Biometrics Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Biometrics
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Biometrics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Biometrics 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £563 £525 £531
% change year-on-year +7.14% -1.18% -21.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,473 1,193 1,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.06% 89.10% 83.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,646 804 1,071
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £606
90th Percentile £650 £688 £725
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 53 117
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.32 £11.10
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.70 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £47.50 £28.18 £38.75
90th Percentile £71.02 £34.75 £56.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -13.33%

Biometrics
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Biometrics job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Biometrics
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Biometrics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Biometrics

Biometrics
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 April 2026. 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
Birmingham - 5 - -
Solihull - 5 £475 -
Biometrics
England

Biometrics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon S3
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) AWS KMS
1 5 (62.50%) Route 53
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (62.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
1 5 (62.50%) JUnit
1 5 (62.50%) Maven
1 5 (62.50%) Mockito
1 5 (62.50%) SonarQube
2 3 (37.50%) DbUnit
2 3 (37.50%) jMock
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
1 7 (87.50%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Hibernate
1 7 (87.50%) JPA
1 7 (87.50%) REST
1 7 (87.50%) SOAP
1 7 (87.50%) Spring
1 7 (87.50%) Spring Batch
1 7 (87.50%) Spring Boot
1 7 (87.50%) Spring Integration
1 7 (87.50%) Web Services
2 5 (62.50%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
2 5 (62.50%) Node.js
2 5 (62.50%) Spring Cloud
3 3 (37.50%) PowerMock
4 1 (12.50%) Bootstrap
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Microservices
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) BPMN
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Kanban
3 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (62.50%) Scrum
3 5 (62.50%) TDD
4 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (37.50%) BDD
6 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (25.00%) Database Tuning
6 2 (25.00%) Digital Identity
6 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 3 (37.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (12.50%) Genesys