Anomaly Detection Job Trends in England

Anomaly Detection (including Outlier Detection)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Anomaly Detection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 657 654
Rank change year-on-year +76 -3 +284
Permanent jobs citing Anomaly Detection 28 18 13
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.054% 0.036% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% 0.040% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 24 4 12
10th Percentile £48,165 - £43,440
25th Percentile £54,229 £48,389 £63,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £117,500 £57,127 £64,902
Median % change year-on-year +105.68% -11.98% -37.44%
75th Percentile £135,000 £66,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £155,250 - -
UK median annual salary £117,500 £52,500 £64,902
% change year-on-year +123.81% -19.11% -29.84%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Anomaly Detection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,885 44,702 41,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.30% 90.14% 91.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,602 22,418 32,186
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Anomaly Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Anomaly Detection job vacancy trend in England

Anomaly Detection
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Anomaly Detection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Anomaly Detection

Anomaly Detection
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Anomaly Detection in England over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Anomaly Detection in England

Anomaly Detection
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Anomaly Detection within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +69 18 £120,000 +131.87% 35
Midlands +29 6 £51,058 - 35
East Midlands -7 6 £51,058 - 13
North West +26 3 £150,000 - 14
North of England +18 3 £150,000 - 31
South East +30 1 - - 45
Anomaly Detection
UK

Anomaly Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 5 (17.86%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (17.86%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.57%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) AWS
2 15 (53.57%) Azure
3 8 (28.57%) GCP
4 6 (21.43%) SaaS
5 4 (14.29%) PaaS
6 3 (10.71%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.57%) dbt
8 1 (3.57%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) Big Data
2 1 (3.57%) Data Mining
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) Flink
2 1 (3.57%) QGIS
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Burp Suite
1 5 (17.86%) Metasploit
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) Postman
2 1 (3.57%) REST Assured
General
1 18 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 14 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Retail
4 4 (14.29%) Legal
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.57%) Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Electronics
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
6 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Social Housing
6 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Architect
1 6 (21.43%) Enterprise Architect
2 5 (17.86%) Security Specialist
2 5 (17.86%) Senior
2 5 (17.86%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
3 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Data Scientist
4 2 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Applications Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Lead
5 1 (3.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 7 (25.00%) TensorFlow
2 5 (17.86%) Middleware
3 3 (10.71%) Pandas
3 3 (10.71%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.57%) Dask
4 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.57%) Flask
4 1 (3.57%) Kafka
4 1 (3.57%) NetworkX
4 1 (3.57%) Node.js
4 1 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.57%) PostGIS
4 1 (3.57%) PySpark
4 1 (3.57%) pytest
4 1 (3.57%) React
4 1 (3.57%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) Spring
4 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Augmented Reality
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
1 5 (17.86%) Insider Threat
1 5 (17.86%) Security Posture
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.57%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (3.57%) Derivative
3 1 (3.57%) Equities
3 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Machine Learning
2 18 (64.29%) AI
3 12 (42.86%) Analytics
4 11 (39.29%) Decision-Making
4 11 (39.29%) Roadmaps
5 10 (35.71%) Observability
6 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 8 (28.57%) DevOps
7 8 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
8 7 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
8 7 (25.00%) Data Science
8 7 (25.00%) Threat Detection
9 6 (21.43%) Agile
9 6 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (21.43%) ERP
9 6 (21.43%) Fintech
9 6 (21.43%) LLM
9 6 (21.43%) Microservices
9 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) Perl
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) R
4 1 (3.57%) Scala
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (50.00%) Degree
2 7 (25.00%) MCP
3 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (17.86%) CCNA
4 5 (17.86%) CEH
4 5 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (17.86%) CISMP
4 5 (17.86%) CISSP
4 5 (17.86%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (17.86%) CREST Certified
4 5 (17.86%) GIAC
4 5 (17.86%) GPEN
4 5 (17.86%) MCSE
4 5 (17.86%) OSCP
4 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
4 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
5 4 (14.29%) Master's Degree
6 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
7 1 (3.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (17.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (10.71%) GDPR
4 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
5 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
1 5 (17.86%) Nmap
2 3 (10.71%) Terraform
3 2 (7.14%) Grafana
3 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.57%) Argo
4 1 (3.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Cisco
3 4 (14.29%) SAP
4 3 (10.71%) Ariba
4 3 (10.71%) Workday
5 2 (7.14%) Google
5 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.57%) BMC
6 1 (3.57%) Charles River
6 1 (3.57%) Civica
6 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.57%) Mapbox
6 1 (3.57%) Murex
6 1 (3.57%) Northgate
6 1 (3.57%) OpenAI
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle
6 1 (3.57%) Orchard
6 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.57%) Splunk
6 1 (3.57%) VMware