Model Validation Contracts in the North West

Model Validation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 136 156
Rank change year-on-year +17 +20 -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.051% 0.036% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.042% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £715 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £730 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.67% - -
75th Percentile £745 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £570 £625 £900
% change year-on-year -8.80% -30.56% +56.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Model Validation in the North West

Model Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Model Validation in the North West

Model Validation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cheshire - 1 £730 - 4
Model Validation
England

Model Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow