KYC Contract Job Trends

Know Your Customers/Clients (KYC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring KYC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 505 547
Rank change year-on-year +44 +42 +151
Contract jobs citing KYC 131 36 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 26 25
10th Percentile £331 £306 £355
25th Percentile £386 £369 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £423 £540
Median % change year-on-year +12.84% -21.76% -16.92%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £390 £538
% change year-on-year +17.95% -27.44% +115.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,632 29,487 37,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.11% 88.32% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,578 17,975 25,172
10th Percentile £304 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,027 953 1,511
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -26.14% +25.71%
75th Percentile £53.44 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.69 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.45 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.58% -32.33% +40.63%

KYC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

KYC job vacancy trend in the UK

KYC
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing KYC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing KYC

KYC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KYC over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for KYC in the UK

KYC
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing KYC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing KYC

KYC
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 31 December 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
England +55 124 £475 +18.75% 40
UK excluding London +8 64 £460 +17.95% 11
London +35 59 £525 +31.25% 33
North of England -11 42 £485 +29.33% 4
Yorkshire -17 32 £488 +25.81% 3
Work from Home +2 26 £501 +11.39% 15
Midlands -23 18 £411 -3.29%
East Midlands -5 17 £411 -3.29%
North West -10 10 £425 +112.50% 1
South East - 4 £404 - 7
West Midlands - 1 - -

KYC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 12 (9.16%) Confluence
2 6 (4.58%) Appian
2 6 (4.58%) Camunda
3 5 (3.82%) Ethereum
3 5 (3.82%) Hyperledger
4 4 (3.05%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.34%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (3.82%) R3 Corda
3 4 (3.05%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (1.53%) Actimize
4 2 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.76%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.76%) MultiFonds
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.43%) Azure
2 20 (15.27%) AWS
3 15 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (9.16%) Power Platform
5 10 (7.63%) GCP
6 9 (6.87%) GitHub
7 7 (5.34%) Azure AKS
7 7 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.05%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (3.05%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (3.05%) Figma
8 4 (3.05%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.29%) SaaS
10 2 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.76%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.76%) Collibra
11 1 (0.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.05%) Firewall
2 3 (2.29%) DNS
2 3 (2.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.76%) DSL
3 1 (0.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.87%) Power BI
3 5 (3.82%) Hadoop
3 5 (3.82%) Tableau
4 4 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.05%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (3.05%) Metadata
4 4 (3.05%) MySQL
5 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.53%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.76%) Big Data
6 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.76%) Power Query
6 1 (0.76%) Redis
6 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (11.45%) JIRA
2 4 (3.05%) Git
2 4 (3.05%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.29%) GitLab
4 1 (0.76%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.76%) Postman
4 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.76%) Selenium
General
1 107 (81.68%) Finance
2 51 (38.93%) Banking
3 44 (33.59%) Social Skills
4 30 (22.90%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.69%) Legal
6 10 (7.63%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (6.87%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.58%) Billing
8 6 (4.58%) Financial Institution
8 6 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.29%) Front Office
9 3 (2.29%) Private Banking
9 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.29%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.53%) Back Office
10 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.53%) Law
11 1 (0.76%) Marketing
11 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (29.01%) Analyst
2 27 (20.61%) Business Analyst
3 18 (13.74%) Architect
4 11 (8.40%) Developer
4 11 (8.40%) Product Owner
5 10 (7.63%) Lead
5 10 (7.63%) Payments Analyst
5 10 (7.63%) Payments Business Analyst
6 6 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (4.58%) Blockchain Architect
6 6 (4.58%) Designer
6 6 (4.58%) Financial Analyst
6 6 (4.58%) Infrastructure Support
6 6 (4.58%) KYC Analyst
6 6 (4.58%) Solutions Designer
6 6 (4.58%) Technical Manager
7 5 (3.82%) Banking Analyst
8 4 (3.05%) Financial Business Analyst
8 4 (3.05%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.05%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.34%) Hugging Face
1 7 (5.34%) OpenCV
1 7 (5.34%) PyTorch
1 7 (5.34%) Regular Expression
1 7 (5.34%) Smart Contracts
1 7 (5.34%) SpaCy
1 7 (5.34%) TensorFlow
2 3 (2.29%) OAuth
2 3 (2.29%) OAuth2
2 3 (2.29%) REST
3 2 (1.53%) Flash
3 2 (1.53%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.53%) JWT
3 2 (1.53%) Kafka
3 2 (1.53%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (1.53%) Middleware
3 2 (1.53%) Playwright
3 2 (1.53%) React
3 2 (1.53%) SOAP
4 1 (0.76%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 77 (58.78%) Onboarding
2 27 (20.61%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.11%) Blockchain
3 8 (6.11%) PMI
4 5 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.05%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.05%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.29%) Derivative
6 3 (2.29%) IVR
6 3 (2.29%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.53%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.53%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.53%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.05%) Unix
2 3 (2.29%) Linux
2 3 (2.29%) Windows
3 1 (0.76%) Android
3 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (51.91%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 43 (32.82%) Agile
3 35 (26.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 30 (22.90%) Client Onboarding
5 29 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (20.61%) AI
7 25 (19.08%) DevOps
8 22 (16.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 21 (16.03%) Requirements Gathering
9 21 (16.03%) Roadmaps
10 20 (15.27%) Scrum
11 19 (14.50%) Business Analysis
11 19 (14.50%) User Acceptance Testing
12 18 (13.74%) Project Management
12 18 (13.74%) User Stories
13 16 (12.21%) CI/CD
13 16 (12.21%) Workshop Facilitation
14 15 (11.45%) CRM
14 15 (11.45%) Regulatory Change
15 14 (10.69%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 24 (18.32%) Python
2 12 (9.16%) SQL
3 11 (8.40%) Java
4 6 (4.58%) C#
5 5 (3.82%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.29%) Scala
7 2 (1.53%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.53%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.53%) Rust
7 2 (1.53%) Solidity
8 1 (0.76%) Bash
8 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.76%) Go
8 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.76%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.76%) R
8 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (7.63%) Degree
2 8 (6.11%) CBAP
2 8 (6.11%) PMI Certification
3 3 (2.29%) CISSP
3 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.29%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.53%) CCSK
4 2 (1.53%) CEH
4 2 (1.53%) CISA
4 2 (1.53%) CISM
4 2 (1.53%) OSCP
5 1 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.76%) CCSP
5 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.76%) ISEB
5 1 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.56%) GDPR
2 15 (11.45%) PSD2
2 15 (11.45%) QA
3 13 (9.92%) Data Quality
4 9 (6.87%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.58%) ISO 8583
6 4 (3.05%) ISO 20022
7 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (2.29%) NIST
7 3 (2.29%) SLA
8 2 (1.53%) SEPA
8 2 (1.53%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.76%) FATCA
9 1 (0.76%) GRC
9 1 (0.76%) MiFID
9 1 (0.76%) PMO
9 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.76%) UCITS
System Software
1 7 (5.34%) Docker
2 4 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (9.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.29%) Ansible
2 3 (2.29%) Grafana
3 2 (1.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (21.37%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.92%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.87%) Salesforce
4 8 (6.11%) Pega
5 4 (3.05%) Alteryx
5 4 (3.05%) Splunk
6 3 (2.29%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.29%) Genesys
6 3 (2.29%) Oracle
6 3 (2.29%) UiPath
7 2 (1.53%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.53%) eFront
8 1 (0.76%) Denodo
8 1 (0.76%) IBM
8 1 (0.76%) Monzo
8 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.76%) Murex
8 1 (0.76%) Zopa