Lean Six Sigma Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lean Six Sigma
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 292 311 433
Rank change year-on-year +19 +122 +122
Contract jobs citing Lean Six Sigma 12 34 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.25% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 31
10th Percentile £189 £363 £334
25th Percentile £221 £388 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.81% +5.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £700
90th Percentile £583 £605 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £53.50 - -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Lean Six Sigma
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Lean Six Sigma as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lean Six Sigma trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lean Six Sigma
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Lean Six Sigma.

Lean Six Sigma daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lean Six Sigma
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Lean Six Sigma daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lean Six Sigma
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 5 (41.67%) MS Visio
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
General
1 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Marketing
4 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Legal
4 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Process Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Programme Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Transformation Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Associate Director
4 1 (8.33%) Business Change Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Business Change Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Business Process Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Business Process Improvement Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) ITSM Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Service Design Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Flask
1 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Life Science
2 2 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (8.33%) Hackathon
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Six Sigma
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Change Management
3 5 (41.67%) Process Improvement
3 5 (41.67%) Project Management
3 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (41.67%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) PRINCE2
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (25.00%) Process Management
5 3 (25.00%) User Experience
6 2 (16.67%) Business Case
6 2 (16.67%) Data Collection
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) COBIT
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Workday
3 1 (8.33%) Remedy
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow