Model Validation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Model Validation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Model Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Model Validation over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.30% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £452 - -
25th Percentile £470 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £580 - -
South East median daily rate £470 - £1,100
% change year-on-year - - +193.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,536 1,959 2,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.98% 84.62% 90.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 921 1,113 1,712
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £623
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.58% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 115 85
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £14.90
25th Percentile £15.12 £26.01 £24.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £56.89 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.81% +13.77% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £67.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.65 £75.50
South East median hourly rate £21.41 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.67% +14.70% +100.00%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Model Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Model Validation in the Thames Valley

Model Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Model Validation in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Model Validation in the Thames Valley

Model Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Model Validation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Model Validation in the Thames Valley

Model Validation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 August 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 - 5 £500 - 2
Model Validation
South East

Model Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (20.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
1 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (20.00%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) NumPy
1 4 (80.00%) Pandas
1 4 (80.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (20.00%) Faiss
2 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Data Cleansing
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Data Science
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
2 4 (80.00%) Predictive Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Time Series Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Use Case
3 3 (60.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (40.00%) Feature Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Predictive Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google