Anomaly Detection Contracts in the UK excluding London

Anomaly Detection (including Outlier Detection)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Anomaly Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Anomaly Detection over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 390 433
Rank change year-on-year +27 +43 +70
Contract jobs citing Anomaly Detection 3 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.005% 0.021%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.006% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - £585
25th Percentile £468 £463 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £586
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -18.94% +12.15%
75th Percentile £511 £488 -
90th Percentile £516 - -
UK median daily rate £513 £450 £718
% change year-on-year +13.89% -37.28% +30.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,228 17,165 20,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.29% 82.83% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,022 10,165 14,067
10th Percentile £240 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,192 2,075 1,271
10th Percentile £13.86 £12.53 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £16.99
Median hourly rate £24.34 £38.12 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% -0.99% +79.07%
75th Percentile £51.23 £62.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.55 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +50.94%

Anomaly Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Anomaly Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Anomaly Detection in the UK excluding London

Anomaly Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Anomaly Detection in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Anomaly Detection in the UK excluding London

Anomaly Detection
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Midlands - 2 £485 - 20
West Midlands - 2 £485 - 14
South West - 1 £513 - 11
Anomaly Detection
UK

Anomaly Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Server Management
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) R
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk