Six Sigma Contracts in the UK excluding London

Six Sigma
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 340 327
Rank change year-on-year +39 -13 +67
Contract jobs citing Six Sigma 33 63 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.30% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.36% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 43 71
10th Percentile £220 £325 £325
25th Percentile £390 £403 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.93% -8.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £491 £441 £550
90th Percentile £502 £613 £677
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -7.40% -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 21
10th Percentile - £30.04 £61.25
25th Percentile - £31.60 £65.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £33.07 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.80% -49.52% +54.17%
75th Percentile - £35.56 £65.75
90th Percentile - £53.08 -
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £33.07 £65.50
% change year-on-year +61.80% -49.52% +101.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 11,553 17,505 21,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.71% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,248 10,459 14,852
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
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% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,060 1,308
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.34 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Six Sigma
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Six Sigma in the UK excluding London

Six Sigma
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Six Sigma in the UK excluding London

Six Sigma
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Six Sigma in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Six Sigma in the UK excluding London

Six Sigma
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Six Sigma in the UK excluding London

Six Sigma
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 Six Sigma within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +20 17 £410 - 33
North West +19 13 £410 - 15
Scotland +16 9 £463 +8.94% 8
South East +35 5 £395 +12.86% 33
Yorkshire +10 4 £495 +13.14% 16
Midlands +11 2 £408 +36.00% 30
West Midlands +14 1 £425 +61.90% 20
East Midlands +11 1 £391 -13.11% 7
Six Sigma
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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 6 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Appian
2 1 (3.03%) CICS
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (18.18%) MS Visio
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (3.03%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.09%) Azure
1 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.06%) SaaS
3 1 (3.03%) Asana
3 1 (3.03%) Lucidchart
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (3.03%) Data Vault
2 1 (3.03%) DB2
2 1 (3.03%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.03%) Looker
2 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.03%) Parquet
2 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) JIRA
General
1 15 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Public Sector
4 5 (15.15%) Automotive
5 4 (12.12%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (12.12%) Marketing
5 4 (12.12%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (9.09%) Finance
7 1 (3.03%) Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Electronics
7 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.03%) Retail
7 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (72.73%) Analyst
2 21 (63.64%) Business Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (9.09%) Lead
3 3 (9.09%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Business Process Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Process Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Programme Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) HR Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) HR Business Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Major Incident Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Migration Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Product Owner
5 1 (3.03%) Software Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Workday Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Workday Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) .NET
1 1 (3.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.06%) Life Science
3 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.03%) PMI
3 1 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Agile
2 13 (39.39%) Lean Six Sigma
3 12 (36.36%) Change Management
3 12 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (30.30%) Business Analysis
4 10 (30.30%) Workshop Facilitation
5 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (27.27%) User Experience
6 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (21.21%) GAP Analysis
7 7 (21.21%) Waterfall
8 6 (18.18%) Lean UX
8 6 (18.18%) Project Management
8 6 (18.18%) Systems Thinking
9 5 (15.15%) Business Case
9 5 (15.15%) Data Analysis
9 5 (15.15%) ITIL
9 5 (15.15%) Roadmaps
9 5 (15.15%) Value Proposition
9 5 (15.15%) Wardley Maps
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) IIBA
2 9 (27.27%) Degree
3 4 (12.12%) ISEB
4 3 (9.09%) PMI Certification
4 3 (9.09%) PMP
4 3 (9.09%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (3.03%) CIMA
5 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.03%) MBA
5 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (3.03%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.06%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.03%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.06%) Workday
4 1 (3.03%) Blue Prism
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) Nokia
4 1 (3.03%) Rakuten