Mentoring Contracts in Birmingham

Mentorship
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Mentoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mentoring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 53 55
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 11 14 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.11% 1.81% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 2.17% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 16
10th Percentile £402 £463 £305
25th Percentile £513 £500 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% +29.41% -13.92%
75th Percentile £601 - £536
90th Percentile £767 £675 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £570 £480
% change year-on-year -7.89% +18.75% -7.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Mentoring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in Birmingham

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in Birmingham

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in Birmingham

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (9.09%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
1 1 (9.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Network Security
2 2 (18.18%) BGP
2 2 (18.18%) EIGRP
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) LAN
2 2 (18.18%) OSPF
2 2 (18.18%) WAN
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) Internet
3 1 (9.09%) MPLS
3 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (9.09%) Wireless
3 1 (9.09%) Wireless Security
3 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Reports
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
5 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Digital User Researcher
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) User Researcher
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Advisor
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Programme Director
3 1 (9.09%) Security Advisor
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (9.09%) 802.1X
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) OpenID
2 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Business Case
3 2 (18.18%) Change Control
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) Dependency Management
3 2 (18.18%) Diary Studies
3 2 (18.18%) High Availability
3 2 (18.18%) Network Management
3 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
3 2 (18.18%) Qualitative Research
3 2 (18.18%) Resource Management
3 2 (18.18%) User Research
3 2 (18.18%) User Stories
3 2 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Perl
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (18.18%) CCNP
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) CCIE
4 1 (9.09%) CEH
4 1 (9.09%) CISA
4 1 (9.09%) CISM
4 1 (9.09%) CISSP
4 1 (9.09%) OCP
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
1 2 (18.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Juniper
3 1 (9.09%) Infoblox
3 1 (9.09%) Meraki
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
3 1 (9.09%) Zscaler