Mentoring Contracts in Cheshire

Mentorship
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 31 52 51
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 28 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.24% 1.19% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.42% 1.41% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 0 7
10th Percentile £423 - £416
25th Percentile £447 - £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.91%
75th Percentile £588 - £469
90th Percentile £645 - £556
North West median daily rate £454 £493 £550
% change year-on-year -7.96% -10.36% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £23.48 - £27.98
North West median hourly rate £53.63 £27.00 £20.64
% change year-on-year +98.63% +30.83% -39.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in Cheshire

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in Cheshire

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in Cheshire

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford - 14 £460 - 5
Crewe - 7 £525 - 2
Macclesfield +15 1 £500 - 1
Mentoring
North West

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (17.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.14%) CICS
2 2 (7.14%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (21.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Purview
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) OneDrive
3 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Ethernet
1 3 (10.71%) HTTPS
1 3 (10.71%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (7.14%) DB2
1 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) MySQL
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) GitLab
2 2 (7.14%) JUnit
2 2 (7.14%) Selenium
2 2 (7.14%) SOAtest
3 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (35.71%) Automotive
3 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Manufacturing
4 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.71%) Banking
6 2 (7.14%) Finance
6 2 (7.14%) General Ledger
6 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Architect
2 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Security Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Senior
2 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Lead
3 2 (7.14%) Python Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Test Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Developer
4 1 (3.57%) ICT Manager
4 1 (3.57%) ICT Project Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Integration Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Kafka
2 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
2 3 (10.71%) JDBC
2 3 (10.71%) OAuth
2 3 (10.71%) OAuth2
2 3 (10.71%) OpenID
2 3 (10.71%) React
2 3 (10.71%) SOAP
3 2 (7.14%) J2EE
3 2 (7.14%) JSON
3 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 2 (7.14%) Web Services
3 2 (7.14%) XML
4 1 (3.57%) CSS
4 1 (3.57%) CSS3
4 1 (3.57%) HTML
4 1 (3.57%) HTML5
4 1 (3.57%) Node.js
4 1 (3.57%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Industry 4.0
1 6 (21.43%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 3 (10.71%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.71%) PKI
2 3 (10.71%) Taxonomies
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Mainframe
3 2 (7.14%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.14%) VSAM
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
2 15 (53.57%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (50.00%) Agile
4 9 (32.14%) API Integration
5 8 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
6 7 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 7 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (25.00%) Project Management
6 7 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 6 (21.43%) Agile Project Management
7 6 (21.43%) Analytics
7 6 (21.43%) Data Governance
7 6 (21.43%) Data Modelling
7 6 (21.43%) ERP
7 6 (21.43%) Lean Manufacturing
7 6 (21.43%) Operations Management
7 6 (21.43%) PLM
7 6 (21.43%) Quality Management
7 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (21.43%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) Java
2 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.71%) Python
5 2 (7.14%) COBOL
5 2 (7.14%) JCL
5 2 (7.14%) REXX
6 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) Degree
2 7 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 5 (17.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) AUTOSAR
1 3 (10.71%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) MOM
2 3 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (7.14%) Ansible
3 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
3 2 (7.14%) Terraform
4 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 6 (21.43%) Rockwell
1 6 (21.43%) SAP
1 6 (21.43%) Siemens
2 3 (10.71%) ForgeRock
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
2 3 (10.71%) Ping Identity
3 2 (7.14%) Ab Initio
3 2 (7.14%) Informatica
3 2 (7.14%) Parasoft