DBS Check Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for DBS Check qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 190 329
Rank change year-on-year +80 +139 +131
Permanent jobs citing DBS Check 428 575 409
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.86% 1.70% 0.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.09% 6.06% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 118 304 85
10th Percentile £24,649 £26,750 £31,277
25th Percentile £32,544 £35,744 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,599 £45,000 £44,976
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +0.05% -2.23%
75th Percentile £57,000 £61,001 £57,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,262
UK median annual salary £38,325 £35,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year +9.50% -15.66% +2.58%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,707 9,495 10,870
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.45% 28.05% 25.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,039 5,938 6,645
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% +0.45%
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -8.47% +7.27%

DBS Check
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DBS Check as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DBS Check trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DBS Check.

DBS Check salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing DBS Check over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

DBS Check salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (17.52%) Oracle Application Server
2 18 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.34%) CMS
4 8 (1.87%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.40%) Drupal
5 6 (1.40%) WordPress
6 4 (0.93%) SAS
7 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.47%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) Apache
9 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 32 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.87%) Photoshop
5 6 (1.40%) Trello
6 4 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.47%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 21 (4.91%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 16 (3.74%) NEC Housing
3 14 (3.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 55 (12.85%) Azure
2 42 (9.81%) Power Platform
3 27 (6.31%) AWS
3 27 (6.31%) SaaS
4 24 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (4.21%) Google Analytics
6 12 (2.80%) Serverless
7 10 (2.34%) IaaS
7 10 (2.34%) PaaS
8 9 (2.10%) Google Ads
9 8 (1.87%) Canva
9 8 (1.87%) Microsoft Advertising
10 6 (1.40%) Typeform
11 5 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.17%) GitHub
12 4 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.93%) Google Tag Manager
12 4 (0.93%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.70%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.91%) WPA
2 13 (3.04%) DNS
3 5 (1.17%) Firewall
3 5 (1.17%) VPN
4 4 (0.93%) DHCP
4 4 (0.93%) VoIP
5 3 (0.70%) SMS
5 3 (0.70%) VLAN
6 2 (0.47%) Internet
6 2 (0.47%) LAN
6 2 (0.47%) Network Security
6 2 (0.47%) WAN
7 1 (0.23%) Broadband
7 1 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.23%) Converged Networks
7 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.23%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.23%) Skype
7 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (19.16%) Data Warehouse
2 75 (17.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 75 (17.52%) Oracle Reports
3 64 (14.95%) Tableau
4 28 (6.54%) Power BI
5 16 (3.74%) Oracle Database
6 10 (2.34%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.40%) GIS
7 6 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.17%) Big Data
9 4 (0.93%) MySQL
10 3 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.70%) Parquet
10 3 (0.70%) Power Query
10 3 (0.70%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.47%) Looker
11 2 (0.47%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 50 (11.68%) Git
2 5 (1.17%) JIRA
3 3 (0.70%) GitLab
4 1 (0.23%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.23%) ERwin
4 1 (0.23%) NUnit
4 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 249 (58.18%) Social Skills
2 195 (45.56%) Finance
3 170 (39.72%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (19.16%) Organisational Skills
5 77 (17.99%) Military
6 70 (16.36%) Retail
7 47 (10.98%) Local Government
8 45 (10.51%) Marketing
9 34 (7.94%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (6.78%) Police
11 28 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (6.07%) Legal
13 23 (5.37%) Public Sector
14 19 (4.44%) Welsh Language
15 10 (2.34%) Advertising
15 10 (2.34%) Billing
16 8 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (1.40%) Fire and Rescue
18 5 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
19 3 (0.70%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 69 (16.12%) Senior
2 63 (14.72%) Analyst
3 35 (8.18%) Data Analyst
3 35 (8.18%) Development Manager
4 33 (7.71%) Senior Analyst
5 26 (6.07%) Senior Data Analyst
6 25 (5.84%) Database Engineer
6 25 (5.84%) Developer
7 24 (5.61%) Lead
8 23 (5.37%) Business Manager
9 21 (4.91%) Business Development Manager
10 17 (3.97%) Consultant
11 16 (3.74%) Implementation Consultant
11 16 (3.74%) Technical Consultant
11 16 (3.74%) Technical Implementation Consultant
12 15 (3.50%) Senior Developer
12 15 (3.50%) Team Leader
13 14 (3.27%) Product Manager
14 13 (3.04%) Delivery Manager
15 11 (2.57%) Product Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.21%) .NET
2 14 (3.27%) HTML
3 13 (3.04%) Blazor
3 13 (3.04%) PySpark
4 10 (2.34%) Flutter
4 10 (2.34%) React Native
5 9 (2.10%) Pandas
5 9 (2.10%) scikit-learn
5 9 (2.10%) TensorFlow
6 8 (1.87%) Bootstrap
6 8 (1.87%) EDI
6 8 (1.87%) HTML5
7 6 (1.40%) CSS
8 4 (0.93%) Dask
8 4 (0.93%) Polars
8 4 (0.93%) REST
9 3 (0.70%) XGBoost
10 2 (0.47%) Laravel
10 2 (0.47%) Sass
10 2 (0.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 60 (14.02%) Social Media
2 23 (5.37%) Credit Risk
3 16 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.27%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.10%) Algorithms
5 9 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.87%) IoT
7 7 (1.64%) Biopharmaceutical
7 7 (1.64%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.40%) NHS
9 3 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.70%) Photography
9 3 (0.70%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.47%) CMDB
10 2 (0.47%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.47%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.47%) Smart Energy
10 2 (0.47%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.23%) Freedom of Information
11 1 (0.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 58 (13.55%) Windows
2 42 (9.81%) Windows Vista
3 12 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.17%) Android
4 5 (1.17%) Linux
4 5 (1.17%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (40.42%) Analytics
2 143 (33.41%) Agile
3 128 (29.91%) Customer Experience
4 106 (24.77%) DevOps
5 101 (23.60%) ITIL
6 92 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
7 88 (20.56%) Data Modelling
8 86 (20.09%) Service Management
9 83 (19.39%) Data Management
10 79 (18.46%) Data Integration
11 75 (17.52%) Business Analysis
12 68 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 66 (15.42%) Visualisation
14 50 (11.68%) CRM
15 49 (11.45%) Storytelling
16 47 (10.98%) Data Pipeline
17 42 (9.81%) Business Strategy
17 42 (9.81%) Roadmaps
18 40 (9.35%) Mentoring
18 40 (9.35%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (26.64%) SQL
2 93 (21.73%) Python
3 16 (3.74%) PL/SQL
4 15 (3.50%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.80%) R
6 4 (0.93%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.70%) C#
8 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.47%) PHP
8 2 (0.47%) VB
8 2 (0.47%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.23%) Bicep
9 1 (0.23%) Dart
9 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (15.65%) Degree
2 18 (4.21%) Master's Degree
3 11 (2.57%) MCSA
3 11 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (2.34%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.87%) MCSE
5 8 (1.87%) MOS
6 6 (1.40%) HNC
6 6 (1.40%) HND
7 5 (1.17%) Security Cleared
8 4 (0.93%) MRICS
9 3 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.70%) MCP
9 3 (0.70%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.70%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.47%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.47%) PMP
11 1 (0.23%) CCNA
11 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.37%) Accessibility
2 17 (3.97%) SLA
3 6 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (1.40%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.40%) GDPR
4 4 (0.93%) QA
5 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.23%) Docker
5 1 (0.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (0.47%) Ansible
1 2 (0.47%) Terraform
2 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (21.26%) Oracle
2 84 (19.63%) Microsoft
3 56 (13.08%) Databricks
4 25 (5.84%) NEC
5 22 (5.14%) Google
6 7 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.40%) Adobe
8 5 (1.17%) VMware
9 4 (0.93%) Apple
9 4 (0.93%) SAP
9 4 (0.93%) YouTube
10 3 (0.70%) SonicWALL
11 2 (0.47%) Hotjar
11 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.47%) Workday
12 1 (0.23%) F5
12 1 (0.23%) Foundry
12 1 (0.23%) Meraki
12 1 (0.23%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.23%) Sage