Model Validation Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Model Validation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Model Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.088% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.099% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
North West median daily rate £650 - £500

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,015 1,014 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.66% 88.71% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 597 1,026
10th Percentile £300 £294 £285
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 48
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.00 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £22.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +64.56% -43.57%
75th Percentile £31.40 £45.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £74.28
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in Manchester

Model Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Model Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Base SAS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
1 1 (100.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SAS Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) SAS Macro
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree