Biometrics Job Trends in Reading

Biometrics
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Biometrics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 76 90
Rank change year-on-year +30 +14 +36
Permanent jobs citing Biometrics 4 5 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.68% 0.64% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.72% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £58,375
25th Percentile - - £69,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile - - £85,000
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £90,000 - £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -41.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Biometrics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 464 690 941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 79.18% 88.46% 92.62%
Number of salaries quoted 300 302 608
10th Percentile £28,675 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,469 £50,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £94,875 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%

Biometrics
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Biometrics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Biometrics job vacancy trend in Reading

Biometrics
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Biometrics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Biometrics

Biometrics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Sales Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Sales Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Mustache
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (25.00%) Microservices
1 1 (25.00%) Scrum
1 1 (25.00%) SDLC
1 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes