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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 553 740
Rank change year-on-year +17 +187 -80
Contract jobs citing Model Validation 39 129 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.23% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.26% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 86 61
10th Percentile £403 £713 £408
25th Percentile £533 £850 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £960 £575
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +66.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile £863 £1,100 £700
90th Percentile £950 £1,216 £925
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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -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
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -9 34 £589 -38.70% 66
London 0 25 £577 -39.90% 29
Work from Home +97 19 £806 -15.13% 20
UK excluding London +39 9 £713 -35.23% 34
East of England - 4 - - 4
South West +7 2 - - 8
West Midlands - 2 £713 - 5
Midlands - 2 £713 - 5
North West +21 1 £600 - 4
North of England +20 1 £600 - 8

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 (10.26%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.13%) SAS
2 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (7.69%) AWS
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Stack
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (5.13%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Big Data
2 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.56%) Metadata
2 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.56%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Git
General
1 12 (30.77%) Finance
2 9 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Marketing
4 3 (7.69%) Advertising
4 3 (7.69%) Retail
5 2 (5.13%) Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Legal
5 2 (5.13%) Publishing
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Analyst
2 6 (15.38%) Qualitative Analyst
2 6 (15.38%) Quantitative Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Econometrician
3 5 (12.82%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Credit Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Principal Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) Data Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) Data Scientist
5 3 (7.69%) Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (5.13%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Business Process Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (5.13%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) Pandas
2 1 (2.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Algorithms
2 6 (15.38%) Credit Derivative
2 6 (15.38%) Derivative
3 4 (10.26%) Clustering
3 4 (10.26%) Hedge funds
4 3 (7.69%) Credit Risk
4 3 (7.69%) Multi-touch
5 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.13%) FMCG
5 2 (5.13%) IoT
5 2 (5.13%) NHS
5 2 (5.13%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (41.03%) Statistics
1 16 (41.03%) Validation
2 12 (30.77%) Mathematics
3 9 (23.08%) Data Analysis
3 9 (23.08%) Machine Learning
3 9 (23.08%) Physics
4 8 (20.51%) Data Science
5 7 (17.95%) Analytics
6 6 (15.38%) Analytical Modelling
6 6 (15.38%) Marketing Mix
6 6 (15.38%) Quantitative Finance
7 5 (12.82%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
7 5 (12.82%) Data Collection
7 5 (12.82%) Economics
7 5 (12.82%) Risk Management
8 4 (10.26%) Data Modelling
8 4 (10.26%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (10.26%) Image Processing
8 4 (10.26%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) Python
2 11 (28.21%) SQL
3 10 (25.64%) R
4 8 (20.51%) C++
5 4 (10.26%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 20 (51.28%) Degree
2 9 (23.08%) PhD
3 7 (17.95%) Master's Degree
3 7 (17.95%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) MBA
4 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) IFRS
2 1 (2.56%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) CA
2 3 (7.69%) Databricks
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) SAP