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

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 375 438
Rank change year-on-year +56 +63 +96
Contract jobs citing KYC 53 16 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.39% 0.099% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 14 21
10th Percentile £318 £362 £300
25th Percentile £465 £431 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £588 £535
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +9.81% -17.69%
75th Percentile £700 £645 £640
90th Percentile £793 £668 £688
England median daily rate £513 £540 £535
% change year-on-year -5.09% +0.93% +4.90%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 - £41.50
% change year-on-year - - +183.47%

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 12,490 14,392 21,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.33% 88.79% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,321 10,076 15,575
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £778 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 201 228
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.08 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £23.35
Median hourly rate £29.50 £35.71 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -11.28% +8.46%
75th Percentile £49.31 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £82.33
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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 14 August 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 14 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
Central London +8 10 £650 +42.86% 12
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 7 (13.21%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) Appian
2 1 (1.89%) JBoss
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (5.66%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Actimize
2 1 (1.89%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.75%) Azure
2 6 (11.32%) AWS
3 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (9.43%) GitHub
3 5 (9.43%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.77%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.89%) Figma
6 1 (1.89%) Firebase
6 1 (1.89%) GCP
6 1 (1.89%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.89%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.89%) SaaS
6 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) Big Data
1 4 (7.55%) Data Lake
2 3 (5.66%) Metadata
3 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.77%) Power BI
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.89%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.89%) MySQL
4 1 (1.89%) Power Query
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) JIRA
2 1 (1.89%) Balsamiq
2 1 (1.89%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (94.34%) Finance
2 24 (45.28%) Banking
3 23 (43.40%) Social Skills
4 13 (24.53%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (15.09%) Investment Banking
6 6 (11.32%) Legal
7 4 (7.55%) Financial Institution
7 4 (7.55%) Front Office
7 4 (7.55%) Retail
8 2 (3.77%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.89%) Back Office
9 1 (1.89%) Billing
9 1 (1.89%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (35.85%) Analyst
2 18 (33.96%) Business Analyst
3 7 (13.21%) KYC Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Developer
4 4 (7.55%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.66%) Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Lead
5 3 (5.66%) Product Owner
5 3 (5.66%) Risk Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Risk Business Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Senior
5 3 (5.66%) Transformation Manager
6 2 (3.77%) AML Business Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Compliance Business Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Delivery Director
6 2 (3.77%) Digital Transformation
6 2 (3.77%) Digital Transformation Manager
6 2 (3.77%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
6 2 (3.77%) Payments Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) Kafka
2 2 (3.77%) GraphQL
2 2 (3.77%) Hugging Face
2 2 (3.77%) OpenCV
2 2 (3.77%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.77%) Regular Expression
2 2 (3.77%) REST
2 2 (3.77%) RESTful
2 2 (3.77%) SOAP
2 2 (3.77%) SpaCy
2 2 (3.77%) Spring
2 2 (3.77%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.89%) Apollo GraphQL
3 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.89%) CSS
3 1 (1.89%) JWT
3 1 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.89%) Redux
3 1 (1.89%) Web Services
3 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (41.51%) Onboarding
2 10 (18.87%) Product Ownership
3 7 (13.21%) Derivative
3 7 (13.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (7.55%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.66%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.66%) Reference Data
5 3 (5.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.77%) Equities
6 2 (3.77%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (3.77%) PMI
6 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.89%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Android
1 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.94%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 21 (39.62%) Agile
3 14 (26.42%) Business Analysis
3 14 (26.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (22.64%) Client Onboarding
4 12 (22.64%) DevOps
5 11 (20.75%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (18.87%) Analytics
6 10 (18.87%) Fintech
6 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (16.98%) Data Modelling
8 8 (15.09%) ETL
8 8 (15.09%) Requirements Gathering
8 8 (15.09%) User Stories
9 7 (13.21%) Data Governance
9 7 (13.21%) Due Diligence
9 7 (13.21%) Regulatory Compliance
9 7 (13.21%) System Integration Testing
10 6 (11.32%) Scrum
10 6 (11.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.09%) Python
2 6 (11.32%) Java
2 6 (11.32%) SQL
3 4 (7.55%) C#
4 1 (1.89%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.89%) Objective-C
4 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.89%) R
4 1 (1.89%) Ruby
4 1 (1.89%) Scala
4 1 (1.89%) Swift
4 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) Degree
2 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.77%) CBAP
3 2 (3.77%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.64%) GDPR
2 7 (13.21%) Data Quality
3 6 (11.32%) MiFID
3 6 (11.32%) QA
4 3 (5.66%) PMO
4 3 (5.66%) PSD2
4 3 (5.66%) SEPA
5 2 (3.77%) ISO 20022
5 2 (3.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.89%) EMIR
6 1 (1.89%) FATCA
6 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.66%) Oracle
3 2 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.89%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.89%) Avaloq
4 1 (1.89%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.89%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.89%) CQG
4 1 (1.89%) Databricks
4 1 (1.89%) Denodo
4 1 (1.89%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.89%) Pega
4 1 (1.89%) Reuters