Model Validation Contract Job Trends in the South East

Model Validation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Model Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 16 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.37% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £433 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 - -
75th Percentile £539 - -
90th Percentile £668 - -
England median daily rate £501 £538 £760
% change year-on-year -6.74% -29.28% -13.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,726 3,307 4,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.28% 88.12% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,436 2,059 2,912
10th Percentile £221 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 125 234
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.33 £16.60
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.00 £25.43
Median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.43 £65.71
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.95 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Model Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Model Validation

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Model Validation in the South East over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Model Validation in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Model Validation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Model Validation

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Berkshire - 11 £475 - 1
Thames Valley - 11 £475 - 7
Hampshire - 3 £508 - 2
Surrey - 2 £425 - 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (18.75%) Apache
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) SAP MDG
2 2 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (12.50%) SAP SD
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) GCP
3 4 (25.00%) AWS
4 3 (18.75%) Vertex AI
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (18.75%) Big Data
2 3 (18.75%) Hadoop
2 3 (18.75%) Pinecone
3 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (12.50%) SAP HANA
3 2 (12.50%) Weaviate
4 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Metadata
4 1 (6.25%) Neo4j
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) MLflow
3 1 (6.25%) ER Studio
3 1 (6.25%) ERwin
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Data Scientist
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Gen AI Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Architect
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Functional Architect
3 2 (12.50%) SAP MDG Architect
3 2 (12.50%) SAP MDG Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Modeller
4 1 (6.25%) Functional Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Pandas
1 6 (37.50%) scikit-learn
2 5 (31.25%) NumPy
3 3 (18.75%) Faiss
3 3 (18.75%) PyTorch
3 3 (18.75%) TensorFlow
4 2 (12.50%) BAPI
4 2 (12.50%) IDoc
4 2 (12.50%) Node.js
4 2 (12.50%) SAP ALE
4 2 (12.50%) SAP Basis
4 2 (12.50%) SOAP
4 2 (12.50%) Web Services
5 1 (6.25%) Hugging Face
5 1 (6.25%) Matplotlib
5 1 (6.25%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (12.50%) Replication
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Machine Learning
2 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (50.00%) LLM
4 7 (43.75%) Agile
4 7 (43.75%) Data Science
4 7 (43.75%) Use Case
4 7 (43.75%) Validation
5 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (37.50%) Decision-Making
5 6 (37.50%) Predictive Analysis
5 6 (37.50%) Statistical Modelling
6 5 (31.25%) AI
6 5 (31.25%) Data Cleansing
6 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
6 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
6 5 (31.25%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (31.25%) Feature Engineering
6 5 (31.25%) Predictive Modelling
6 5 (31.25%) Time Series Analysis
6 5 (31.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) EU AI Act
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubeflow
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) SAP
2 3 (18.75%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce