KYC Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Know Your Customers/Clients (KYC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 328 462
Rank change year-on-year +40 +134 +111
Contract jobs citing KYC 16 17 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.11% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.13% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 11
10th Percentile £362 £456 £163
25th Percentile £400 £509 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £470
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +11.70% -6.93%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £538
90th Percentile £705 £641 £675
UK median daily rate £457 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -12.95% - +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

KYC
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing KYC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

KYC trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

KYC
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing KYC.

KYC daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

KYC
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing KYC over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

KYC daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

KYC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (18.75%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Asana
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) Looker
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Back Office
5 1 (6.25%) Front Office
5 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) KYC Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) AML Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Compliance Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Finance Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Programme Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Software Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) J2EE
1 3 (18.75%) JSON
1 3 (18.75%) RESTful
1 3 (18.75%) SOAP
1 3 (18.75%) XML
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Derivative
2 1 (6.25%) Equities
2 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (6.25%) PMI
2 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
2 1 (6.25%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (18.75%) Business Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Fintech
4 3 (18.75%) Microservices
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Scrum
5 2 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (12.50%) Client Onboarding
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Programme Management
5 2 (12.50%) Regulatory Change
5 2 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (12.50%) Target Operating Model
5 2 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (6.25%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Ruby
3 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) EMIR
1 1 (6.25%) MiFID
1 1 (6.25%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Pega
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg
3 1 (6.25%) CQG
3 1 (6.25%) ION Trading
3 1 (6.25%) Reuters
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce