2.19%) QA
3 20 (1.32%) GDPR
4 18 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.46%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.46%) NIST
6 5 (0.33%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.20%) NEBOSH
8 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.066%) DICOM
9 1 (0.066%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.066%) GRC
9 1 (0.066%) HL7
System Software
1 133 (8.81%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.20%) Docker
7 2 (0.13%) IAG
8 1 (0.066%) Firmware
8 1 (0.066%) Forefront TMG
8 1 (0.066%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.066%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.066%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
3 12 (0.79%) SmoothWall
4 2 (0.13%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.13%) SCCM
4 2 (0.13%) Terraform
5 1 (0.066%) Ansible
5 1 (0.066%) Autotask
5 1 (0.066%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.066%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.066%) Grafana
Vendors
1 325 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 76 (5.03%) Oracle
3 38 (2.52%) Databricks
4 35 (2.32%) Google
5 29 (1.92%) Meraki
6 24 (1.59%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.39%) Cisco
8 14 (0.93%) VMware
9 12 (0.79%) Apple
10 11 (0.73%) Dell
10 11 (0.73%) HP
11 7 (0.46%) Adobe
11 7 (0.46%) Citrix
11 7 (0.46%) IBM
12 6 (0.40%) Facebook
13 5 (0.33%) Logitech
14 4 (0.26%) Instagram
14 4 (0.26%) MobileIron
14 4 (0.26%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.26%) Talend