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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

anomaly detection

161 live US technical postings name anomaly detection in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 161 postings naming anomaly detection that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Scientist37.3%
  2. 2Software Engineer24.2%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer21.7%
  4. 4Data Engineer5.6%
  5. 5AI Engineer4.3%
  6. 6Security Engineer3.7%
  7. 7Data Analyst1.2%
  8. 8DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.2%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where anomaly detection is named
n = 100
10th
$137k
25th
$171k
Median
$198k
75th
$229k
90th
$263k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote22.4%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA13%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA9.9%
  4. 4Washington, DC7.5%
  5. 5New York, NY5.6%
  6. 6Seattle, WA5%
  7. 7Denver, CO2.5%
  8. 8Boston, MA1.9%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.