Anomaly Detection Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Anomaly Detection (including Outlier Detection)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Anomaly Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Anomaly Detection 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £430 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 - -
75th Percentile £464 - -
90th Percentile £471 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £453 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 887 532 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 84.32% 95.86% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 354 190
10th Percentile £385 £301 £318
25th Percentile £443 £384 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% -10.64%
75th Percentile £600 £548 £588
90th Percentile £675 £626 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £510 £475 £523
% change year-on-year +7.37% -9.09% -11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - £14.66 £15.88
25th Percentile - £15.00 £20.13
Median hourly rate £13.69 £18.87 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.45% -10.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile - £20.44 £21.88
90th Percentile - £25.15 £22.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.30 £18.87 £12.83
% change year-on-year -3.02% +47.08% -37.41%

Anomaly Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Anomaly Detection job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Anomaly Detection
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Anomaly Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) JWT
1 4 (100.00%) Middleware
1 4 (100.00%) Node.js
1 4 (100.00%) OAuth
1 4 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 4 (100.00%) OpenID
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
1 4 (100.00%) SAML
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 4 (100.00%) API Design
1 4 (100.00%) API Development
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
1 4 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 4 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Go
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
1 4 (100.00%) Okta
1 4 (100.00%) Ping Identity
1 4 (100.00%) ServiceNow