DBS Check Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DBS Check qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 307 344
Rank change year-on-year +120 +37 +94
Permanent jobs citing DBS Check 1,148 572 755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.45% 1.03% 1.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.60% 2.71% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 794 185 323
10th Percentile £23,913 £24,700 £26,050
25th Percentile £26,675 £29,250 £30,265
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +8.43% +27.69%
75th Percentile £48,000 £62,971 £51,696
90th Percentile £61,250 £69,649 £73,322
UK median annual salary £37,917 £44,345 £42,500
% change year-on-year -14.50% +4.34% +11.46%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 20,500 21,081 24,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.95% 37.88% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,311 7,937 10,633
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,549
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.96% +0.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -

DBS Check
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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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for DBS Check in the UK excluding London

DBS Check
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBS Check in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DBS Check in the UK excluding London

DBS Check
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +98 411 £40,000 +15.94% 297
North of England +92 249 £32,500 -31.58% 296
Midlands +86 216 £32,500 -35.64% 191
East Midlands +63 119 £34,834 +7.18% 86
North West +45 115 £31,000 -31.87% 165
Yorkshire +90 114 £32,500 -29.23% 97
South West +59 110 £31,000 -48.33% 160
West Midlands +27 97 £30,000 -41.18% 104
Scotland -11 80 £48,000 -28.36% 14
East of England -28 71 £37,939 +45.92% 137
North East -7 20 £39,000 -18.19% 35
Wales +5 12 £35,000 -39.13% 41
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2
South Coast - 1 £35,000 -
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UK

DBS Check
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 35 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.61%) Confluence
4 6 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.087%) IIS
6 1 (0.087%) Moodle
6 1 (0.087%) SAS
6 1 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 161 (14.02%) Microsoft Office
2 160 (13.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 74 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.26%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.17%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 26 (2.26%) NEC Housing
2 9 (0.78%) Primavera
3 6 (0.52%) SAP PLM
3 6 (0.52%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.35%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.087%) ContrOCC
7 1 (0.087%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 214 (18.64%) Azure
2 175 (15.24%) Microsoft 365
3 156 (13.59%) Power Platform
4 44 (3.83%) AWS
5 30 (2.61%) Google Workspace
6 29 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 23 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (1.05%) GCP
10 12 (1.05%) IaaS
11 10 (0.87%) Google Analytics
11 10 (0.87%) Google Tag Manager
11 10 (0.87%) SaaS
12 9 (0.78%) Entra ID
12 9 (0.78%) PaaS
13 6 (0.52%) Snowflake
14 5 (0.44%) BigCommerce
14 5 (0.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.27%) TCP/IP
2 45 (3.92%) Wireless
3 41 (3.57%) LAN
4 37 (3.22%) DNS
5 35 (3.05%) WAN
6 33 (2.87%) DHCP
7 32 (2.79%) Network Security
8 28 (2.44%) Firewall
9 21 (1.83%) VoIP
10 19 (1.66%) Internet
11 15 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.78%) VLAN
13 8 (0.70%) Intranet
13 8 (0.70%) SAN
14 7 (0.61%) SMS
15 6 (0.52%) Fibre Channel
16 5 (0.44%) Broadband
16 5 (0.44%) VPN
17 4 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
18 3 (0.26%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (12.63%) Power BI
2 57 (4.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 44 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (3.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 36 (3.14%) SQL Server
6 35 (3.05%) Tableau
7 31 (2.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 13 (1.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 12 (1.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 12 (1.05%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.96%) Big Data
10 11 (0.96%) Power Query
11 7 (0.61%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.61%) Looker
12 6 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.17%) GIS
13 2 (0.17%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (2.26%) Git
2 10 (0.87%) JIRA
3 4 (0.35%) gulp
3 4 (0.35%) Katalon Studio
3 4 (0.35%) Postman
3 4 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (0.35%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.17%) Apache Continuum
4 2 (0.17%) JMeter
4 2 (0.17%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.087%) Bugzilla
5 1 (0.087%) Gradle
5 1 (0.087%) Selenium
5 1 (0.087%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.087%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.087%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.087%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 592 (51.57%) Social Skills
2 255 (22.21%) Retail
3 195 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (16.55%) Finance
5 142 (12.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 117 (10.19%) Organisational Skills
7 86 (7.49%) Marketing
8 80 (6.97%) German Language
9 59 (5.14%) Local Government
10 48 (4.18%) Presentation Skills
11 43 (3.75%) Police
11 43 (3.75%) Public Sector
12 34 (2.96%) Aerospace
13 27 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
14 26 (2.26%) Legal
15 25 (2.18%) Telecoms
16 24 (2.09%) Games
17 21 (1.83%) Advertising
18 20 (1.74%) Billing
18 20 (1.74%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 92 (8.01%) Analyst
2 88 (7.67%) IT Support
2 88 (7.67%) Senior
3 80 (6.97%) Graduate
4 75 (6.53%) Support Engineer
5 72 (6.27%) Developer
6 71 (6.18%) IT Engineer
7 70 (6.10%) Lead
8 54 (4.70%) IT Technician
9 51 (4.44%) IT Support Engineer
10 44 (3.83%) Consultant
11 43 (3.75%) Support Technician
12 40 (3.48%) Field Engineer
13 39 (3.40%) Smart Metering Engineer
14 38 (3.31%) Administrator
15 37 (3.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 36 (3.14%) 2nd Line Support
17 35 (3.05%) Data Analyst
17 35 (3.05%) Project Manager
18 31 (2.70%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (3.22%) .NET
2 28 (2.44%) EDI
3 19 (1.66%) CSS
4 14 (1.22%) .NET Core
4 14 (1.22%) React
5 12 (1.05%) HTML
6 11 (0.96%) Web Services
7 7 (0.61%) .NET Framework
8 5 (0.44%) Entity Framework
8 5 (0.44%) XML
9 4 (0.35%) Blazor
9 4 (0.35%) Gherkin
9 4 (0.35%) LINQ
9 4 (0.35%) Middleware
9 4 (0.35%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (0.35%) WPF
9 4 (0.35%) XSLT
10 3 (0.26%) LESS
10 3 (0.26%) Razor View Engine
10 3 (0.26%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 156 (13.59%) Self-Motivation
2 143 (12.46%) Driving Licence
3 66 (5.75%) Management Information System
4 54 (4.70%) NHS
5 43 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 39 (3.40%) Smart Meter
7 28 (2.44%) Social Media
8 20 (1.74%) Data Centre
8 20 (1.74%) e-Learning
9 19 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (1.39%) CCTV
10 16 (1.39%) Photography
11 15 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
12 11 (0.96%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.87%) Learning Management System
14 9 (0.78%) PKI
15 8 (0.70%) Algorithms
16 7 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
16 7 (0.61%) VLE
17 6 (0.52%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 227 (19.77%) Windows
2 93 (8.10%) Windows Server
3 55 (4.79%) Windows 10
4 44 (3.83%) Mac OS
5 31 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 27 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (1.66%) Windows 7
9 15 (1.31%) Android
9 15 (1.31%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.87%) Linux
11 9 (0.78%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.26%) Unix
13 1 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.087%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (28.05%) Customer Service
2 276 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
3 146 (12.72%) Business Intelligence
4 113 (9.84%) Line Management
5 106 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 104 (9.06%) Project Management
7 90 (7.84%) Agile
8 89 (7.75%) Mentoring
9 82 (7.14%) ITIL
10 80 (6.97%) Project Delivery
11 67 (5.84%) Analytics
11 67 (5.84%) Mathematics
11 67 (5.84%) Migration
12 64 (5.57%) Customer Insight
13 61 (5.31%) Visualisation
14 59 (5.14%) Data Pipeline
15 55 (4.79%) Time Management
16 50 (4.36%) Data Analysis
17 49 (4.27%) Decision-Making
18 48 (4.18%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 193 (16.81%) SQL
2 57 (4.97%) C#
3 50 (4.36%) Python
4 36 (3.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 25 (2.18%) PowerShell
6 19 (1.66%) Java
6 19 (1.66%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.22%) T-SQL
8 13 (1.13%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.05%) VBA
10 6 (0.52%) C++
11 5 (0.44%) Scala
11 5 (0.44%) VB
12 4 (0.35%) C
12 4 (0.35%) Groovy
13 3 (0.26%) JSX
13 3 (0.26%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.17%) Fortran
14 2 (0.17%) Julia
14 2 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 288 (25.09%) Degree
2 81 (7.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 78 (6.79%) Security Cleared
4 45 (3.92%) MCP
5 40 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (2.70%) SC Cleared
8 30 (2.61%) A+ Certification
9 26 (2.26%) CIPD
10 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.70%) APMG
11 8 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.52%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.52%) HND
12 6 (0.52%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.44%) CEH
13 5 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.35%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (3.66%) GDPR
1 42 (3.66%) QA
2 24 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.00%) SLA
4 22 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.22%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
8 8 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.52%) PMO
11 4 (0.35%) NEBOSH
12 3 (0.26%) NCSC
13 1 (0.087%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 134 (11.67%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.66%) Hyper-V
3 16 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.52%) Terminal Services
7 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.35%) VMware Server
8 4 (0.35%) vSphere
9 2 (0.17%) Docker
9 2 (0.17%) KVM
9 2 (0.17%) XenApp
9 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (1.05%) SCCM
2 9 (0.78%) Autotask
3 6 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
3 6 (0.52%) SCOM
4 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.087%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.087%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.087%) SmoothWall
5 1 (0.087%) WSUS
Vendors
1 420 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 51 (4.44%) Google
3 36 (3.14%) Databricks
4 35 (3.05%) Apple
5 30 (2.61%) Thales
6 28 (2.44%) Sun
7 26 (2.26%) NEC
8 22 (1.92%) VMware
9 18 (1.57%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.39%) HP
11 13 (1.13%) Oracle
12 11 (0.96%) Datto
13 10 (0.87%) Veeam
14 8 (0.70%) SAP
15 7 (0.61%) Salesforce
16 6 (0.52%) Aruba
17 5 (0.44%) Dell
17 5 (0.44%) Northgate
18 4 (0.35%) Adobe
18 4 (0.35%) Citrix