Model Validation Contracts in England

Model Validation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 457 509 536
Rank change year-on-year +52 +27 +152
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 28 33 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.089% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.10% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 74
10th Percentile £500 £389 £698
25th Percentile £509 £534 £850
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £625 £900
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% -30.56% +56.52%
75th Percentile £693 £934 £1,055
90th Percentile £838 £950 £1,219
UK median daily rate £554 £625 £900
% change year-on-year -11.44% -30.56% +56.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £52.25 - -
25th Percentile £59.38 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -15.38% +46.89%
75th Percentile £74.38 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £74.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.82% -15.38% +46.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Model Validation in England

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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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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Model Validation in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 1 May 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
London +32 18 £565 -9.60% 101
North of England +20 2 £613 +2.08% 42
South East - 2 £500 - 61
South West +45 1 - - 26
East of England +27 1 - - 31
Midlands +21 1 - - 34
North West +17 1 £730 +21.67% 21
West Midlands +13 1 - - 20
Yorkshire - 1 £495 - 15
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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 8 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 6 (21.43%) Apache
3 1 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (3.57%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (3.57%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Simulink
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Hadoop
2 4 (14.29%) Big Data
3 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 2 (7.14%) Metadata
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.57%) Power BI
5 1 (3.57%) Tableau
5 1 (3.57%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) MLflow
2 2 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Marketing
4 3 (10.71%) Front Office
5 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.57%) Automotive
6 1 (3.57%) Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Data Scientist
2 5 (17.86%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Data Scientist
5 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Data Modeller
5 2 (7.14%) Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Development Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Test Development Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Agile Business Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Business Data Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) QA Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Research Scientist
6 1 (3.57%) Testing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Pandas
2 5 (17.86%) scikit-learn
3 4 (14.29%) TensorFlow
4 3 (10.71%) PyTorch
5 2 (7.14%) Kafka
5 2 (7.14%) NumPy
6 1 (3.57%) Gherkin
6 1 (3.57%) Prophet
6 1 (3.57%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Algorithms
2 4 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (14.29%) Multi-touch
3 3 (10.71%) Credit Risk
4 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (7.14%) FMCG
5 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Market Risk
5 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
5 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Validation
2 13 (46.43%) Data Science
2 13 (46.43%) Machine Learning
3 9 (32.14%) Data Analysis
3 9 (32.14%) Data Modelling
3 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (28.57%) Analytics
5 6 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (21.43%) Mathematics
5 6 (21.43%) Statistical Modelling
6 5 (17.86%) Agile
6 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
6 5 (17.86%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (17.86%) Statistics
6 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
7 4 (14.29%) Applied Mathematics
7 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (14.29%) Data Extraction
7 4 (14.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) Python
2 13 (46.43%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) R
4 3 (10.71%) MATLAB
5 2 (7.14%) C++
6 1 (3.57%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) PhD
3 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.71%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (3.57%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubeflow
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Databricks
1 2 (7.14%) Google
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
2 1 (3.57%) Infoblox
2 1 (3.57%) Murex
2 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.57%) Sparx