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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 512 589
Rank change year-on-year +75 +77 -48
Contract jobs citing Six Sigma 142 191 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.37% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 116 191
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £405 £414 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +0.24%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £613
90th Percentile £668 £738 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% -5.66%
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% +16.54%
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% +54.49%

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 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
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% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +79 133 £500 -4.76% 139
London +103 73 £574 -0.22% 31
UK excluding London +7 65 £410 -8.89% 115
Work from Home +79 48 £525 +5.00% 41
East of England +3 18 £410 +78.26% 12
North of England +21 13 £410 +1.63% 20
South East -10 12 £350 -31.71% 23
South West -1 11 £600 -7.69% 15
North West +9 9 £410 +3.67% 14
Scotland +34 6 £425 -2.30% 7
Midlands +30 6 £350 -22.22% 35
West Midlands +25 4 £300 -33.33% 23
Yorkshire +15 4 £431 -24.34% 6
East Midlands +13 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 (9.15%) Confluence
2 6 (4.23%) SAS
3 5 (3.52%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.11%) CMS
4 3 (2.11%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (8.45%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (4.23%) SPSS
3 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.82%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.70%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (7.75%) Power Platform
2 8 (5.63%) Azure
3 7 (4.93%) Collibra
4 6 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
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%) OneDrive
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
1 1 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.75%) Power BI
2 6 (4.23%) Metadata
2 6 (4.23%) Qlik Sense
2 6 (4.23%) Tableau
3 1 (0.70%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (15.49%) JIRA
2 7 (4.93%) Eclipse
2 7 (4.93%) PyCharm
General
1 57 (40.14%) Finance
2 32 (22.54%) Public Sector
3 30 (21.13%) Social Skills
4 24 (16.90%) Banking
5 22 (15.49%) Manufacturing
6 20 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (13.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 18 (12.68%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (8.45%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (5.63%) Retail
10 8 (5.63%) Telecoms
11 7 (4.93%) Legal
12 6 (4.23%) Marketing
13 3 (2.11%) Financial Institution
13 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.41%) Electronics
14 2 (1.41%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 46 (32.39%) Analyst
2 36 (25.35%) Business Analyst
3 28 (19.72%) Project Manager
4 19 (13.38%) Senior
5 12 (8.45%) Lead
6 11 (7.75%) Delivery Manager
6 11 (7.75%) Senior Analyst
7 10 (7.04%) Data Analyst
8 9 (6.34%) Scrum Master
9 8 (5.63%) Project Delivery Manager
9 8 (5.63%) Senior Business Analyst
10 7 (4.93%) Lean Specialist
10 7 (4.93%) Transformation Manager
11 6 (4.23%) Business Manager
11 6 (4.23%) Change Manager
11 6 (4.23%) Senior Manager
11 6 (4.23%) Service Design Manager
12 5 (3.52%) Process Improvement Specialist
12 5 (3.52%) Security Manager
12 5 (3.52%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.23%) D3.js
2 3 (2.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.45%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.34%) Mobile Banking
3 7 (4.93%) PMI
3 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.11%) Acoustics
5 3 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.11%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.41%) 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 (1.41%) Linux
1 2 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (69.01%) Lean Six Sigma
2 69 (48.59%) Agile
3 58 (40.85%) Project Management
4 46 (32.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 45 (31.69%) PRINCE2
6 31 (21.83%) Business Analysis
6 31 (21.83%) Change Management
7 27 (19.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (17.61%) Process Improvement
9 24 (16.90%) Service Design
10 23 (16.20%) Project Delivery
10 23 (16.20%) Scrum
11 22 (15.49%) DevOps
12 21 (14.79%) ITIL
13 20 (14.08%) Data Governance
14 19 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (12.68%) Business Case
16 17 (11.97%) Requirements Gathering
17 16 (11.27%) Target Operating Model
18 14 (9.86%) Business Process Modelling
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.15%) Python
2 7 (4.93%) Groovy
2 7 (4.93%) Java
2 7 (4.93%) JavaScript
2 7 (4.93%) SQL
3 6 (4.23%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (28.17%) Degree
2 19 (13.38%) PMI Certification
3 17 (11.97%) IIBA
4 16 (11.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 15 (10.56%) Security Cleared
6 14 (9.86%) PMP
6 14 (9.86%) SC Cleared
7 12 (8.45%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 7 (4.93%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.11%) CBAP
9 3 (2.11%) CISA
9 3 (2.11%) CISM
9 3 (2.11%) CISSP
10 2 (1.41%) ISEB
10 2 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.70%) APMG
11 1 (0.70%) APMP
11 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.70%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.38%) GDPR
1 19 (13.38%) Good Clinical Practice
1 19 (13.38%) GxP
2 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.70%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) SLA
Vendors
1 19 (13.38%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.63%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.93%) SAP
4 2 (1.41%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.41%) Google
4 2 (1.41%) Oracle
5 1 (0.70%) Apple
5 1 (0.70%) Ariba
5 1 (0.70%) Ciena
5 1 (0.70%) IFS
5 1 (0.70%) Salesforce