Anomaly Detection Job Trends in Scotland

Anomaly Detection (including Outlier Detection)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Anomaly Detection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 - 266
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Anomaly Detection 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.030% - 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% - 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £47,250
25th Percentile £71,250 - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £52,500
75th Percentile £73,750 - £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £69,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.32% +32.38% -13.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,333 1,827 5,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 71.00% 93.31% 92.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 854 2,385
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%

Anomaly Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Anomaly Detection job vacancy trend in Scotland

Anomaly Detection
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Anomaly Detection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Anomaly Detection

Anomaly Detection
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Anomaly Detection within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 May 2026. 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
Glasgow - 1 £72,500 - 1
Anomaly Detection
UK

Anomaly Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (100.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) IPFIX
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) InfluxDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Monitoring Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds