Biometrics Contracts in England

Biometrics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Biometrics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Biometrics over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 502 603
Rank change year-on-year +9 +101 +132
Contract jobs citing Biometrics 19 22 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.069% 0.066% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.077% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 7
10th Percentile £371 £338 £437
25th Percentile £375 £461 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £523 £644 £531
90th Percentile £539 £700 £543
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Biometrics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,098 28,614 39,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.80% 85.87% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,006 18,616 27,813
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,431 1,648 1,371
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.46 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.33
% change year-on-year -39.40% -1.95% +59.73%

Biometrics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Biometrics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Biometrics in England

Biometrics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Biometrics in England.

Daily rate trend for Biometrics in England

Biometrics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Biometrics in England over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Biometrics in England

Biometrics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Biometrics in England.

Hourly rate trend for Biometrics in England

Biometrics
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biometrics within the England region over the 6 months to 14 August 2025. 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
Midlands -9 8 £375 -13.64% 5
London +18 6 £519 -5.68% 25
East Midlands -1 6 £375 -13.64%
North West -5 4 £471 -34.13% 7
North of England -11 4 £471 -34.13% 9
South East +17 2 £350 -39.78% 5
West Midlands - 2 £425 - 5
Biometrics
UK

Biometrics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) AWS
3 7 (36.84%) GCP
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Figma
4 3 (15.79%) GitHub
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.26%) AWS KMS
6 1 (5.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (10.53%) DynamoDB
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Gradle
1 3 (15.79%) Storybook
1 3 (15.79%) Xcode
2 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) Maven
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (5.26%) DbUnit
3 1 (5.26%) jMock
3 1 (5.26%) JUnit
3 1 (5.26%) Mockito
3 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
3 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (52.63%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Finance
4 3 (15.79%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Business Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) React Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Automation Tester
4 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Tester
5 1 (5.26%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Head of Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Payments Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) LDAP
1 6 (31.58%) REST
2 5 (26.32%) OAuth
3 3 (15.79%) D3.js
3 3 (15.79%) React Native
3 3 (15.79%) SOAP
3 3 (15.79%) Spring
3 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 3 (15.79%) SVG
4 2 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (10.53%) OAuth2
4 2 (10.53%) OpenID
4 2 (10.53%) Web Services
4 2 (10.53%) WebAuthn
5 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.26%) Bootstrap
5 1 (5.26%) JPA
5 1 (5.26%) RESTful
5 1 (5.26%) Spring Batch
5 1 (5.26%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
1 3 (15.79%) Mobile App
1 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Android
1 3 (15.79%) Apple iOS
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Agile
1 10 (52.63%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (42.11%) Identity Access Management
2 8 (42.11%) Visualisation
3 7 (36.84%) Microservices
3 7 (36.84%) Scrum
4 6 (31.58%) Digital Identity
5 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
5 5 (26.32%) DevOps
6 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (21.05%) Facial Recognition
6 4 (21.05%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 4 (21.05%) Project Management
6 4 (21.05%) SDLC
7 3 (15.79%) B2C
7 3 (15.79%) BDD
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (15.79%) Mobile Application Development
7 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) SQL
2 8 (42.11%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.26%) ISEB
4 1 (5.26%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
3 2 (10.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (10.53%) GDPR
3 2 (10.53%) NIST
4 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.26%) Compaq
2 1 (5.26%) ForgeRock
2 1 (5.26%) HP
2 1 (5.26%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (5.26%) Ping Identity
2 1 (5.26%) Terracotta
2 1 (5.26%) webMethods