KYC Job Trends in Scotland

Know Your Customers/Clients (KYC)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring KYC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 148 158
Rank change year-on-year +23 +10 +9
Permanent jobs citing KYC 17 6 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.41% 0.24% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.26% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% +50.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

KYC falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,797 2,294 3,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 67.90% 90.74% 84.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,658 987 1,481
10th Percentile £29,175 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £76,100 £82,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

KYC
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

KYC job vacancy trend in Scotland

KYC
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing KYC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing KYC

KYC
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KYC within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +23 17 £100,000 - 12
KYC
UK

KYC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) GCP
1 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (5.88%) Big Data
1 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 16 (94.12%) Finance
2 8 (47.06%) Financial Institution
2 8 (47.06%) Games
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Software Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Lead
3 6 (35.29%) Customer Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Data Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Lead Data Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Lead Software Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Principal Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Principal Software Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) HTML
1 1 (5.88%) HTML5
1 1 (5.88%) Kafka
1 1 (5.88%) Memcached
1 1 (5.88%) PySpark
1 1 (5.88%) React
1 1 (5.88%) Redux
1 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Software Engineering
2 13 (76.47%) Agile
2 13 (76.47%) Data Engineering
3 8 (47.06%) Fintech
4 5 (29.41%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
5 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
5 2 (11.76%) Design Patterns
6 1 (5.88%) API Design
6 1 (5.88%) Data Governance
6 1 (5.88%) DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) LLM
6 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning
6 1 (5.88%) Microservices
6 1 (5.88%) Open Source
6 1 (5.88%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 1 (5.88%) SDLC
6 1 (5.88%) Unit Testing
6 1 (5.88%) User Experience
6 1 (5.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.88%) Python
1 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
1 1 (5.88%) Databricks
1 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
1 1 (5.88%) OpenAI
1 1 (5.88%) Splunk