Anomaly Detection Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Anomaly Detection (including Outlier Detection)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Anomaly Detection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 552 537
Rank change year-on-year +49 -15 +212
Permanent jobs citing Anomaly Detection 12 15 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.040% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.045% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 4
10th Percentile £47,768 £50,750 £57,875
25th Percentile £48,165 £53,750 £75,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £62,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -30.56% -13.25%
75th Percentile £125,988 £66,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £150,000 - -
UK median annual salary £115,000 £52,500 £64,902
% change year-on-year +119.05% -19.11% -29.84%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,444 33,009 27,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.71% 88.20% 90.56%
Number of salaries quoted 19,110 15,194 20,646
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,760 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,435
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Anomaly Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Anomaly Detection job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Anomaly Detection
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Anomaly Detection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Anomaly Detection

Anomaly Detection
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Anomaly Detection in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Anomaly Detection in the UK excluding London

Anomaly Detection
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Anomaly Detection within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Midlands +31 7 £51,058 - 38
East Midlands -1 7 £51,058 - 15
North West +26 3 £150,000 - 15
North of England +10 3 £150,000 - 33
South East +30 1 - - 47
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Anomaly Detection
UK

Anomaly Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
2 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) dbt
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) QGIS
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Burp Suite
1 6 (50.00%) Metasploit
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Retail
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 6 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Data Scientist
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) EDI
1 1 (8.33%) GeoPandas
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) MapLibre
1 1 (8.33%) NetworkX
1 1 (8.33%) PostGIS
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
1 1 (8.33%) Streamlit
1 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Insider Threat
1 6 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Actionable Insight
1 7 (58.33%) Decision-Making
2 6 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 6 (50.00%) Information Security
2 6 (50.00%) Offensive Security
2 6 (50.00%) Open Source
2 6 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) Red Team
2 6 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Machine Learning
4 4 (33.33%) AI
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) Observability
5 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) R
2 1 (8.33%) Scala
2 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (50.00%) CCNA
2 6 (50.00%) CEH
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (50.00%) CISMP
2 6 (50.00%) CISSP
2 6 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 6 (50.00%) CREST Certified
2 6 (50.00%) Degree
2 6 (50.00%) GIAC
2 6 (50.00%) GPEN
2 6 (50.00%) MCP
2 6 (50.00%) MCSE
2 6 (50.00%) OSCP
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Nmap
2 1 (8.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Civica
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Mapbox
3 1 (8.33%) Northgate
3 1 (8.33%) OpenAI
3 1 (8.33%) Orchard