Model Validation Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Model Validation
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Model Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.61% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £470 - -
25th Percentile £470 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 - -
75th Percentile £471 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £471 £400 -
% change year-on-year +17.63% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 851 474 674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 86.66% 93.12% 84.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 306 427
10th Percentile £363 £293 £300
25th Percentile £419 £387 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £673 £616 £638
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 27
10th Percentile £16.00 £31.53 £11.75
25th Percentile £19.39 £31.62 £12.15
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +169.19% -36.92%
75th Percentile £43.96 £66.51 £14.55
90th Percentile £58.98 £85.74 £26.50
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £12.53
% change year-on-year +8.40% +76.70% -34.05%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in Leeds

Model Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Model Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (50.00%) Copilot Studio
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Law
1 3 (50.00%) Social Science
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Product Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (50.00%) AI
2 3 (50.00%) API Development
2 3 (50.00%) Business Case
2 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Minimum Viable Product
2 3 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 3 (50.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Foundry
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft