Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DBS Check qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 378 536
Rank change year-on-year +215 +158 +61
Permanent jobs citing DBS Check 1,832 845 1,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.83% 0.85% 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.66% 2.59% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,085 245 410
10th Percentile £24,196 £24,904 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,965 £30,265 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £41,500 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% - +3.75%
75th Percentile £48,317 £57,000 £53,438
90th Percentile £61,250 £69,649 £72,582
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year -17.65% +4.94% +15.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,503 32,675 44,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.51% 33.05% 27.06%
Number of salaries quoted 17,216 14,699 19,173
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,010 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.04%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +233 1,739 £35,773 -13.28% 1,478
UK excluding London +116 1,081 £35,000 -17.65% 1,208
London +342 691 £38,975 +11.36% 337
Work from Home +175 675 £44,750 -0.56% 279
South East +95 420 £39,870 +15.87% 287
North of England +69 226 £32,500 -29.35% 314
Midlands +86 205 £32,882 -32.87% 249
East Midlands +71 114 £34,834 -0.47% 109
Yorkshire +80 105 £32,500 -26.71% 115
South West +80 105 £30,000 -25.00% 150
North West +49 102 £30,810 -33.02% 167
West Midlands +26 91 £30,150 -40.88% 140
East of England -1 77 £37,528 +44.34% 147
Scotland -51 41 £40,000 -40.30% 22
North East -4 19 £39,000 -18.19% 35
Wales -1 9 £35,000 -39.13% 47
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2

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 39 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.60%) Confluence
4 6 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.27%) CMS
5 5 (0.27%) WordPress
6 3 (0.16%) Apache
6 3 (0.16%) IIS
7 1 (0.055%) Drupal
7 1 (0.055%) Moodle
7 1 (0.055%) nginx
7 1 (0.055%) SAS
Applications
1 325 (17.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 215 (11.74%) Microsoft Office
2 215 (11.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 76 (4.15%) Spreadsheet
4 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.22%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.16%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.11%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 15 (0.82%) NEC Housing
2 9 (0.49%) Primavera
3 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.33%) SAP PLM
3 6 (0.33%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.22%) Raiser’s Edge
4 4 (0.22%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.16%) iTrent
5 3 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.11%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.11%) Shopify
7 1 (0.055%) ContrOCC
7 1 (0.055%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.055%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 235 (12.83%) Azure
2 201 (10.97%) AWS
3 188 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
4 170 (9.28%) Power Platform
5 48 (2.62%) Serverless
6 43 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 33 (1.80%) Google Workspace
9 29 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 25 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (0.93%) GCP
12 16 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
13 15 (0.82%) Entra ID
14 12 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (0.66%) Google Analytics
15 11 (0.60%) SaaS
16 10 (0.55%) Google Tag Manager
16 10 (0.55%) IaaS
17 9 (0.49%) Asana
17 9 (0.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.22%) Wireless
2 46 (2.51%) TCP/IP
3 45 (2.46%) DNS
4 44 (2.40%) LAN
5 41 (2.24%) DHCP
6 40 (2.18%) WAN
7 35 (1.91%) Firewall
8 34 (1.86%) Network Security
9 25 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (1.31%) VoIP
11 23 (1.26%) Internet
12 16 (0.87%) Broadband
13 11 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
14 10 (0.55%) VLAN
15 8 (0.44%) Intranet
15 8 (0.44%) VPN
16 7 (0.38%) SMS
17 6 (0.33%) SAN
18 4 (0.22%) Fibre Channel
18 4 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (10.59%) Tableau
2 159 (8.68%) Power BI
3 57 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 51 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (2.29%) SQL Server
6 39 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 37 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
8 36 (1.97%) DynamoDB
9 31 (1.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 18 (0.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 12 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 11 (0.60%) Big Data
12 11 (0.60%) Data Lake
13 10 (0.55%) Power Query
14 9 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (0.38%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.38%) Looker
16 6 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.33%) MySQL
17 4 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 212 (11.57%) Git
2 39 (2.13%) GitLab
3 14 (0.76%) JIRA
4 4 (0.22%) gulp
4 4 (0.22%) Katalon Studio
4 4 (0.22%) Postman
4 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.16%) Hudson
6 2 (0.11%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.11%) JMeter
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.055%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.055%) fastlane
7 1 (0.055%) Gradle
7 1 (0.055%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.055%) MSI
7 1 (0.055%) Selenium
7 1 (0.055%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,065 (58.13%) Social Skills
2 499 (27.24%) Retail
3 495 (27.02%) Analytical Skills
4 278 (15.17%) Finance
5 245 (13.37%) German Language
6 182 (9.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 164 (8.95%) Presentation Skills
8 156 (8.52%) Marketing
8 156 (8.52%) Organisational Skills
9 115 (6.28%) Public Sector
10 59 (3.22%) Advertising
11 56 (3.06%) Legal
12 52 (2.84%) Local Government
13 43 (2.35%) Games
14 36 (1.97%) Telecoms
15 35 (1.91%) Police
16 31 (1.69%) Aerospace
17 27 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
18 21 (1.15%) Billing
19 20 (1.09%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 253 (13.81%) Senior
2 239 (13.05%) Graduate
3 211 (11.52%) Analyst
4 147 (8.02%) Data Analyst
5 116 (6.33%) Lead
6 109 (5.95%) Senior Analyst
7 102 (5.57%) Senior Data Analyst
8 88 (4.80%) IT Support
9 87 (4.75%) Developer
10 74 (4.04%) Support Engineer
11 70 (3.82%) IT Engineer
12 67 (3.66%) IT Technician
13 51 (2.78%) Administrator
14 48 (2.62%) Coordinator
14 48 (2.62%) IT Support Engineer
15 46 (2.51%) Consultant
15 46 (2.51%) Data Scientist
16 45 (2.46%) Senior Data Scientist
17 42 (2.29%) Field Engineer
17 42 (2.29%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (2.57%) PySpark
2 45 (2.46%) .NET
2 45 (2.46%) Pandas
2 45 (2.46%) scikit-learn
2 45 (2.46%) TensorFlow
3 41 (2.24%) GraphQL
4 39 (2.13%) Django
5 36 (1.97%) RESTful
6 33 (1.80%) EDI
7 22 (1.20%) CSS
8 18 (0.98%) React
9 16 (0.87%) .NET Core
10 15 (0.82%) Web Services
11 12 (0.66%) HTML
12 7 (0.38%) .NET Framework
13 6 (0.33%) REST
13 6 (0.33%) XML
14 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
14 5 (0.27%) Entity Framework
14 5 (0.27%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 326 (17.79%) Self-Motivation
2 291 (15.88%) Driving Licence
3 112 (6.11%) Management Information System
4 84 (4.59%) Social Media
5 66 (3.60%) NHS
6 63 (3.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 60 (3.28%) Photography
8 52 (2.84%) Algorithms
9 51 (2.78%) Onboarding
10 28 (1.53%) CCTV
11 26 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 20 (1.09%) e-Learning
13 15 (0.82%) Educational Technology
13 15 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
14 12 (0.66%) Learning Management System
15 11 (0.60%) Data Structures
16 9 (0.49%) PKI
17 8 (0.44%) Video\Live Streaming
18 7 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
18 7 (0.38%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 249 (13.59%) Windows
2 98 (5.35%) Windows Server
3 68 (3.71%) Windows 10
4 45 (2.46%) Windows Server 2019
5 44 (2.40%) Mac OS
6 42 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (1.04%) Windows 7
9 17 (0.93%) Android
9 17 (0.93%) Apple iOS
10 13 (0.71%) Linux
11 9 (0.49%) Windows 8
12 5 (0.27%) Windows Vista
13 2 (0.11%) Unix
14 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 491 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
2 323 (17.63%) Customer Service
3 224 (12.23%) Mathematics
3 224 (12.23%) Visualisation
4 208 (11.35%) Actionable Insight
5 198 (10.81%) Analytics
6 197 (10.75%) Storytelling
7 187 (10.21%) Customer Insight
8 180 (9.83%) Root Cause Analysis
8 180 (9.83%) Statistics
9 175 (9.55%) Data Analysis
10 173 (9.44%) Data Pipeline
11 161 (8.79%) Agile
11 161 (8.79%) Business Intelligence
12 148 (8.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 144 (7.86%) Project Management
14 143 (7.81%) Line Management
15 140 (7.64%) Business Strategy
16 126 (6.88%) Customer Intelligence
17 124 (6.77%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 365 (19.92%) SQL
2 246 (13.43%) Python
3 61 (3.33%) C#
4 35 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (1.64%) PowerShell
6 23 (1.26%) JavaScript
7 19 (1.04%) Java
8 17 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 14 (0.76%) T-SQL
10 12 (0.66%) VBA
11 5 (0.27%) PHP
11 5 (0.27%) VB
12 4 (0.22%) C++
12 4 (0.22%) Groovy
13 3 (0.16%) JSX
13 3 (0.16%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.11%) C
14 2 (0.11%) FoxPro (VFP)
14 2 (0.11%) R
14 2 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 675 (36.84%) Degree
2 76 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 73 (3.98%) Security Cleared
4 61 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 45 (2.46%) MCP
6 44 (2.40%) A+ Certification
7 40 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.58%) CIPD
9 29 (1.58%) SC Cleared
10 22 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
12 12 (0.66%) CCNP
12 12 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.55%) CEH
13 10 (0.55%) CISSP
14 9 (0.49%) CCNA
15 8 (0.44%) APMG
15 8 (0.44%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (6.71%) GDPR
2 63 (3.44%) QA
3 28 (1.53%) SLA
4 21 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (0.87%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 12 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
8 8 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.38%) PMO
10 5 (0.27%) NEBOSH
11 3 (0.16%) NCSC
11 3 (0.16%) NIST
12 1 (0.055%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 159 (8.68%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.09%) Hyper-V
4 14 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
5 10 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.38%) vSphere
7 4 (0.22%) Docker
7 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.22%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.22%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.11%) KVM
8 2 (0.11%) XenApp
8 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.055%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (1.42%) SCCM
2 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.44%) Autotask
4 6 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (0.22%) SCOM
6 3 (0.16%) Consul
6 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.16%) Packer
6 3 (0.16%) PaperCut
6 3 (0.16%) Terraform
7 2 (0.11%) Ansible
7 2 (0.11%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.11%) Rundeck
7 2 (0.11%) SmoothWall
7 2 (0.11%) WSUS
8 1 (0.055%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.055%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 508 (27.73%) Microsoft
2 195 (10.64%) Databricks
3 70 (3.82%) Google
4 47 (2.57%) Apple
5 33 (1.80%) VMware
6 30 (1.64%) ServiceNow
6 30 (1.64%) Thales
7 26 (1.42%) Sun
8 20 (1.09%) Cisco
8 20 (1.09%) Oracle
9 18 (0.98%) HP
10 15 (0.82%) NEC
11 12 (0.66%) Salesforce
12 11 (0.60%) Datto
12 11 (0.60%) Veeam
13 10 (0.55%) Adobe
14 9 (0.49%) Aruba
14 9 (0.49%) Meraki
14 9 (0.49%) SAP
15 8 (0.44%) Sage