Model Validation Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Model Validation
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Model Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.91% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £298 - -
25th Percentile £357 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
75th Percentile £478 - -
90th Percentile £485 - -
South Wales median daily rate £460 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 240 168 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 73.17% 89.36% 75.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 126 124
10th Percentile £293 £226 £140
25th Percentile £400 £303 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £403 £431
Median % change year-on-year +24.22% -6.67% -5.48%
75th Percentile £592 £488 £550
90th Percentile £775 £669 £613
South Wales median daily rate £500 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 11
10th Percentile £12.21 £12.21 -
25th Percentile £12.71 - £15.48
Median hourly rate £21.00 £13.08 £18.57
Median % change year-on-year +60.55% -29.56% -25.72%
75th Percentile £43.96 £17.00 £25.60
90th Percentile - £24.64 -
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £15.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +37.10% -38.00% +11.11%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Model Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Model Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Model Validation in Cardiff over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Model Validation in Cardiff

Model Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Test Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Logistic Regression
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft