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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 569 660
Rank change year-on-year +49 +91 +146
Contract jobs citing Biometrics 28 16 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.037% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.043% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 14
10th Percentile £365 £309 £394
25th Percentile £375 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +1.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £658 £573
90th Percentile £584 £723 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £531 £500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +6.25% -9.09%

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 28,883 36,949 50,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.68% 85.32% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,181 23,576 35,000
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,432 2,509 1,726
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.28
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.12 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

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 6 July 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 11 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 6 July 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
UK excluding London +55 20 £425 -20.00% 69
England +57 17 £492 -7.39% 123
Midlands +19 9 £400 +25.59% 3
Work from Home +37 7 £539 +3.31% 56
Scotland +12 7 - - 10
East Midlands +4 7 £375 +17.74% 3
London +39 5 £525 -8.50% 71
South East +36 2 £350 -39.78% 18
North West +9 2 £539 -24.69% 18
North of England +4 2 £539 -24.69% 20
West Midlands - 2 £425 -

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:

Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.57%) AWS KMS
4 1 (3.57%) Bitrise
4 1 (3.57%) Firebase
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) LAN
2 1 (3.57%) SSL
2 1 (3.57%) WAN
2 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Xcode
2 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 2 (7.14%) Git
3 2 (7.14%) JUnit
3 2 (7.14%) Maven
4 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (3.57%) Crashlytics
4 1 (3.57%) DbUnit
4 1 (3.57%) fastlane
4 1 (3.57%) jMock
4 1 (3.57%) Mockito
4 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
4 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.57%) XCUITest
General
1 16 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (32.14%) Finance
4 3 (10.71%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Law
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Mobile Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Automation Tester
5 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Programmer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Tester
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) SwiftUI
1 7 (25.00%) UIKit
2 6 (21.43%) LDAP
2 6 (21.43%) REST
3 4 (14.29%) OAuth
3 4 (14.29%) OAuth2
3 4 (14.29%) OpenID
4 3 (10.71%) SOAP
4 3 (10.71%) Spring
4 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
5 2 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (7.14%) JWT
5 2 (7.14%) Web Services
5 2 (7.14%) WebAuthn
6 1 (3.57%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (3.57%) Bootstrap
6 1 (3.57%) FIDO
6 1 (3.57%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (3.57%) React
6 1 (3.57%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Credit Risk
1 6 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (21.43%) iPad
1 6 (21.43%) iPhone
1 6 (21.43%) Mobile App
1 6 (21.43%) Virtual Team
2 3 (10.71%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.57%) CCTV
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) PKI
4 1 (3.57%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Android
1 7 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (10.71%) Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Agile
1 16 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (46.43%) Scrum
3 11 (39.29%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (39.29%) Decision-Making
4 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 10 (35.71%) Test Automation
5 9 (32.14%) BDD
5 9 (32.14%) Identity Access Management
6 8 (28.57%) TDD
7 7 (25.00%) iOS Development
7 7 (25.00%) Microservices
7 7 (25.00%) Mobile Development
7 7 (25.00%) MVVM
7 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 7 (25.00%) User Experience
8 6 (21.43%) Build Automation
8 6 (21.43%) Digital Identity
8 6 (21.43%) Prototyping
8 6 (21.43%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) SQL
2 10 (35.71%) Java
3 7 (25.00%) Swift
4 6 (21.43%) Objective-C
5 5 (17.86%) Python
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (7.14%) Degree
3 2 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.57%) ISEB
4 1 (3.57%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) QA
2 3 (10.71%) GDPR
3 2 (7.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (7.14%) NIST
4 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) Docker
3 1 (3.57%) Postfix
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Grafana
1 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.57%) SCOM
1 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.57%) Compaq
2 1 (3.57%) Facebook
2 1 (3.57%) ForgeRock
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) HP
2 1 (3.57%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (3.57%) Pega
2 1 (3.57%) Ping Identity
2 1 (3.57%) Terracotta
2 1 (3.57%) VMware
2 1 (3.57%) webMethods