Model Validation Job Trends in the South East

Model Validation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Model Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 294 261
Rank change year-on-year +28 -33 +162
Permanent jobs citing Model Validation 10 11 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.095% 0.12% 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.13% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 0
10th Percentile £65,625 £35,750 -
25th Percentile - £38,688 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £53,750 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.84% - -
75th Percentile - £62,500 -
90th Percentile £106,250 £78,250 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,674
% change year-on-year +14.29% -13.23% +15.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,489 8,189 6,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.89% 87.54% 90.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,071 4,082 4,914
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,914 £43,790 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.96% -2.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in the South East

Model Validation
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Model Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Model Validation

Model Validation
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Model Validation in the South East over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Model Validation in the South East

Model Validation
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Model Validation within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +34 5 £80,000 +52.38% 6
Thames Valley +15 5 £115,000 +145.99% 16
Berkshire -2 3 - - 9
Oxfordshire +22 2 £115,000 +109.09% 4
Model Validation
England

Model Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 4 (40.00%) Retail
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Associate Director
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Science Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Robotics Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Hackathon
1 2 (20.00%) Life Science
1 2 (20.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (10.00%) Robotics
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (50.00%) ETL
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (40.00%) Data Science
3 4 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 4 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (40.00%) Master Data Management
3 4 (40.00%) Validation
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) AI
4 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (30.00%) MLOps
5 2 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (20.00%) Biotechnology
5 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 2 (20.00%) Statistics
5 2 (20.00%) Use Case
5 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) NVIDIA