Anomaly Detection Contract Job Trends

Anomaly Detection (including Outlier Detection)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Anomaly Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 536 591
Rank change year-on-year 0 +55 +181
Contract jobs citing Anomaly Detection 46 7 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.020% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.022% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 3 11
10th Percentile £446 £498 £313
25th Percentile £500 £516 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £545 £650
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -16.15% -10.96%
75th Percentile £738 £666 £759
90th Percentile £900 £739 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £516 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -14.08% -23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,247 31,236 40,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.88% 87.47% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,285 18,990 26,947
10th Percentile £300 £308 £310
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,084 1,559
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.19 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

Anomaly Detection
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Anomaly Detection job vacancy trend in the UK

Anomaly Detection
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Anomaly Detection
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Anomaly Detection over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Anomaly Detection in the UK

Anomaly Detection
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Anomaly Detection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Anomaly Detection

Anomaly Detection
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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
England -1 42 £638 +16.97% 18
London +18 25 £688 -11.29% 8
UK excluding London -25 17 £506 -1.79% 12
Work from Home +4 10 £615 +12.84% 8
Midlands -23 10 £613 - 4
West Midlands -19 8 £625 - 2
South West - 3 £481 - 1
East of England - 3 £471 - 3
East Midlands - 2 £375 - 2
Scotland - 1 - -

Anomaly Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (15.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) IIS
2 1 (2.17%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.17%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.78%) AWS
2 13 (28.26%) Azure
3 7 (15.22%) Entra ID
3 7 (15.22%) GCP
4 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon Neptune
6 2 (4.35%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Macie
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.17%) Cloud Run
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.17%) Google Gemini
7 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
1 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (2.17%) NetScaler
1 1 (2.17%) Network Security
1 1 (2.17%) tcpdump
1 1 (2.17%) Wireless
1 1 (2.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) Big Data
2 4 (8.70%) Power BI
3 3 (6.52%) Metadata
4 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.35%) Looker
4 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.35%) Tableau
5 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.17%) Flink
5 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.17%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Git
1 2 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Ant
2 1 (2.17%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.17%) Snyk
General
1 21 (45.65%) Finance
2 16 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Aviation
6 1 (2.17%) Billing
6 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Military
6 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (15.22%) Analyst
2 5 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Security Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Subject Matter Expert
3 4 (8.70%) Consultant
3 4 (8.70%) Data Scientist
3 4 (8.70%) Lead
3 4 (8.70%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) SailPoint Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) SIEM Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Data Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Senior
5 2 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Data Steward
5 2 (4.35%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (2.17%) Developer
6 1 (2.17%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) REST
1 6 (13.04%) SailPoint
2 5 (10.87%) scikit-learn
3 4 (8.70%) SOAP
3 4 (8.70%) TensorFlow
4 3 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (6.52%) Pandas
5 2 (4.35%) Dask
5 2 (4.35%) Google JAX
5 2 (4.35%) JAX
5 2 (4.35%) Kafka
5 2 (4.35%) LightGBM
5 2 (4.35%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.35%) XGBoost
6 1 (2.17%) CSS3
6 1 (2.17%) Flask
6 1 (2.17%) Highcharts JS
6 1 (2.17%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Algorithms
2 6 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.52%) Clustering
3 3 (6.52%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.52%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.35%) Derivative
4 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) Semantic Web
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) MISP
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (60.87%) Analytics
2 20 (43.48%) AI
2 20 (43.48%) Observability
3 13 (28.26%) Machine Learning
4 11 (23.91%) Root Cause Analysis
4 11 (23.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 11 (23.91%) Synthetic Monitoring
4 11 (23.91%) Visualisation
5 9 (19.57%) Application Performance Monitoring
5 9 (19.57%) Performance Monitoring
5 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (17.39%) Decision-Making
7 7 (15.22%) Actionable Insight
7 7 (15.22%) Data Analysis
7 7 (15.22%) Data Engineering
7 7 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (15.22%) Data Science
7 7 (15.22%) SIEM
8 6 (13.04%) Agile
8 6 (13.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.78%) Python
2 10 (21.74%) SQL
3 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.04%) Java
5 5 (10.87%) R
6 4 (8.70%) BeanShell
7 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.35%) Bash
8 2 (4.35%) SPARQL
8 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (2.17%) Perl
9 1 (2.17%) Scala
9 1 (2.17%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.04%) CISSP
2 6 (13.04%) Degree
2 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) CISM
3 4 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) GIAC
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.17%) CEH
5 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
1 4 (8.70%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.35%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) SLA
3 1 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.17%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) PSD2
3 1 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.52%) Docker
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Ansible
2 1 (2.17%) Fluentd
2 1 (2.17%) Grafana
2 1 (2.17%) Kibana
2 1 (2.17%) logstash
2 1 (2.17%) Nessus
2 1 (2.17%) Podman
2 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.17%) QRadar
2 1 (2.17%) Rsyslog
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Dynatrace
2 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) ServiceNow
3 6 (13.04%) Splunk
4 2 (4.35%) Databricks
4 2 (4.35%) ForgeRock
4 2 (4.35%) Google
4 2 (4.35%) Micro Focus
4 2 (4.35%) NetIQ
4 2 (4.35%) Okta
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco
5 1 (2.17%) Cribl.io
5 1 (2.17%) F5
5 1 (2.17%) IBM
5 1 (2.17%) Intel
5 1 (2.17%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.17%) Tenable
5 1 (2.17%) UiPath