Biometrics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Biometrics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Biometrics over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 861 929 965
Rank change year-on-year +68 +36 -340
Permanent jobs citing Biometrics 33 64 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.061% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.064% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 24 55 55
10th Percentile £22,500 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £44,063 £68,750 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,642 £80,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.45% +60.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £106,000 £93,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,501 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +21.74% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Biometrics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Biometrics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Biometrics in the UK

Biometrics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Biometrics.

Salary trend for Biometrics in the UK

Biometrics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Biometrics over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Biometrics in the UK

Biometrics
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Biometrics within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
England +90 32 £55,642 -30.45% 26
UK excluding London -6 23 £52,501 -25.00% 13
South East +31 18 £80,000 +33.33% 2
Work from Home +58 11 £72,500 -9.38% 14
London +116 8 £73,750 -10.61% 6
North of England +45 4 £25,000 -65.52% 5
North West - 4 £25,000 - 5
Scotland -61 1 £32,500 - 1

Biometrics
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (21.21%) OpenStack
1 7 (21.21%) SAS
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Sage 200
1 1 (3.03%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) AWS
2 10 (30.30%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (24.24%) Azure
4 7 (21.21%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (21.21%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (42.42%) Relational Database
2 6 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 6 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 8 (24.24%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 7 (21.21%) Military
3 6 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (15.15%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Finance
6 2 (6.06%) Law
6 2 (6.06%) Legal
6 2 (6.06%) Social Science
7 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Developer
2 9 (27.27%) Full Stack Developer
3 8 (24.24%) Java Developer
4 7 (21.21%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 7 (21.21%) Senior
4 7 (21.21%) Senior Manager
5 5 (15.15%) Lead
6 4 (12.12%) IT Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) IT Support
6 4 (12.12%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 4 (12.12%) Software Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Support Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) DevOps Developer
7 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) .NET Software Developer
8 1 (3.03%) AWS Architect
8 1 (3.03%) Full Stack PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (39.39%) XML
2 10 (30.30%) AngularJS
3 9 (27.27%) Node.js
4 8 (24.24%) REST
4 8 (24.24%) Spring
4 8 (24.24%) Spring Boot
5 7 (21.21%) Apache Camel
5 7 (21.21%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (15.15%) JSON
6 5 (15.15%) Web Services
7 2 (6.06%) CSS
7 2 (6.06%) HTML
7 2 (6.06%) Ionic Framework
7 2 (6.06%) jQuery
7 2 (6.06%) Laravel
7 2 (6.06%) React
8 1 (3.03%) Express.js
8 1 (3.03%) HTML5
8 1 (3.03%) React Native
8 1 (3.03%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Biopharmaceutical
1 7 (21.21%) Data Structures
1 7 (21.21%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Life Science
2 5 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (12.12%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (12.12%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) DevOps
2 11 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
3 9 (27.27%) Agile
3 9 (27.27%) Coaching
3 9 (27.27%) Microservices
3 9 (27.27%) SDLC
4 7 (21.21%) BDD
4 7 (21.21%) Biostatistics
4 7 (21.21%) BPEL
4 7 (21.21%) Change Management
4 7 (21.21%) Computer Science
4 7 (21.21%) Kanban
4 7 (21.21%) Mathematics
4 7 (21.21%) Process Management
4 7 (21.21%) Scrum
4 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (21.21%) Statistical Analysis
4 7 (21.21%) Statistics
4 7 (21.21%) TDD
4 7 (21.21%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) SQL
2 10 (30.30%) JavaScript
3 9 (27.27%) Java
4 6 (18.18%) PHP
5 5 (15.15%) C#
6 4 (12.12%) C
7 3 (9.09%) Python
7 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
8 2 (6.06%) Ada
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) Degree
2 7 (21.21%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 6 (18.18%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) CDISC
2 6 (18.18%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
2 4 (12.12%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (12.12%) Firmware
2 4 (12.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Kubernetes
1 10 (30.30%) Terraform
2 8 (24.24%) Ansible
3 1 (3.03%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) WSO2
2 6 (18.18%) iManage
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.03%) Sage