Model Validation Contracts in the North of England

Model Validation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 182 215
Rank change year-on-year +15 +33 +29
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.11% 0.020% 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.024% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £297 - -
25th Percentile £301 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
75th Percentile £567 - -
90th Percentile £674 - -
England median daily rate £554 £577 £960
% change year-on-year -4.07% -39.90% +60.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,136 4,103 4,918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.96% 83.46% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,032 2,436 3,361
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £379 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 400 208
10th Percentile £12.79 £11.11 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.81 £12.55 £15.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.06 £22.84
Median % change year-on-year +14.03% -3.44% +19.64%
75th Percentile £52.38 £46.18 £43.28
90th Percentile £78.13 £63.75 £55.90
England median hourly rate £26.45 £38.12 £35.02
% change year-on-year -30.61% +8.87% +36.35%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Model Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Model Validation in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Model Validation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Model Validation in the North of England

Model Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Model Validation in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Model Validation in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Yorkshire - 3 £305 - 28
North West +10 1 £730 +21.67% 30
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Data Centre Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Data Centre Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (25.00%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Software Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Business Case
2 2 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Facilities Management
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (50.00%) Quantitative Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Lean Six Sigma
3 1 (25.00%) Network Management
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) R
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow