Mentorship
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Mentoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mentoring over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 14 25
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +14
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 7,860 12,558 15,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.79% 12.75% 9.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.19% 13.34% 10.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5,058 3,941 6,242
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,057 £38,973
25th Percentile £42,814 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,419 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £62,742 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.61% +9.12% +4.55%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mentoring.

Salary trend for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -7 6,919 £62,500 -10.71% 2,382
UK excluding London -14 5,698 £57,965 -7.61% 1,858
Work from Home +11 3,593 £62,783 -10.31% 1,187
North of England -3 2,005 £60,000 -4.00% 456
London +7 1,845 £78,138 -2.68% 889
South East -3 1,242 £57,500 -14.81% 547
North West -6 1,057 £57,965 -3.39% 265
Midlands -16 862 £50,000 -13.04% 287
Yorkshire +4 657 £61,206 -5.84% 141
South West -19 607 £55,173 +0.31% 216
West Midlands -10 536 £55,242 -3.93% 163
Scotland -41 497 £60,000 -13.60% 141
East Midlands -14 312 £45,000 -21.74% 121
East of England -31 297 £55,173 -8.05% 160
North East +7 296 £61,206 +24.28% 52
Wales -21 131 £58,800 +30.67% 50
Northern Ireland -9 63 £46,250 -11.90% 37
Isle of Man - 2 £36,000 -

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
1 143 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 128 (1.63%) Confluence
3 120 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 94 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 61 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 45 (0.57%) CMS
7 39 (0.50%) nginx
8 37 (0.47%) Tuxedo
9 36 (0.46%) Camunda
10 35 (0.45%) IIS
11 30 (0.38%) Apache
12 26 (0.33%) WordPress
13 20 (0.25%) SAS
14 17 (0.22%) OpenStack
15 15 (0.19%) JBoss
16 12 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
16 12 (0.15%) Umbraco
17 11 (0.14%) Drupal
18 9 (0.11%) Tomcat
19 7 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 646 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 187 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (0.48%) UserZoom
5 25 (0.32%) AutoCAD
6 23 (0.29%) Photoshop
7 22 (0.28%) Simulink
7 22 (0.28%) Sketch
8 20 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
9 18 (0.23%) MS Visio
10 15 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
11 10 (0.13%) Revit
12 9 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.089%) InVision
14 6 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
15 5 (0.064%) OrCAD
16 4 (0.051%) Adobe After Effects
16 4 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.051%) Blender
16 4 (0.051%) Maya
Business Applications
1 44 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.39%) Primavera
3 29 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 19 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 16 (0.20%) SDL Web 8
6 15 (0.19%) Shopify
7 13 (0.17%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
9 8 (0.10%) Elite 3E
9 8 (0.10%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.076%) NEC Housing
11 5 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.064%) SAP CX
11 5 (0.064%) SAP FSCM
11 5 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 5 (0.064%) Teamcenter
12 4 (0.051%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 4 (0.051%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,545 (19.66%) Azure
2 1,394 (17.74%) AWS
3 610 (7.76%) GCP
4 395 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
5 329 (4.19%) SaaS
6 298 (3.79%) Power Platform
7 219 (2.79%) IBM Cloud
8 187 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
9 130 (1.65%) Entra ID
10 123 (1.56%) Amazon S3
11 119 (1.51%) Serverless
12 115 (1.46%) IaaS
13 111 (1.41%) GitHub
14 90 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
15 89 (1.13%) OCI
15 89 (1.13%) PaaS
16 86 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
17 80 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
18 75 (0.95%) OpenShift
19 72 (0.92%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 489 (6.22%) Broadband
2 274 (3.49%) Firewall
3 158 (2.01%) WAN
4 110 (1.40%) DNS
5 106 (1.35%) LAN
6 99 (1.26%) VPN
7 79 (1.01%) Network Security
8 74 (0.94%) TCP/IP
9 64 (0.81%) SD-WAN
10 62 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
11 61 (0.78%) SAN
12 60 (0.76%) DHCP
13 57 (0.73%) Internet
14 56 (0.71%) Wireless
15 53 (0.67%) VLAN
16 45 (0.57%) 5G
17 42 (0.53%) OSPF
18 41 (0.52%) MPLS
19 40 (0.51%) BGP
20 26 (0.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (4.77%) SQL Server
2 370 (4.71%) BigQuery
2 370 (4.71%) NoSQL
3 290 (3.69%) Looker
4 270 (3.44%) MongoDB
5 266 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
6 262 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
7 219 (2.79%) Power BI
8 216 (2.75%) MySQL
9 154 (1.96%) Big Data
10 153 (1.95%) DB2
11 150 (1.91%) Relational Database
12 111 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
13 86 (1.09%) Tableau
14 77 (0.98%) Data Lake
15 74 (0.94%) Oracle Database
16 52 (0.66%) DynamoDB
17 49 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 45 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
19 43 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 330 (4.20%) Git
2 257 (3.27%) JIRA
3 244 (3.10%) Jenkins
4 183 (2.33%) GitLab
5 80 (1.02%) Selenium
6 44 (0.56%) Visual Studio
7 43 (0.55%) CircleCI
8 36 (0.46%) Maven
8 36 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 35 (0.45%) Cypress.io
9 35 (0.45%) JUnit
10 31 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 31 (0.39%) TeamCity
11 30 (0.38%) Bitbucket
12 29 (0.37%) Subversion
13 28 (0.36%) NUnit
13 28 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
14 24 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
15 23 (0.29%) Gradle
16 22 (0.28%) Artifactory
General
1 2,624 (33.38%) Social Skills
2 2,165 (27.54%) Finance
3 1,329 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 1,312 (16.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 958 (12.19%) Public Sector
6 724 (9.21%) Influencing Skills
7 496 (6.31%) Law
8 465 (5.92%) Marketing
9 295 (3.75%) Retail
10 257 (3.27%) Legal
11 251 (3.19%) Banking
12 218 (2.77%) Manufacturing
13 193 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
14 135 (1.72%) Telecoms
15 118 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 114 (1.45%) Games
17 110 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
18 106 (1.35%) Automotive
19 97 (1.23%) Electronics
20 88 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,058 (26.18%) Senior
2 1,594 (20.28%) Lead
3 931 (11.84%) Developer
4 818 (10.41%) Analyst
5 655 (8.33%) Architect
6 445 (5.66%) Software Engineer
7 373 (4.75%) Data Engineer
8 365 (4.64%) Senior Developer
9 333 (4.24%) Senior Manager
10 293 (3.73%) Senior Analyst
11 254 (3.23%) Lead Developer
12 232 (2.95%) Technical Leader
13 222 (2.82%) Consultant
13 222 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
14 218 (2.77%) Principal Engineer
14 218 (2.77%) Project Manager
15 215 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
16 210 (2.67%) Team Leader
17 188 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
18 184 (2.34%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 639 (8.13%) .NET
2 567 (7.21%) React
3 472 (6.01%) HTML
4 431 (5.48%) CSS
5 318 (4.05%) AngularJS
6 313 (3.98%) Web Services
7 302 (3.84%) REST
8 245 (3.12%) RESTful
9 232 (2.95%) ASP.NET
10 196 (2.49%) Vue
11 194 (2.47%) Node.js
12 173 (2.20%) Spring
13 165 (2.10%) jQuery
14 143 (1.82%) XML
15 141 (1.79%) .NET Core
16 134 (1.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 131 (1.67%) ASP.NET Core
18 128 (1.63%) Spring Boot
19 125 (1.59%) .NET Framework
20 116 (1.48%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 521 (6.63%) Self-Motivation
2 353 (4.49%) Product Ownership
3 333 (4.24%) Algorithms
4 329 (4.19%) Management Information System
5 274 (3.49%) Public Cloud
6 273 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 246 (3.13%) e-Learning
8 229 (2.91%) Blockchain
9 213 (2.71%) Data Centre
9 213 (2.71%) Data Structures
10 196 (2.49%) Cloud Native
11 122 (1.55%) IoT
12 111 (1.41%) Mobile App
13 109 (1.39%) Onboarding
14 92 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
15 91 (1.16%) Client/Server
16 84 (1.07%) PMI
17 79 (1.01%) Driving Licence
18 77 (0.98%) Derivative
19 72 (0.92%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 718 (9.13%) Windows
2 559 (7.11%) Linux
3 218 (2.77%) Windows Server
4 211 (2.68%) Apple iOS
5 198 (2.52%) Android
6 98 (1.25%) Unix
7 74 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 65 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
9 63 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 52 (0.66%) Windows 10
11 44 (0.56%) CentOS
12 26 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 12 (0.15%) AIX
14 12 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
14 12 (0.15%) Ubuntu
15 11 (0.14%) SUSE
16 9 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
17 8 (0.10%) Solaris
17 8 (0.10%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,243 (41.26%) Agile
2 2,996 (38.12%) Coaching
3 1,775 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
4 1,138 (14.48%) Decision-Making
5 1,123 (14.29%) DevOps
6 951 (12.10%) Software Engineering
7 830 (10.56%) Project Management
8 825 (10.50%) Roadmaps
9 676 (8.60%) Actionable Insight
10 646 (8.22%) CI/CD
11 644 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 589 (7.49%) Analytics
13 579 (7.37%) Computer Science
14 548 (6.97%) Cybersecurity
15 505 (6.42%) Line Management
16 504 (6.41%) Business Case
17 500 (6.36%) Project Delivery
18 494 (6.28%) Budgeting
19 487 (6.20%) Test Automation
20 475 (6.04%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,140 (14.50%) SQL
2 771 (9.81%) Java
3 755 (9.61%) Python
4 748 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 729 (9.27%) C#
6 247 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 199 (2.53%) PowerShell
8 153 (1.95%) C++
9 140 (1.78%) PHP
10 131 (1.67%) C
11 116 (1.48%) Scala
12 101 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 98 (1.25%) Bash
14 74 (0.94%) COBOL
14 74 (0.94%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 72 (0.92%) Kotlin
16 66 (0.84%) Go
17 57 (0.73%) Ruby
18 44 (0.56%) R
19 43 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,363 (17.34%) Degree
2 587 (7.47%) Security Cleared
3 451 (5.74%) ACCA
3 451 (5.74%) CIMA
4 306 (3.89%) SC Cleared
5 274 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 142 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 126 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 123 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
9 115 (1.46%) PMI Certification
10 101 (1.28%) DBS Check
11 89 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 87 (1.11%) AWS Certification
13 85 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
14 78 (0.99%) CCNA
14 78 (0.99%) CISSP
15 66 (0.84%) APMP
16 62 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
17 56 (0.71%) PMP
18 45 (0.57%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 498 (6.34%) QA
2 359 (4.57%) GDPR
3 258 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 190 (2.42%) SLA
5 151 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 97 (1.23%) PMO
7 84 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 82 (1.04%) GMP
9 74 (0.94%) NIST
10 70 (0.89%) WCAG
11 57 (0.73%) NCSC
12 39 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
13 36 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
14 27 (0.34%) NIST 800
15 26 (0.33%) PCI DSS
16 20 (0.25%) JSP 440
17 15 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 14 (0.18%) GRC
19 13 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
20 12 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 409 (5.20%) Docker
2 313 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 137 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 73 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 56 (0.71%) Firmware
5 56 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
8 22 (0.28%) vSphere
9 18 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.17%) IAG
10 13 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.13%) vCloud
12 9 (0.11%) Forefront TMG
12 9 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
13 8 (0.10%) HDFS
13 8 (0.10%) KVM
14 3 (0.038%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.038%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.025%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 442 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 401 (5.10%) Terraform
3 201 (2.56%) Ansible
4 104 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 95 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 53 (0.67%) Progress Chef
7 42 (0.53%) SCCM
8 41 (0.52%) Grafana
9 40 (0.51%) Puppet
10 36 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
10 36 (0.46%) vCenter Server
11 33 (0.42%) ZABBIX
12 25 (0.32%) Functional Safety
13 24 (0.31%) SCOM
14 20 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 20 (0.25%) FortiGate
15 19 (0.24%) WSUS
16 15 (0.19%) Nagios
17 14 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
17 14 (0.18%) Istio
Vendors
1 1,601 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 520 (6.62%) Google
3 316 (4.02%) Oracle
4 281 (3.58%) ServiceNow
5 266 (3.38%) Red Hat
6 264 (3.36%) IBM
7 239 (3.04%) VMware
8 134 (1.70%) Cisco
9 115 (1.46%) Dell
10 101 (1.28%) Dynatrace
11 97 (1.23%) SAP
12 86 (1.09%) Salesforce
13 76 (0.97%) YouTube
14 74 (0.94%) Micro Focus
15 72 (0.92%) Juniper
15 72 (0.92%) Splunk
16 64 (0.81%) Veeam
17 60 (0.76%) Atlassian
18 59 (0.75%) Adobe
19 55 (0.70%) Databricks