Lean Six Sigma Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lean Six Sigma
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Lean Six Sigma skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Lean Six Sigma over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 352 401
Rank change year-on-year +31 +49 +40
Contract jobs citing Lean Six Sigma 13 42 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.24% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 28 33
10th Percentile £119 £404 £401
25th Percentile £193 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £258 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year -37.20% -18.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £491 £441 £650
90th Percentile £502 £613 £785
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £31.60 £54.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £33.07 £57.99
Median % change year-on-year +61.80% -42.98% -5.66%
75th Percentile - £34.53 £61.99
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £33.07 £57.99
% change year-on-year +61.80% -42.98% +23.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Lean 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Lean Six Sigma
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lean Six Sigma in the UK excluding London

Lean Six Sigma
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lean Six Sigma in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Lean Six Sigma in the UK excluding London

Lean Six Sigma
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lean Six Sigma in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lean Six Sigma in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lean Six Sigma in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Lean Six Sigma in the UK excluding London

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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 Lean Six Sigma within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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 of England +11 7 £208 -49.23% 15
South East +37 5 £395 -21.00% 19
North West +9 5 £177 -56.84% 6
Yorkshire +9 2 £495 -22.05% 8
Scotland +8 1 £475 +15.15% 1
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Lean Six Sigma
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Appian
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (46.15%) MS Visio
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Data Vault
2 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Parquet
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Electronics
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Analyst
2 7 (53.85%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Process Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Process Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Programme Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) HR Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) HR Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.69%) Project Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Manager
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Software Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Workday Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Workday Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Life Science
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Six Sigma
2 8 (61.54%) Workshop Facilitation
3 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (38.46%) Change Management
4 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (30.77%) Data Analysis
5 4 (30.77%) PRINCE2
5 4 (30.77%) Process Management
5 4 (30.77%) Project Management
6 3 (23.08%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
6 3 (23.08%) Business Case
6 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
6 3 (23.08%) ITIL
6 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (23.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (7.69%) CIMA
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) MBA
3 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMP
3 1 (7.69%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 1 (7.69%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) SAP
3 2 (15.38%) Workday
4 1 (7.69%) Blue Prism
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Nokia
4 1 (7.69%) Rakuten
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce