Six Sigma Contracts

Six Sigma
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Six Sigma skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Six Sigma over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 513 595
Rank change year-on-year +82 +82 -38
Contract jobs citing Six Sigma 147 204 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.38% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 125 202
10th Percentile £363 £363 £354
25th Percentile £405 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £528
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -3.32% -0.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £662 £725 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 21 3
10th Percentile £30.04 £61.25 £23.65
25th Percentile £31.60 £65.00 £26.50
Median hourly rate £33.07 £65.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.52% +101.54% +16.54%
75th Percentile £35.56 £65.75 £48.24
90th Percentile £53.08 - £56.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.07 £65.50 £42.49
% change year-on-year -49.52% +54.17% +54.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Six Sigma is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +67 135 £503 -4.29% 158
London +133 76 £550 - 32
UK excluding London -8 63 £410 -8.89% 133
Work from Home +83 50 £500 - 40
East of England +3 18 £410 +78.26% 15
North of England +11 14 £410 -8.89% 31
South West +19 11 £600 -7.69% 20
South East -5 10 £350 -27.27% 30
North West +9 9 £410 -8.89% 20
Scotland +27 6 £425 -9.09% 7
Midlands +29 5 £300 -33.33% 28
Yorkshire +22 5 £438 -2.78% 7
West Midlands +18 3 £263 -41.67% 18
East Midlands +19 2 £450 -30.77% 10

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 13 (8.84%) Confluence
2 6 (4.08%) SAS
3 5 (3.40%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 12 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (4.08%) MS Visio
2 6 (4.08%) SPSS
3 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.68%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (7.48%) Power Platform
2 8 (5.44%) Azure
3 7 (4.76%) Collibra
4 5 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.68%) Apple Pay
5 1 (0.68%) AWS
5 1 (0.68%) Contentful
5 1 (0.68%) Google Pay
5 1 (0.68%) OCI
5 1 (0.68%) SaaS
5 1 (0.68%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) DWDM
1 1 (0.68%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.68%) GSM
1 1 (0.68%) SDH
1 1 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.48%) Power BI
2 7 (4.76%) Tableau
3 6 (4.08%) Metadata
3 6 (4.08%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.68%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (14.29%) JIRA
2 7 (4.76%) Eclipse
2 7 (4.76%) PyCharm
General
1 55 (37.41%) Finance
2 34 (23.13%) Social Skills
3 32 (21.77%) Public Sector
4 25 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (16.33%) Banking
6 22 (14.97%) Manufacturing
7 19 (12.93%) Pharmaceutical
8 18 (12.24%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (8.84%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (5.44%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (5.44%) Retail
10 8 (5.44%) Telecoms
11 7 (4.76%) Legal
12 4 (2.72%) Marketing
13 3 (2.04%) Financial Institution
13 3 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.36%) Electronics
14 2 (1.36%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.68%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 49 (33.33%) Analyst
2 39 (26.53%) Business Analyst
3 26 (17.69%) Project Manager
4 20 (13.61%) Senior
5 13 (8.84%) Lead
6 12 (8.16%) Senior Analyst
7 11 (7.48%) Data Analyst
7 11 (7.48%) Delivery Manager
8 9 (6.12%) Scrum Master
8 9 (6.12%) Senior Business Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) Consultant
9 8 (5.44%) Project Delivery Manager
10 7 (4.76%) Lean Specialist
10 7 (4.76%) Transformation Manager
11 6 (4.08%) Business Manager
11 6 (4.08%) Change Manager
11 6 (4.08%) Senior Manager
11 6 (4.08%) Service Design Manager
12 5 (3.40%) Data Business Analyst
12 5 (3.40%) Process Improvement Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.08%) D3.js
2 1 (0.68%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.84%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.12%) Mobile Banking
3 7 (4.76%) PMI
3 7 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.04%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.04%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.36%) CMDB
5 2 (1.36%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.68%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.68%) FMCG
6 1 (0.68%) Life Science
6 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.68%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.68%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.68%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.68%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.36%) Linux
1 2 (1.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (69.39%) Lean Six Sigma
2 68 (46.26%) Agile
3 58 (39.46%) Project Management
4 47 (31.97%) Stakeholder Management
5 43 (29.25%) PRINCE2
6 32 (21.77%) Change Management
7 31 (21.09%) Business Analysis
8 30 (20.41%) Process Improvement
9 29 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (17.01%) Service Design
11 24 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (14.97%) DevOps
12 22 (14.97%) ITIL
12 22 (14.97%) Project Delivery
12 22 (14.97%) Scrum
13 20 (13.61%) Data Governance
14 18 (12.24%) Target Operating Model
15 17 (11.56%) Business Case
15 17 (11.56%) Requirements Gathering
16 14 (9.52%) Business Process Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.52%) Python
2 8 (5.44%) SQL
3 7 (4.76%) Groovy
3 7 (4.76%) Java
3 7 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.08%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (28.57%) Degree
2 19 (12.93%) PMI Certification
3 17 (11.56%) IIBA
4 16 (10.88%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 16 (10.88%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 15 (10.20%) Security Cleared
6 14 (9.52%) PMP
6 14 (9.52%) SC Cleared
7 7 (4.76%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.04%) CBAP
8 3 (2.04%) CISA
8 3 (2.04%) CISM
8 3 (2.04%) CISSP
9 2 (1.36%) ISEB
9 2 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.68%) CIMA
10 1 (0.68%) HNC
10 1 (0.68%) HND
10 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.93%) GDPR
1 19 (12.93%) Good Clinical Practice
1 19 (12.93%) GxP
2 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.68%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) SLA
Vendors
1 17 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.44%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.76%) SAP
4 2 (1.36%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.36%) Google
4 2 (1.36%) Oracle
5 1 (0.68%) Apple
5 1 (0.68%) Ariba
5 1 (0.68%) Ciena