KYC Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Know Your Customers/Clients (KYC)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring KYC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing KYC 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.51% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £523 - -
25th Percentile £536 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 - -
75th Percentile £585 - -
90th Percentile £594 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £564 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.25 - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 - -
75th Percentile £14.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.50 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 697 405 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.01% 92.47% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 264 442
10th Percentile £313 £263 £276
25th Percentile £413 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £630 £638 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £455 £490
% change year-on-year +9.89% -7.14% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 19
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.62
25th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.50 £41.00 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year -64.63% +233.33% -80.32%
75th Percentile £28.75 £97.60 £13.88
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £16.59
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.38 £27.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year -44.09% +103.70% -69.68%

KYC
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing KYC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

KYC job vacancy trend in Leeds

KYC
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing KYC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing KYC

KYC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Flash
1 2 (50.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Application Security
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Data Security
1 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
1 3 (75.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) SDLC
1 3 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (50.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 2 (50.00%) Federated Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Rust
1 2 (50.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) CCSK
2 2 (50.00%) CEH
2 2 (50.00%) CISA
2 2 (50.00%) CISM
2 2 (50.00%) OSCP
3 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CCSP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
2 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) NIST
2 3 (75.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (25.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes