Model Validation Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Model Validation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Model Validation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 531 490
Rank change year-on-year +53 -41 +210
Permanent jobs citing Model Validation 32 28 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.076% 0.077% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.087% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 13 27 32
10th Percentile £54,000 £38,461 £30,775
25th Percentile £70,000 £49,375 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £67,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -4.36% +53.95%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,693 £78,088
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,648 £80,627
UK median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £76,086
% change year-on-year +17.86% -8.00% +8.69%

All Process & 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 33,001 32,118 30,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.62% 88.87% 88.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,958 14,487 22,822
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Model Validation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Model Validation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Model Validation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Model Validation

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 11 January 2026.

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 11 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
North of England +30 12 £90,000 +44.00% 9
South East +30 10 £80,000 +52.38% 19
North West +31 7 £90,000 +100.00% 7
Yorkshire - 5 £90,000 - 2
South West +4 4 £90,000 +25.02% 1
Scotland +4 3 - -
East of England - 2 £47,500 - 4
West Midlands +31 1 £82,500 +22.22%
Midlands +18 1 £82,500 +22.22% 1
Model Validation
UK

Model Validation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.13%) Jupyter
1 1 (3.13%) Kinematics
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Revit
2 3 (9.38%) Navisworks
3 1 (3.13%) AutoCAD
3 1 (3.13%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.38%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) dbt
3 1 (3.13%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) SaaS
3 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Modbus
1 1 (3.13%) TCAP
1 1 (3.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.25%) DB2
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
3 1 (3.13%) ClickHouse
3 1 (3.13%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.13%) GIS
3 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Parquet
3 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Git
1 1 (3.13%) GitLab
1 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.13%) MLflow
General
1 14 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.25%) Retail
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Marketing
6 1 (3.13%) Military
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Tech for Good
6 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (12.50%) Associate Director
2 4 (12.50%) Coordinator
3 3 (9.38%) Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Business Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Consultant
3 3 (9.38%) Data Scientist
3 3 (9.38%) Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Data Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Principal Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.13%) GIS Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) IP Network Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Risk Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) TensorFlow
2 5 (15.63%) PyTorch
3 4 (12.50%) Hugging Face
4 2 (6.25%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.13%) LangChain
5 1 (3.13%) Middleware
5 1 (3.13%) Pandas
5 1 (3.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Hackathon
1 4 (12.50%) Life Science
1 4 (12.50%) Low-Code
2 3 (9.38%) Credit Risk
2 3 (9.38%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.13%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.13%) IoT
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.13%) Robotics
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Validation
2 14 (43.75%) Data Science
2 14 (43.75%) Machine Learning
3 13 (40.63%) AI
4 10 (31.25%) Agile
4 10 (31.25%) Data Modelling
5 9 (28.13%) Analytics
6 7 (21.88%) Computer Science
7 6 (18.75%) ETL
8 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (15.63%) Data Migration
8 5 (15.63%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (15.63%) Migration
8 5 (15.63%) MLOps
8 5 (15.63%) Use Case
9 4 (12.50%) Biotechnology
9 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
9 4 (12.50%) Hematology
9 4 (12.50%) Immunology
9 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) Python
2 8 (25.00%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) R
4 2 (6.25%) C++
4 2 (6.25%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) MATLAB
5 1 (3.13%) C
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) Degree
2 6 (18.75%) Master's Degree
3 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
4 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 3 (9.38%) HNC
5 3 (9.38%) HND
6 1 (3.13%) CCNA
6 1 (3.13%) CCNP
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.13%) MBA
6 1 (3.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 4 (12.50%) ISO 19650
3 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.13%) FINRA
4 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Autodesk
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco
3 1 (3.13%) Databricks
3 1 (3.13%) ESRI
3 1 (3.13%) NVIDIA
3 1 (3.13%) Salesforce