Six Sigma Contracts

Six Sigma
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Six Sigma skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Six Sigma over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 503 584
Rank change year-on-year +54 +81 -22
Contract jobs citing Six Sigma 136 196 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.39% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 119 192
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £405 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% - -1.23%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £600
90th Percentile £664 £701 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +5.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 2
10th Percentile £29.52 £58.35 £25.60
25th Percentile £31.60 - £31.37
Median hourly rate £33.07 £65.00 £42.49
Median % change year-on-year -49.13% +53.00% +66.61%
75th Percentile £35.89 £65.75 £53.35
90th Percentile £58.35 - £58.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.07 £65.00 £42.49
% change year-on-year -49.13% +53.00% +80.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Six Sigma falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Six Sigma
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Six Sigma as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Six Sigma in the UK

Six Sigma
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Six Sigma.

Daily rate trend for Six Sigma in the UK

Six Sigma
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Six Sigma over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Six Sigma in the UK

Six Sigma
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Six Sigma.

Hourly rate trend for Six Sigma in the UK

Six Sigma
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Six Sigma over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Six Sigma in the UK

Six Sigma
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Six Sigma within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +50 130 £503 -4.29% 153
London +101 69 £575 +6.24% 19
UK excluding London -34 65 £410 -8.89% 123
Work from Home +80 49 £550 +10.00% 42
East of England -3 16 £410 -25.45% 10
North of England +11 14 £410 +3.67% 26
South East -12 14 £350 -27.27% 25
South West 0 11 £600 -7.69% 24
North West +7 9 £410 +5.81% 16
Midlands +16 7 £400 -11.11% 35
Yorkshire +17 5 £438 +2.94% 8
West Midlands +17 5 £400 -11.11% 21
Scotland +32 4 £435 +0.29% 3
East Midlands +7 2 £450 -30.77% 14

Six Sigma
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (8.82%) Confluence
2 6 (4.41%) SAS
2 6 (4.41%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.21%) CMS
3 3 (2.21%) Headless CMS
3 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.74%) Appian
Applications
1 13 (9.56%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.41%) SPSS
3 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.94%) MS Visio
5 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.74%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 10 (7.35%) Power Platform
2 7 (5.15%) Azure
2 7 (5.15%) Collibra
2 7 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.21%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.74%) Contentful
5 1 (0.74%) OCI
5 1 (0.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.35%) Power BI
2 6 (4.41%) Metadata
2 6 (4.41%) Qlik Sense
2 6 (4.41%) Tableau
3 1 (0.74%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (14.71%) JIRA
2 7 (5.15%) Eclipse
2 7 (5.15%) PyCharm
General
1 53 (38.97%) Finance
2 29 (21.32%) Public Sector
3 27 (19.85%) Social Skills
4 23 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (15.44%) Banking
5 21 (15.44%) Manufacturing
6 18 (13.24%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (13.24%) Pharmaceutical
7 12 (8.82%) Telecoms
8 8 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (5.15%) Legal
9 7 (5.15%) Marketing
10 6 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.94%) Retail
12 3 (2.21%) Financial Institution
12 3 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.47%) Electronics
13 2 (1.47%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 46 (33.82%) Analyst
2 34 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 23 (16.91%) Project Manager
4 19 (13.97%) Senior
5 11 (8.09%) Delivery Manager
5 11 (8.09%) Senior Analyst
6 10 (7.35%) Data Analyst
6 10 (7.35%) Lead
7 8 (5.88%) Project Delivery Manager
7 8 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
8 7 (5.15%) Lean Specialist
8 7 (5.15%) Transformation Manager
9 6 (4.41%) Business Manager
9 6 (4.41%) Scrum Master
9 6 (4.41%) Senior Manager
9 6 (4.41%) Service Design Manager
10 5 (3.68%) Change Manager
10 5 (3.68%) Consultant
10 5 (3.68%) Process Improvement Specialist
10 5 (3.68%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.41%) D3.js
2 3 (2.21%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.62%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.15%) PMI
4 6 (4.41%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (2.94%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.21%) Acoustics
6 3 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.47%) CMDB
7 2 (1.47%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.74%) FMCG
8 1 (0.74%) Life Science
8 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.47%) Linux
1 2 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (69.12%) Lean Six Sigma
2 60 (44.12%) Agile
3 50 (36.76%) Project Management
4 46 (33.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (26.47%) PRINCE2
6 33 (24.26%) Change Management
7 29 (21.32%) Business Analysis
7 29 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (20.59%) Process Improvement
9 24 (17.65%) Service Design
10 21 (15.44%) Scrum
11 20 (14.71%) Data Governance
11 20 (14.71%) ITIL
11 20 (14.71%) Project Delivery
12 18 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (12.50%) DevOps
13 17 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
14 15 (11.03%) Target Operating Model
15 14 (10.29%) Business Case
16 13 (9.56%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.56%) Python
2 7 (5.15%) Groovy
2 7 (5.15%) Java
2 7 (5.15%) JavaScript
3 6 (4.41%) R
3 6 (4.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (25.74%) Degree
2 18 (13.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 16 (11.76%) IIBA
4 14 (10.29%) PMI Certification
5 13 (9.56%) Security Cleared
6 12 (8.82%) SC Cleared
7 11 (8.09%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 9 (6.62%) PMP
9 6 (4.41%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.94%) CPIM
11 3 (2.21%) APMG
11 3 (2.21%) CISA
11 3 (2.21%) CISM
11 3 (2.21%) CISSP
12 2 (1.47%) CBAP
12 2 (1.47%) ISEB
13 1 (0.74%) APMP
13 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.74%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.97%) GDPR
1 19 (13.97%) Good Clinical Practice
1 19 (13.97%) GxP
2 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (0.74%) QA
2 1 (0.74%) SLA
Vendors
1 19 (13.97%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 4 (2.94%) IFS
3 4 (2.94%) SAP
4 1 (0.74%) Ariba
4 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.74%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.74%) Cisco
4 1 (0.74%) Google
4 1 (0.74%) Nokia
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle
4 1 (0.74%) Rakuten
4 1 (0.74%) Salesforce