Anomaly Detection (including Outlier Detection)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Anomaly Detection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Anomaly Detection over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 891 953 1145
Rank change year-on-year +62 +192 -283
Permanent jobs citing Anomaly Detection 16 42 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.041% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.043% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 22
10th Percentile - £43,477 -
25th Percentile £49,125 £43,857 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +5.65% -11.54%
75th Percentile £67,000 £80,625 £81,875
90th Percentile - £136,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% +2.56%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Anomaly Detection in the UK

Anomaly Detection
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Anomaly Detection over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Anomaly Detection in the UK

Anomaly Detection
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Anomaly Detection within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +65 13 £67,000 +3.08% 6
London +107 8 £67,000 +18.58% 2
UK excluding London -19 8 £52,500 -19.23% 4
Work from Home +79 7 £67,000 +3.08% 2
East of England - 5 - - 2
Scotland -60 3 £52,500 +5.00% 1

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 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
3 4 (25.00%) IaaS
3 4 (25.00%) PaaS
3 4 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) Network Security
3 4 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle Database
1 5 (31.25%) Power BI
1 5 (31.25%) Relational Database
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Legal
2 5 (31.25%) Retail
3 4 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Integration Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Systems Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Systems Integration Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
3 4 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Specialist
3 4 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
4 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Asset Management Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) IT Security Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Risk Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Risk Data Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (31.25%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (31.25%) Operational Technology
2 5 (31.25%) Smart Energy
2 5 (31.25%) Smart Meter
3 4 (25.00%) Cyberattack
4 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (6.25%) Equities
5 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
5 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (56.25%) SIEM
3 6 (37.50%) Information Security
3 6 (37.50%) Security Operations
4 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (31.25%) Incident Management
4 5 (31.25%) Incident Response
4 5 (31.25%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 5 (31.25%) Threat Detection
4 5 (31.25%) Use Case
4 5 (31.25%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
5 4 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 4 (25.00%) Information Security Management
5 4 (25.00%) ITIL
5 4 (25.00%) Network Management
5 4 (25.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) VB
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (25.00%) CCSP
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (25.00%) CISSP
1 4 (25.00%) CRISC
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) NIST
2 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
4 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (6.25%) ISO 22301
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (18.75%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco
3 3 (18.75%) LogRhythm
3 3 (18.75%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg