KYC Contracts in London

Know Your Customers/Clients (KYC)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 329 376 470
Rank change year-on-year +47 +94 +70
Contract jobs citing KYC 24 15 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.084% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.095% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 18
10th Percentile £487 £390 £329
25th Percentile £513 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £588 £543
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +8.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £589 £640 £650
90th Percentile £728 £652 £705
England median daily rate £450 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -14.29% -0.94% +5.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

KYC
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for KYC in London

KYC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for KYC in London

KYC
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for KYC in London

KYC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for KYC in London

KYC
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +4 4 £725 +93.33% 9
East London +16 2 £540 -
KYC
England

KYC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) SAP MDG
2 1 (4.17%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.17%) GitHub
2 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (4.17%) Big Data
2 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (79.17%) Finance
2 12 (50.00%) Banking
3 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 7 (29.17%) Investment Banking
6 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
6 2 (8.33%) Retail
6 2 (8.33%) Retail Banking
7 1 (4.17%) Back Office
7 1 (4.17%) Front Office
7 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 3 (12.50%) KYC Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Transformation Manager
4 2 (8.33%) AML Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Customer Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Digital Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Digital Transformation
4 2 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Master Data Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Product Owner
4 2 (8.33%) SAP Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) SAP Data Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) SAP Master Data Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Transformation Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) .NET
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (4.17%) J2EE
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) RESTful
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Onboarding
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) Derivative
4 1 (4.17%) Equities
4 1 (4.17%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Agile
2 10 (41.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 6 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
4 5 (20.83%) Fintech
4 5 (20.83%) Scrum
5 4 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
5 4 (16.67%) Project Management
5 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (16.67%) User Stories
6 3 (12.50%) Business Strategy
6 3 (12.50%) Data Governance
6 3 (12.50%) DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Product Management
6 3 (12.50%) Programme Management
6 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 3 (12.50%) Target Operating Model
6 3 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) C#
2 2 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Ruby
3 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.33%) PMO
2 1 (4.17%) EMIR
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Pega
2 2 (8.33%) DocuSign
2 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) Bloomberg
3 1 (4.17%) CQG
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) ION Trading
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Reuters