Model Validation Job Trends in England

Model Validation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Model Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 627 610
Rank change year-on-year +90 -17 +256
Permanent jobs citing Model Validation 60 52 80
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.12% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 25 42 39
10th Percentile £55,250 £47,500 £46,700
25th Percentile £75,000 £56,688 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £76,383
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -8.36% +9.12%
75th Percentile £95,000 £84,375 £98,125
90th Percentile £110,000 £104,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £76,086
% change year-on-year +17.86% -8.00% +8.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Model Validation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,425 43,642 44,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.74% 89.79%
Number of salaries quoted 25,405 21,401 34,519
10th Percentile £28,675 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,628 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in England

Model Validation
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Model Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Model Validation

Model Validation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Model Validation in England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Model Validation in England

Model Validation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Model Validation within the England region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +65 31 £83,750 -1.47% 20
North of England +22 12 £90,000 +44.00% 9
South East +27 11 £80,000 +52.38% 20
North West +40 7 £90,000 +100.00% 7
Yorkshire - 5 £90,000 - 2
South West +11 3 £90,000 +25.02% 1
East of England - 2 £47,500 - 4
West Midlands +19 1 £82,500 +22.22%
Midlands +16 1 £82,500 +22.22% 1
Model Validation
UK

Model Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.00%) SAS
2 3 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.67%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.67%) Kinematics
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (5.00%) Stata
3 1 (1.67%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.67%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.00%) AWS
1 3 (5.00%) Azure
1 3 (5.00%) Smartsheet
2 2 (3.33%) dbt
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (1.67%) GCP
3 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.67%) SaaS
3 1 (1.67%) Serverless
3 1 (1.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Modbus
1 1 (1.67%) TCAP
1 1 (1.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.33%) Big Data
2 2 (3.33%) DB2
2 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.67%) ClickHouse
3 1 (1.67%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.67%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.67%) GIS
3 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.67%) Parquet
3 1 (1.67%) Power BI
3 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) ERwin
2 3 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) MLflow
General
1 33 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (35.00%) Finance
4 9 (15.00%) Banking
5 5 (8.33%) Marketing
6 4 (6.67%) Financial Institution
6 4 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.00%) Legal
7 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
7 3 (5.00%) Retail
8 2 (3.33%) Front Office
8 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.33%) Law
8 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.67%) Electronics
9 1 (1.67%) Military
9 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (23.33%) Senior
2 13 (21.67%) Architect
2 13 (21.67%) Data Architect
2 13 (21.67%) Lead
3 12 (20.00%) Analyst
4 11 (18.33%) Lead Architect
4 11 (18.33%) Lead Data Architect
5 8 (13.33%) Business Analyst
6 6 (10.00%) Developer
7 5 (8.33%) Associate Director
8 4 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
8 4 (6.67%) Consultant
8 4 (6.67%) Risk Analyst
8 4 (6.67%) Risk Manager
8 4 (6.67%) Senior Manager
8 4 (6.67%) Senior Risk Manager
9 3 (5.00%) Credit Analyst
9 3 (5.00%) Credit Risk Analyst
9 3 (5.00%) Quantitative Analyst
9 3 (5.00%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) TensorFlow
2 7 (11.67%) PyTorch
3 4 (6.67%) Hugging Face
3 4 (6.67%) scikit-learn
4 2 (3.33%) Pandas
5 1 (1.67%) .NET
5 1 (1.67%) Caffe
5 1 (1.67%) LangChain
5 1 (1.67%) Middleware
5 1 (1.67%) NumPy
5 1 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Data Structures
2 12 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (18.33%) Credit Risk
4 6 (10.00%) Algorithms
5 5 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (8.33%) Hackathon
5 5 (8.33%) Life Science
5 5 (8.33%) Low-Code
6 3 (5.00%) Derivative
6 3 (5.00%) Market Risk
7 2 (3.33%) Equities
8 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.67%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.67%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.67%) IoT
8 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.67%) Robotics
8 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.67%) State Machine
8 1 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (58.33%) Data Science
2 25 (41.67%) Validation
3 24 (40.00%) Analytics
4 23 (38.33%) Data Modelling
5 22 (36.67%) Machine Learning
6 20 (33.33%) AI
7 17 (28.33%) Agile
7 17 (28.33%) Data Analysis
7 17 (28.33%) Roadmaps
8 14 (23.33%) Business Strategy
8 14 (23.33%) Coaching
9 13 (21.67%) Data Governance
9 13 (21.67%) Mathematics
9 13 (21.67%) Regulatory Compliance
10 12 (20.00%) Computer Science
10 12 (20.00%) Data Architecture
10 12 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (18.33%) Data Integration
11 11 (18.33%) Data Protection
11 11 (18.33%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 34 (56.67%) Python
2 17 (28.33%) SQL
3 12 (20.00%) R
4 5 (8.33%) Java
4 5 (8.33%) MATLAB
5 4 (6.67%) VBA
6 3 (5.00%) C
7 2 (3.33%) C++
8 1 (1.67%) Rust
8 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (36.67%) Degree
2 14 (23.33%) Master's Degree
3 5 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.00%) CFA
6 2 (3.33%) PhD
7 1 (1.67%) CCNA
7 1 (1.67%) CCNP
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.67%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) GDPR
2 6 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.33%) IFRS
4 2 (3.33%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.67%) FINRA
5 1 (1.67%) GRC
5 1 (1.67%) ISO 19650
5 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) Control-M
1 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (3.33%) Databricks
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle
2 1 (1.67%) Cisco
2 1 (1.67%) ESRI
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.67%) Murex
2 1 (1.67%) NVIDIA
2 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.67%) SAP
2 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow