Model Validation Jobs

Model Validation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 466 743
Rank change year-on-year -174 +277 +155
Permanent jobs citing Model Validation 72 502 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.50% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.59% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 41 39 60
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £35,733
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,576 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +28.22% -31.20%
75th Percentile £71,250 £93,750 £91,822
90th Percentile £79,648 £116,500 £103,911
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £50,139
% change year-on-year +22.73% +9.70% -27.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,420 85,138 94,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.82% 85.22% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 26,605 59,872 55,912
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,089 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Model Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Model Validation in the UK

Model Validation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Model Validation.

Salary trend for Model Validation in the UK

Model Validation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Model Validation over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Model Validation in the UK

Model Validation
Top 11 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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
England -98 60 £67,500 -4.36% 163
UK excluding London -122 48 £67,500 +22.73% 75
London +69 24 £66,250 -33.75% 117
Midlands +56 19 £67,500 - 3
West Midlands - 19 £67,500 - 3
Scotland +55 12 £77,606 +9.96% 9
Work from Home +112 10 £71,991 +30.89% 66
South West +44 8 £71,991 +30.89% 12
South East +55 5 £52,500 +5.00% 24
North of England -58 4 £48,750 -22.36% 24
North West -74 4 £48,750 +11.43% 15

Model Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (8.33%) SAS
2 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.39%) MTS
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.17%) Simulink
2 2 (2.78%) LaTeX
3 1 (1.39%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.39%) ProjectWise
3 1 (1.39%) Revit
3 1 (1.39%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.94%) AWS
1 5 (6.94%) GCP
2 4 (5.56%) Vertex AI
3 3 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (4.17%) Azure
4 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.39%) dbt
5 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.39%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) Big Data
2 3 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.78%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.78%) Tableau
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.39%) Base SAS
4 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.39%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.39%) Power BI
4 1 (1.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 19 (26.39%) JIRA
2 18 (25.00%) Selenium
3 2 (2.78%) Git
4 1 (1.39%) MLflow
4 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (47.22%) Finance
2 25 (34.72%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (26.39%) Legal
4 15 (20.83%) Front Office
5 9 (12.50%) Banking
5 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 5 (6.94%) Manufacturing
7 4 (5.56%) Electronics
8 3 (4.17%) Aerospace
8 3 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.78%) Advertising
9 2 (2.78%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.78%) Marketing
9 2 (2.78%) Retail
10 1 (1.39%) Automotive
10 1 (1.39%) Aviation
10 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.39%) Military
10 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 18 (25.00%) Lead
1 18 (25.00%) Validation Engineer
2 14 (19.44%) Analyst
3 13 (18.06%) Data Scientist
3 13 (18.06%) Senior
4 11 (15.28%) Risk Officer
5 5 (6.94%) Qualitative Analyst
5 5 (6.94%) Quantitative Analyst
5 5 (6.94%) Risk Manager
5 5 (6.94%) Senior Data Scientist
6 4 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.17%) Electronics Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (4.17%) Senior Electronics Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Senior Risk Analyst
8 2 (2.78%) Credit Risk Manager
8 2 (2.78%) Product Analyst
8 2 (2.78%) Python Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) Pandas
2 4 (5.56%) XGBoost
3 2 (2.78%) Playwright
3 2 (2.78%) PySpark
4 1 (1.39%) NumPy
4 1 (1.39%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.39%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 18 (25.00%) SCADA
2 8 (11.11%) Credit Risk
3 6 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.94%) Algorithms
4 5 (6.94%) Market Risk
5 4 (5.56%) Data Structures
5 4 (5.56%) Derivative
5 4 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (87.50%) Validation
2 26 (36.11%) Statistics
3 25 (34.72%) Mentoring
4 23 (31.94%) Computer Science
5 21 (29.17%) Quantitative Finance
6 20 (27.78%) Mathematics
6 20 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (27.78%) Test Automation
7 18 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (25.00%) Machine Learning
7 18 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
8 16 (22.22%) Project Management
9 15 (20.83%) Data Science
9 15 (20.83%) Quantitative Analysis
10 14 (19.44%) Decision-Making
10 14 (19.44%) Risk Management
11 13 (18.06%) Analytics
12 11 (15.28%) Agile
13 8 (11.11%) Stress Testing
14 7 (9.72%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 46 (63.89%) Python
2 13 (18.06%) R
2 13 (18.06%) SQL
3 7 (9.72%) C
4 6 (8.33%) MATLAB
5 4 (5.56%) C++
6 2 (2.78%) VBA
7 1 (1.39%) Java
Qualifications
1 49 (68.06%) Degree
2 24 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 18 (25.00%) ISTQB
4 14 (19.44%) PhD
5 3 (4.17%) Postgraduate
5 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.17%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.39%) CBAP
6 1 (1.39%) CFA
6 1 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.89%) IFRS
1 10 (13.89%) IFRS 9
2 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.78%) CRD IV
4 2 (2.78%) QA
5 1 (1.39%) Basel III
5 1 (1.39%) HAZOP
Vendors
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.39%) JD Edwards
2 1 (1.39%) QAD
2 1 (1.39%) SAP