Model Validation Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Model Validation
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire 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 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.46% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £433 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 - -
75th Percentile £468 - -
90th Percentile £469 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £485 - £713

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 366 120 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 84.53% 93.75% 56.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 76 29
10th Percentile £400 £263 £315
25th Percentile £431 £357 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £472 £410
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +15.12% -24.07%
75th Percentile £537 £519 £500
90th Percentile £571 £567 £534
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% +16.89% -71.59%
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile - £21.32 £12.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £21.59 £23.00
% change year-on-year -0.60% -6.13% +29.94%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Model Validation
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire 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
Telford - 2 £456 - 1
Model Validation
West Midlands

Model Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Ingres
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ActiveX
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
1 1 (50.00%) COM
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) JSP
1 1 (50.00%) ODBC
1 1 (50.00%) Servlets
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Actian
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle