Model Validation Contract Job Trends in the North West

Model Validation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Model Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 - 137
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.15% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £500
75th Percentile £531 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
England median daily rate £500 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% -30.56%

All Process & 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 2,355 1,859 2,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.87% 88.61% 87.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,534 1,108 1,617
10th Percentile £215 £265 £306
25th Percentile £358 £380 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £570 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 100 217
10th Percentile £16.35 £16.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.35 £15.50
Median hourly rate £42.69 £31.51 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.46% +5.03% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.19 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.03 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in the North West

Model Validation
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Model Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Model Validation

Model Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Model Validation in the North West over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 12 February 2026. 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
Manchester - 3 £475 - 2
Model Validation
England

Model Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) ArcGIS
1 1 (25.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Neptune
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) ArangoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Base SAS
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) GIS
1 1 (25.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (25.00%) QGIS
1 1 (25.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
1 1 (25.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Spatial Data
1 1 (25.00%) Stardog
1 1 (25.00%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) SAS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (25.00%) NetworkX
2 1 (25.00%) NLTK
2 1 (25.00%) NumPy
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (25.00%) SpaCy
2 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Data Management
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Ontologies
2 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Statistics
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) R
2 1 (25.00%) SAS Macro
2 1 (25.00%) SHACL
2 1 (25.00%) SPARQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce