Anomaly Detection Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Anomaly Detection (including Outlier Detection)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Anomaly Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Anomaly Detection 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.39% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £537 - -
25th Percentile £863 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,100 - -
75th Percentile £1,150 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £1,100 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Anomaly Detection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,612 1,759 2,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.51% 92.00% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,131 1,071 1,563
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £765 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £132.40 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%

Anomaly Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Anomaly Detection relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Anomaly Detection job vacancy trend in the City of London

Anomaly Detection
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Anomaly Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Anomaly Detection

Anomaly Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Anomaly Detection in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Anomaly Detection in the City of London

Anomaly Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Firebase
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (14.29%) Google Gemini
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Big Data
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Ant
1 1 (14.29%) Snyk
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Dask
1 3 (42.86%) Google JAX
1 3 (42.86%) JAX
1 3 (42.86%) LightGBM
1 3 (42.86%) PyTorch
1 3 (42.86%) scikit-learn
1 3 (42.86%) TensorFlow
1 3 (42.86%) XGBoost
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) CSS3
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5
2 1 (14.29%) JWT
2 1 (14.29%) Next.js
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) Redux
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (14.29%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Algorithms
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (42.86%) Derivative
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) AI
2 3 (42.86%) Business Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
2 3 (42.86%) Deep Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Observability
2 3 (42.86%) Pattern Recognition
2 3 (42.86%) Reinforcement Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) API Design
4 1 (14.29%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Synthetic Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAI
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk