Model Validation Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Model Validation
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Model Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 63 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.12% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 - -
75th Percentile £542 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £485 - £713
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Model Validation 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 729 543 631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.31% 90.20% 82.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 371 393
10th Percentile £263 £200 £238
25th Percentile £402 £395 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -4.39%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £575
90th Percentile £650 £709 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 13 44
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £13.48
25th Percentile £16.08 £22.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% +6.84% +112.09%
75th Percentile £23.58 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £29.07 £56.85 £68.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £21.59 £23.00
% change year-on-year -0.60% -6.13% +29.94%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Model Validation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Model Validation job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Model Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Model Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Model Validation

Model Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) SLSA
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) SBOM
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype