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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 160 185
Rank change year-on-year +1 +25 +47
Contract jobs citing Six Sigma 24 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.60% 0.22% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.26% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 9
10th Percentile £271 £413 £322
25th Percentile £405 £427 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £494 £403
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +22.39% -19.31%
75th Percentile £502 £600 £450
90th Percentile £528 £619 £490
England median daily rate £500 £525 £529
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.71% +0.71%

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 3,543 3,477 4,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.04% 83.99% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,258 2,087 3,140
10th Percentile £268 £310 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% - -
75th Percentile £558 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 242 208
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.67 £17.94
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.65 £29.15
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% -12.01% +45.75%
75th Percentile £43.91 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.63 £69.98 £60.07
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +4 16 £410 -31.67% 17
Yorkshire -12 8 £495 +10.00% 15
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 6 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) CICS
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Data Vault
2 1 (4.17%) DB2
2 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (37.50%) Finance
4 4 (16.67%) Automotive
4 4 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.17%) Italian Language
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Analyst
2 13 (54.17%) Business Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Process Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Business Process Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Agile Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Asset Management Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Asset Management Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Data Migration Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Data Migration Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Mortgage Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Process Improvement Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Process Improvement Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) Process Mapping Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) SAP Business Process Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) SAP Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
1 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Lean Six Sigma
2 12 (50.00%) Agile
3 11 (45.83%) Business Analysis
3 11 (45.83%) Process Improvement
4 10 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (33.33%) Change Management
5 8 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
6 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (29.17%) Waterfall
7 6 (25.00%) Process Management
8 5 (20.83%) Business Process Mapping
8 5 (20.83%) ERP
8 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (16.67%) Business Case
9 4 (16.67%) Coaching
9 4 (16.67%) Creative Thinking
9 4 (16.67%) Feasibility Study
9 4 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
9 4 (16.67%) SAP Implementation
9 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 5 (20.83%) IIBA
3 4 (16.67%) Degree
3 4 (16.67%) ISEB
4 1 (4.17%) CIMA
4 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) Basel III
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.17%) GRC
1 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Ariba
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Progress