KYC Contracts in Central London

Know Your Customers/Clients (KYC)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring KYC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited KYC over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 131 172
Rank change year-on-year +12 +41 +16
Contract jobs citing KYC 5 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.25% 0.16% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.18% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £615 £283 £587
25th Percentile £619 £313 £664
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £375 £818
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% -54.13% +39.15%
75th Percentile £769 £520 £996
90th Percentile £825 £600 £1,089
London median daily rate £625 £588 £543
% change year-on-year +6.38% +8.29% -9.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,211 3,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.89% 90.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,574 2,386
10th Percentile £361 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

KYC
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing KYC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for KYC in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing KYC in Central London.

Daily rate trend for KYC in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KYC in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for KYC in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing KYC in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for KYC in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KYC within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +8 5 £650 +73.33% 7
KYC
London

KYC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Back Office
3 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Front Office
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) KYC Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) AML Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) PMO Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Software Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Equities
2 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Client Onboarding
2 3 (60.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Change Control
4 1 (20.00%) CRUD
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
4 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) People Management
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Ruby
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) PMO
2 1 (20.00%) EMIR
2 1 (20.00%) MiFID
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (20.00%) CQG
1 1 (20.00%) ION Trading
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Reuters