Anomaly Detection Contracts

Anomaly Detection (including Outlier Detection)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 591 704
Rank change year-on-year +77 +113 +126
Contract jobs citing Anomaly Detection 10 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.021% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.024% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile £520 - £575
25th Percentile £550 - £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £598
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -24.75% +9.22%
75th Percentile - £488 £664
90th Percentile - - £754
UK excluding London median daily rate - £475 £586
% change year-on-year - -18.94% +12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 26,651 37,268 53,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.87% 86.35% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,180 24,016 36,805
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,087 2,439 1,749
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.44 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
Median % change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%

Anomaly Detection
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Anomaly Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Anomaly Detection in the UK

Anomaly Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Anomaly Detection.

Daily rate trend for Anomaly Detection in the UK

Anomaly Detection
Top 3 Contract 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 6 May 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 +61 7 £600 +33.33% 39
London +36 7 £600 +33.33% 30
Work from Home +51 5 £600 - 27

Anomaly Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (20.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) OCI
4 1 (10.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (10.00%) Modbus
1 1 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Big Data
1 2 (20.00%) Tableau
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Flink
2 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jaeger
2 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Law
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Monitoring Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Network Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (20.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (10.00%) Anaconda
2 1 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (10.00%) BentoML
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Loki
2 1 (10.00%) NumPy
2 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (10.00%) Pandas
2 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (10.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (40.00%) AIOps
1 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (30.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (20.00%) Data Science
3 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCSP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (10.00%) OSCP
2 1 (10.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Istio
1 1 (10.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) linkerd
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (10.00%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Dataiku
2 1 (10.00%) DataRobot
2 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (10.00%) Foundry
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Palantir
2 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow