Model Validation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Model Validation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Model Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Model Validation over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 457 474
Rank change year-on-year -95 +17 +239
Permanent jobs citing Model Validation 49 240 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.39% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.49% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 21 14 46
10th Percentile £51,250 £41,875 -
25th Percentile £63,750 £47,500 £47,354
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £51,250 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +31.71% -6.89% -10.86%
75th Percentile £76,250 £62,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £66,375 £81,712
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £55,043
% change year-on-year +3.85% +18.09% -20.80%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,362 48,854 43,655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 87.07% 79.15% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 19,978 30,037 26,236
10th Percentile £25,480 £29,000 £30,431
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

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

Model Validation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Model Validation in the UK excluding London

Model Validation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Model Validation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Model Validation in the UK excluding London

Model Validation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Model Validation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Scotland +50 15 - - 10
West Midlands +61 13 £67,500 - 1
Midlands +36 13 £67,500 - 3
South West +55 8 - - 4
South East +4 7 £80,000 +60.00% 13
East of England -16 3 £57,500 +24.32% 8
North West -35 3 £52,500 -4.55% 3
North of England -66 3 £52,500 -4.55% 6
Model Validation
UK

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 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Simulink
2 3 (6.12%) Revit
3 2 (4.08%) LaTeX
4 1 (2.04%) AutoCAD
4 1 (2.04%) ProjectWise
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.24%) Azure
2 4 (8.16%) AWS
3 2 (4.08%) GCP
3 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (2.04%) dbt
4 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) Tableau
2 3 (6.12%) Metadata
3 2 (4.08%) Big Data
3 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.04%) ClickHouse
4 1 (2.04%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Parquet
4 1 (2.04%) Power BI
4 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) JIRA
1 10 (20.41%) Selenium
2 4 (8.16%) Git
3 3 (6.12%) GitLab
3 3 (6.12%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.04%) MLflow
General
1 25 (51.02%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (30.61%) Finance
3 13 (26.53%) Legal
4 11 (22.45%) Front Office
5 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
6 5 (10.20%) Electronics
6 5 (10.20%) Retail
7 3 (6.12%) Aerospace
7 3 (6.12%) Manufacturing
8 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (4.08%) Marketing
9 1 (2.04%) Advertising
9 1 (2.04%) Aviation
9 1 (2.04%) Banking
9 1 (2.04%) Law
9 1 (2.04%) Military
9 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (20.41%) Automation Engineer
1 10 (20.41%) Lead
1 10 (20.41%) Senior
1 10 (20.41%) Validation Engineer
2 7 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 7 (14.29%) Risk Officer
3 5 (10.20%) Risk Manager
4 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Developer
4 4 (8.16%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Data Modeller
5 3 (6.12%) Electronics Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Principal Modelling Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Senior Electronics Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) Analytics Manager
6 1 (2.04%) Engagement Manager
6 1 (2.04%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (2.04%) Senior Analytics Manager
6 1 (2.04%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) PyTorch
1 4 (8.16%) TensorFlow
2 3 (6.12%) scikit-learn
3 2 (4.08%) Hugging Face
3 2 (4.08%) NumPy
3 2 (4.08%) Pandas
4 1 (2.04%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Operational Technology
1 10 (20.41%) SCADA
2 5 (10.20%) Algorithms
3 4 (8.16%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.12%) Credit Risk
4 3 (6.12%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.12%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.08%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.04%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.04%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (71.43%) Validation
2 22 (44.90%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (34.69%) Statistics
4 15 (30.61%) Mathematics
5 14 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 13 (26.53%) Quantitative Analysis
6 13 (26.53%) Quantitative Finance
7 12 (24.49%) Computer Science
8 11 (22.45%) Data Science
8 11 (22.45%) Mentoring
8 11 (22.45%) Project Management
9 10 (20.41%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (20.41%) Penetration Testing
10 9 (18.37%) Data Modelling
11 8 (16.33%) Analytics
11 8 (16.33%) ETL
12 7 (14.29%) Decision-Making
12 7 (14.29%) Machine Learning
12 7 (14.29%) Master Data Management
13 6 (12.24%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.94%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) SQL
3 6 (12.24%) MATLAB
4 3 (6.12%) C
4 3 (6.12%) C++
4 3 (6.12%) R
5 2 (4.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 31 (63.27%) Degree
2 15 (30.61%) Master's Degree
3 12 (24.49%) PhD
4 10 (20.41%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.08%) Postgraduate
6 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.04%) HNC
6 1 (2.04%) HND
6 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.37%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (6.12%) Databricks
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.04%) Autodesk
2 1 (2.04%) Google
2 1 (2.04%) Salesforce