KYC Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Know Your Customers/Clients (KYC)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring KYC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 164 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing KYC 18 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.43% 0.12% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 0
10th Percentile £331 - -
25th Percentile £379 £200 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.33% - -
75th Percentile £538 £406 -
90th Percentile £544 £409 -
England median daily rate £500 £400 £545
% change year-on-year +25.00% -26.61% -16.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,749 3,407 4,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.09% 84.27% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,464 1,852 3,020
10th Percentile £250 £294 £281
25th Percentile £369 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £655 £680
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 178 211
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.28 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.55 £18.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £24.38 £35.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.34% +20.69% +36.47%
75th Percentile £41.46 £51.90 £46.18
90th Percentile £64.88 £70.00 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

KYC job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing KYC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing KYC

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KYC in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for KYC in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing KYC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing KYC

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Yorkshire -18 13 £525 +35.48% 7
North West -11 5 £335 +67.50% 2
KYC
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
1 9 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 3 (16.67%) Figma
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (16.67%) Metadata
3 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
General
1 12 (66.67%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Games
4 2 (11.11%) Retail
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Product Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Technical Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Technical Product Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Compliance Executive
5 2 (11.11%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Digital Business Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Implementation Coordinator
6 1 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Product Owner
6 1 (5.56%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Senior JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Hugging Face
1 6 (33.33%) OpenCV
1 6 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 6 (33.33%) Regular Expression
1 6 (33.33%) SpaCy
1 6 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.56%) Express.js
2 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.56%) Jest
2 1 (5.56%) JWT
2 1 (5.56%) Next.js
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.56%) Playwright
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (83.33%) Onboarding
2 6 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
1 10 (55.56%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) AI
2 7 (38.89%) Generative AI
2 7 (38.89%) Machine Learning
2 7 (38.89%) Roadmaps
3 6 (33.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 6 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 6 (33.33%) Deep Learning
3 6 (33.33%) Image Processing
3 6 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 6 (33.33%) OCR
3 6 (33.33%) Open Source
4 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 4 (22.22%) Fintech
4 4 (22.22%) Project Management
4 4 (22.22%) Scrum
5 3 (16.67%) Kanban
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.56%) ISEB
1 1 (5.56%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) GDPR
1 3 (16.67%) PSD2
2 1 (5.56%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft