Lean Six Sigma Contracts

Lean Six Sigma
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 482 617
Rank change year-on-year -4 +135 +78
Contract jobs citing Lean Six Sigma 34 100 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.27% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 70 73
10th Percentile £212 £383 £406
25th Percentile £373 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -0.47%
75th Percentile £683 £600 £700
90th Percentile £758 £655 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £258 £410 £525
% change year-on-year -37.20% -21.90% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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% +23.42%
75th Percentile - £34.53 £61.99
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.50 £33.07 £57.99
% change year-on-year +61.80% -42.98% -5.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lean Six Sigma in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lean Six Sigma in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lean Six Sigma over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lean Six Sigma in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Lean Six Sigma in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England -4 32 £550 +8.37% 120
London 0 19 £600 +9.09% 61
UK excluding London +36 13 £258 -37.20% 65
Work from Home +19 12 £453 -13.81% 50
South East +48 6 £395 -21.00% 21
North of England +18 6 £208 -49.23% 16
North West +15 4 £177 -56.84% 7
Yorkshire +9 2 £495 -22.05% 9
Scotland +10 1 £475 +15.15% 1

Lean Six Sigma
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (5.88%) Appian
Applications
1 9 (26.47%) MS Visio
2 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (14.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (5.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) Lucidchart
2 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.88%) Asana
3 2 (5.88%) Azure
4 1 (2.94%) AWS
4 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.94%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Power BI
2 2 (5.88%) Tableau
3 1 (2.94%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.94%) Data Vault
3 1 (2.94%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 17 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Finance
4 4 (11.76%) Marketing
5 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.88%) Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Legal
6 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.94%) Electronics
7 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Analyst
2 9 (26.47%) Business Analyst
3 6 (17.65%) Process Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Business Process Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Lead
6 3 (8.82%) Consultant
6 3 (8.82%) Process Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Process Improvement Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Product Owner
7 2 (5.88%) Programme Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Programme Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Transformation Manager
8 1 (2.94%) Associate Director
8 1 (2.94%) Data Business Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Digital Transformation
8 1 (2.94%) Digital Transformation Business Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) HR Business Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) ITSM Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Flask
1 1 (2.94%) JSON
1 1 (2.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Life Science
1 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
1 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.94%) Hackathon
3 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) NHS
3 1 (2.94%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Six Sigma
2 14 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (41.18%) Process Improvement
3 13 (38.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (32.35%) Change Management
5 11 (32.35%) Workshop Facilitation
6 10 (29.41%) Project Management
7 7 (20.59%) Agile
7 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (17.65%) Decision-Making
8 6 (17.65%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 6 (17.65%) User Experience
9 5 (14.71%) Cost Reduction
9 5 (14.71%) PRINCE2
9 5 (14.71%) Process Management
9 5 (14.71%) Scrum
10 4 (11.76%) Business Analysis
10 4 (11.76%) Data Analysis
10 4 (11.76%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) SQL
2 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (41.18%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) PMI Certification
2 4 (11.76%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 3 (8.82%) Master's Degree
3 3 (8.82%) PMP
4 2 (5.88%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.94%) CBAP
5 1 (2.94%) CIMA
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) CSPO
5 1 (2.94%) MBA
5 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) COBIT
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) SAP
3 3 (8.82%) Workday
4 2 (5.88%) Blue Prism
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco
4 2 (5.88%) Nokia
4 2 (5.88%) Rakuten
4 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.94%) Duck Creek
5 1 (2.94%) Guidewire
5 1 (2.94%) Remedy
5 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) TIBCO