Six Sigma Contracts in Scotland

Six Sigma
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 118 140
Rank change year-on-year +10 +22 +17
Contract jobs citing Six Sigma 12 3 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.70% 0.15% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.17% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 12
10th Percentile £409 - £401
25th Percentile £436 - £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £429
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.31%
75th Percentile £513 - £550
90th Percentile £525 - £595
UK median daily rate £485 £540 £513
% change year-on-year -10.19% +5.37% +2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,579 1,740 2,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.02% 87.26% 92.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 887 1,082 1,699
10th Percentile £261 £213 £250
25th Percentile £368 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £631
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 63 56
10th Percentile £16.43 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.25 £13.15
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.29 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +10.70% -51.04%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £28.15 £57.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%

Six Sigma
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Six Sigma as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Six Sigma in Scotland

Six Sigma
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Six Sigma in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Six Sigma in Scotland

Six Sigma
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Six Sigma in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Six Sigma in Scotland

Six Sigma
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
Edinburgh +17 6 £420 - 1
Glasgow - 6 £500 - 2
Six Sigma
UK

Six Sigma
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Analyst
1 12 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
4 5 (41.67%) Lean UX
4 5 (41.67%) Systems Thinking
4 5 (41.67%) User Experience
5 4 (33.33%) Value Proposition
5 4 (33.33%) Wardley Maps
5 4 (33.33%) Wireframes
6 3 (25.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (25.00%) Case Management
6 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) Minimum Viable Product
6 3 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
6 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 3 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 2 (16.67%) Backlog Management
7 2 (16.67%) Business Case
7 2 (16.67%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) IIBA
2 1 (8.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft