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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 634 477 698
Rank change year-on-year -157 +221 +186
Permanent jobs citing Model Validation 74 486 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.47% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.56% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 38 39 76
10th Percentile £48,625 £47,500 £35,733
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £46,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,576 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +28.22% -28.52%
75th Percentile £71,250 £92,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £110,500 £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 51,417 86,448 93,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.74% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,323 60,550 54,986
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -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 29 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 29 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 -63 61 £67,500 -0.42% 129
UK excluding London -115 48 £67,500 +22.73% 37
London +63 26 £62,500 -37.50% 96
Midlands +47 19 £67,500 - 2
West Midlands - 19 £67,500 - 2
Scotland +63 13 - - 4
Work from Home +107 10 £71,991 +30.89% 57
South West +59 8 £71,991 +30.89% 7
South East +60 4 £52,500 +5.00% 4
North of England -59 4 £48,750 -25.00% 18
North West -61 4 £48,750 -11.36% 10

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 4 (5.41%) SAS
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.35%) MTS
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.05%) Simulink
2 2 (2.70%) LaTeX
3 1 (1.35%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.35%) ProjectWise
3 1 (1.35%) Revit
3 1 (1.35%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.11%) AWS
1 6 (8.11%) GCP
2 4 (5.41%) Azure
2 4 (5.41%) Vertex AI
3 3 (4.05%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.35%) dbt
5 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) Big Data
2 3 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.05%) Tableau
3 2 (2.70%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.35%) Base SAS
4 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.35%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.35%) Power BI
4 1 (1.35%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 19 (25.68%) JIRA
2 18 (24.32%) Selenium
3 3 (4.05%) Git
4 1 (1.35%) MLflow
General
1 37 (50.00%) Finance
2 28 (37.84%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (31.08%) Legal
4 19 (25.68%) Front Office
5 8 (10.81%) Banking
5 8 (10.81%) Social Skills
6 5 (6.76%) Manufacturing
7 4 (5.41%) Electronics
7 4 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (4.05%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.70%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.70%) Marketing
9 2 (2.70%) Retail
10 1 (1.35%) Advertising
10 1 (1.35%) Aviation
10 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.35%) Law
10 1 (1.35%) Military
10 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (24.32%) Automation Engineer
1 18 (24.32%) Lead
1 18 (24.32%) Validation Engineer
2 14 (18.92%) Analyst
3 13 (17.57%) Data Scientist
3 13 (17.57%) Senior
4 11 (14.86%) Risk Officer
5 7 (9.46%) Risk Manager
6 5 (6.76%) Senior Data Scientist
7 4 (5.41%) Qualitative Analyst
7 4 (5.41%) Quantitative Analyst
7 4 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.05%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.05%) Electronics Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Risk Analyst
8 3 (4.05%) Senior Electronics Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Senior Risk Analyst
9 2 (2.70%) Product Analyst
9 2 (2.70%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) Pandas
2 4 (5.41%) XGBoost
3 2 (2.70%) NumPy
3 2 (2.70%) Playwright
3 2 (2.70%) PyTorch
3 2 (2.70%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.32%) Operational Technology
1 18 (24.32%) SCADA
2 6 (8.11%) Credit Risk
2 6 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.76%) Algorithms
3 5 (6.76%) Market Risk
4 4 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.41%) Derivative
5 3 (4.05%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.35%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (90.54%) Validation
2 31 (41.89%) Statistics
3 26 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (33.78%) Quantitative Finance
5 23 (31.08%) Computer Science
5 23 (31.08%) Mathematics
5 23 (31.08%) Mentoring
6 20 (27.03%) Test Automation
7 19 (25.68%) Machine Learning
7 19 (25.68%) Quantitative Analysis
8 18 (24.32%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (24.32%) Penetration Testing
8 18 (24.32%) Project Management
9 15 (20.27%) Data Science
10 14 (18.92%) Risk Management
11 13 (17.57%) Analytics
11 13 (17.57%) Decision-Making
12 12 (16.22%) Agile
13 8 (10.81%) Stress Testing
14 7 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 50 (67.57%) Python
2 13 (17.57%) R
3 12 (16.22%) SQL
4 6 (8.11%) C
5 5 (6.76%) MATLAB
6 2 (2.70%) C++
6 2 (2.70%) VBA
7 1 (1.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 53 (71.62%) Degree
2 28 (37.84%) Master's Degree
3 19 (25.68%) PhD
4 18 (24.32%) ISTQB
5 3 (4.05%) Postgraduate
5 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.05%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.35%) CBAP
6 1 (1.35%) CFA
6 1 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.81%) IFRS
1 8 (10.81%) IFRS 9
2 4 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.70%) QA
5 1 (1.35%) Basel III
System Software
1 1 (1.35%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.35%) Google
2 1 (1.35%) JD Edwards
2 1 (1.35%) QAD
2 1 (1.35%) SAP