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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 424 609
Rank change year-on-year -100 +185 +187
Permanent jobs citing Model Validation 47 393 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.53% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.65% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 30 23 44
10th Percentile £51,250 - £35,733
25th Percentile £62,813 £47,500 £42,683
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £50,139
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +9.70% -27.86%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,433 £56,492
90th Percentile £73,886 - £103,911
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,576 £55,043
% change year-on-year -4.36% +28.22% -28.79%

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 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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
Midlands +47 19 £67,500 - 62
West Midlands - 19 £67,500 - 34
Scotland +62 12 - - 17
South West +60 8 £71,991 +30.89% 55
South East +51 4 £52,500 +5.00% 127
North of England -61 4 £48,750 -22.36% 91
North West -66 4 £48,750 +11.43% 43
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 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Simulink
2 2 (4.26%) LaTeX
3 1 (2.13%) AutoCAD
3 1 (2.13%) ProjectWise
3 1 (2.13%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.77%) GCP
2 5 (10.64%) AWS
3 4 (8.51%) Vertex AI
4 3 (6.38%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (4.26%) Azure
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.13%) dbt
6 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.13%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Big Data
2 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
2 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.26%) Tableau
3 1 (2.13%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (38.30%) JIRA
1 18 (38.30%) Selenium
2 1 (2.13%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) MLflow
General
1 16 (34.04%) Finance
2 13 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (23.40%) Legal
4 9 (19.15%) Front Office
5 5 (10.64%) Banking
5 5 (10.64%) Manufacturing
6 4 (8.51%) Electronics
7 3 (6.38%) Aerospace
7 3 (6.38%) Social Skills
8 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.13%) Aviation
9 1 (2.13%) Law
9 1 (2.13%) Marketing
9 1 (2.13%) Military
9 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (38.30%) Automation Engineer
1 18 (38.30%) Lead
1 18 (38.30%) Validation Engineer
2 13 (27.66%) Data Scientist
3 8 (17.02%) Senior
4 7 (14.89%) Risk Officer
5 5 (10.64%) Senior Data Scientist
6 3 (6.38%) Electronics Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Electronics Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Risk Manager
8 1 (2.13%) Analyst
8 1 (2.13%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 1 (2.13%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
8 1 (2.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) Python Data Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) Pandas
2 4 (8.51%) XGBoost
3 2 (4.26%) NumPy
3 2 (4.26%) PyTorch
3 2 (4.26%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (38.30%) Operational Technology
1 18 (38.30%) SCADA
2 5 (10.64%) Algorithms
3 4 (8.51%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.38%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.26%) Credit Risk
5 2 (4.26%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (91.49%) Validation
2 22 (46.81%) Mentoring
3 21 (44.68%) Computer Science
4 18 (38.30%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (38.30%) Penetration Testing
4 18 (38.30%) Test Automation
5 14 (29.79%) Data Science
5 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (29.79%) Statistics
6 12 (25.53%) Machine Learning
7 11 (23.40%) Mathematics
7 11 (23.40%) Quantitative Analysis
7 11 (23.40%) Quantitative Finance
8 9 (19.15%) Project Management
9 8 (17.02%) Decision-Making
10 6 (12.77%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (12.77%) Statistical Analysis
10 6 (12.77%) Statistical Modelling
11 5 (10.64%) Analytics
11 5 (10.64%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (51.06%) Python
2 8 (17.02%) SQL
3 4 (8.51%) R
4 3 (6.38%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 35 (74.47%) Degree
2 18 (38.30%) ISTQB
3 15 (31.91%) Master's Degree
4 10 (21.28%) PhD
5 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.26%) Postgraduate
7 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (2.13%) Google
1 1 (2.13%) JD Edwards
1 1 (2.13%) QAD
1 1 (2.13%) SAP