Six Sigma Contracts

Six Sigma
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Six Sigma skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Six Sigma over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 507 605
Rank change year-on-year +79 +98 -46
Contract jobs citing Six Sigma 143 185 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.33% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.36% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 106 185
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £405 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £666 £725 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 20 3
10th Percentile £30.04 £61.25 £23.65
25th Percentile £31.60 £65.00 £26.50
Median hourly rate £33.07 £65.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.52% +101.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £35.56 £65.75 £48.24
90th Percentile £53.08 - £56.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.07 £65.50 £42.49
% change year-on-year -49.52% +54.17% +66.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

Six Sigma
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Six Sigma in the UK

Six Sigma
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Six Sigma in the UK

Six Sigma
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Six Sigma over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Six Sigma in the UK

Six Sigma
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Six Sigma in the UK

Six Sigma
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Six Sigma over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Six Sigma in the UK

Six Sigma
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 Six Sigma within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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 +69 135 £500 -2.44% 132
London +118 72 £575 +4.55% 26
UK excluding London +4 68 £410 -8.89% 116
Work from Home +87 50 £528 +5.50% 48
East of England +5 17 £410 +78.26% 9
South East -10 14 £350 -27.27% 21
North of England +22 13 £410 +3.67% 21
South West +10 11 £600 -7.69% 15
North West +14 9 £410 +3.67% 17
Midlands +36 8 £400 -11.11% 34
Scotland +33 6 £425 -2.02% 7
West Midlands +19 6 £400 -11.11% 22
Yorkshire +21 4 £431 - 4
East Midlands +16 2 £450 -30.77% 12

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 13 (9.09%) Confluence
2 7 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.20%) SAS
4 3 (2.10%) CMS
4 3 (2.10%) Headless CMS
4 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.20%) SPSS
3 5 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.80%) MS Visio
5 3 (2.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.70%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 11 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 8 (5.59%) Azure
3 7 (4.90%) Collibra
3 7 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.10%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.70%) Apple Pay
6 1 (0.70%) AWS
6 1 (0.70%) Contentful
6 1 (0.70%) Google Pay
6 1 (0.70%) OCI
6 1 (0.70%) SaaS
6 1 (0.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) DWDM
1 1 (0.70%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.70%) GSM
1 1 (0.70%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.69%) Power BI
2 6 (4.20%) Metadata
2 6 (4.20%) Qlik Sense
2 6 (4.20%) Tableau
3 1 (0.70%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (14.69%) JIRA
2 7 (4.90%) Eclipse
2 7 (4.90%) PyCharm
General
1 57 (39.86%) Finance
2 32 (22.38%) Public Sector
3 30 (20.98%) Social Skills
4 24 (16.78%) Banking
5 22 (15.38%) Manufacturing
6 21 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (12.59%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (12.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (6.99%) Telecoms
10 8 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (4.90%) Legal
11 7 (4.90%) Retail
12 6 (4.20%) Marketing
13 3 (2.10%) Financial Institution
13 3 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.40%) Electronics
14 2 (1.40%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 48 (33.57%) Analyst
2 36 (25.17%) Business Analyst
3 26 (18.18%) Project Manager
4 19 (13.29%) Senior
5 11 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
5 11 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
6 10 (6.99%) Data Analyst
6 10 (6.99%) Lead
7 9 (6.29%) Scrum Master
8 8 (5.59%) Project Delivery Manager
8 8 (5.59%) Senior Business Analyst
9 7 (4.90%) Lean Specialist
9 7 (4.90%) Transformation Manager
10 6 (4.20%) Business Manager
10 6 (4.20%) Change Manager
10 6 (4.20%) Senior Manager
10 6 (4.20%) Service Design Manager
11 5 (3.50%) Consultant
11 5 (3.50%) Security Manager
11 5 (3.50%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.20%) D3.js
2 3 (2.10%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.29%) Mobile Banking
3 7 (4.90%) PMI
3 7 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.80%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.10%) Acoustics
5 3 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.40%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.40%) CMDB
7 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.70%) FMCG
7 1 (0.70%) Life Science
7 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.70%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.40%) Linux
1 2 (1.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (69.93%) Lean Six Sigma
2 68 (47.55%) Agile
3 57 (39.86%) Project Management
4 45 (31.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 44 (30.77%) PRINCE2
6 34 (23.78%) Change Management
7 31 (21.68%) Business Analysis
8 29 (20.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (18.18%) Process Improvement
10 24 (16.78%) Scrum
10 24 (16.78%) Service Design
11 22 (15.38%) DevOps
11 22 (15.38%) ITIL
11 22 (15.38%) Project Delivery
12 20 (13.99%) Data Governance
13 19 (13.29%) Business Case
14 18 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (11.89%) Requirements Gathering
16 16 (11.19%) Target Operating Model
17 14 (9.79%) Business Process Modelling
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.09%) Python
2 7 (4.90%) Groovy
2 7 (4.90%) Java
2 7 (4.90%) JavaScript
2 7 (4.90%) SQL
3 6 (4.20%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (27.97%) Degree
2 18 (12.59%) PMI Certification
2 18 (12.59%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 17 (11.89%) IIBA
4 14 (9.79%) Security Cleared
5 13 (9.09%) PMP
5 13 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 12 (8.39%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 6 (4.20%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.10%) APMG
8 3 (2.10%) CBAP
8 3 (2.10%) CISA
8 3 (2.10%) CISM
8 3 (2.10%) CISSP
8 3 (2.10%) CPIM
9 2 (1.40%) ISEB
9 2 (1.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.70%) APMP
10 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.70%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.29%) GDPR
1 19 (13.29%) Good Clinical Practice
1 19 (13.29%) GxP
2 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.70%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) SLA
Vendors
1 21 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.59%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.20%) SAP
4 3 (2.10%) IFS
5 2 (1.40%) Google
5 2 (1.40%) Oracle
6 1 (0.70%) Apple
6 1 (0.70%) Ariba
6 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.70%) Ciena
6 1 (0.70%) Salesforce