Model Validation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Model Validation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 386 443
Rank change year-on-year +46 +57 +37
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 8 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.044% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.053% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £354 £619 £645
25th Percentile £483 £647 £938
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £713 £1,100
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% -35.23% +131.58%
75th Percentile £610 £731 -
90th Percentile £691 - -
UK median daily rate £554 £613 £950
% change year-on-year -9.63% -35.53% +65.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £49.88 - -
25th Percentile £53.44 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £61.25 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% - -
75th Percentile £68.44 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £71.63 - -
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +11.36% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,752 17,125 20,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.40% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,324 10,208 14,216
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.38%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £654 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,061 1,259
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Model Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Model Validation in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Model Validation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Model Validation in the UK excluding London

Model Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Model Validation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Model Validation in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Model Validation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Model Validation in the UK excluding London

Model Validation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Model Validation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Model Validation in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
North of England +20 2 £613 +2.08% 14
South East - 2 £500 - 5
East of England +24 1 - - 4
Midlands +17 1 - - 2
North West +17 1 £730 +21.67% 9
West Midlands +6 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 £268 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £590 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £495 - 1
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Model Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Simulink
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Automotive
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Front Office
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Scientist
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Software Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) NumPy
1 2 (25.00%) Pandas
1 2 (25.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (12.50%) Prophet
2 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
2 1 (12.50%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Algorithms
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Market Risk
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Validation
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Business Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Data Science
3 3 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Predictive Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Time Series Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Use Case
4 2 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) CBAP
2 1 (12.50%) IIBA
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow