The first table below looks at the demand for Six Sigma skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Six Sigma over the 3 months to 21 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Six Sigma
Rank 197 187 192
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +5
Permanent jobs citing Six Sigma 19 28 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.360% 0.505% 0.223%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.477% 0.670% 0.326%
Number of salaries quoted 16 18 8
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £46,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% -13.51%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £37,500 £36,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,250 £70,000 £60,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3981 4176 3989
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 75.34% 75.37% 68.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3491 3556 3375
Average salary £37,500 £38,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.59% +2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Six Sigma
England

Six Sigma
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West Six Sigma Salary Trend

Six Sigma
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Six Sigma across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Dorset -7 5 £22,000 -51.11%
Somerset - 5 £32,500 -
Bristol -12 4 £42,000 -42.06%
Wiltshire +9 3 £57,500 +51.31%
Devon 0 1 - -
Gloucestershire -2 1 £31,000 -22.50%
Six Sigma
England

Six Sigma
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 12 (36.36%) Lean Six Sigma
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 9 (27.27%) Electronics
3 9 (27.27%) QA
3 9 (27.27%) ERP
4 8 (24.24%) ISO 9001
4 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
5 7 (21.21%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (18.18%) Degree
6 6 (18.18%) Change Management
6 6 (18.18%) CMMI
7 5 (15.15%) Manufacturing
7 5 (15.15%) Scrum
7 5 (15.15%) Retail
7 5 (15.15%) TickIT
7 5 (15.15%) Process Improvement
7 5 (15.15%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 4 (12.12%) Project Management
8 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
8 4 (12.12%) PRINCE2
8 4 (12.12%) C
8 4 (12.12%) .NET
8 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET
8 4 (12.12%) XML
8 4 (12.12%) Strategic Planning
8 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
8 4 (12.12%) Banking
8 4 (12.12%) Aerospace
9 3 (9.091%) Management Information System

Six Sigma
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 (12.12%) .NET
1 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET
1 4 (12.12%) XML
2 3 (9.091%) CSS
2 3 (9.091%) HTML
3 1 (3.030%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.061%) Apache
1 2 (6.061%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.030%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (3.030%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 3 (9.091%) MS Office
1 3 (9.091%) Simulink
1 3 (9.091%) Stateflow
2 2 (6.061%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.061%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.030%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.030%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.030%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.030%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.030%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.061%) Internet
1 2 (6.061%) Firewall
2 1 (3.030%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.091%) MySQL
2 2 (6.061%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.061%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.061%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (6.061%) Talend Open Studio
1 2 (6.061%) Visual Studio
1 2 (6.061%) Subversion
1 2 (6.061%) JIRA
General
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Electronics
3 5 (15.15%) Manufacturing
3 5 (15.15%) Retail
4 4 (12.12%) Banking
4 4 (12.12%) Aerospace
5 3 (9.091%) Retail Banking
5 3 (9.091%) Avionics
6 2 (6.061%) Mandarin Language
6 2 (6.061%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.030%) Automotive
7 1 (3.030%) Marketing
7 1 (3.030%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Software Engineer
1 7 (21.21%) Developer
2 6 (18.18%) Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Quality Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Software Quality Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Business Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Graduate
4 4 (12.12%) Hardware Engineer
5 3 (9.091%) Process Manager
5 3 (9.091%) Process Improvement Manager
5 3 (9.091%) Technical Developer
5 3 (9.091%) Graduate Hardware Engineer
6 2 (6.061%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (6.061%) QA Consultant
6 2 (6.061%) Process Consultant
6 2 (6.061%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.061%) Business Developer
6 2 (6.061%) Consultant
6 2 (6.061%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
2 3 (9.091%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.061%) Open Source
4 1 (3.030%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.030%) NHS
4 1 (3.030%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.061%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (6.061%) Linux
2 1 (3.030%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Lean Six Sigma
2 9 (27.27%) ERP
3 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (18.18%) Change Management
4 6 (18.18%) CMMI
5 5 (15.15%) Scrum
5 5 (15.15%) Process Improvement
6 4 (12.12%) Project Management
6 4 (12.12%) PRINCE2
6 4 (12.12%) Strategic Planning
7 3 (9.091%) Software Engineering
7 3 (9.091%) ITIL
7 3 (9.091%) Process Management
7 3 (9.091%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (6.061%) Quality Management
8 2 (6.061%) RDF
8 2 (6.061%) UML
8 2 (6.061%) Business Analysis
8 2 (6.061%) Requirements Management
9 1 (3.030%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) C
2 3 (9.091%) PHP
2 3 (9.091%) SQL
2 3 (9.091%) C#
2 3 (9.091%) C++
2 3 (9.091%) Java
2 3 (9.091%) JavaScript
2 3 (9.091%) Ada
2 3 (9.091%) Assembly Language
2 3 (9.091%) MATLAB
3 2 (6.061%) Bash shell
3 2 (6.061%) Embedded C++
3 2 (6.061%) Python
3 2 (6.061%) Perl
3 2 (6.061%) Ruby
4 1 (3.030%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 6 (18.18%) Degree
4 5 (15.15%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 2 (6.061%) RHCE
5 2 (6.061%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (3.030%) MBA
6 1 (3.030%) ISEB
6 1 (3.030%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.030%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (27.27%) QA
2 8 (24.24%) ISO 9001
3 5 (15.15%) TickIT
4 2 (6.061%) DO-178B
4 2 (6.061%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.030%) ISO 14001
5 1 (3.030%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 2 (6.061%) Gluster
Systems Management
1 2 (6.061%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.091%) Oracle
3 2 (6.061%) Talend
3 2 (6.061%) Riverbed
3 2 (6.061%) Atlassian
3 2 (6.061%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.061%) Cisco
3 2 (6.061%) JBoss
4 1 (3.030%) Telelogic
4 1 (3.030%) SmartStream
4 1 (3.030%) Lotus
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Skills/Experience - Process modeling ( BPMN, Visio, ARIS) - Experience in delivering business wide enterprise process model - Software licensing This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious individual to join...
Roc Search
Posted: 15 May 2013
South West
This is a great opportunity for a Process Improvement Manager to join a large financial services business in Bristol to design and deliver process improvement initiatives across the...
Michael Page International
Salary: GBP35000 to GBP42000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013