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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.48% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% - -
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 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -40.00%

All Process & 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 459 295 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 72.74% 85.51% 76.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 186 166
10th Percentile £299 £190 £141
25th Percentile £375 £270 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £412
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -2.97% -13.21%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £542
90th Percentile £675 £647 £606
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 49 50
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.08 £14.86
25th Percentile £15.49 £15.00 £18.33
Median hourly rate £21.25 £20.50 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -7.87% -1.11%
75th Percentile £36.93 £25.15 £48.44
90th Percentile £53.06 - £53.75
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -39.40% -1.19%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Model Validation in Wales over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Model Validation in Wales

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 15 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
South Wales - 3 £460 - 1
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:

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%) Load Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
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