DBS Check Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for DBS Check qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 62 92
Rank change year-on-year -57 +30 +59
Permanent jobs citing DBS Check 20 51 26
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.48% 3.23% 1.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.82% 7.86% 5.99%
Number of salaries quoted 15 30 11
10th Percentile £28,100 - £25,000
25th Percentile £33,250 - £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,982 £42,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% -1.18% -29.17%
75th Percentile £46,515 - £52,500
90th Percentile £47,106 £59,937 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,558 £42,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -3.43% +20.00% +40.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 415 649 434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.03% 41.13% 21.70%
Number of salaries quoted 266 186 133
10th Percentile £30,875 £27,500 £25,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -11.90% -8.10%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £90,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £42,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -16.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DBS Check relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

DBS Check job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

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Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing DBS Check.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing DBS Check

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Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBS Check in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for DBS Check in West Yorkshire

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Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBS Check within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. 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
Leeds -38 13 £37,741 -36.73% 10
Bradford -2 3 £46,152 -23.08% 4
Wakefield -16 3 £28,000 -33.33%
Dewsbury - 1 - -
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Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Azure App Service
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) IaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.00%) PaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Rubrik
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) DHCP
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Legal
4 3 (15.00%) Retail
5 2 (10.00%) Finance
5 2 (10.00%) Games
6 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.00%) Local Government
6 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Lecturer
2 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) IT Technician
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Field Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Field Service Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) ICT Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) CSS
1 2 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) NestJS
2 1 (5.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (5.00%) SvelteKit
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (10.00%) iPad
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Educational Technology
3 1 (5.00%) Hackathon
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.00%) NHS
3 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (20.00%) Data Science
4 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (15.00%) Digital Innovation
4 3 (15.00%) Digital Strategy
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Time Management
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (5.00%) Auto-Scaling
6 1 (5.00%) Case Management
6 1 (5.00%) Commercial Awareness
6 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (5.00%) DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) OCR
6 1 (5.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (5.00%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) C#
3 4 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Perl
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Apple
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Meraki
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) VMware