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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 506 585
Rank change year-on-year +75 +79 +87
Contract jobs citing KYC 76 22 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.066% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.077% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 20 21
10th Percentile £326 £256 £300
25th Percentile £362 £364 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +1.87% +3.88%
75th Percentile £664 £631 £640
90th Percentile £775 £655 £688
UK median daily rate £497 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.73% +15.79% -5.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £41.50
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - £41.50
% change year-on-year - - +183.47%

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 25,147 28,565 39,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.82% 85.88% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,019 18,593 27,682
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £629 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,436 1,644 1,361
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.35 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%
75th Percentile £50.13 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £41.80
% change year-on-year -39.40% -0.72% +57.74%

KYC
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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +49 53 £625 +6.38% 148
North of England -14 11 £475 +65.22% 12
East Midlands - 11 £396 - 2
Midlands - 11 £396 - 4
Yorkshire -13 7 £489 +28.26% 4
North West -4 4 £333 +66.25% 4
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KYC
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 11 (14.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Appian
2 1 (1.32%) JBoss
2 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Actimize
2 2 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.32%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.00%) Azure
2 11 (14.47%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (11.84%) AWS
4 6 (7.89%) Azure AKS
4 6 (7.89%) GitHub
5 5 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (6.58%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.95%) Figma
6 3 (3.95%) GCP
7 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.63%) Serverless
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.26%) Big Data
2 4 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.26%) Metadata
3 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.63%) Power BI
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.32%) MySQL
4 1 (1.32%) Power Query
4 1 (1.32%) Redis
4 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.32%) Balsamiq
2 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.32%) Git
2 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (85.53%) Finance
2 32 (42.11%) Banking
3 28 (36.84%) Social Skills
4 17 (22.37%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (11.84%) Investment Banking
6 7 (9.21%) Legal
6 7 (9.21%) Retail
7 6 (7.89%) Financial Institution
8 4 (5.26%) Front Office
9 3 (3.95%) Games
10 2 (2.63%) Private Banking
10 2 (2.63%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.32%) Back Office
11 1 (1.32%) Billing
11 1 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (35.53%) Analyst
2 24 (31.58%) Business Analyst
3 9 (11.84%) Developer
4 8 (10.53%) KYC Analyst
5 5 (6.58%) Architect
5 5 (6.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) Product Owner
6 4 (5.26%) Project Manager
6 4 (5.26%) Senior
7 3 (3.95%) Compliance Executive
7 3 (3.95%) Lead
7 3 (3.95%) Payments Analyst
7 3 (3.95%) Payments Business Analyst
7 3 (3.95%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (3.95%) Risk Business Analyst
7 3 (3.95%) Transformation Manager
8 2 (2.63%) Compliance Business Analyst
8 2 (2.63%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Delivery Director
8 2 (2.63%) Salesforce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) Hugging Face
1 6 (7.89%) OpenCV
1 6 (7.89%) PyTorch
1 6 (7.89%) Regular Expression
1 6 (7.89%) SpaCy
1 6 (7.89%) TensorFlow
2 3 (3.95%) GraphQL
2 3 (3.95%) Kafka
2 3 (3.95%) REST
3 2 (2.63%) JWT
3 2 (2.63%) LDAP
3 2 (2.63%) OAuth
3 2 (2.63%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.63%) RESTful
3 2 (2.63%) SOAP
3 2 (2.63%) Spring
4 1 (1.32%) Apollo GraphQL
4 1 (1.32%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.32%) Playwright
4 1 (1.32%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (44.74%) Onboarding
2 13 (17.11%) Product Ownership
3 7 (9.21%) Derivative
3 7 (9.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.95%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.95%) Reference Data
5 3 (3.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.63%) Equities
6 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.63%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (2.63%) PMI
6 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.32%) Android
1 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (53.95%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 34 (44.74%) Agile
3 20 (26.32%) Client Onboarding
4 19 (25.00%) DevOps
5 18 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (22.37%) Business Analysis
7 15 (19.74%) User Stories
8 13 (17.11%) Fintech
8 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (15.79%) Scrum
10 11 (14.47%) Analytics
10 11 (14.47%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (13.16%) ETL
11 10 (13.16%) Regulatory Compliance
11 10 (13.16%) Requirements Gathering
12 9 (11.84%) Artificial Intelligence
12 9 (11.84%) Data Modelling
12 9 (11.84%) Due Diligence
12 9 (11.84%) Project Management
12 9 (11.84%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.05%) Python
2 11 (14.47%) SQL
3 8 (10.53%) Java
4 4 (5.26%) C#
5 2 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.63%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.32%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.32%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.32%) R
6 1 (1.32%) Ruby
6 1 (1.32%) Scala
6 1 (1.32%) Swift
6 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (13.16%) Degree
2 3 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.63%) CBAP
3 2 (2.63%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.32%) ISEB
4 1 (1.32%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (23.68%) GDPR
2 7 (9.21%) Data Quality
3 6 (7.89%) MiFID
3 6 (7.89%) QA
4 5 (6.58%) PSD2
5 3 (3.95%) PMO
5 3 (3.95%) SEPA
6 2 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (2.63%) ISO 20022
6 2 (2.63%) NIST
6 2 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.32%) EMIR
7 1 (1.32%) FATCA
7 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.89%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle
4 2 (2.63%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.32%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.32%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.32%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.32%) CQG
5 1 (1.32%) Databricks
5 1 (1.32%) Denodo
5 1 (1.32%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.32%) Pega
5 1 (1.32%) Reuters