Biometrics Contract Job Trends in London

Biometrics
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Biometrics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 374 409
Rank change year-on-year +12 +35 +159
Contract jobs citing Biometrics 5 13 17
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.037% 0.083% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.093% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 15
10th Percentile £404 £238 £380
25th Percentile £421 £285 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £380 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.14% -27.62% +5.53%
75th Percentile £487 £619 £538
90th Percentile £506 £725 £693
England median daily rate £393 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -28.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,514 13,960 18,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.46% 89.22% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,229 8,996 13,280
10th Percentile £331 £350 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 168 234
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.43 £18.21
25th Percentile £25.01 £24.42 £21.31
Median hourly rate £31.49 £37.79 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year -16.66% -4.64% +3.27%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.81 £63.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.13 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +27.14%

Biometrics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Biometrics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Biometrics job vacancy trend in London

Biometrics
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Biometrics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Biometrics

Biometrics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Biometrics in London over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Biometrics in London

Biometrics
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Biometrics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Biometrics

Biometrics
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biometrics within the London region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
Central London -2 1 £393 -46.16% 7
South London -6 1 - -
Biometrics
England

Biometrics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Figma
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Google Gemini
2 1 (20.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) DbUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Gradle
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) jMock
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Mockito
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (20.00%) Storybook
1 1 (20.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Gen AI Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) React Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Voice Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (20.00%) D3.js
1 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (20.00%) JPA
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) PowerMock
1 1 (20.00%) React Native
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Integration
1 1 (20.00%) SVG
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) B2B
3 1 (20.00%) B2C
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) Avaya
1 1 (20.00%) Genesys
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAI