The first table below looks at the demand for Lean Six Sigma skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lean Six Sigma over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Oxford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lean Six Sigma
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Lean Six Sigma 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £444 £400
% change year-on-year
-4.22% +10.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
154 197 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 69.68% 56.94% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 125 38
Average daily rate £350 £425 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +84.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £284 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 20 2
Average hourly rate £10.33 £20.06 £11.39
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.52% +76.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Lean Six Sigma
Oxfordshire

Lean Six Sigma
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Lean Six Sigma across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Oxford Lean Six Sigma Jobs Demand Trend

Lean Six Sigma
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lean Six Sigma across the Oxford region.

Oxford Lean Six Sigma Daily Rate Trend

Lean Six Sigma
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Lean Six Sigma also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Lean Six Sigma.

1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Six Sigma
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (100.00%) C-shell
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
1 1 (100.00%) MarkLogic

Lean Six Sigma
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Lean Six Sigma also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Lean Six Sigma. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (100.00%) MarkLogic
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Six Sigma
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) C-shell
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat