Model Validation Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Model Validation
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 98 - 116
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.29% - 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% - 0.063%
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 - -
England median daily rate £550 £540 £1,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -46.00% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,217 1,176 1,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.68% 81.44% 87.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 459 862
10th Percentile £200 £213 £225
25th Percentile £379 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £556 £625
90th Percentile £683 £638 £738
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 283 375
10th Percentile £14.33 £14.87 £13.65
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.64 £29.17 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.81% +47.25% -5.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £76.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Model Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Model Validation

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Model Validation in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Model Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Model Validation

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 £493 - 4
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) OWASP
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) EU AI Act
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft