DFSS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Design For Six Sigma (DFSS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DFSS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DFSS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.006% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

DFSS 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,798 14,776 18,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.20% 82.99% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,305 8,520 12,489
10th Percentile £235 £242 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £692
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,435 1,212 1,250
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.21 £17.94 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £43.00 £40.64
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +5.81% +76.70%
75th Percentile £42.50 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.01%

DFSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DFSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DFSS in the UK excluding London

DFSS
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DFSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DFSS

DFSS
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DFSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DFSS

DFSS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DFSS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Midlands - 1 £575 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £575 - 2
DFSS
UK

DFSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) DMAIC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 9001