Anomaly Detection Contract Job Trends in the South East

Anomaly Detection (including Outlier Detection)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Anomaly Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 - 201
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Anomaly Detection 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.088% - 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £361 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £475
75th Percentile £389 - £488
90th Percentile £396 - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -24.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,653 2,739 4,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.62% 91.61% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,032 1,751 2,803
10th Percentile £283 £253 £230
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -0.99%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £619
90th Percentile £713 £675 £694
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 421 168 434
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.80 £18.23
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -37.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £81.00 £62.31 £62.35
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.29% -9.60% -6.17%

Anomaly Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Anomaly Detection job vacancy trend in the South East

Anomaly Detection
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Anomaly Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Anomaly Detection

Anomaly Detection
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Surrey - 4 £375 -
East Sussex - 1 - -
Anomaly Detection
England

Anomaly Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (60.00%) Application Security
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Information Security
2 3 (60.00%) Log Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Threat Detection
2 3 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle