The first table below looks at the demand for Six Sigma skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Six Sigma over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Six Sigma
Rank 126 138 110
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -28
Permanent jobs citing Six Sigma 26 22 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.795% 0.644% 1.263%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.073% 0.890% 1.635%
Number of salaries quoted 19 20 36
Average salary £38,500 £55,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.00% +4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £26,500 £39,500
10% offered a salary of more than £39,000 £65,000 £110,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year
- -8.16%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2424 2471 2752
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 74.11% 72.38% 77.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1507 1745 2004
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Six Sigma
UK

Six Sigma
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Six Sigma Jobs Demand Trend

Six Sigma
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Six Sigma across the Scotland region.

Scotland Six Sigma Salary Trend

Six Sigma
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Six Sigma across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Scotland Six Sigma Salary Histogram

Six Sigma
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Six Sigma within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Aberdeen - 12 £39,000 -
Edinburgh -8 8 £61,250 -5.76% 1
West Lothian +4 5 £33,000 +24.52%
Six Sigma
UK

Six Sigma
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Six Sigma.

1 24 (43.64%) Degree
2 20 (36.36%) PRINCE2
3 17 (30.91%) ITIL
3 17 (30.91%) Project Management
3 17 (30.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (29.09%) Budget Control
4 16 (29.09%) Matrix Management
4 16 (29.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 16 (29.09%) Service Delivery
4 16 (29.09%) Finance
4 16 (29.09%) VB
5 14 (25.45%) Lean Six Sigma
6 13 (23.64%) Business Transformation
7 12 (21.82%) ISO 9001
7 12 (21.82%) SQL
7 12 (21.82%) MS Office
8 11 (20.00%) Manufacturing
8 11 (20.00%) Business Analysis
9 10 (18.18%) Cisco
10 9 (16.36%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (16.36%) UNIX
10 9 (16.36%) Linux
10 9 (16.36%) Oracle
10 9 (16.36%) Perl
10 9 (16.36%) Aerospace
10 9 (16.36%) Oracle Linux
11 8 (14.55%) Lean Manufacturing
11 8 (14.55%) Carbide.c++
11 8 (14.55%) C
12 7 (12.73%) LabVIEW

Six Sigma
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Six Sigma. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (7.273%) XHTML
1 4 (7.273%) CSS
1 4 (7.273%) Web Services
1 4 (7.273%) Ajax
1 4 (7.273%) HTML5
1 4 (7.273%) RESTful
2 2 (3.636%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.455%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (21.82%) MS Office
2 5 (9.091%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (5.455%) MS Excel
4 2 (3.636%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.455%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Carbide.c++
2 7 (12.73%) LabVIEW
3 2 (3.636%) Eclipse
General
1 16 (29.09%) Finance
2 11 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 9 (16.36%) Aerospace
4 7 (12.73%) Military
4 7 (12.73%) Electronics
4 7 (12.73%) Banking
5 4 (7.273%) Front Office
5 4 (7.273%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.455%) Retail
6 3 (5.455%) Japanese Language
6 3 (5.455%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (27.27%) Project Manager
2 10 (18.18%) Analyst
2 10 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 9 (16.36%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
4 8 (14.55%) Project Engineer
4 8 (14.55%) Software Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Senior Test Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Test Development Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Test Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Development Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Senior Development Engineer
6 4 (7.273%) Developer
7 3 (5.455%) Change Manager
7 3 (5.455%) QA Manager
8 2 (3.636%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.636%) Coordinator
8 2 (3.636%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.636%) Project Coordinator
8 2 (3.636%) Senior Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 5 (9.091%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.455%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.36%) UNIX
1 9 (16.36%) Linux
1 9 (16.36%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) PRINCE2
2 17 (30.91%) ITIL
2 17 (30.91%) Project Management
2 17 (30.91%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (29.09%) Budget Control
3 16 (29.09%) Matrix Management
3 16 (29.09%) Service Delivery
4 14 (25.45%) Lean Six Sigma
5 13 (23.64%) Business Transformation
6 11 (20.00%) Business Analysis
7 9 (16.36%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (14.55%) Lean Manufacturing
9 7 (12.73%) Configuration Management
10 6 (10.91%) Systems Analysis
11 4 (7.273%) Change Management
11 4 (7.273%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (7.273%) Agile Software Development
11 4 (7.273%) TDD
11 4 (7.273%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
11 4 (7.273%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.09%) VB
2 12 (21.82%) SQL
3 9 (16.36%) Perl
4 8 (14.55%) C
5 4 (7.273%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.636%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (43.64%) Degree
2 16 (29.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.73%) DV Cleared
3 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.273%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.818%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (1.818%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (1.818%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.82%) ISO 9001
2 3 (5.455%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (18.18%) Cisco
2 9 (16.36%) Oracle
3 3 (5.455%) Business Objects
3 3 (5.455%) Microsoft
Edinburgh, Scotland
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