Model Validation Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Model Validation
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.82% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% - -
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 - -
East of England median daily rate £493 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 329 335 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 89.89% 82.31% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 116 176
10th Percentile £259 £249 £225
25th Percentile £400 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £452 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -4.84% -
75th Percentile £625 £557 £554
90th Percentile £700 £619 £613
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.17% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 109 199
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.97 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £21.50 £18.22 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £52.75 £23.35
East of England median hourly rate £21.64 £29.17 £19.81
% change year-on-year -25.81% +47.25% -5.67%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Model Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Model Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Model Validation in Cambridgeshire

Model Validation
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Model Validation within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 3 £493 - 3
Model Validation
East of England

Model Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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