Lean Six Sigma Contracts

Lean Six Sigma
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Lean Six Sigma skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Lean Six Sigma over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 599 697
Rank change year-on-year +119 +98 -134
Contract jobs citing Lean Six Sigma 99 101 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.19% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 73 128
10th Percentile £387 £406 £350
25th Percentile £405 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £620
90th Percentile £652 £750 £697
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -21.90% +5.00% -18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - £34.15
25th Percentile £31.60 £54.00 £38.49
Median hourly rate £33.07 £57.99 £46.99
Median % change year-on-year -42.98% +23.42% +81.50%
75th Percentile £34.53 £61.99 £55.48
90th Percentile - - £59.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.07 £57.99 £61.47
% change year-on-year -42.98% -5.66% +161.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Lean Six Sigma is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

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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 26 April 2024.

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 14 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 26 April 2024. 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 +112 91 £503 -4.29% 52
London +131 57 £550 -6.38% 10
UK excluding London +51 38 £410 -21.90% 43
Work from Home +110 33 £500 - 15
East of England +25 15 £410 -41.43% 5
South West +27 8 £600 -7.69% 5
North of England +22 7 £410 -8.89% 10
North West +18 6 £410 -8.89% 5
Scotland +32 4 £413 -25.00% 3
South East +1 3 £500 +11.11% 11
Midlands +26 2 £338 -43.75% 7
West Midlands +29 1 £225 -55.00% 4
East Midlands +22 1 £450 -30.77% 3
Yorkshire +17 1 £635 +30.26% 3

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 12 (12.12%) Confluence
2 1 (1.01%) CMS
2 1 (1.01%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.06%) MS Visio
2 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.07%) Azure
1 7 (7.07%) Collibra
2 6 (6.06%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.01%) Apple Pay
5 1 (1.01%) AWS
5 1 (1.01%) Contentful
5 1 (1.01%) Google Pay
5 1 (1.01%) SaaS
5 1 (1.01%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.06%) Metadata
1 6 (6.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (13.13%) JIRA
2 7 (7.07%) Eclipse
2 7 (7.07%) PyCharm
General
1 36 (36.36%) Finance
2 22 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 20 (20.20%) Manufacturing
4 19 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (19.19%) Pharmaceutical
5 18 (18.18%) Banking
5 18 (18.18%) Social Skills
6 13 (13.13%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (7.07%) Legal
7 7 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (6.06%) Retail
9 3 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.03%) Marketing
9 3 (3.03%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.02%) Electronics
11 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.01%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (35.35%) Analyst
2 33 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 15 (15.15%) Project Manager
4 11 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
5 10 (10.10%) Senior
6 9 (9.09%) Scrum Master
7 8 (8.08%) Lean Specialist
7 8 (8.08%) Project Delivery Manager
8 7 (7.07%) Lead
9 6 (6.06%) Business Manager
9 6 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (6.06%) Senior Business Analyst
9 6 (6.06%) Service Design Manager
9 6 (6.06%) Transformation Manager
10 5 (5.05%) Change Manager
10 5 (5.05%) Data Analyst
10 5 (5.05%) Data Business Analyst
10 5 (5.05%) Process Improvement Specialist
11 4 (4.04%) Product Business Analyst
11 4 (4.04%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.01%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.09%) Mobile Banking
2 6 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.01%) Acoustics
4 1 (1.01%) Life Science
4 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.01%) Smart Meter
4 1 (1.01%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (100.00%) Six Sigma
2 45 (45.45%) Agile
3 42 (42.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 40 (40.40%) Project Management
5 27 (27.27%) Business Analysis
5 27 (27.27%) PRINCE2
6 26 (26.26%) Process Improvement
7 21 (21.21%) Change Management
7 21 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (21.21%) Scrum
8 20 (20.20%) Data Governance
9 19 (19.19%) DevOps
9 19 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (19.19%) Service Design
10 16 (16.16%) Requirements Gathering
11 14 (14.14%) Business Process Modelling
11 14 (14.14%) Project Delivery
11 14 (14.14%) Target Operating Model
12 13 (13.13%) Requirements Analysis
13 12 (12.12%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.07%) Groovy
1 7 (7.07%) Java
1 7 (7.07%) JavaScript
1 7 (7.07%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (32.32%) Degree
2 15 (15.15%) IIBA
3 13 (13.13%) Security Cleared
4 12 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 12 (12.12%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 12 (12.12%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 11 (11.11%) PMI Certification
5 11 (11.11%) PMP
6 5 (5.05%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.02%) CBAP
7 2 (2.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.01%) CIMA
8 1 (1.01%) CSPO
8 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.01%) ISEB
8 1 (1.01%) PgMP
8 1 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.19%) GDPR
1 19 (19.19%) Good Clinical Practice
1 19 (19.19%) GxP
2 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.01%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.05%) SAP
3 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.01%) Apple
4 1 (1.01%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.01%) Google
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle