Biometrics Contracts

Biometrics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 572 693
Rank change year-on-year +72 +121 +100
Contract jobs citing Biometrics 20 10 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.023% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.027% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 20
10th Percentile £380 £429 £423
25th Percentile £463 £458 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -24.07% +22.73%
75th Percentile £651 £542 £750
90th Percentile £715 £551 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £618 £525 £675
% change year-on-year +17.62% -22.22% +28.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Biometrics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Biometrics in the UK

Biometrics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Biometrics in the UK

Biometrics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Biometrics over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Biometrics in the UK

Biometrics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Biometrics in the UK

Biometrics
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biometrics within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +63 13 £525 +2.44% 117
UK excluding London +64 9 £618 +17.62% 111
London +44 7 £513 +22.75% 20
Midlands +25 5 £710 +42.00% 23
East Midlands +13 5 £710 +42.00% 8
Work from Home +42 3 £450 +7.78% 32
Scotland +14 3 - - 7
East of England - 1 £500 - 12

Biometrics
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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (5.00%) HSRP
2 1 (5.00%) IPsec
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) OSPF
2 1 (5.00%) PuTTY
2 1 (5.00%) VLAN
2 1 (5.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Xcode
2 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Postman
3 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Law
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Military
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Mobile Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Programmer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Database Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Database Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) IAM Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) QA Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Senior QA Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) SwiftUI
1 3 (15.00%) UIKit
2 2 (10.00%) OAuth
2 2 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (10.00%) OpenID
2 2 (10.00%) WebAuthn
3 1 (5.00%) FIDO
3 1 (5.00%) JWT
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) Spring
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (15.00%) Credit Risk
2 3 (15.00%) iPad
2 3 (15.00%) iPhone
2 3 (15.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.00%) CCTV
4 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Android
1 3 (15.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (25.00%) BDD
3 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (20.00%) Scrum
4 4 (20.00%) TDD
4 4 (20.00%) Use Case
4 4 (20.00%) User Experience
5 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (15.00%) iOS Development
5 3 (15.00%) Microservices
5 3 (15.00%) Mobile Development
5 3 (15.00%) MVC
5 3 (15.00%) Rapid Prototyping
5 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (15.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Java
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Objective-C
2 3 (15.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) Swift
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) CISM
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) F5
1 4 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (5.00%) Genesys
2 1 (5.00%) Juniper
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Ping Identity
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.00%) VMware