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 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 23 14 25
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +13
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 7,887 12,082 16,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.69% 12.41% 9.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.12% 12.99% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5,065 3,859 6,279
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,450 £38,973
25th Percentile £42,725 £51,833 £49,975
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,419 £82,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £64,029 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.47% +11.35% +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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
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% +9.38%

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 28 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -6 6,942 £62,084 -11.31% 2,206
UK excluding London -14 5,723 £57,965 -9.47% 1,642
Work from Home +11 3,615 £62,783 -10.31% 1,086
North of England -2 2,019 £60,000 -4.00% 457
London +6 1,843 £77,750 -3.17% 701
South East -3 1,249 £57,495 -15.14% 312
North West -6 1,065 £57,965 -3.39% 274
Midlands -17 862 £50,000 -13.04% 301
Yorkshire +6 660 £61,206 -5.84% 132
South West -19 610 £55,173 +0.31% 233
West Midlands -10 536 £55,208 -3.99% 182
Scotland -40 498 £60,000 -13.60% 144
East Midlands -14 313 £45,000 -21.74% 119
North East +7 299 £61,206 +24.28% 52
East of England -34 296 £55,173 -8.05% 132
Wales -19 133 £58,800 +30.67% 50
Northern Ireland -11 62 £46,250 -11.90% 43
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 (1.81%) SharePoint
2 125 (1.58%) Confluence
3 118 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 94 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 61 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 46 (0.58%) CMS
7 39 (0.49%) nginx
8 37 (0.47%) Tuxedo
9 36 (0.46%) Camunda
10 35 (0.44%) IIS
11 30 (0.38%) Apache
12 26 (0.33%) WordPress
13 21 (0.27%) SAS
14 17 (0.22%) OpenStack
15 12 (0.15%) Umbraco
16 11 (0.14%) Drupal
17 9 (0.11%) Tomcat
18 7 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
19 6 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
19 6 (0.076%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 648 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 186 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (0.47%) UserZoom
5 25 (0.32%) AutoCAD
6 24 (0.30%) Photoshop
7 23 (0.29%) Sketch
8 22 (0.28%) Simulink
9 20 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
10 18 (0.23%) MS Visio
11 15 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
12 10 (0.13%) Adobe XD
13 9 (0.11%) Revit
14 7 (0.089%) InVision
15 6 (0.076%) OrCAD
15 6 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
16 4 (0.051%) Adobe After Effects
16 4 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.051%) EPLAN
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 20 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 17 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
6 15 (0.19%) Shopify
7 13 (0.16%) 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 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.063%) SAP CX
11 5 (0.063%) SAP FSCM
11 5 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 5 (0.063%) Teamcenter
12 4 (0.051%) Dynamics AX
12 4 (0.051%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,559 (19.77%) Azure
2 1,406 (17.83%) AWS
3 622 (7.89%) GCP
4 395 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
5 332 (4.21%) SaaS
6 299 (3.79%) Power Platform
7 218 (2.76%) IBM Cloud
8 189 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 129 (1.64%) Entra ID
10 121 (1.53%) Amazon S3
11 115 (1.46%) IaaS
11 115 (1.46%) Serverless
12 110 (1.39%) GitHub
13 91 (1.15%) OCI
14 90 (1.14%) PaaS
15 89 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
16 86 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
17 83 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
18 76 (0.96%) OpenShift
19 73 (0.93%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 492 (6.24%) Broadband
2 274 (3.47%) Firewall
3 159 (2.02%) WAN
4 108 (1.37%) DNS
5 106 (1.34%) LAN
6 97 (1.23%) VPN
7 79 (1.00%) Network Security
8 74 (0.94%) TCP/IP
9 65 (0.82%) SD-WAN
10 62 (0.79%) SAN
11 60 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
12 58 (0.74%) DHCP
13 57 (0.72%) Internet
13 57 (0.72%) Wireless
14 51 (0.65%) VLAN
15 47 (0.60%) 5G
16 42 (0.53%) OSPF
17 41 (0.52%) MPLS
18 40 (0.51%) BGP
19 26 (0.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (4.79%) SQL Server
2 372 (4.72%) NoSQL
3 370 (4.69%) BigQuery
4 288 (3.65%) Looker
5 272 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
6 271 (3.44%) MongoDB
7 266 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
8 219 (2.78%) Power BI
9 212 (2.69%) MySQL
10 153 (1.94%) DB2
11 152 (1.93%) Big Data
12 149 (1.89%) Relational Database
13 111 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
14 85 (1.08%) Tableau
15 79 (1.00%) Data Lake
16 74 (0.94%) Oracle Database
17 56 (0.71%) DynamoDB
18 50 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 45 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
20 43 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 334 (4.23%) Git
2 254 (3.22%) JIRA
3 238 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 184 (2.33%) GitLab
5 79 (1.00%) Selenium
6 45 (0.57%) Visual Studio
7 43 (0.55%) CircleCI
8 36 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 35 (0.44%) Cypress.io
9 35 (0.44%) Maven
10 34 (0.43%) JUnit
11 32 (0.41%) Cucumber
12 31 (0.39%) TeamCity
13 30 (0.38%) Subversion
14 29 (0.37%) Bitbucket
15 28 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
16 27 (0.34%) NUnit
17 23 (0.29%) Gradle
17 23 (0.29%) IBM UrbanCode
18 22 (0.28%) Artifactory
General
1 2,640 (33.47%) Social Skills
2 2,159 (27.37%) Finance
3 1,329 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1,318 (16.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 946 (11.99%) Public Sector
6 725 (9.19%) Influencing Skills
7 497 (6.30%) Law
8 465 (5.90%) Marketing
9 295 (3.74%) Retail
10 263 (3.33%) Legal
11 248 (3.14%) Banking
12 218 (2.76%) Manufacturing
13 193 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
14 139 (1.76%) Telecoms
15 122 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
16 112 (1.42%) Games
17 110 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
18 105 (1.33%) Automotive
19 102 (1.29%) Electronics
20 87 (1.10%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,057 (26.08%) Senior
2 1,607 (20.38%) Lead
3 930 (11.79%) Developer
4 817 (10.36%) Analyst
5 663 (8.41%) Architect
6 441 (5.59%) Software Engineer
7 375 (4.75%) Data Engineer
8 361 (4.58%) Senior Developer
9 336 (4.26%) Senior Manager
10 294 (3.73%) Senior Analyst
11 251 (3.18%) Lead Developer
12 236 (2.99%) Technical Leader
13 224 (2.84%) Consultant
14 222 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
15 221 (2.80%) Project Manager
16 220 (2.79%) Principal Engineer
17 215 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
18 210 (2.66%) Team Leader
19 188 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
20 184 (2.33%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 640 (8.11%) .NET
2 565 (7.16%) React
3 480 (6.09%) HTML
4 439 (5.57%) CSS
5 308 (3.91%) Web Services
6 305 (3.87%) AngularJS
7 297 (3.77%) REST
8 234 (2.97%) ASP.NET
9 232 (2.94%) RESTful
10 199 (2.52%) Vue
11 194 (2.46%) Node.js
12 166 (2.10%) jQuery
13 158 (2.00%) Spring
14 142 (1.80%) .NET Core
15 135 (1.71%) XML
16 134 (1.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 131 (1.66%) ASP.NET Core
18 128 (1.62%) .NET Framework
19 126 (1.60%) Spring Boot
20 116 (1.47%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 523 (6.63%) Self-Motivation
2 348 (4.41%) Product Ownership
3 332 (4.21%) Algorithms
4 331 (4.20%) Management Information System
5 279 (3.54%) Public Cloud
6 275 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 245 (3.11%) e-Learning
8 229 (2.90%) Blockchain
9 215 (2.73%) Data Structures
10 214 (2.71%) Data Centre
11 198 (2.51%) Cloud Native
12 123 (1.56%) IoT
13 112 (1.42%) Mobile App
14 108 (1.37%) Onboarding
15 91 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
16 90 (1.14%) Client/Server
17 84 (1.07%) PMI
18 79 (1.00%) Driving Licence
19 75 (0.95%) Derivative
20 70 (0.89%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 715 (9.07%) Windows
2 559 (7.09%) Linux
3 219 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 212 (2.69%) Apple iOS
5 198 (2.51%) Android
6 98 (1.24%) Unix
7 76 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
8 67 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
9 65 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
10 52 (0.66%) Windows 10
11 45 (0.57%) CentOS
12 24 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
14 13 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 12 (0.15%) AIX
15 12 (0.15%) Ubuntu
16 11 (0.14%) SUSE
17 9 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
18 8 (0.10%) Solaris
18 8 (0.10%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,235 (41.02%) Agile
2 3,004 (38.09%) Coaching
3 1,776 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
4 1,138 (14.43%) Decision-Making
5 1,131 (14.34%) DevOps
6 952 (12.07%) Software Engineering
7 833 (10.56%) Roadmaps
8 828 (10.50%) Project Management
9 662 (8.39%) Actionable Insight
10 649 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 640 (8.11%) CI/CD
12 593 (7.52%) Analytics
13 590 (7.48%) Computer Science
14 549 (6.96%) Cybersecurity
15 506 (6.42%) Line Management
16 505 (6.40%) Business Case
17 504 (6.39%) Project Delivery
18 496 (6.29%) Budgeting
19 487 (6.17%) Test Automation
20 477 (6.05%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,139 (14.44%) SQL
2 756 (9.59%) JavaScript
2 756 (9.59%) Python
3 754 (9.56%) Java
4 732 (9.28%) C#
5 244 (3.09%) TypeScript
6 198 (2.51%) PowerShell
7 151 (1.91%) C++
8 142 (1.80%) PHP
9 132 (1.67%) C
10 122 (1.55%) Scala
11 103 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 96 (1.22%) Bash
13 74 (0.94%) COBOL
13 74 (0.94%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 72 (0.91%) Kotlin
15 65 (0.82%) Go
16 58 (0.74%) Ruby
17 47 (0.60%) R
18 44 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,369 (17.36%) Degree
2 576 (7.30%) Security Cleared
3 451 (5.72%) ACCA
3 451 (5.72%) CIMA
4 296 (3.75%) SC Cleared
5 282 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 147 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 123 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 122 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
9 115 (1.46%) PMI Certification
10 104 (1.32%) DBS Check
11 89 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 88 (1.12%) AWS Certification
13 84 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
14 80 (1.01%) CISSP
15 77 (0.98%) CCNA
16 66 (0.84%) APMP
17 62 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
18 56 (0.71%) PMP
19 45 (0.57%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 496 (6.29%) QA
2 358 (4.54%) GDPR
3 262 (3.32%) Data Quality
4 191 (2.42%) SLA
5 152 (1.93%) Accessibility
6 97 (1.23%) PMO
7 84 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 82 (1.04%) GMP
9 73 (0.93%) NIST
10 70 (0.89%) WCAG
11 56 (0.71%) NCSC
12 37 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
13 35 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
14 27 (0.34%) NIST 800
15 26 (0.33%) PCI DSS
16 20 (0.25%) JSP 440
17 14 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 14 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
17 14 (0.18%) GRC
18 13 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 407 (5.16%) Docker
2 311 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 139 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 75 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 59 (0.75%) Firmware
6 57 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 31 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
8 27 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 22 (0.28%) vSphere
10 19 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
11 13 (0.16%) IAG
11 13 (0.16%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.13%) vCloud
13 9 (0.11%) Forefront TMG
13 9 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
14 8 (0.10%) KVM
15 7 (0.089%) HDFS
16 3 (0.038%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.038%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.025%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 441 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 400 (5.07%) Terraform
3 199 (2.52%) Ansible
4 105 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 96 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 53 (0.67%) Progress Chef
7 44 (0.56%) SCCM
8 42 (0.53%) Grafana
9 40 (0.51%) Puppet
10 39 (0.49%) vCenter Server
11 36 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
12 34 (0.43%) ZABBIX
13 26 (0.33%) SCOM
14 25 (0.32%) Functional Safety
15 20 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 20 (0.25%) FortiGate
16 19 (0.24%) WSUS
17 17 (0.22%) Nagios
18 16 (0.20%) EMC NetWorker
19 15 (0.19%) Istio
Vendors
1 1,612 (20.44%) Microsoft
2 522 (6.62%) Google
3 317 (4.02%) Oracle
4 283 (3.59%) ServiceNow
5 267 (3.39%) Red Hat
6 261 (3.31%) IBM
7 242 (3.07%) VMware
8 136 (1.72%) Cisco
9 116 (1.47%) Dell
10 101 (1.28%) Dynatrace
11 96 (1.22%) SAP
12 87 (1.10%) Salesforce
13 76 (0.96%) YouTube
14 74 (0.94%) Micro Focus
15 72 (0.91%) Juniper
15 72 (0.91%) Splunk
16 67 (0.85%) Veeam
17 60 (0.76%) Adobe
18 58 (0.74%) Atlassian
19 57 (0.72%) Databricks