DBS Check Contracts in the UK excluding London

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DBS Check qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 358 362
Rank change year-on-year +36 +4 -53
Contract jobs citing DBS Check 76 81 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.35% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.00% 1.08% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 61 121
10th Percentile £105 £135 £125
25th Percentile £160 £160 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £193 £180
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +6.94% +2.86%
75th Percentile £305 £438 £210
90th Percentile £524 £530 £438
UK median daily rate £300 £190 £200
% change year-on-year +57.89% -5.00% -42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 4 14
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £11.71 £9.50 £15.08
Median hourly rate £15.00 £12.04 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.64% -29.21% -5.56%
75th Percentile £19.62 £15.93 £17.12
90th Percentile £24.91 £18.37 £20.00
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £12.04 £17.00
% change year-on-year +24.64% -29.21% -5.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,610 7,474 8,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.00% 32.72% 26.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,382 4,912 5,386
10th Percentile £280 £313 £263
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £713 £718 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 559 548
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.84 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.62 £20.00 £17.19
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.56 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.19% +55.89% +26.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.56 £57.61
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.19 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £40.97 £55.41 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.06% +24.52% +36.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DBS Check as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DBS Check in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DBS Check in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DBS Check in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBS Check in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBS Check in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DBS Check in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DBS Check in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DBS Check in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DBS Check in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBS Check within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +36 28 £168 -60.59% 267
South East +14 25 £325 +44.44% 303
Yorkshire +25 14 £200 - 103
North West +9 13 £158 -63.48% 131
Midlands +9 7 £185 +23.33% 211
South West +4 6 £109 -56.50% 173
East of England -2 5 £300 +55.84% 133
West Midlands +12 4 £185 +29.14% 119
Wales +13 3 £220 +37.50% 42
East Midlands +8 3 - - 92
Scotland +22 2 £200 +25.00% 17
North East +10 1 - - 36
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (5.26%) WordPress
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (11.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (11.84%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.32%) Acrobat
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 15 (19.74%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (5.26%) Azure
2 4 (5.26%) MailChimp
3 2 (2.63%) AWS
3 2 (2.63%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.32%) GCP
4 1 (1.32%) IaaS
4 1 (1.32%) PaaS
4 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) Firewall
2 3 (3.95%) Wireless
3 2 (2.63%) DHCP
3 2 (2.63%) DNS
3 2 (2.63%) LAN
3 2 (2.63%) Network Security
3 2 (2.63%) VLAN
3 2 (2.63%) WLAN
4 1 (1.32%) ADSL
4 1 (1.32%) Internet
4 1 (1.32%) SAN
4 1 (1.32%) SMS
4 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.32%) Power BI
1 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 28 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.47%) Finance
3 7 (9.21%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Legal
5 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.95%) Local Government
7 2 (2.63%) Billing
7 2 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.32%) Advertising
8 1 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Aviation
8 1 (1.32%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.32%) Military
8 1 (1.32%) Police
8 1 (1.32%) Retail
8 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (17.11%) IT Support
2 10 (13.16%) IT Engineer
2 10 (13.16%) Support Engineer
3 9 (11.84%) Project Manager
4 8 (10.53%) Lead
5 7 (9.21%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Network Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Team Leader
7 5 (6.58%) Analyst
7 5 (6.58%) Field Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) IT Technician
8 4 (5.26%) Database Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Senior
9 3 (3.95%) IT Manager
10 2 (2.63%) Administrator
10 2 (2.63%) Support Analyst
10 2 (2.63%) Support Technician
10 2 (2.63%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.47%) Management Information System
2 10 (13.16%) Driving Licence
3 5 (6.58%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.95%) NHS
6 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.32%) Handset
7 1 (1.32%) SCADA
7 1 (1.32%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.47%) Windows
2 5 (6.58%) Windows 10
3 4 (5.26%) Mac OS
3 4 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (13.16%) Project Management
2 9 (11.84%) Customer Service
2 9 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (10.53%) Decision-Making
3 8 (10.53%) Housing Management
4 7 (9.21%) Case Management
5 5 (6.58%) Budget Management
5 5 (6.58%) Data Protection
5 5 (6.58%) ITSM
6 4 (5.26%) Agile
6 4 (5.26%) Customer Value Proposition
6 4 (5.26%) Document Management
6 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (5.26%) Service Management
6 4 (5.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (5.26%) Value Proposition
7 3 (3.95%) Change Management
7 3 (3.95%) IT Asset Management
7 3 (3.95%) Resource Management
7 3 (3.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.63%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.32%) SQL
2 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.58%) Degree
2 4 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.95%) CCNA
4 1 (1.32%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.32%) CCDA
4 1 (1.32%) CCIE
4 1 (1.32%) CCNP
4 1 (1.32%) JNCIA
4 1 (1.32%) MCDST
4 1 (1.32%) MCP
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.32%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.63%) GDPR
2 2 (2.63%) PMO
2 2 (2.63%) SLA
3 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.58%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) SCCM
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.32%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 24 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.89%) Cisco
3 4 (5.26%) Google
3 4 (5.26%) Hootsuite
3 4 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.26%) VMware
4 3 (3.95%) SAP
5 2 (2.63%) Dell
5 2 (2.63%) Remedy
5 2 (2.63%) SonicWALL
5 2 (2.63%) WatchGuard
6 1 (1.32%) Adobe
6 1 (1.32%) AlgoSec
6 1 (1.32%) Aruba
6 1 (1.32%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.32%) Juniper
6 1 (1.32%) NEC
6 1 (1.32%) Northgate