KYC Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Know Your Customers/Clients (KYC)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring KYC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 - 109
Rank change year-on-year - - +49
Contract jobs citing KYC 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.087% - 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% - 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +150.00%
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £400 £533
% change year-on-year +18.75% -24.88% -18.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,957 1,356 1,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.61% 86.92% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,238 845 999
10th Percentile £263 £223 £275
25th Percentile £405 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 46 62
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.97
25th Percentile £16.22 £16.38 £17.94
Median hourly rate £20.25 £21.59 £28.34
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% -23.80% +63.62%
75th Percentile £27.21 £33.70 £50.94
90th Percentile £35.60 £52.50 £68.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

KYC
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

KYC job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

KYC
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing KYC

KYC
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KYC within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Birmingham - 2 £500 - 1
KYC
England

KYC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) KYC Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) QA Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (50.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) Regular Expression
1 1 (50.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Image Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (50.00%) OCR
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Alteryx