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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 382 547
Rank change year-on-year +219 +165 +43
Permanent jobs citing DBS Check 1,825 858 992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.83% 0.87% 0.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.64% 2.62% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,084 244 401
10th Percentile £24,196 £24,888 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,965 £30,198 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £41,358 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% -0.34% +3.75%
75th Percentile £48,449 £55,500 £56,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £69,649 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £42,500 £41,084
% change year-on-year -17.65% +3.45% +16.28%

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 27,486 32,730 43,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.51% 33.01% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 17,243 14,736 18,996
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,483 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £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 £52,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.49% +4.70% +1.01%

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 18 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 18 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 1,733 £36,000 -10.00% 1,576
UK excluding London +109 1,079 £35,000 -17.65% 1,287
London +345 687 £39,200 +12.00% 360
Work from Home +170 671 £44,750 -0.56% 312
South East +100 419 £39,870 +15.87% 292
North of England +80 225 £32,500 -29.35% 338
Midlands +80 205 £32,882 -32.87% 267
East Midlands +73 115 £34,834 -0.47% 115
South West +66 105 £30,000 -20.00% 170
Yorkshire +82 104 £32,500 -26.71% 134
North West +44 102 £30,810 -33.02% 169
West Midlands +31 90 £30,150 -40.88% 152
East of England +1 78 £37,528 +44.34% 158
Scotland -49 40 £40,000 -40.30% 21
North East -3 19 £39,000 -18.19% 38
Wales -4 9 £35,000 -39.13% 48
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 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.66%) Confluence
4 6 (0.33%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.33%) WordPress
5 5 (0.27%) CMS
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 (17.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 215 (11.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 214 (11.73%) Microsoft Office
4 76 (4.16%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.22%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.11%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 14 (0.77%) 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
1 237 (12.99%) Azure
2 198 (10.85%) AWS
3 188 (10.30%) Microsoft 365
4 170 (9.32%) Power Platform
5 49 (2.68%) Serverless
6 44 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 33 (1.81%) Google Workspace
9 29 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 25 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (1.04%) GCP
12 16 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (0.88%) Entra ID
13 12 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (0.66%) Google Analytics
14 11 (0.60%) SaaS
15 10 (0.55%) Google Tag Manager
15 10 (0.55%) IaaS
16 9 (0.49%) Asana
16 9 (0.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.29%) Wireless
2 47 (2.58%) TCP/IP
3 46 (2.52%) DNS
4 44 (2.41%) LAN
5 42 (2.30%) DHCP
6 40 (2.19%) WAN
7 37 (2.03%) Firewall
8 34 (1.86%) Network Security
9 26 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (1.37%) VoIP
11 23 (1.26%) Internet
12 16 (0.88%) Broadband
13 11 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
13 11 (0.60%) VLAN
14 9 (0.49%) VPN
15 8 (0.44%) Intranet
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
1 189 (10.36%) Tableau
2 159 (8.71%) Power BI
3 57 (3.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 51 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (2.30%) SQL Server
6 39 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 38 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
8 36 (1.97%) DynamoDB
9 31 (1.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 18 (0.99%) 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
15 7 (0.38%) MySQL
16 6 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
17 5 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 212 (11.62%) Git
2 39 (2.14%) GitLab
3 15 (0.82%) 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%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,058 (57.97%) Social Skills
2 495 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
3 494 (27.07%) Retail
4 275 (15.07%) Finance
5 245 (13.42%) German Language
6 182 (9.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 159 (8.71%) Presentation Skills
8 155 (8.49%) Marketing
8 155 (8.49%) Organisational Skills
9 113 (6.19%) Public Sector
10 59 (3.23%) Advertising
11 55 (3.01%) Legal
12 51 (2.79%) Local Government
13 43 (2.36%) Games
14 34 (1.86%) Police
14 34 (1.86%) Telecoms
15 31 (1.70%) Aerospace
16 27 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
17 21 (1.15%) Billing
18 19 (1.04%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 248 (13.59%) Senior
2 239 (13.10%) Graduate
3 206 (11.29%) Analyst
4 142 (7.78%) Data Analyst
5 117 (6.41%) Lead
6 104 (5.70%) Senior Analyst
7 97 (5.32%) Senior Data Analyst
8 88 (4.82%) IT Support
9 87 (4.77%) Developer
10 74 (4.05%) Support Engineer
11 70 (3.84%) IT Engineer
12 67 (3.67%) IT Technician
13 51 (2.79%) Administrator
14 48 (2.63%) Coordinator
14 48 (2.63%) IT Support Engineer
15 46 (2.52%) Consultant
15 46 (2.52%) Data Scientist
16 45 (2.47%) Senior Data Scientist
17 42 (2.30%) IT Manager
17 42 (2.30%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (2.58%) PySpark
2 45 (2.47%) .NET
2 45 (2.47%) Pandas
2 45 (2.47%) scikit-learn
2 45 (2.47%) TensorFlow
3 41 (2.25%) GraphQL
4 39 (2.14%) Django
5 36 (1.97%) RESTful
6 33 (1.81%) EDI
7 22 (1.21%) CSS
8 18 (0.99%) React
9 16 (0.88%) .NET Core
10 15 (0.82%) Web Services
11 12 (0.66%) HTML
12 7 (0.38%) .NET Framework
13 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.33%) REST
13 6 (0.33%) XML
14 5 (0.27%) Laravel
14 5 (0.27%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 326 (17.86%) Self-Motivation
2 291 (15.95%) Driving Licence
3 111 (6.08%) Management Information System
4 84 (4.60%) Social Media
5 66 (3.62%) NHS
6 63 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 60 (3.29%) Photography
8 52 (2.85%) Algorithms
9 51 (2.79%) Onboarding
10 27 (1.48%) CCTV
11 26 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 20 (1.10%) e-Learning
13 16 (0.88%) Educational Technology
14 15 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
15 12 (0.66%) Learning Management System
16 11 (0.60%) Data Structures
17 9 (0.49%) PKI
18 8 (0.44%) Video\Live Streaming
19 7 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
19 7 (0.38%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 249 (13.64%) Windows
2 98 (5.37%) Windows Server
3 68 (3.73%) Windows 10
4 45 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
5 44 (2.41%) Mac OS
6 42 (2.30%) 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
1 486 (26.63%) Problem-Solving
2 323 (17.70%) Customer Service
3 219 (12.00%) Mathematics
3 219 (12.00%) Visualisation
4 203 (11.12%) Actionable Insight
5 193 (10.58%) Analytics
6 192 (10.52%) Storytelling
7 187 (10.25%) Customer Insight
8 180 (9.86%) Root Cause Analysis
9 175 (9.59%) Data Analysis
9 175 (9.59%) Statistics
10 168 (9.21%) Data Pipeline
11 162 (8.88%) Agile
12 161 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
13 148 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 143 (7.84%) Line Management
14 143 (7.84%) Project Management
15 140 (7.67%) Business Strategy
16 126 (6.90%) Customer Intelligence
17 120 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 360 (19.73%) SQL
2 241 (13.21%) Python
3 61 (3.34%) C#
4 35 (1.92%) 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 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 12 (0.66%) VBA
11 6 (0.33%) PHP
12 5 (0.27%) VB
13 4 (0.22%) C++
13 4 (0.22%) Groovy
14 3 (0.16%) JSX
14 3 (0.16%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.11%) C
15 2 (0.11%) FoxPro (VFP)
15 2 (0.11%) R
15 2 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 671 (36.77%) Degree
2 76 (4.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 73 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 61 (3.34%) Master's Degree
5 45 (2.47%) MCP
6 44 (2.41%) A+ Certification
7 40 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.59%) CIPD
9 29 (1.59%) SC Cleared
10 23 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
12 13 (0.71%) CCNP
13 12 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.55%) CEH
14 10 (0.55%) CISSP
15 9 (0.49%) CCNA
16 8 (0.44%) APMG
16 8 (0.44%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (6.74%) GDPR
2 62 (3.40%) QA
3 28 (1.53%) SLA
4 21 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.71%) 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
1 160 (8.77%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 14 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
5 10 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.44%) 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 (1.42%) SCCM
2 13 (0.71%) 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 (0.16%) Consul
6 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.16%) Packer
6 3 (0.16%) SmoothWall
6 3 (0.16%) Terraform
6 3 (0.16%) 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
1 505 (27.67%) Microsoft
2 190 (10.41%) Databricks
3 71 (3.89%) Google
4 47 (2.58%) Apple
5 35 (1.92%) VMware
6 30 (1.64%) ServiceNow
6 30 (1.64%) Thales
7 26 (1.42%) Sun
8 21 (1.15%) Cisco
9 20 (1.10%) Oracle
10 18 (0.99%) HP
11 14 (0.77%) NEC
12 12 (0.66%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.60%) Datto
13 11 (0.60%) Veeam
14 10 (0.55%) Adobe
14 10 (0.55%) Aruba
14 10 (0.55%) Meraki
15 9 (0.49%) SAP
16 8 (0.44%) Sage