Model Validation Contracts in London

Model Validation
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Model Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Model Validation over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 360 535
Rank change year-on-year -5 +175 -100
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 25 118 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.46% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.51% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 80 32
10th Percentile £375 £773 £496
25th Percentile £525 £850 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £955 £663
Median % change year-on-year -39.58% +44.15% +8.16%
75th Percentile £950 £1,075 £915
90th Percentile £980 £1,193 £925
England median daily rate £589 £960 £600
% change year-on-year -38.70% +60.00% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.25
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £64.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £61.50
% change year-on-year - - +98.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Model Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,450 23,106 35,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 90.87% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,083 16,714 26,163
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 262 405
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Model Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Model Validation in London

Model Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Model Validation in London.

Daily rate trend for Model Validation in London

Model Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Model Validation in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Model Validation in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Model Validation in London.

Hourly rate trend for Model Validation in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (8.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (8.00%) SAS
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (4.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.00%) Metadata
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
General
1 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Marketing
3 3 (12.00%) Advertising
3 3 (12.00%) Retail
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Publishing
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Qualitative Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Quantitative Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Credit Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Econometrician
4 3 (12.00%) Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Data Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Data Science Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Data Scientist
5 2 (8.00%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Scientist
6 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Data Modeller
6 1 (4.00%) Data Validation Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Risk Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Validation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Kafka
1 1 (4.00%) Pandas
1 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Algorithms
1 6 (24.00%) Credit Derivative
1 6 (24.00%) Derivative
2 4 (16.00%) Hedge funds
3 3 (12.00%) Credit Risk
4 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (8.00%) IoT
4 2 (8.00%) NHS
4 2 (8.00%) Reference Data
5 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.00%) Multi-touch
5 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Statistics
2 10 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 10 (40.00%) Validation
3 9 (36.00%) Physics
4 7 (28.00%) Data Analysis
4 7 (28.00%) Machine Learning
5 6 (24.00%) Analytical Modelling
5 6 (24.00%) Analytics
5 6 (24.00%) Data Science
5 6 (24.00%) Quantitative Finance
6 5 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (20.00%) Economics
6 5 (20.00%) Risk Management
7 4 (16.00%) Marketing Mix
8 3 (12.00%) Credit Risk Modelling
8 3 (12.00%) Data Visualisation
8 3 (12.00%) Econometric Modelling
8 3 (12.00%) Marketing Strategy
8 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.00%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (76.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) SQL
3 8 (32.00%) C++
3 8 (32.00%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) Degree
2 7 (28.00%) Master's Degree
2 7 (28.00%) Numerate Degree
2 7 (28.00%) PhD
3 2 (8.00%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) IFRS
2 1 (4.00%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) CA
2 3 (12.00%) Databricks
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft