KYC Contracts in England

Know Your Customers/Clients (KYC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 520 623
Rank change year-on-year +68 +103 +76
Contract jobs citing KYC 33 22 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.059% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.068% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 23
10th Percentile £357 £408 £400
25th Percentile £391 £509 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -0.94% +5.47%
75th Percentile £540 £631 £650
90th Percentile £618 £650 £755
UK median daily rate £457 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -12.95% - +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for KYC in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for KYC in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KYC in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for KYC in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for KYC in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KYC within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +47 24 £540 -8.09% 149
Midlands +21 5 £375 -28.57% 6
East Midlands - 5 £375 - 3
North of England - 2 - - 5
Yorkshire - 2 - - 2
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) SAP MDG
2 1 (3.03%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (3.03%) Asana
2 1 (3.03%) AWS
2 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
2 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.03%) GitHub
2 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Big Data
1 2 (6.06%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.03%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.03%) Looker
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (72.73%) Finance
2 14 (42.42%) Banking
3 10 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
5 7 (21.21%) Investment Banking
6 4 (12.12%) Retail
7 3 (9.09%) Financial Institution
8 2 (6.06%) Games
8 2 (6.06%) Retail Banking
9 1 (3.03%) Back Office
9 1 (3.03%) Front Office
9 1 (3.03%) Legal
9 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Analyst
2 8 (24.24%) Business Analyst
3 6 (18.18%) Project Manager
4 4 (12.12%) KYC Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Product Owner
5 3 (9.09%) Transformation Manager
6 2 (6.06%) AML Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Customer Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Digital Project Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Digital Transformation
6 2 (6.06%) Digital Transformation Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Master Data Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) SAP Data Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) .NET
1 2 (6.06%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (3.03%) J2EE
2 1 (3.03%) JSON
2 1 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) RESTful
2 1 (3.03%) SOAP
2 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Onboarding
2 4 (12.12%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Derivative
4 1 (3.03%) Equities
4 1 (3.03%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (3.03%) PMI
4 1 (3.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) Agile
2 16 (48.48%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 7 (21.21%) Business Analysis
3 7 (21.21%) Project Management
3 7 (21.21%) Scrum
3 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (18.18%) Fintech
4 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (15.15%) Data Modelling
5 5 (15.15%) User Stories
6 4 (12.12%) Client Onboarding
6 4 (12.12%) Product Management
6 4 (12.12%) Roadmaps
7 3 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (9.09%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 3 (9.09%) Business Strategy
7 3 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (9.09%) Regulatory Change
7 3 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
7 3 (9.09%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) SQL
2 3 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.03%) Ruby
4 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.06%) PMO
2 1 (3.03%) EMIR
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Pega
1 3 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.06%) DocuSign
2 2 (6.06%) SAP
3 1 (3.03%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.03%) CQG
3 1 (3.03%) Databricks
3 1 (3.03%) ION Trading
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) Reuters