Mentoring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Mentorship
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 92 85
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 -5
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 512 640 909
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.50% 2.74% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 3.06% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 458 639
10th Percentile £356 £367 £361
25th Percentile £425 £463 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £505
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.91% +1.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £575
90th Percentile £775 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 24 43
10th Percentile £15.17 £28.74 £10.82
25th Percentile £19.84 £59.06 £18.75
Median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.67% +114.29% -5.41%
75th Percentile £57.33 £83.31 £59.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £73.66
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -46.67% +66.67% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,292 20,943 27,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,311 14,478 18,837
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £379 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,286 1,344
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.39 £14.21
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.65 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mentoring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
North of England +47 179 £500 -9.09% 428
South East -4 108 £525 -9.17% 277
North West +30 104 £493 -10.36% 224
South West +24 100 £600 +1.95% 206
Yorkshire +48 74 £550 +2.33% 153
Midlands -7 64 £538 +13.26% 246
Scotland -12 45 £464 -11.24% 103
West Midlands -4 42 £570 +18.75% 142
East Midlands +6 22 £406 -10.33% 103
East of England -8 22 £483 -5.39% 138
Northern Ireland +16 16 £600 +50.00% 31
Wales +12 4 £405 -20.69% 39
Isle of Man - 2 - -
North East +11 1 - - 54
Mentoring
UK

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (1.56%) Confluence
2 7 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.39%) Drupal
3 2 (0.39%) IIS
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.20%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.39%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.39%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.39%) Lectora
Business Applications
1 7 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.39%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.39%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.39%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.39%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.39%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 61 (11.91%) Azure
2 56 (10.94%) AWS
3 34 (6.64%) Serverless
4 23 (4.49%) Power Platform
5 21 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (2.73%) Amazon S3
7 13 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.15%) IaaS
8 11 (2.15%) PaaS
9 10 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (1.95%) OpenShift
10 9 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.76%) GCP
10 9 (1.76%) SaaS
11 6 (1.17%) Azure Functions
12 5 (0.98%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.98%) GitHub
13 4 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (0.78%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 38 (7.42%) Firewall
2 24 (4.69%) Network Security
3 22 (4.30%) DNS
4 17 (3.32%) WAN
5 12 (2.34%) SAN
5 12 (2.34%) VPN
6 11 (2.15%) LAN
7 10 (1.95%) DHCP
8 9 (1.76%) BGP
8 9 (1.76%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (1.76%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (1.76%) Cisco ISE
8 9 (1.76%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.76%) Wireless
9 8 (1.56%) VoIP
10 7 (1.37%) WLAN
11 6 (1.17%) Internet
11 6 (1.17%) MPLS
11 6 (1.17%) OSPF
11 6 (1.17%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (5.47%) Relational Database
2 28 (5.47%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.10%) MongoDB
4 17 (3.32%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.93%) Power BI
6 12 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (2.34%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (2.15%) RDBMS
8 10 (1.95%) MySQL
9 8 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.17%) Tableau
11 5 (0.98%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.78%) Big Data
13 3 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.59%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.59%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (4.69%) Git
2 22 (4.30%) JIRA
3 15 (2.93%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.73%) JUnit
5 10 (1.95%) GitLab
6 6 (1.17%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.78%) Maven
7 4 (0.78%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.59%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.59%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.59%) Gradle
9 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.39%) Selenium
9 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.39%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.20%) Hudson
10 1 (0.20%) MSI
10 1 (0.20%) Subversion
10 1 (0.20%) XCUITest
General
1 183 (35.74%) Social Skills
2 99 (19.34%) Public Sector
3 84 (16.41%) Finance
4 81 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (6.64%) Telecoms
6 21 (4.10%) Military
7 18 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.54%) Legal
9 11 (2.15%) Banking
10 10 (1.95%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.37%) Law
12 7 (1.37%) Publishing
13 6 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.59%) Automotive
14 3 (0.59%) Aviation
14 3 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.59%) Electronics
14 3 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (12.70%) Lead
2 62 (12.11%) Developer
3 59 (11.52%) Senior
4 47 (9.18%) Architect
5 45 (8.79%) Analyst
6 26 (5.08%) Consultant
7 23 (4.49%) Java Developer
8 19 (3.71%) Network Engineer
9 17 (3.32%) Project Manager
10 16 (3.13%) DBA
10 16 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (2.93%) Lead Developer
11 15 (2.93%) Software Engineer
12 14 (2.73%) Capacity Manager
12 14 (2.73%) Problem Manager
13 13 (2.54%) Cyber Defence Analyst
13 13 (2.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (2.34%) Availability Manager
14 12 (2.34%) Capacity and Availability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.64%) React
2 25 (4.88%) REST
3 19 (3.71%) Spring
4 18 (3.52%) Spring Boot
5 16 (3.13%) JSON
6 15 (2.93%) CSS
7 14 (2.73%) XML
8 13 (2.54%) HTML
8 13 (2.54%) JPA
8 13 (2.54%) Kafka
9 12 (2.34%) Hibernate
10 10 (1.95%) AWS CDK
10 10 (1.95%) RESTful
11 9 (1.76%) .NET
11 9 (1.76%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.56%) Node.js
12 8 (1.56%) Web Services
13 5 (0.98%) OpenAPI
13 5 (0.98%) RAML
13 5 (0.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 72 (14.06%) Management Information System
2 54 (10.55%) Cyber Threat
3 53 (10.35%) Cyber Defence
4 45 (8.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 23 (4.49%) Virtual Team
6 20 (3.91%) Data Centre
7 18 (3.52%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.95%) CMDB
9 10 (1.95%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.76%) Operational Technology
10 9 (1.76%) Security Operations Centre
10 9 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.56%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.37%) PKI
13 6 (1.17%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.17%) NHS
14 5 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.98%) Windows
2 30 (5.86%) Linux
3 19 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.56%) Android
6 7 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.78%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.78%) Unix
10 3 (0.59%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (31.45%) Agile
2 121 (23.63%) Coaching
3 104 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
5 65 (12.70%) DevOps
6 60 (11.72%) ITIL
7 58 (11.33%) Incident Management
8 57 (11.13%) SIEM
9 55 (10.74%) Incident Response
10 54 (10.55%) Service Management
11 52 (10.16%) Root Cause Analysis
12 51 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (9.57%) Problem Management
13 49 (9.57%) Scrum
14 46 (8.98%) Information Security
15 45 (8.79%) Protective Monitoring
16 43 (8.40%) Quality Management
17 40 (7.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
17 40 (7.81%) Threat Intelligence
18 39 (7.62%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 55 (10.74%) Java
2 43 (8.40%) Python
3 36 (7.03%) SQL
4 35 (6.84%) JavaScript
5 33 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 20 (3.91%) PowerShell
7 19 (3.71%) Bash
8 15 (2.93%) C#
9 13 (2.54%) C++
10 10 (1.95%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.76%) C
12 7 (1.37%) Perl
13 6 (1.17%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.98%) Groovy
14 5 (0.98%) PHP
14 5 (0.98%) Ruby
15 4 (0.78%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.39%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 189 (36.91%) Security Cleared
2 124 (24.22%) SC Cleared
3 76 (14.84%) DV Cleared
4 65 (12.70%) Degree
5 24 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (2.73%) CCNP
6 14 (2.73%) CISSP
7 13 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.95%) CCNA
8 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (1.56%) CCIE
9 8 (1.56%) CISM
10 7 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.17%) CCIE Data Center
11 6 (1.17%) MCTS
12 5 (0.98%) MCITP
13 4 (0.78%) HNC
14 2 (0.39%) MCSE
14 2 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (9.18%) NIST
2 38 (7.42%) NIST 800
3 28 (5.47%) QA
4 25 (4.88%) Accessibility
5 18 (3.52%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.98%) SLA
8 4 (0.78%) NCSC
8 4 (0.78%) WCAG
9 3 (0.59%) PMO
10 2 (0.39%) GDPR
10 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.20%) HAZOP
11 1 (0.20%) HL7
11 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.20%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 26 (5.08%) Docker
2 23 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.98%) vSphere
6 3 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.39%) Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) iptables
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.20%) XenApp
8 1 (0.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (5.47%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.88%) Ansible
3 20 (3.91%) Terraform
4 9 (1.76%) Grafana
5 7 (1.37%) SCCM
6 6 (1.17%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.98%) WSUS
8 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.78%) Nessus
8 4 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.78%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.59%) Kibana
9 3 (0.59%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.59%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.59%) Puppet
9 3 (0.59%) VxRail
10 2 (0.39%) CEMLI
10 2 (0.39%) PaperCut
10 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 101 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.05%) Cisco
3 27 (5.27%) Oracle
4 18 (3.52%) VMware
5 12 (2.34%) Red Hat
6 10 (1.95%) Palo Alto
6 10 (1.95%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.76%) F5
7 9 (1.76%) Fortinet
7 9 (1.76%) SAP
8 8 (1.56%) SolarWinds
9 7 (1.37%) CheckPoint
9 7 (1.37%) Sparx
10 6 (1.17%) CA
10 6 (1.17%) HP
10 6 (1.17%) Sophos
10 6 (1.17%) Veeam
11 5 (0.98%) EMC
11 5 (0.98%) Infoblox
11 5 (0.98%) Symantec