Six Sigma Jobs

Six Sigma
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Six Sigma skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Six Sigma over the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 500 592
Rank change year-on-year +23 +92 +121
Permanent jobs citing Six Sigma 280 337 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.45% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.50% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 76 110 178
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,038 £40,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,313 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,188 £81,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,439 £54,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.81% -13.60% +25.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58,975 67,286 104,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.01% 88.92% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 25,560 50,242 64,343
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £34,875
25th Percentile £45,748 £40,001 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Six Sigma in the UK

Six Sigma
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Six Sigma over the 6 months to 5 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Six Sigma in the UK

Six Sigma
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Six Sigma within the UK over the 6 months to 5 February 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
England +109 269 £55,000 -15.38% 77
UK excluding London +37 205 £54,439 +0.81% 70
North of England +96 145 £55,000 +22.22% 22
North West +81 130 £55,000 +22.22% 17
London +44 67 £68,750 -14.06% 14
Work from Home +47 40 £56,000 -13.85% 41
Midlands +24 21 £60,000 - 17
South West +69 19 £54,439 - 9
West Midlands +8 13 £60,000 -36.84% 14
Yorkshire +36 12 £52,500 -2.33% 2
South East -1 12 £45,000 -10.00% 13
East Midlands +14 8 - - 3
East of England -12 5 £64,571 -0.66% 9
Scotland +30 3 £53,000 +24.71% 7
North East +10 3 - - 3

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 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 41 (14.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (9.64%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.57%) AutoCAD
3 10 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (2.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Infor LN
1 2 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (3.93%) Power Platform
2 10 (3.57%) AWS
2 10 (3.57%) Serverless
3 9 (3.21%) SaaS
4 2 (0.71%) Miro
5 1 (0.36%) Azure
5 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.57%) HTTP
2 6 (2.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.29%) MS Access
2 10 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
3 9 (3.21%) Power BI
4 6 (2.14%) Tableau
5 1 (0.36%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.36%) GIS
5 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (0.36%) LabVIEW
General
1 138 (49.29%) Manufacturing
2 69 (24.64%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (18.57%) Social Skills
4 51 (18.21%) Finance
5 23 (8.21%) Influencing Skills
5 23 (8.21%) Legal
6 19 (6.79%) Banking
6 19 (6.79%) Electronics
7 12 (4.29%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.14%) Games
10 5 (1.79%) Marketing
11 4 (1.43%) Law
12 3 (1.07%) Automotive
12 3 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.71%) Police
13 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.71%) Retail
14 1 (0.36%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 121 (43.21%) Lead
2 45 (16.07%) Senior
3 40 (14.29%) Senior Manager
4 25 (8.93%) Systems Engineer
5 19 (6.79%) Infrastructure Manager
5 19 (6.79%) Risk Manager
5 19 (6.79%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
5 19 (6.79%) Senior Risk Manager
6 15 (5.36%) Analyst
7 12 (4.29%) Control Systems Engineer
7 12 (4.29%) Reliability Engineer
8 10 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
8 10 (3.57%) Engineering Manager
8 10 (3.57%) Project Manager
8 10 (3.57%) Robotics Engineer
9 8 (2.86%) Product Manager
10 7 (2.50%) Process Analyst
10 7 (2.50%) Service Manager
11 6 (2.14%) Business Analyst
11 6 (2.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.57%) JSON
2 1 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.86%) Robotics
2 14 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.57%) SCADA
5 6 (2.14%) Mobile Games
5 6 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.43%) PMI
7 3 (1.07%) Life Science
7 3 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.71%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.71%) NHS
9 1 (0.36%) Biopharmaceutical
9 1 (0.36%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.36%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (40.71%) Lean Manufacturing
2 111 (39.64%) Coaching
3 108 (38.57%) Zero Defects
4 106 (37.86%) CMMI
5 91 (32.50%) Lean Six Sigma
6 85 (30.36%) Process Improvement
7 72 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (20.71%) Project Management
9 55 (19.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 51 (18.21%) Agile
11 43 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (15.00%) Decision-Making
13 33 (11.79%) Kaizen
14 32 (11.43%) Analytics
15 31 (11.07%) Customer-Centricity
16 30 (10.71%) Roadmaps
17 28 (10.00%) Data Analysis
18 26 (9.29%) Business Case
18 26 (9.29%) Data Analytics
18 26 (9.29%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 24 (8.57%) SQL
2 17 (6.07%) Python
3 10 (3.57%) C
3 10 (3.57%) R
4 4 (1.43%) VBA
5 1 (0.36%) C#
5 1 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 106 (37.86%) HND
2 91 (32.50%) Degree
3 80 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 38 (13.57%) Master's Degree
5 32 (11.43%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 31 (11.07%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 20 (7.14%) MBA
8 14 (5.00%) PMP
9 13 (4.64%) PMI Certification
10 12 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (3.57%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (1.07%) SC Cleared
13 3 (1.07%) Security Cleared
14 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.71%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
14 2 (0.71%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
15 1 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
15 1 (0.36%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (37.86%) AQAP
2 84 (30.00%) ISO 9001
3 10 (3.57%) SLA
4 8 (2.86%) QA
5 6 (2.14%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.71%) GLP
6 2 (0.71%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (0.71%) PMO
7 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.36%) P3O
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (6.79%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 26 (9.29%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.29%) Minitab
3 7 (2.50%) SAP
4 2 (0.71%) Infor
4 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.36%) JDA
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle