Model Validation Contract Job Trends in the South West

Model Validation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Model Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 - 149
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.028% - 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% - 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £554 £577
% change year-on-year -9.67% -4.07% -40.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
England median hourly rate £82.50 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +13.79% +31.82% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,848 1,597 2,707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.82% 90.64% 82.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,545 962 1,702
10th Percentile £325 £217 £260
25th Percentile £413 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £687 £700
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 177 380
10th Percentile £16.62 £16.48 £13.86
25th Percentile £32.50 £18.51 £29.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £28.55 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +101.40% -48.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £72.54 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Tagetik