Biometrics Job Trends

Biometrics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Biometrics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 633 684
Rank change year-on-year +13 +51 +287
Permanent jobs citing Biometrics 29 78 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.15% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.16% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 24 32 18
10th Percentile £29,270 - -
25th Percentile £34,505 £31,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £32,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +138.46% -48.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £33,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £126,500 £52,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £32,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +176.92% -38.10% -4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,808 48,616 49,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.95% 90.71% 89.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28,796 23,669 37,967
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%

Biometrics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Biometrics job vacancy trend in the UK

Biometrics
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Biometrics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Biometrics

Biometrics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Biometrics over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Biometrics in the UK

Biometrics
Top 9 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 15 January 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
England +37 29 £77,500 +34.78% 17
UK excluding London +6 15 £90,000 +176.92% 14
London +39 13 £29,270 -58.19% 4
South East +33 12 £90,000 +80.00% 3
Work from Home +35 4 £125,000 +284.62% 7
North of England +15 3 £37,500 -25.00% 6
North West - 2 £37,500 - 5
South West -1 1 £40,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

Biometrics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (3.45%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Exchequer
2 3 (10.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) AWS
2 4 (13.79%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) GCP
3 3 (10.34%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.45%) Google Play
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) LAN
1 6 (20.69%) VoIP
1 6 (20.69%) WAN
2 1 (3.45%) Internet
2 1 (3.45%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (3.45%) VLAN
2 1 (3.45%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.34%) Redis
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JUnit
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Legal
3 4 (13.79%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Retail
6 1 (3.45%) Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Finance
6 1 (3.45%) Law
6 1 (3.45%) Military
6 1 (3.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Senior
2 8 (27.59%) Sales Manager
2 8 (27.59%) Senior Manager
2 8 (27.59%) Senior Sales Manager
3 6 (20.69%) 1st Line Support
3 6 (20.69%) First Line Help Desk Support
3 6 (20.69%) Help Desk Officer
3 6 (20.69%) Help Desk Support
3 6 (20.69%) Network Support
3 6 (20.69%) Support Officer
4 4 (13.79%) Security Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Security Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Designer
7 1 (3.45%) Interaction Designer
7 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Programmer
7 1 (3.45%) Statistical Programmer
7 1 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) Kafka
1 4 (13.79%) OAuth
1 4 (13.79%) OAuth2
2 3 (10.34%) JWT
2 3 (10.34%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.45%) Mustache
3 1 (3.45%) Node.js
3 1 (3.45%) OpenID
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) RESTful
3 1 (3.45%) SAML
3 1 (3.45%) Spring
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.45%) WebRTC
3 1 (3.45%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) CCTV
2 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.45%) Blog
5 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.45%) EPoS
5 1 (3.45%) Mobile Computing
5 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 8 (27.59%) Android
2 3 (10.34%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (20.69%) Information Security
2 6 (20.69%) Time Management
3 5 (17.24%) Agile
4 4 (13.79%) AI
4 4 (13.79%) Analytics
4 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
4 4 (13.79%) DevOps
4 4 (13.79%) Microservices
4 4 (13.79%) RBAC
4 4 (13.79%) Roadmaps
5 3 (10.34%) API Design
5 3 (10.34%) Commercialisation
5 3 (10.34%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (10.34%) Data Encryption
5 3 (10.34%) Product Vision
5 3 (10.34%) Value Proposition
5 3 (10.34%) Virtual Environments
5 3 (10.34%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) Go
2 2 (6.90%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) Java
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
3 1 (3.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) GDPR
2 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) PaperCut
2 3 (10.34%) Grafana
2 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Dell KACE
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
1 6 (20.69%) Sophos
2 1 (3.45%) Google
2 1 (3.45%) Xamarin