KYC Contracts in the UK excluding London

Know Your Customers/Clients (KYC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 343 366 416
Rank change year-on-year +23 +50 +82
Contract jobs citing KYC 24 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.049% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.059% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 5
10th Percentile £321 £200 -
25th Percentile £335 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £388 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -18.42% +126.19%
75th Percentile £492 £438 £488
90th Percentile £505 £518 £495
UK median daily rate £497 £545 £475
% change year-on-year -8.90% +14.74% -5.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,697 15,217 19,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.29% 83.12% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,222 9,130 13,018
10th Percentile £240 £250 £261
25th Percentile £369 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,357 1,546 1,190
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.85 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.87 £17.30
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £44.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.19
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.33
% change year-on-year -39.40% -1.95% +59.73%

KYC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for KYC in the UK excluding London

KYC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for KYC in the UK excluding London

KYC
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KYC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for KYC in the UK excluding London

KYC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for KYC in the UK excluding London

KYC
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
North of England -7 11 £475 +65.22% 13
East Midlands - 11 £396 - 2
Midlands - 11 £396 - 4
Yorkshire -8 7 £489 +28.26% 4
North West -6 4 £333 +66.25% 4
Scotland -11 2 £200 -49.04% 5
KYC
UK

KYC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 3 (12.50%) AWS
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.33%) Figma
5 2 (8.33%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata
3 1 (4.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
General
1 17 (70.83%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Banking
3 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Games
5 3 (12.50%) Retail
6 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
6 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.17%) Legal
7 1 (4.17%) Private Banking
7 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Compliance Executive
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) ETL Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Product Owner
5 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Project Coordinator
6 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Hugging Face
1 4 (16.67%) OpenCV
1 4 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 4 (16.67%) Regular Expression
1 4 (16.67%) SpaCy
1 4 (16.67%) TensorFlow
2 2 (8.33%) LDAP
3 1 (4.17%) Express.js
3 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.17%) Jest
3 1 (4.17%) JWT
3 1 (4.17%) Next.js
3 1 (4.17%) Node.js
3 1 (4.17%) OAuth
3 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.17%) Playwright
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Agile
1 13 (54.17%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 8 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 7 (29.17%) DevOps
3 7 (29.17%) User Stories
4 6 (25.00%) CRM
4 6 (25.00%) Scrum
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (16.67%) Deep Learning
6 4 (16.67%) Kanban
6 4 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 4 (16.67%) Microservices
6 4 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
6 4 (16.67%) OCR
6 4 (16.67%) Open Source
6 4 (16.67%) Project Management
6 4 (16.67%) SDLC
6 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) ISEB
2 1 (4.17%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (8.33%) NIST
2 2 (8.33%) PSD2
3 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.33%) DocuSign