Mentoring Contracts in the Thames Valley

Mentorship
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 72 87
Rank change year-on-year -23 +15 +3
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 39 81 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.47% 2.79% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 3.04% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 52 50
10th Percentile £345 £450 £362
25th Percentile £400 £510 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £561 £516
Median % change year-on-year -24.28% +8.72% -0.05%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £588
90th Percentile £600 £725 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £75.25 -
Median hourly rate - £75.50 £10.77
Median % change year-on-year - +601.02% +19.67%
75th Percentile - £75.75 -
90th Percentile - - £36.11
South East median hourly rate £48.37 £60.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.39% +71.43% +51.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,314 2,662 3,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.03% 91.76% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 1,857 2,108
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 63 87
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £12.15
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +200.00% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in the Thames Valley

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in the Thames Valley

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the Thames Valley

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in the Thames Valley

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 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
Berkshire -29 27 £400 -31.74% 42
Buckinghamshire +13 8 £600 +9.09% 30
Oxfordshire +7 4 £463 +1.09% 27
Mentoring
South East

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.13%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.38%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) AWS
3 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.56%) PaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.08%) SAN
2 5 (12.82%) DHCP
2 5 (12.82%) DNS
3 4 (10.26%) NAS
4 3 (7.69%) Firewall
5 2 (5.13%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (5.13%) WAN
5 2 (5.13%) Wireless
6 1 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.56%) Network Security
6 1 (2.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.38%) MySQL
3 4 (10.26%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.69%) Power BI
5 1 (2.56%) Big Data
5 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) JIRA
2 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.13%) Git
3 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.56%) Maven
4 1 (2.56%) MSI
4 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (20.51%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 4 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Architect
2 5 (12.82%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (12.82%) Support Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Lead
4 3 (7.69%) Scrum Master
5 2 (5.13%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Backup Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Java Scrum Master
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) .NET
1 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET
1 2 (5.13%) EDI
2 1 (2.56%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Fat Client
1 4 (10.26%) PKI
1 4 (10.26%) Thin Client
2 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.13%) CCTV
3 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.13%) Life Science
3 2 (5.13%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.13%) PMI
3 2 (5.13%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) FMCG
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.90%) Windows
2 9 (23.08%) Linux
2 9 (23.08%) Windows Server 2019
3 6 (15.38%) Ubuntu
3 6 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 5 (12.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.82%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (5.13%) Android
6 2 (5.13%) Mac OS
6 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.56%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (30.77%) Coaching
3 9 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (23.08%) ITIL
4 8 (20.51%) Project Management
5 7 (17.95%) Agile
5 7 (17.95%) IT Strategy
6 6 (15.38%) Resource Allocation
6 6 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 6 (15.38%) Scrum
6 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (12.82%) Change Management
7 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (12.82%) PRINCE2
7 5 (12.82%) Problem Management
7 5 (12.82%) Risk Management
7 5 (12.82%) Service Delivery
8 4 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (10.26%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.26%) SQL
3 3 (7.69%) C#
3 3 (7.69%) Java
3 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.13%) Python
5 1 (2.56%) F#
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) SC Cleared
1 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.13%) PgMP
3 2 (5.13%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.56%) CEH
4 1 (2.56%) CISSP
4 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.26%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.56%) Docker
4 1 (2.56%) XenApp
4 1 (2.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (10.26%) Nessus
2 4 (10.26%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (10.26%) vCenter Server
2 4 (10.26%) WSUS
2 4 (10.26%) ZABBIX
3 3 (7.69%) NetBackup
3 3 (7.69%) SCCM
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.13%) PaperCut
5 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
1 10 (25.64%) Red Hat
2 6 (15.38%) Veeam
2 6 (15.38%) VMware
3 5 (12.82%) HP
3 5 (12.82%) Nimble Storage
4 4 (10.26%) Oracle
5 3 (7.69%) 3PAR
5 3 (7.69%) Cisco
5 3 (7.69%) NetApp
5 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 3 (7.69%) Veritas
6 2 (5.13%) Aruba
6 2 (5.13%) Sage
6 2 (5.13%) WatchGuard
7 1 (2.56%) Citrix
7 1 (2.56%) FireEye
7 1 (2.56%) Informatica
7 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow