Mentoring Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Mentorship
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Mentoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 20 31
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 6 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 3.49% 7.14% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 7.87% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile - £447 £596
25th Percentile £175 £448 £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% -20.83% -2.04%
75th Percentile £606 £499 £675
90th Percentile £715 £500 £720
South London median daily rate £360 £475 £595
% change year-on-year -24.21% -20.17% +7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 155 89 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 90.12% 90.82% 94.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 69 91
10th Percentile £456 £425 £255
25th Percentile £496 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £591
90th Percentile £658 £608 £638
South London median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £16.64
25th Percentile - - £17.06
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £15.84 £23.50
% change year-on-year +286.47% -32.60% -46.72%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mentoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Mentoring job vacancy trend in Croydon

Mentoring
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Mentoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Croydon over the 6 months to 29 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in Croydon

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 29 March 2026. 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
South Croydon - 2 £190 - 1
Mentoring
South London

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (16.67%) Boomi
2 1 (16.67%) iPaaS
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) JMeter
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) WireMock
2 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
2 1 (16.67%) OpenID
2 1 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Swagger
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) SFIA
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DBS Check
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft