Anomaly Detection Contract Job Trends in London

Anomaly Detection (including Outlier Detection)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Anomaly Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 366 393
Rank change year-on-year +24 +27 +146
Contract jobs citing Anomaly Detection 27 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.020% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.022% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 1 8
10th Percentile £518 - £353
25th Percentile £604 £763 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £775 £718
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +8.01% -1.71%
75th Percentile £900 £788 £775
90th Percentile £1,150 - £873
England median daily rate £650 £545 £718
% change year-on-year +19.27% -24.04% -3.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,063 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.44% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,607 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 164 237
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Anomaly Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Anomaly Detection job vacancy trend in London

Anomaly Detection
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Anomaly Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Anomaly Detection in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Anomaly Detection in London

Anomaly Detection
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
Central London - 7 £1,100 - 2
South London - 1 £600 -
Anomaly Detection
England

Anomaly Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 4 (14.81%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) AWS
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Run
4 1 (3.70%) Datadog
4 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.70%) Vertex AI
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (3.70%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (3.70%) NetScaler
1 1 (3.70%) Network Security
1 1 (3.70%) tcpdump
1 1 (3.70%) Wireless
1 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Big Data
2 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) Flink
3 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Ant
2 1 (3.70%) Metasploit
2 1 (3.70%) Snyk
General
1 17 (62.96%) Finance
2 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Billing
5 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Subject Matter Expert
2 4 (14.81%) Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Applications Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Incident Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Security Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Security Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) PyTorch
1 4 (14.81%) scikit-learn
1 4 (14.81%) TensorFlow
1 4 (14.81%) XGBoost
2 3 (11.11%) Dask
2 3 (11.11%) Google JAX
2 3 (11.11%) JAX
2 3 (11.11%) LightGBM
3 2 (7.41%) REST
4 1 (3.70%) CSS
4 1 (3.70%) CSS3
4 1 (3.70%) Highcharts JS
4 1 (3.70%) HTML5
4 1 (3.70%) Kafka
4 1 (3.70%) NumPy
4 1 (3.70%) OAuth
4 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.70%) Spring
4 1 (3.70%) WebSockets
4 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Algorithms
2 5 (18.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (11.11%) Derivative
3 3 (11.11%) Mobile App
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.70%) Clustering
5 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.70%) Insider Threat
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Analytics
2 13 (48.15%) AI
2 13 (48.15%) Observability
3 10 (37.04%) Root Cause Analysis
3 10 (37.04%) Synthetic Monitoring
4 9 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 9 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 9 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
4 9 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (22.22%) API Integration
7 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (18.52%) Use Case
7 5 (18.52%) Visualisation
8 4 (14.81%) Data Analysis
8 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
8 4 (14.81%) Deep Learning
8 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (14.81%) Incident Response
9 3 (11.11%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (18.52%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.41%) R
3 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) GIAC
2 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) PSD2
2 1 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Ansible
1 1 (3.70%) Grafana
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Nessus
1 1 (3.70%) Podman
1 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Dynatrace
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 3 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco
3 1 (3.70%) Cribl.io
3 1 (3.70%) F5
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Intel
3 1 (3.70%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.70%) Tenable
3 1 (3.70%) UiPath