Model Validation Contracts

Model Validation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 566 748
Rank change year-on-year +35 +182 -92
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 40 121 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.24% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 81 58
10th Percentile £403 £675 £408
25th Percentile £533 £850 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £950 £573
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +65.87% +4.14%
75th Percentile £841 £1,075 £649
90th Percentile £950 £1,188 £886
UK excluding London median daily rate £713 £1,100 £450
% change year-on-year -35.23% +144.44% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £58.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £61.50
75th Percentile £57.50 - £64.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Model Validation in the UK

Model Validation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Model Validation over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Model Validation in the UK

Model Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Model Validation in the UK

Model Validation
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Model Validation within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +22 34 £589 -38.05% 62
London +12 25 £577 -39.26% 28
Work from Home +97 20 £806 -15.13% 26
UK excluding London +60 9 £713 -35.23% 34
East of England - 4 - - 4
South West +8 2 - - 5
West Midlands - 2 £713 - 6
Midlands - 2 £713 - 6
North of England +30 1 £600 - 10
North West +21 1 £600 - 7

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 (15.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.00%) SAS
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
4 1 (2.50%) GCP
4 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Big Data
2 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.50%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Git
General
1 12 (30.00%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Marketing
4 3 (7.50%) Advertising
4 3 (7.50%) Retail
5 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Legal
5 2 (5.00%) Publishing
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Qualitative Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Quantitative Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Econometrician
4 4 (10.00%) Credit Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 4 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Data Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Data Science Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) SAP Business Process Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Business Process Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Process Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) Pandas
2 1 (2.50%) Kafka
2 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (15.00%) Credit Derivative
2 6 (15.00%) Derivative
3 5 (12.50%) Multi-touch
4 4 (10.00%) Clustering
4 4 (10.00%) Hedge funds
5 3 (7.50%) Credit Risk
6 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
6 2 (5.00%) FMCG
6 2 (5.00%) IoT
6 2 (5.00%) NHS
6 2 (5.00%) Reference Data
7 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Validation
2 16 (40.00%) Statistics
3 14 (35.00%) Mathematics
4 11 (27.50%) Data Analysis
4 11 (27.50%) Machine Learning
5 10 (25.00%) Data Science
6 9 (22.50%) Physics
7 8 (20.00%) Marketing Mix
8 7 (17.50%) Data Collection
9 6 (15.00%) Analytical Modelling
9 6 (15.00%) Analytics
9 6 (15.00%) Quantitative Finance
10 5 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (12.50%) Applied Mathematics
10 5 (12.50%) Bayesian Methods
10 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 5 (12.50%) Data Extraction
10 5 (12.50%) Economics
10 5 (12.50%) Risk Management
10 5 (12.50%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 23 (57.50%) Python
2 13 (32.50%) SQL
3 12 (30.00%) R
4 8 (20.00%) C++
5 4 (10.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 20 (50.00%) Degree
2 9 (22.50%) PhD
3 7 (17.50%) Master's Degree
3 7 (17.50%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) MBA
4 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) IFRS
2 1 (2.50%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) CA
2 2 (5.00%) Databricks
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) SAP