KYC Contracts

Know Your Customers/Clients (KYC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 666 742
Rank change year-on-year +107 +76 -100
Contract jobs citing KYC 25 31 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.056% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.062% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 87
10th Percentile £386 £400 £207
25th Percentile £509 £463 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £505
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +8.91% -19.20%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £700
90th Percentile £644 £900 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £210
% change year-on-year +10.53% +126.19% -55.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £41.50 £14.64
Median % change year-on-year - +183.47% +22.00%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £14.64

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing KYC.

Daily rate trend for KYC in the UK

KYC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KYC over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for KYC in the UK

KYC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing KYC.

Hourly rate trend for KYC in the UK

KYC
Top 9 Contract 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 12 June 2024. 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 +79 18 £525 -15.32% 60
Work from Home +121 17 £550 -5.98% 25
London +70 11 £588 +0.43% 44
UK excluding London +34 11 £525 +10.53% 20
Midlands - 6 £525 - 1
West Midlands - 6 £525 - 1
Scotland +47 2 £393 -17.37% 4
Wales - 2 £538 - 1
South East - 1 £425 - 4

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 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (4.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Adobe Captivate
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
General
1 22 (88.00%) Finance
2 10 (40.00%) Banking
3 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Analyst
2 9 (36.00%) Business Analyst
3 7 (28.00%) Project Manager
4 6 (24.00%) AML Project Manager
4 6 (24.00%) Architect
5 5 (20.00%) Senior
6 4 (16.00%) Business Architect
6 4 (16.00%) KYC Analyst
7 3 (12.00%) Lead
7 3 (12.00%) Lead Architect
7 3 (12.00%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (12.00%) Senior Architect
7 3 (12.00%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (8.00%) Banking Analyst
8 2 (8.00%) Customer Analyst
8 2 (8.00%) Lead Business Analyst
9 1 (4.00%) Data Analyst
9 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
9 1 (4.00%) Senior Systems Architect
9 1 (4.00%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.00%) e-Learning
3 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.00%) Learning Management System
3 1 (4.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) AIX
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Solaris
1 1 (4.00%) Unix
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (24.00%) Project Management
3 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (16.00%) Customer Experience
4 4 (16.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (12.00%) Agile
6 2 (8.00%) Business Case
6 2 (8.00%) Target Operating Model
7 1 (4.00%) BDD
7 1 (4.00%) Business Analysis
7 1 (4.00%) Cash Management
7 1 (4.00%) Customer Service
7 1 (4.00%) Data Migration
7 1 (4.00%) Product Management
7 1 (4.00%) Roadmaps
7 1 (4.00%) Storyboarding
7 1 (4.00%) Time Management
7 1 (4.00%) Use Case
7 1 (4.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Pega
2 2 (8.00%) Citrix
3 1 (4.00%) Adobe
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat