Biometrics Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Biometrics
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Biometrics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 179 163
Rank change year-on-year +15 -16 +89
Permanent jobs citing Biometrics 3 5 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.075% 0.14% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.16% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £67,500 - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 - £85,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -4.76% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,257 3,219 3,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 81.34% 91.35% 90.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,753 1,517 2,218
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,760
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.96% -2.25%

Biometrics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Biometrics job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Biometrics
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Biometrics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Biometrics

Biometrics
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Biometrics in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Biometrics in the Thames Valley

Biometrics
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Biometrics within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -3 2 £90,000 - 5
Buckinghamshire - 1 £65,000 -
Biometrics
South East

Biometrics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Sales Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Sales Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Mustache
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Identity
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On