Facial Recognition Contracts

Facial Recognition
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Facial Recognition skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Facial Recognition over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 566 692
Rank change year-on-year +50 +126 -
Contract jobs citing Facial Recognition 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.002% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.003% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £368 - -
25th Percentile - £588 £614
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £600 £628
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% -4.46% -
75th Percentile £544 £613 £642
90th Percentile £570 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Facial Recognition 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 26,559 36,764 50,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.99% 85.53% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,945 23,622 34,810
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
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% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,123 2,524 1,667
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.79 £16.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% -0.11% +42.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%

Facial Recognition
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Facial Recognition in the UK

Facial Recognition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Facial Recognition in the UK

Facial Recognition
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Facial Recognition over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Facial Recognition in the UK

Facial Recognition
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Facial Recognition within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +56 4 £375 -37.50% 152
East Midlands - 3 £375 - 18
Midlands - 3 £375 - 36
UK excluding London - 3 £375 - 159
London +46 1 £538 -10.42% 8
Work from Home - 1 £375 - 163

Facial Recognition
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) LDAP
1 3 (60.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CCTV
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Biometrics
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Identity
2 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (60.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) Verification and Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory