KYC Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 120 167
Rank change year-on-year +2 +47 +15
Contract jobs citing KYC 5 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £615 £283 £447
25th Percentile £619 £313 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £375 £535
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% -29.91% -8.94%
75th Percentile £769 £520 £843
90th Percentile £825 £600 £1,027
Central London median daily rate £650 £375 £535
% change year-on-year +73.33% -29.91% -8.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,639 1,968 3,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.57% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 1,396 2,228
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -5.21% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.13
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for KYC in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing KYC in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for KYC in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for KYC in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing KYC in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for KYC in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) CRM
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
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