Model Validation Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Model Validation
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Model Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.50% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 - -
75th Percentile £581 - -
90th Percentile £627 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £493 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 183 182 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.50% 90.10% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 85 104
10th Percentile £350 £252 £204
25th Percentile £413 £340 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £465
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -5.91% -7.00%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £538
90th Percentile £700 £633 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £520 £452 £475
% change year-on-year +15.04% -4.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 22
10th Percentile £19.00 £19.80 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.40 £17.72
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +162.50% -61.90%
75th Percentile £61.68 £63.75 £62.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.50 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Model Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Model Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Model Validation in Cambridge over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Model Validation in Cambridge

Model Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) pytest
2 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
2 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) EU AI Act
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft