Hybrid/Remote Anomaly Detection Contract Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Anomaly Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 317 368
Rank change year-on-year +17 +51 +165
Contract jobs citing Anomaly Detection 12 4 6
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.12% 0.034% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.038% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £500 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +1.40% -29.28%
75th Percentile £705 - £856
90th Percentile £706 - £1,003
UK median daily rate £638 £545 £650
% change year-on-year +16.97% -16.15% -11.56%

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 9,249 10,404 15,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.01% 89.01% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,116 6,535 10,443
10th Percentile £331 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 214 371
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.36 £22.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -30.19% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.88 £70.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%

Anomaly Detection
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Anomaly Detection and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Anomaly Detection job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Anomaly Detection
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Anomaly Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Anomaly Detection

Anomaly Detection
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Anomaly Detection over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Anomaly Detection daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Anomaly Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (8.33%) Datadog
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) tcpdump
1 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Metasploit
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Billing
3 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Security Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Lead
2 4 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) SailPoint Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Forensic Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) REST
2 4 (33.33%) SailPoint
2 4 (33.33%) SOAP
3 2 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Insider Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Analytics
2 6 (50.00%) AI
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 4 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Observability
4 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) SIEM
4 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) SOAR
4 3 (25.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Proactive Management
5 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) Use Case
5 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) BeanShell
2 4 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CISM
1 4 (33.33%) CISSP
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Dynatrace
4 1 (8.33%) Intel
4 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) Tenable