Anomaly Detection Contracts

Anomaly Detection (including Outlier Detection)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Anomaly Detection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Anomaly Detection over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 704 823
Rank change year-on-year +128 +119 -183
Contract jobs citing Anomaly Detection 10 12 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.020% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.022% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 13
10th Percentile - £575 £474
25th Percentile - £586 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £598 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.75% +8.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £488 £664 £632
90th Percentile - £754 £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £586 £550
% change year-on-year -18.94% +6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Anomaly Detection 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 37,706 54,523 81,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 89.87% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,375 37,727 57,191
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 1,789 1,947
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -
75th Percentile £58.70 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year -2.78% +80.41% -7.83%

Anomaly Detection
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Anomaly Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Anomaly Detection in the UK

Anomaly Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Anomaly Detection.

Daily rate trend for Anomaly Detection in the UK

Anomaly Detection
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Anomaly Detection within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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 +114 10 £450 -24.75% 5
London +110 8 £450 -28.00% 2
Work from Home +125 2 - - 2
UK excluding London +66 1 £475 -18.94% 3
South East - 1 £475 -

Anomaly Detection
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 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Storage
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (30.00%) OneDrive
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DHCP
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Law
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Police
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Scientist
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Lead Data Scientist
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Data Scientist
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (30.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 2 (20.00%) XGBoost
3 1 (10.00%) Anaconda
3 1 (10.00%) BentoML
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) Pandas
3 1 (10.00%) Plotly
3 1 (10.00%) Prisma
3 1 (10.00%) PySpark
3 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Data Fabric
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Analytics
1 6 (60.00%) Data Science
1 6 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (30.00%) Capacity Management
4 3 (30.00%) Deep Learning
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Discovery
5 2 (20.00%) Open Source
5 2 (20.00%) OSINT
5 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (20.00%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) R
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Dataiku
2 1 (10.00%) DataRobot