Hybrid/Remote Anomaly Detection Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Anomaly Detection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 428 481
Rank change year-on-year +72 +53 +205
Permanent jobs citing Anomaly Detection 18 12 5
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.12% 0.073% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.078% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 17 2 5
10th Percentile - - £48,250
25th Percentile £48,165 £58,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £64,902
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -3.70% -29.84%
75th Percentile £150,000 £66,250 £66,654
90th Percentile £157,500 - £82,912
UK median annual salary £112,500 £57,127 £64,902
% change year-on-year +96.93% -11.98% -29.84%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,144 15,339 20,307
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.43% 93.72% 93.52%
Number of salaries quoted 8,355 9,020 16,451
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,100 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Anomaly Detection
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Anomaly Detection job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Anomaly Detection
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Anomaly Detection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Anomaly Detection

Anomaly Detection
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Anomaly Detection over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Anomaly Detection salary 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) AWS
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) PaaS
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) LTE
1 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Mining
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Burp Suite
1 7 (38.89%) Metasploit
General
1 16 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Retail
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Security Specialist
1 7 (38.89%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Data Scientist
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Research Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Research Scientist
4 1 (5.56%) RF Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (5.56%) Senior RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) PyTorch
2 4 (22.22%) TensorFlow
3 3 (16.67%) Pandas
3 3 (16.67%) scikit-learn
4 2 (11.11%) Middleware
5 1 (5.56%) NumPy
5 1 (5.56%) SciPy
5 1 (5.56%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Insider Threat
1 7 (38.89%) Security Posture
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.56%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (5.56%) FPGA
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Machine Learning
2 10 (55.56%) AI
2 10 (55.56%) Decision-Making
3 8 (44.44%) Open Source
3 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 8 (44.44%) Threat Intelligence
4 7 (38.89%) Actionable Insight
4 7 (38.89%) Ethical Hacking
4 7 (38.89%) Information Security
4 7 (38.89%) Observability
4 7 (38.89%) Offensive Security
4 7 (38.89%) Penetration Testing
4 7 (38.89%) Red Team
5 6 (33.33%) Analytics
6 5 (27.78%) Data Science
6 5 (27.78%) DevOps
6 5 (27.78%) Statistical Modelling
7 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (22.22%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) C++
3 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Degree
2 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (38.89%) CCNA
3 7 (38.89%) CEH
3 7 (38.89%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (38.89%) CISMP
3 7 (38.89%) CISSP
3 7 (38.89%) CompTIA Security+
3 7 (38.89%) CREST Certified
3 7 (38.89%) GIAC
3 7 (38.89%) GPEN
3 7 (38.89%) MCP
3 7 (38.89%) MCSE
3 7 (38.89%) OSCP
3 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
5 1 (5.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Nmap
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Civica
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Northgate
3 1 (5.56%) Orchard