Model Validation Contracts in the City of London

Model Validation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Model Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Model Validation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 125 145
Rank change year-on-year +8 +20 +34
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 2 2 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.091% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.10% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £848 £750
Median % change year-on-year - +13.00% -
Central London median daily rate - £848 £750
% change year-on-year - +13.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Model Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Model Validation in the City of London

Model Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Model Validation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Model Validation in the City of London

Model Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (50.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Development Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) B2C
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) SDET
1 1 (50.00%) Single Customer View
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA