Anomaly Detection Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Anomaly Detection (including Outlier Detection)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 343 475
Rank change year-on-year +44 +132 +152
Contract jobs citing Anomaly Detection 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.013% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.015% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £520 - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 £450 £598
% change year-on-year +33.33% -24.75% +9.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate - - £90.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Anomaly Detection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Anomaly Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Anomaly Detection trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Anomaly Detection
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Anomaly Detection.

Anomaly Detection daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Anomaly Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (20.00%) Modbus
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) AIOps
2 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Ontologies
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Search Processing Language
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Numerate Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Foundry
2 1 (20.00%) Palantir
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto