Mentoring Contracts

Mentorship
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Mentoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mentoring over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 87 90
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,055 1,514 2,543
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.46% 2.69% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 3.00% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 995 1,768
10th Percentile £375 £400 £408
25th Percentile £460 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £559
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +4.25% +6.52%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £675
90th Percentile £825 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -5.45% +7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 25 66
10th Percentile £15.17 £32.32 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.43 £60.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +74.42% -
75th Percentile £57.33 £83.31 £61.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £88.00 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £75.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -44.00% +114.29% -20.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mentoring 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 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
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% -4.99%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +7 938 £550 -8.33% 2,192
UK excluding London +14 502 £520 -5.45% 1,629
London -4 466 £588 -9.23% 699
Work from Home +13 382 £550 -5.66% 1,081
North of England +51 184 £500 -9.09% 453
North West +36 104 £493 -10.36% 272
South East -8 101 £540 -7.06% 308
South West +6 93 £600 - 228
Yorkshire +44 79 £550 - 132
Midlands -7 62 £532 +10.73% 301
Scotland -9 42 £463 -11.06% 144
West Midlands -12 39 £550 +7.32% 182
East of England -10 24 £500 - 132
East Midlands 0 23 £411 -9.12% 119
Northern Ireland +19 19 £600 +50.00% 43
Wales +9 4 £405 -22.30% 50
Isle of Man - 2 - -
North East +8 1 - - 50

Mentoring
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 27 (2.56%) Confluence
2 18 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.95%) Apache
4 10 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.47%) SAS
7 4 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.38%) govService
7 4 (0.38%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.28%) CMS
8 3 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.19%) Drupal
9 2 (0.19%) IIS
9 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.19%) Mendix
10 1 (0.095%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.095%) Appian
10 1 (0.095%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.19%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.19%) InVision
5 2 (0.19%) Lectora
5 2 (0.19%) Sketch
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.095%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.095%) Elementor
6 1 (0.095%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.095%) Revit
6 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.095%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 10 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.38%) Endur
3 4 (0.38%) Shopify
4 3 (0.28%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.28%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.19%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.19%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.095%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 181 (17.16%) Azure
2 156 (14.79%) AWS
3 56 (5.31%) Power Platform
4 53 (5.02%) Serverless
5 51 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (3.89%) GCP
7 38 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
8 33 (3.13%) SaaS
9 31 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
10 29 (2.75%) GitHub
11 28 (2.65%) PaaS
12 25 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (1.99%) IaaS
14 20 (1.90%) Amazon S3
15 19 (1.80%) Azure API Management
15 19 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
16 17 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
18 13 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 13 (1.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.79%) Firewall
2 29 (2.75%) Network Security
3 25 (2.37%) DNS
4 19 (1.80%) Internet
4 19 (1.80%) VPN
5 18 (1.71%) DHCP
6 17 (1.61%) WAN
7 16 (1.52%) LAN
8 15 (1.42%) TCP/IP
9 11 (1.04%) BGP
10 10 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
10 10 (0.95%) Wireless
10 10 (0.95%) WLAN
11 9 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (0.85%) VoIP
12 8 (0.76%) Cisco Firepower
12 8 (0.76%) OSPF
12 8 (0.76%) VLAN
13 7 (0.66%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.57%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 46 (4.36%) SQL Server
4 42 (3.98%) Power BI
5 25 (2.37%) NoSQL
6 24 (2.27%) MongoDB
7 18 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.61%) Big Data
9 16 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (1.33%) Tableau
11 13 (1.23%) MySQL
11 13 (1.23%) RDBMS
12 12 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.76%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.66%) Hadoop
16 6 (0.57%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 60 (5.69%) Git
2 53 (5.02%) JIRA
3 33 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.37%) JUnit
5 19 (1.80%) GitLab
6 13 (1.23%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.95%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.76%) Maven
9 7 (0.66%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.57%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.57%) Selenium
11 5 (0.47%) Gradle
11 5 (0.47%) RStudio
12 4 (0.38%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.38%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.38%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.38%) Pylint
13 3 (0.28%) Appium
13 3 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 380 (36.02%) Social Skills
2 272 (25.78%) Finance
3 153 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (12.89%) Public Sector
5 71 (6.73%) Banking
6 49 (4.64%) Front Office
7 43 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
8 40 (3.79%) Telecoms
9 36 (3.41%) Back Office
10 34 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (2.84%) Law
12 27 (2.56%) Legal
13 26 (2.46%) Retail
14 24 (2.27%) Military
15 21 (1.99%) Marketing
16 17 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (1.23%) Local Government
17 13 (1.23%) Manufacturing
17 13 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
18 12 (1.14%) Games
Job Titles
1 174 (16.49%) Senior
2 161 (15.26%) Developer
3 151 (14.31%) Lead
4 109 (10.33%) Analyst
5 108 (10.24%) Architect
6 55 (5.21%) Java Developer
7 45 (4.27%) Consultant
8 41 (3.89%) Software Engineer
9 38 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
10 33 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
11 32 (3.03%) Project Manager
11 32 (3.03%) Senior Developer
12 25 (2.37%) Business Analyst
12 25 (2.37%) Lead Developer
13 23 (2.18%) DevOps Engineer
14 21 (1.99%) Designer
14 21 (1.99%) Network Engineer
15 20 (1.90%) Financial Analyst
15 20 (1.90%) Senior Manager
15 20 (1.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.54%) React
2 55 (5.21%) REST
3 49 (4.64%) Spring
4 42 (3.98%) Spring Boot
5 40 (3.79%) .NET
5 40 (3.79%) XML
6 38 (3.60%) HTML
7 37 (3.51%) CSS
8 30 (2.84%) Kafka
9 26 (2.46%) JPA
10 25 (2.37%) Hibernate
11 24 (2.27%) Web Services
12 23 (2.18%) AngularJS
13 22 (2.09%) JSON
13 22 (2.09%) Node.js
14 20 (1.90%) RESTful
15 12 (1.14%) jQuery
16 11 (1.04%) ARM Templates
16 11 (1.04%) Next.js
16 11 (1.04%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 93 (8.82%) Management Information System
2 69 (6.54%) Cyber Threat
3 62 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
4 52 (4.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 45 (4.27%) Derivative
6 41 (3.89%) Hedge funds
7 35 (3.32%) Data Centre
7 35 (3.32%) Product Ownership
8 30 (2.84%) Virtual Team
9 19 (1.80%) Public Cloud
10 17 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.52%) Algorithms
11 16 (1.52%) CMDB
12 15 (1.42%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.33%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.33%) Fixed Income
14 13 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (1.04%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.02%) Windows
2 42 (3.98%) Linux
3 21 (1.99%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.42%) Android
5 11 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.76%) Unix
7 5 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.28%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.095%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (30.33%) Agile
2 240 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
3 230 (21.80%) Coaching
4 155 (14.69%) DevOps
5 124 (11.75%) Cybersecurity
6 120 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 110 (10.43%) Software Engineering
8 108 (10.24%) Scrum
9 100 (9.48%) CI/CD
10 95 (9.00%) Analytics
11 94 (8.91%) Technical Leadership
12 92 (8.72%) Project Management
13 91 (8.63%) Roadmaps
14 88 (8.34%) Decision-Making
15 78 (7.39%) Computer Science
15 78 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
16 76 (7.20%) SIEM
17 70 (6.64%) Information Security
18 69 (6.54%) Incident Response
18 69 (6.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 151 (14.31%) Python
2 126 (11.94%) Java
3 115 (10.90%) SQL
4 100 (9.48%) C#
5 84 (7.96%) JavaScript
6 70 (6.64%) TypeScript
7 31 (2.94%) PowerShell
8 19 (1.80%) Bash
8 19 (1.80%) Scala
9 16 (1.52%) C++
10 14 (1.33%) Kotlin
11 13 (1.23%) Ruby
12 12 (1.14%) C
13 10 (0.95%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.76%) Perl
14 8 (0.76%) PHP
15 7 (0.66%) Go
15 7 (0.66%) Swift
16 6 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 257 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 179 (16.97%) SC Cleared
3 155 (14.69%) Degree
4 88 (8.34%) DV Cleared
5 55 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (2.46%) CISSP
8 25 (2.37%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.52%) CISM
10 14 (1.33%) CCIE
11 13 (1.23%) PMP
12 11 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.04%) PMI Certification
12 11 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.57%) CCIE Data Center
13 6 (0.57%) CCNA
13 6 (0.57%) CEH
13 6 (0.57%) MCTS
13 6 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (6.82%) QA
2 56 (5.31%) NIST
3 45 (4.27%) NIST 800
4 39 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 33 (3.13%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.33%) NCSC
7 11 (1.04%) SLA
8 8 (0.76%) GRC
8 8 (0.76%) PMO
9 7 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.57%) GDPR
11 5 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.38%) WCAG
13 2 (0.19%) HAZOP
13 2 (0.19%) P3O
14 1 (0.095%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.095%) IASME
System Software
1 61 (5.78%) Docker
2 31 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.57%) vSphere
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.38%) vCloud
6 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.28%) XenApp
7 3 (0.28%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.19%) Firmware
8 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.095%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.095%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.095%) iptables
9 1 (0.095%) NFS
9 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 76 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 59 (5.59%) Terraform
3 40 (3.79%) Ansible
4 16 (1.52%) Grafana
5 10 (0.95%) Kibana
6 7 (0.66%) logstash
6 7 (0.66%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.47%) Nessus
7 5 (0.47%) WSUS
8 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.38%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.38%) Puppet
8 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.38%) VxRail
8 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.28%) Istio
9 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.28%) SCCM
10 2 (0.19%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 159 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.17%) Oracle
3 32 (3.03%) Cisco
4 25 (2.37%) SAP
4 25 (2.37%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.27%) Google
6 19 (1.80%) Palo Alto
6 19 (1.80%) VMware
7 16 (1.52%) Databricks
7 16 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.33%) Adobe
9 13 (1.23%) Juniper
10 9 (0.85%) SolarWinds
11 8 (0.76%) CheckPoint
11 8 (0.76%) Dell
11 8 (0.76%) Informatica
12 7 (0.66%) CA
12 7 (0.66%) F5
12 7 (0.66%) IBM
12 7 (0.66%) Red Hat