Six Sigma Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Six Sigma
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 282 297 379
Rank change year-on-year +15 +82 +108
Contract jobs citing Six Sigma 22 48 98
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.31% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.36% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 32 46
10th Percentile £218 £363 £370
25th Percentile £325 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £586
90th Percentile £585 £606 £738
UK median daily rate £465 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -7.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 18
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £35.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £36.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.58% -44.27% +178.72%
75th Percentile - £37.25 £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
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
Work from Home

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%

Six Sigma
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

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 Six Sigma.

Six Sigma daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Six Sigma
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Six Sigma daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Six Sigma
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Six Sigma hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) MS Visio
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) Asana
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.55%) GCP
2 1 (4.55%) Lucidchart
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Data Mining
1 1 (4.55%) Looker
1 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.64%) Marketing
5 2 (9.09%) Finance
5 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Legal
5 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Analyst
2 9 (40.91%) Business Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Process Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Business Process Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Programme Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Transformation Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Associate Director
5 1 (4.55%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) ITSM Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Project Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (4.55%) Service Design Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) Flask
1 1 (4.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) Life Science
2 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Hackathon
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) NHS
3 1 (4.55%) PMI
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Lean Six Sigma
2 11 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (40.91%) Project Management
4 8 (36.36%) Agile
5 7 (31.82%) Process Improvement
5 7 (31.82%) User Experience
6 6 (27.27%) Change Management
6 6 (27.27%) User Stories
7 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (22.73%) ITIL
7 5 (22.73%) Target Operating Model
7 5 (22.73%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
8 4 (18.18%) GAP Analysis
8 4 (18.18%) Lean UX
8 4 (18.18%) Minimum Viable Product
8 4 (18.18%) PRINCE2
8 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
8 4 (18.18%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) IIBA
2 4 (18.18%) PMI Certification
2 4 (18.18%) PMP
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) COBIT
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Workday
3 1 (4.55%) Planview
3 1 (4.55%) Remedy
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow