Six Sigma Contracts in the North of England

Six Sigma
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Six Sigma skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Six Sigma over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 171 190
Rank change year-on-year +21 +19 +12
Contract jobs citing Six Sigma 16 14 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.49% 0.29% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.34% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 23
10th Percentile £171 £341 £363
25th Percentile £263 £405 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -8.89% -12.20%
75th Percentile £488 £444 £531
90th Percentile £518 £600 £558
England median daily rate £498 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.29% -2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Six Sigma falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Six Sigma
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Six Sigma as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Six Sigma in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Six Sigma in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Six Sigma in the North of England

Six Sigma
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Six Sigma in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Six Sigma in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Six Sigma in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Six Sigma in the North of England

Six Sigma
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +20 12 £410 - 14
Yorkshire +7 4 £495 +13.14% 21
Six Sigma
England

Six Sigma
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) CICS
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (18.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
1 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Vault
1 1 (6.25%) DB2
1 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Parquet
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (68.75%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Automotive
3 4 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Marketing
5 2 (12.50%) Finance
5 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (6.25%) Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Analyst
2 10 (62.50%) Business Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Programme Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Process Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Incident Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Major Incident Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Migration Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Process Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Manager
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
1 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
1 10 (62.50%) Change Management
2 6 (37.50%) Business Analysis
2 6 (37.50%) Lean Six Sigma
2 6 (37.50%) Workshop Facilitation
3 5 (31.25%) ITIL
3 5 (31.25%) Waterfall
4 4 (25.00%) Business Case
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
4 4 (25.00%) Feasibility Study
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Project Management
4 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) GAP Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) PRINCE2
5 3 (18.75%) Process Management
5 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Benchmarking
6 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) IIBA
1 4 (25.00%) ISEB
2 1 (6.25%) CIMA
2 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.25%) PMP
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce