Model Validation Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Model Validation
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Model Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 78 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.66% 0.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £387 - -
25th Percentile £415 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £268 -
Median % change year-on-year +77.57% - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £268 -
% change year-on-year +77.57% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 633 714 782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.29% 93.58% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 447 504
10th Percentile £306 £300 £275
25th Percentile £370 £389 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -2.21% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £629
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -0.54% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 37
10th Percentile £15.85 £15.26 £12.03
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £31.55 £19.71 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.05% -37.43% +121.05%
75th Percentile £77.50 £35.11 £53.75
90th Percentile - £74.21 £67.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.97 £19.50
% change year-on-year +0.15% +2.41% +20.00%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Model Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Model Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Model Validation

Model Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Vault
1 4 (80.00%) Metadata
1 4 (80.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 4 (80.00%) Aviation
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modeller
2 2 (40.00%) Finance Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (80.00%) Data Transformation
1 4 (80.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 4 (80.00%) Logical Data Model
1 4 (80.00%) Physical Data Model
1 4 (80.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Validation