Model Validation Contracts in England

Model Validation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Model Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Model Validation over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 541 694
Rank change year-on-year +32 +153 -137
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 34 117 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.091% 0.23% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.25% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 74 50
10th Percentile £403 £698 £408
25th Percentile £543 £850 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £900 £573
Median % change year-on-year -30.56% +57.14% -9.98%
75th Percentile £919 £1,055 £639
90th Percentile £950 £1,219 £778
UK median daily rate £638 £900 £550
% change year-on-year -29.17% +63.64% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - £65.03 £29.68
25th Percentile £52.50 £65.06 £34.44
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.25 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% +47.46% +44.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.56 £55.44
90th Percentile - £65.68 £61.03
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.25 £44.25
% change year-on-year -15.71% +47.46% +44.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Model Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,221 46,232 65,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,198 32,361 46,326
10th Percentile £300 £325 £329
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £649
90th Percentile £750 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,221 1,634 1,784
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.90 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.89 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.04
90th Percentile £72.33 £75.00 £63.09
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Model Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Model Validation in England

Model Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Model Validation in England.

Daily rate trend for Model Validation in England

Model Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Model Validation in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Model Validation in England

Model Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Model Validation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Model Validation in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
London +26 24 £625 -30.56% 31
East of England - 4 - - 3
South West +25 3 £700 +55.56% 13
West Midlands - 2 £713 - 2
Midlands - 2 £713 - 3
North of England +35 1 £600 - 9
North West +23 1 £600 - 7
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Model Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (8.82%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) Azure
2 3 (8.82%) AWS
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.94%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) Big Data
2 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Git
General
1 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Finance
4 5 (14.71%) Marketing
5 3 (8.82%) Advertising
5 3 (8.82%) Retail
6 2 (5.88%) Publishing
7 1 (2.94%) Banking
7 1 (2.94%) French Language
7 1 (2.94%) Front Office
7 1 (2.94%) International Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Qualitative Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Quantitative Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Credit Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Econometrician
3 4 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
3 4 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Data Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Data Science Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Data Scientist
5 2 (5.88%) Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Data Scientist
5 2 (5.88%) Software Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Pandas
2 1 (2.94%) Kafka
2 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Algorithms
2 7 (20.59%) Derivative
3 6 (17.65%) Credit Derivative
4 4 (11.76%) Clustering
4 4 (11.76%) Hedge funds
5 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.88%) IoT
5 2 (5.88%) Multi-touch
5 2 (5.88%) NHS
5 2 (5.88%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.94%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.94%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Validation
2 12 (35.29%) Statistics
3 9 (26.47%) Mathematics
4 7 (20.59%) Machine Learning
4 7 (20.59%) Physics
5 6 (17.65%) Analytical Modelling
5 6 (17.65%) Data Analysis
5 6 (17.65%) Data Science
5 6 (17.65%) Quantitative Finance
6 5 (14.71%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (14.71%) Analytics
6 5 (14.71%) Marketing Mix
6 5 (14.71%) Systems Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Data Collection
7 4 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (11.76%) Image Processing
7 4 (11.76%) Risk Management
7 4 (11.76%) Signal Processing
7 4 (11.76%) Visualisation
8 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) R
3 8 (23.53%) SQL
4 7 (20.59%) C++
5 4 (11.76%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (47.06%) Degree
2 7 (20.59%) Numerate Degree
3 5 (14.71%) Master's Degree
3 5 (14.71%) PhD
4 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
5 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) IFRS
2 1 (2.94%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) CA
1 2 (5.88%) Databricks
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft