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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 379 526
Rank change year-on-year +217 +147 +67
Permanent jobs citing DBS Check 1,803 895 987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.82% 0.89% 0.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.56% 2.72% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,100 242 397
10th Percentile £24,196 £24,840 £25,743
25th Percentile £27,965 £30,265 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.70% +1.25%
75th Percentile £48,317 £55,000 £56,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £69,649 £72,829
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £42,500 £40,478
% change year-on-year -17.65% +5.00% +15.65%

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 27,489 32,962 42,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.71% 32.63% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17,297 14,888 18,855
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +7.73% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,276 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.49% +2.55% +0.50%

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 10 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 10 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 +232 1,713 £35,000 -17.65% 1,464
UK excluding London +99 1,073 £35,000 -17.65% 1,198
London +347 671 £37,934 +20.42% 329
Work from Home +147 629 £45,000 - 304
South East +101 424 £39,870 +15.87% 251
North of England +59 216 £32,500 -29.35% 306
Midlands +67 202 £32,882 -31.44% 254
East Midlands +59 112 £34,834 -0.47% 112
South West +71 104 £30,000 -20.00% 162
North West +37 100 £31,000 -32.61% 151
Yorkshire +74 97 £32,500 -26.71% 122
West Midlands +15 90 £30,150 -40.30% 142
East of England +18 82 £37,528 +44.34% 171
Scotland -47 38 £40,000 -40.30% 20
North East -6 19 £39,000 -18.19% 35
Wales -4 9 £35,000 -39.13% 39
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1

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 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.55%) Confluence
4 6 (0.33%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.33%) WordPress
5 3 (0.17%) Apache
5 3 (0.17%) CMS
5 3 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.055%) Drupal
6 1 (0.055%) Moodle
6 1 (0.055%) nginx
6 1 (0.055%) SAS
Applications
1 325 (18.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 215 (11.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 212 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
4 98 (5.44%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.22%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.11%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 11 (0.61%) NEC Housing
2 9 (0.50%) 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 (0.17%) iTrent
5 3 (0.17%) 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
6 2 (0.11%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.055%) ContrOCC
7 1 (0.055%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 235 (13.03%) Azure
2 186 (10.32%) Microsoft 365
3 170 (9.43%) AWS
3 170 (9.43%) Power Platform
4 39 (2.16%) Serverless
5 36 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 34 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
7 32 (1.77%) Google Workspace
8 29 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (1.05%) GCP
11 16 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (0.89%) Entra ID
12 12 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (0.61%) Google Analytics
13 11 (0.61%) SaaS
14 10 (0.55%) IaaS
15 9 (0.50%) Asana
15 9 (0.50%) Google Tag Manager
15 9 (0.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.33%) Wireless
2 46 (2.55%) DNS
2 46 (2.55%) TCP/IP
3 44 (2.44%) LAN
4 42 (2.33%) DHCP
5 40 (2.22%) WAN
6 37 (2.05%) Firewall
7 34 (1.89%) Network Security
8 26 (1.44%) VoIP
8 26 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (1.28%) Internet
10 16 (0.89%) Broadband
11 11 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
12 10 (0.55%) VLAN
12 10 (0.55%) VPN
13 8 (0.44%) Intranet
14 7 (0.39%) SMS
15 6 (0.33%) SAN
16 4 (0.22%) Fibre Channel
16 4 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (9.21%) Tableau
2 159 (8.82%) Power BI
3 57 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 50 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (2.38%) SQL Server
6 39 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 31 (1.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 28 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (1.44%) DynamoDB
10 18 (1.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 12 (0.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 11 (0.61%) Big Data
12 11 (0.61%) Data Lake
13 10 (0.55%) Power Query
14 9 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (0.39%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.39%) Looker
15 7 (0.39%) MySQL
16 6 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
17 5 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 180 (9.98%) Git
2 29 (1.61%) GitLab
3 14 (0.78%) JIRA
4 4 (0.22%) Katalon Studio
4 4 (0.22%) Postman
4 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.17%) Hudson
5 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.11%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.11%) gulp
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%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.055%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,022 (56.68%) Social Skills
2 478 (26.51%) Analytical Skills
3 474 (26.29%) Retail
4 270 (14.98%) Finance
5 245 (13.59%) German Language
6 182 (10.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 152 (8.43%) Organisational Skills
8 150 (8.32%) Marketing
9 141 (7.82%) Presentation Skills
10 132 (7.32%) Public Sector
11 59 (3.27%) Advertising
12 53 (2.94%) Legal
13 48 (2.66%) Local Government
14 42 (2.33%) Games
15 34 (1.89%) Telecoms
16 31 (1.72%) Aerospace
16 31 (1.72%) Police
17 23 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (1.05%) Billing
18 19 (1.05%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 239 (13.26%) Graduate
2 223 (12.37%) Senior
3 187 (10.37%) Analyst
4 124 (6.88%) Data Analyst
5 116 (6.43%) Lead
6 87 (4.83%) IT Support
7 86 (4.77%) Senior Analyst
8 80 (4.44%) Developer
9 79 (4.38%) Senior Data Analyst
10 73 (4.05%) Support Engineer
11 69 (3.83%) IT Engineer
12 67 (3.72%) IT Technician
13 51 (2.83%) Administrator
14 48 (2.66%) Coordinator
15 47 (2.61%) IT Support Engineer
16 45 (2.50%) Consultant
17 43 (2.38%) Field Engineer
18 42 (2.33%) IT Manager
18 42 (2.33%) Support Technician
19 41 (2.27%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.33%) .NET
1 42 (2.33%) PySpark
2 40 (2.22%) Pandas
2 40 (2.22%) scikit-learn
2 40 (2.22%) TensorFlow
3 33 (1.83%) EDI
4 31 (1.72%) GraphQL
5 29 (1.61%) Django
6 26 (1.44%) RESTful
7 21 (1.16%) CSS
8 16 (0.89%) .NET Core
8 16 (0.89%) React
9 15 (0.83%) Web Services
10 12 (0.67%) HTML
11 6 (0.33%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.33%) REST
11 6 (0.33%) XML
12 5 (0.28%) Entity Framework
12 5 (0.28%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 325 (18.03%) Self-Motivation
2 291 (16.14%) Driving Licence
3 109 (6.05%) Management Information System
4 85 (4.71%) Social Media
5 63 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 62 (3.44%) NHS
7 60 (3.33%) Photography
8 51 (2.83%) Onboarding
9 47 (2.61%) Algorithms
10 27 (1.50%) CCTV
11 26 (1.44%) Data Centre
12 20 (1.11%) e-Learning
13 16 (0.89%) Educational Technology
14 14 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
15 12 (0.67%) Learning Management System
16 10 (0.55%) Data Structures
17 9 (0.50%) PKI
18 8 (0.44%) Video\Live Streaming
19 7 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
19 7 (0.39%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 250 (13.87%) Windows
2 98 (5.44%) Windows Server
3 68 (3.77%) Windows 10
4 45 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 44 (2.44%) Mac OS
6 42 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (1.05%) Windows 7
9 17 (0.94%) Android
9 17 (0.94%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.67%) Linux
11 9 (0.50%) Windows 8
12 6 (0.33%) Windows Vista
13 2 (0.11%) Unix
14 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
2 319 (17.69%) Customer Service
3 196 (10.87%) Visualisation
4 195 (10.82%) Mathematics
5 187 (10.37%) Customer Insight
6 180 (9.98%) Actionable Insight
7 173 (9.60%) Analytics
8 169 (9.37%) Storytelling
9 161 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
10 159 (8.82%) Data Analysis
10 159 (8.82%) Root Cause Analysis
11 152 (8.43%) Agile
11 152 (8.43%) Statistics
12 149 (8.26%) Data Pipeline
13 142 (7.88%) Line Management
14 141 (7.82%) Project Management
15 132 (7.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 124 (6.88%) Business Strategy
17 120 (6.66%) Stakeholder Management
18 112 (6.21%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 336 (18.64%) SQL
2 207 (11.48%) Python
3 59 (3.27%) C#
4 35 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (1.66%) PowerShell
6 22 (1.22%) JavaScript
7 19 (1.05%) Java
8 16 (0.89%) TypeScript
9 14 (0.78%) T-SQL
10 12 (0.67%) VBA
11 6 (0.33%) PHP
12 5 (0.28%) VB
13 4 (0.22%) C++
13 4 (0.22%) Groovy
14 3 (0.17%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.11%) C
15 2 (0.11%) FoxPro (VFP)
15 2 (0.11%) JSX
15 2 (0.11%) R
15 2 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 644 (35.72%) Degree
2 76 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 72 (3.99%) Security Cleared
4 56 (3.11%) Master's Degree
5 45 (2.50%) MCP
6 44 (2.44%) A+ Certification
7 38 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.55%) SC Cleared
10 26 (1.44%) CIPD
11 24 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
13 14 (0.78%) CCNP
14 12 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.55%) CISSP
16 9 (0.50%) CCNA
16 9 (0.50%) CEH
17 8 (0.44%) APMG
17 8 (0.44%) PMI Certification
17 8 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (7.99%) GDPR
2 59 (3.27%) QA
3 28 (1.55%) SLA
4 21 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (0.83%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
8 8 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.39%) PMO
10 5 (0.28%) NEBOSH
11 3 (0.17%) NCSC
11 3 (0.17%) NIST
12 1 (0.055%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 160 (8.87%) Active Directory
2 33 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 14 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
5 10 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.50%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.11%) XenApp
8 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (1.44%) SCCM
2 13 (0.72%) 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%) PaperCut
5 4 (0.22%) SCOM
6 3 (0.17%) Consul
6 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.17%) Packer
6 3 (0.17%) SmoothWall
6 3 (0.17%) Terraform
6 3 (0.17%) WSUS
7 2 (0.11%) Ansible
7 2 (0.11%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.11%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.055%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.055%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 501 (27.79%) Microsoft
2 166 (9.21%) Databricks
3 69 (3.83%) Google
4 46 (2.55%) Apple
5 35 (1.94%) VMware
6 30 (1.66%) ServiceNow
6 30 (1.66%) Thales
7 26 (1.44%) Sun
8 22 (1.22%) Cisco
9 20 (1.11%) Oracle
10 19 (1.05%) HP
11 12 (0.67%) Salesforce
12 11 (0.61%) Aruba
12 11 (0.61%) Datto
12 11 (0.61%) NEC
12 11 (0.61%) Veeam
13 10 (0.55%) Adobe
13 10 (0.55%) Meraki
14 9 (0.50%) SAP
15 8 (0.44%) Sage