Model Validation Contract Job Trends in Reading

Model Validation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Model Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.34% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £458 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 544 953 973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.43% 87.27% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 526 657
10th Percentile £342 £350 £263
25th Percentile £450 £466 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 16
10th Percentile - £14.50 £52.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £30.31 £60.47
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £64.31
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% -5.89% +16.93%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.96 £74.20
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.35 £75.13
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £58.49 £61.79
% change year-on-year -36.26% -5.34% +22.36%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in Reading

Model Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Time Series Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google