Model Validation Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Model Validation
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Model Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.63% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £298 - -
25th Percentile £357 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
75th Percentile £478 - -
90th Percentile £485 - -
Wales median daily rate £460 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 347 224 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 72.44% 89.60% 80.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 157 149
10th Percentile £300 £190 £142
25th Percentile £406 £266 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £538
90th Percentile £750 £635 £600
Wales median daily rate £475 £400 £412
% change year-on-year +18.75% -2.91% -13.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 39
10th Percentile £12.41 £13.08 £15.48
25th Percentile £16.36 £13.94 £19.50
Median hourly rate £21.25 £15.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.10% -38.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £43.96 £20.75 £48.13
90th Percentile £55.00 £22.21 £54.00
Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £20.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year +3.66% -7.87% -1.11%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in South Wales

Model Validation
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Model Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Model Validation in South Wales over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Model Validation in South Wales

Model Validation
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
Cardiff - 3 £460 - 1
Model Validation
Wales

Model Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Test Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Logistic Regression
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft