Anomaly Detection Contract Job Trends in the North West

Anomaly Detection (including Outlier Detection)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Anomaly Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 118 -
Rank change year-on-year -39 - -
Contract jobs citing Anomaly Detection 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.097% 0.10% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £492 -
25th Percentile £563 £501 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £516 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
75th Percentile £588 £530 -
90th Percentile - £539 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -33.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,626 1,794 2,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 84.76% 90.70% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 1,150 1,590
10th Percentile £230 £275 £313
25th Percentile £374 £390 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £572 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £685
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 114 258
10th Percentile £18.89 £16.61 £10.99
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.78 £13.50
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.64 £23.56
Median % change year-on-year +43.68% +34.32% -36.85%
75th Percentile £71.50 £59.98 £45.00
90th Percentile £83.88 £80.04 £51.91
England median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%

Anomaly Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Anomaly Detection job vacancy trend in the North West

Anomaly Detection
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Anomaly Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Anomaly Detection

Anomaly Detection
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 30 March 2026. 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
Manchester - 3 £575 - 3
Anomaly Detection
England

Anomaly Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Neptune
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) Power Query
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) ArangoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Neo4j
2 1 (33.33%) Stardog
2 1 (33.33%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
1 1 (33.33%) NetworkX
1 1 (33.33%) NLTK
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) SpaCy
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) AI Agents
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (33.33%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lineage
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Dimensional Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Graph Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Model Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Understanding
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SHACL
2 1 (33.33%) SPARQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) GRC
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow