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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 508 685
Rank change year-on-year -9 +177 -96
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 34 129 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.092% 0.27% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.30% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 86 56
10th Percentile £389 £713 £410
25th Percentile £529 £850 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £960 £600
Median % change year-on-year -38.70% +60.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £906 £1,100 £725
90th Percentile £950 £1,216 £925
UK median daily rate £600 £960 £575
% change year-on-year -37.50% +66.96% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £58.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £61.50
75th Percentile £57.50 - £64.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £61.50
% change year-on-year - - +98.42%

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 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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 June 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 1 June 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 0 25 £577 -39.90% 29
East of England - 4 - - 4
South West +7 2 - - 8
West Midlands - 2 £713 - 5
Midlands - 2 £713 - 5
North West +21 1 £600 - 4
North of England +20 1 £600 - 8
Model Validation
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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 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.88%) SAS
1 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.94%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) Azure
2 3 (8.82%) AWS
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Stack
4 1 (2.94%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
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 Lake
2 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.94%) Metadata
2 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Git
General
1 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (26.47%) Finance
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Marketing
3 3 (8.82%) Advertising
3 3 (8.82%) Retail
4 2 (5.88%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Publishing
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Analyst
2 6 (17.65%) Qualitative Analyst
2 6 (17.65%) 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%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Consultant
4 3 (8.82%) Data Consultant
4 3 (8.82%) Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) Data Science Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Data Scientist
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%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Kafka
1 1 (2.94%) Pandas
1 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Algorithms
2 6 (17.65%) Credit Derivative
2 6 (17.65%) Derivative
3 4 (11.76%) Clustering
3 4 (11.76%) Hedge funds
4 3 (8.82%) Credit Risk
5 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.88%) IoT
5 2 (5.88%) NHS
5 2 (5.88%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.94%) Multi-touch
6 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Statistics
2 12 (35.29%) Validation
3 10 (29.41%) Mathematics
4 9 (26.47%) Physics
5 7 (20.59%) Data Analysis
5 7 (20.59%) Machine Learning
6 6 (17.65%) Analytical Modelling
6 6 (17.65%) Analytics
6 6 (17.65%) Data Science
6 6 (17.65%) Quantitative Finance
7 5 (14.71%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (14.71%) Economics
7 5 (14.71%) Risk Management
8 4 (11.76%) Data Modelling
8 4 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (11.76%) Image Processing
8 4 (11.76%) Marketing Mix
8 4 (11.76%) Signal Processing
8 4 (11.76%) Systems Engineering
8 4 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) SQL
3 8 (23.53%) C++
3 8 (23.53%) R
4 4 (11.76%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 18 (52.94%) Degree
2 7 (20.59%) Master's Degree
2 7 (20.59%) Numerate Degree
2 7 (20.59%) PhD
3 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) MBA
3 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Security 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 4 (11.76%) CA
2 3 (8.82%) Databricks
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft