Biometrics Contracts in the Midlands

Biometrics
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 129 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs citing Biometrics 9 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.44% 0.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 £309 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £319 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.96% - -
75th Percentile £503 £426 -
90th Percentile £591 £486 -
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,810 2,273 2,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.51% 81.41% 87.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 1,528 2,015
10th Percentile £206 £231 £263
25th Percentile £358 £358 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £600 £600
90th Percentile £642 £688 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 173 97
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.81 £14.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.74 £19.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% -15.56% +25.00%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £46.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £60.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -24.85% +0.94% +48.60%

Biometrics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Biometrics in the Midlands

Biometrics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Biometrics in the Midlands

Biometrics
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Biometrics in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Biometrics in the Midlands

Biometrics
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biometrics within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
East Midlands +11 7 £492 +54.47% 6
West Midlands - 2 £425 - 3
Biometrics
England

Biometrics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
4 1 (11.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (11.11%) HSRP
2 1 (11.11%) IPsec
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) OSPF
2 1 (11.11%) VLAN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (11.11%) DbUnit
2 1 (11.11%) jMock
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Mockito
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Law
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) LDAP
1 5 (55.56%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (22.22%) SOAP
2 2 (22.22%) Spring
2 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
3 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 1 (11.11%) JPA
3 1 (11.11%) PowerMock
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Batch
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Algorithms
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Digital Identity
1 5 (55.56%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (55.56%) Scrum
2 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
2 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (33.33%) Facial Recognition
3 3 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) SDLC
3 3 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
3 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) API Development
4 2 (22.22%) BDD
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 2 (22.22%) Data Privacy
4 2 (22.22%) KYC
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (22.22%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
3 1 (11.11%) Postfix
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco
1 1 (11.11%) F5
1 1 (11.11%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (11.11%) Juniper
1 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
1 1 (11.11%) VMware