Model Validation Contract Job Trends in Wales

Model Validation
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Model Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.24% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £545 £1,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -45.50% +42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 348 347 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 84.06% 78.15% 87.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 192 316
10th Percentile £190 £140 £174
25th Percentile £273 £210 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £425 £431
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -1.45% -13.75%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £575
90th Percentile £649 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 47 21
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.48 £14.86
25th Percentile £17.20 £20.12 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.18 £27.17
Median % change year-on-year -18.59% -7.31% +50.92%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £26.07 £49.25 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -32.03% -15.64% +25.31%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in Wales

Model Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

Model Validation
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
Dyfed - 1 £550 -
Model Validation
UK

Model Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Statsmodels
1 1 (100.00%) XGBoost
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality