Know Your Customers/Clients (KYC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring KYC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited KYC over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 652 724 886
Rank change year-on-year +72 +162 +181
Permanent jobs citing KYC 50 184 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.090% 0.18% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.21% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 20 43 25
10th Percentile £44,400 £32,000 £52,000
25th Percentile £75,625 £33,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.00% -16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £110,625 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £120,225 £81,250 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £35,000 -
% change year-on-year +121.43% - -

All Process and 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

KYC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing KYC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for KYC in the UK

KYC
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing KYC.

Salary trend for KYC in the UK

KYC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing KYC over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for KYC in the UK

KYC
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KYC within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +161 44 £78,500 +49.52% 141
UK excluding London +68 33 £77,500 +121.43% 31
Work from Home +117 23 £78,500 +57.00% 74
London +89 17 £107,500 +45.76% 119
North of England +50 16 £77,500 - 4
North West - 9 £30,000 - 2
Yorkshire +59 7 £77,500 - 2
Scotland +7 6 - - 6
Midlands - 4 £78,000 - 5
East of England - 3 - - 1
South West +107 2 - - 4
South East +70 2 £97,500 +204.69% 9
East Midlands - 2 £78,000 - 4
West Midlands - 2 - - 1

KYC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (4.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) SAP CO
1 1 (2.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (2.00%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) SaaS
2 9 (18.00%) AWS
3 8 (16.00%) Azure
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.00%) GitHub
4 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (4.00%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.00%) Pinecone
2 1 (2.00%) Tableau
2 1 (2.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) MLflow
General
1 39 (78.00%) Finance
2 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (24.00%) Banking
4 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Back Office
5 3 (6.00%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Law
6 2 (4.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 27 (54.00%) Lead
2 11 (22.00%) Analyst
2 11 (22.00%) Software Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) .NET Software Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Financial Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) Head of Operations
5 3 (6.00%) Java Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Consultant
6 2 (4.00%) Implementation Consultant
6 2 (4.00%) Lead Java Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) QA Leader
6 2 (4.00%) QA Team Leader
6 2 (4.00%) SaaS Consultant
6 2 (4.00%) Team Leader
7 1 (2.00%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) J2EE
2 4 (8.00%) REST
3 3 (6.00%) .NET
3 3 (6.00%) Kafka
3 3 (6.00%) SOAP
3 3 (6.00%) Spring
3 3 (6.00%) XML
4 2 (4.00%) JSON
4 2 (4.00%) RESTful
5 1 (2.00%) CSS
5 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.00%) OpenID
5 1 (2.00%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.00%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (44.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (12.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.00%) Digital Currency
5 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.00%) Fedwire
6 1 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (50.00%) Agile
2 22 (44.00%) Roadmaps
3 17 (34.00%) Due Diligence
3 17 (34.00%) Risk Management
4 16 (32.00%) Operational Stability
4 16 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 14 (28.00%) Data Engineering
6 14 (28.00%) DevOps
6 14 (28.00%) IT Strategy
6 14 (28.00%) ITIL
6 14 (28.00%) Service Design
6 14 (28.00%) Service Management
6 14 (28.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 14 (28.00%) Technical Architecture
6 14 (28.00%) Technology Strategy
7 13 (26.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 11 (22.00%) Software Engineering
9 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (16.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.00%) SQL
2 8 (16.00%) C#
3 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.00%) Java
5 2 (4.00%) Python
5 2 (4.00%) R
6 1 (2.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) AAT
2 1 (2.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle
2 2 (4.00%) Pega
2 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.00%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (2.00%) SAP