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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 598 707
Rank change year-on-year +127 +109 -104
Contract jobs citing Lean Six Sigma 100 98 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 68 121
10th Percentile £389 £404 £350
25th Percentile £405 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £600
90th Percentile £666 £758 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -18.00% - -16.67%
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% +99.94%
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% +162.97%

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 36,539 50,904 80,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.04% 89.75% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,560 35,264 56,167
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £440 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,684 1,915
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.51
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.21%

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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 21 May 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 13 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 21 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 +102 96 £500 -5.44% 63
London +115 54 £563 -2.17% 14
UK excluding London +35 46 £410 -18.00% 45
Work from Home +105 33 £550 +10.00% 15
East of England +26 15 £410 -41.43% 4
South West +15 9 £600 -7.69% 5
Midlands +26 7 £400 -33.33% 14
North West +24 6 £410 -8.89% 8
North of England +23 6 £410 -8.89% 10
South East -5 6 £500 +11.11% 12
West Midlands +18 5 £400 -20.00% 8
Scotland +41 4 £413 -21.43%
East Midlands +19 2 £450 -30.77% 6

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 13 (13.00%) Confluence
2 4 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.00%) CMS
3 3 (3.00%) Headless CMS
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.00%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.00%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.00%) Azure
2 7 (7.00%) Collibra
3 6 (6.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.00%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.00%) Apple Pay
6 1 (1.00%) AWS
6 1 (1.00%) Contentful
6 1 (1.00%) Google Pay
6 1 (1.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.00%) Metadata
1 6 (6.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (14.00%) JIRA
2 7 (7.00%) Eclipse
2 7 (7.00%) PyCharm
General
1 38 (38.00%) Finance
2 25 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 20 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 19 (19.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 18 (18.00%) Banking
6 17 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (17.00%) Social Skills
7 15 (15.00%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (7.00%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (6.00%) Legal
9 6 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (6.00%) Retail
10 5 (5.00%) Marketing
10 5 (5.00%) Telecoms
11 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (2.00%) Electronics
13 1 (1.00%) Local Government
13 1 (1.00%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (36.00%) Analyst
2 31 (31.00%) Business Analyst
3 15 (15.00%) Project Manager
4 11 (11.00%) Delivery Manager
4 11 (11.00%) Senior
5 9 (9.00%) Scrum Master
6 8 (8.00%) Project Delivery Manager
7 7 (7.00%) Lean Specialist
7 7 (7.00%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (7.00%) Senior Business Analyst
8 6 (6.00%) Business Manager
8 6 (6.00%) Change Manager
8 6 (6.00%) Service Design Manager
8 6 (6.00%) Transformation Manager
9 5 (5.00%) Lead
9 5 (5.00%) Process Improvement Specialist
10 4 (4.00%) Data Business Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Data Product Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Product Business Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Mobile Banking
2 7 (7.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.00%) Acoustics
4 3 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.00%) Life Science
5 1 (1.00%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (100.00%) Six Sigma
2 49 (49.00%) Agile
3 45 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 40 (40.00%) Project Management
5 29 (29.00%) PRINCE2
6 27 (27.00%) Business Analysis
7 24 (24.00%) Process Improvement
8 23 (23.00%) Change Management
9 21 (21.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (20.00%) Data Governance
10 20 (20.00%) DevOps
10 20 (20.00%) Scrum
11 19 (19.00%) Service Design
12 16 (16.00%) Requirements Gathering
13 14 (14.00%) Business Process Modelling
13 14 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (14.00%) Project Delivery
13 14 (14.00%) Target Operating Model
14 13 (13.00%) Requirements Engineering
15 12 (12.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.00%) Groovy
1 7 (7.00%) Java
1 7 (7.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (7.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 33 (33.00%) Degree
2 16 (16.00%) IIBA
3 15 (15.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 13 (13.00%) Security Cleared
5 12 (12.00%) SC Cleared
6 11 (11.00%) PMI Certification
6 11 (11.00%) PMP
7 9 (9.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 5 (5.00%) Master's Degree
9 3 (3.00%) APMG
9 3 (3.00%) CBAP
10 2 (2.00%) CPIM
10 2 (2.00%) ISEB
10 2 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (1.00%) CSPO
11 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.00%) PgMP
11 1 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.00%) GDPR
1 19 (19.00%) Good Clinical Practice
1 19 (19.00%) GxP
2 1 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 10 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.00%) SAP
3 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.00%) IFS
5 1 (1.00%) Apple
5 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.00%) Google
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle