Facial Recognition Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Facial Recognition
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Facial Recognition skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 - 639
Rank change year-on-year - - +134
Permanent jobs citing Facial Recognition 3 0 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% - 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% - 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - £22,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +74.97%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £61,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £52,727 - £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +22.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Facial Recognition 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,599 28,870 44,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 76.41% 91.18% 86.93%
Number of salaries quoted 22,223 13,240 33,616
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Facial Recognition
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Facial Recognition relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Facial Recognition job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Facial Recognition
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Facial Recognition.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Facial Recognition

Facial Recognition
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Facial Recognition within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -
South East - 1 - - 1
Facial Recognition
UK

Facial Recognition
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DMZ
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) HSRP
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) IPv4
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) VRRP
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) React Native
2 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (33.33%) Django
2 1 (33.33%) Flask
2 1 (33.33%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (33.33%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CCTV
1 1 (33.33%) FMCG
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Geofencing
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Meraki
1 1 (33.33%) NetApp
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk