Mentoring Contracts in England

Mentorship
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 88 77 90
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 716 989 1,384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.94% 2.66% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 3.07% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 645 890
10th Percentile £361 £400 £390
25th Percentile £433 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £586
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -6.14% +1.91%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £688
90th Percentile £738 £833 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 33 31
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.69 £27.98
25th Percentile £23.80 £24.00 £58.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -46.67% +114.29%
75th Percentile £79.75 £56.49 £83.31
90th Percentile £89.88 £57.46 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +18.75% -46.67% +114.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in England

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in England

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in England

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in England

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mentoring in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Mentoring in England

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the England 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
London -7 406 £575 -1.50% 1,964
North of England -14 123 £475 -5.00% 713
North West -5 80 £454 -7.96% 441
South East -8 52 £493 -6.19% 694
South West -7 41 £513 -14.58% 272
Midlands 0 38 £463 -15.91% 336
Yorkshire -21 36 £563 +4.65% 192
West Midlands -7 22 £525 -7.89% 183
East of England +29 18 £400 -27.27% 223
East Midlands +8 15 £459 -6.13% 137
North East +5 7 £534 -2.91% 87
Mentoring
UK

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 28 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.37%) Confluence
3 15 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.96%) Apache
4 14 (1.96%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.40%) SAS
6 8 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.42%) Camunda
7 3 (0.42%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.28%) CICS
8 2 (0.28%) Drupal
8 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.14%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.14%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.14%) nginx
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.70%) Shopify
3 3 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.28%) BASE24
4 2 (0.28%) Endur
4 2 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.28%) Misys Midas
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.28%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.28%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.14%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 1 (0.14%) iTrent
5 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 178 (24.86%) AWS
2 170 (23.74%) Azure
3 55 (7.68%) Serverless
4 54 (7.54%) GCP
5 42 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (5.17%) Power Platform
8 35 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (4.33%) GitHub
10 29 (4.05%) Entra ID
11 23 (3.21%) Amazon S3
12 22 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (2.65%) SaaS
15 16 (2.23%) Snowflake
16 15 (2.09%) IaaS
16 15 (2.09%) PaaS
17 14 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
17 14 (1.96%) OneDrive
18 13 (1.82%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.77%) Network Security
2 26 (3.63%) Firewall
3 25 (3.49%) VPN
4 21 (2.93%) LAN
5 19 (2.65%) DNS
5 19 (2.65%) WAN
6 16 (2.23%) TCP/IP
7 15 (2.09%) DHCP
8 14 (1.96%) HTTP
8 14 (1.96%) HTTPS
9 12 (1.68%) BGP
10 11 (1.54%) OSPF
11 8 (1.12%) MPLS
11 8 (1.12%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.84%) SSL
12 6 (0.84%) Wireless
13 5 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (0.70%) VLAN
13 5 (0.70%) VoIP
14 4 (0.56%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (6.01%) MongoDB
3 30 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (3.77%) MySQL
4 27 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 24 (3.35%) Power BI
6 22 (3.07%) NoSQL
6 22 (3.07%) SQL Server
7 19 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.51%) DynamoDB
9 17 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (2.37%) Big Data
9 17 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
10 15 (2.09%) Oracle Database
11 13 (1.82%) RDBMS
12 11 (1.54%) Redis
13 10 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
14 9 (1.26%) Hadoop
15 6 (0.84%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 57 (7.96%) Git
2 55 (7.68%) Jenkins
3 45 (6.28%) JIRA
4 33 (4.61%) GitLab
5 25 (3.49%) JUnit
6 20 (2.79%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.09%) Cucumber
7 15 (2.09%) Selenium
8 13 (1.82%) SonarQube
9 12 (1.68%) Maven
10 10 (1.40%) Jasmine
11 8 (1.12%) Mockito
12 7 (0.98%) Postman
13 6 (0.84%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.84%) Gradle
13 6 (0.84%) JMeter
13 6 (0.84%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.70%) git-flow
14 5 (0.70%) SoapUI
14 5 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 259 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 127 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
3 107 (14.94%) Public Sector
4 95 (13.27%) Finance
5 47 (6.56%) Banking
6 28 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (3.35%) Manufacturing
8 22 (3.07%) Marketing
9 18 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (2.51%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.96%) Local Government
11 13 (1.82%) Automotive
11 13 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.82%) Military
11 13 (1.82%) Retail
12 11 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.26%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.26%) Legal
13 9 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 151 (21.09%) Senior
2 140 (19.55%) Lead
3 131 (18.30%) Developer
4 94 (13.13%) Architect
5 37 (5.17%) Senior Developer
6 33 (4.61%) Data Engineer
7 31 (4.33%) Analyst
8 29 (4.05%) Lead Developer
8 29 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
9 28 (3.91%) Consultant
9 28 (3.91%) Software Engineer
10 23 (3.21%) Java Developer
11 19 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (2.65%) Technical Leader
12 17 (2.37%) DevOps Engineer
13 16 (2.23%) Designer
14 15 (2.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (2.09%) Software Developer
14 15 (2.09%) Support Engineer
15 14 (1.96%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (6.98%) Kafka
2 44 (6.15%) React
3 42 (5.87%) Node.js
4 40 (5.59%) HTML
5 36 (5.03%) RESTful
6 32 (4.47%) CSS
7 31 (4.33%) Spring Boot
8 29 (4.05%) .NET
8 29 (4.05%) Spring
9 27 (3.77%) AngularJS
10 24 (3.35%) JSON
11 23 (3.21%) XML
12 22 (3.07%) REST
13 21 (2.93%) SOAP
14 20 (2.79%) OAuth
15 18 (2.51%) Swagger
16 17 (2.37%) Web Services
17 15 (2.09%) AWS CDK
17 15 (2.09%) GraphQL
17 15 (2.09%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.47%) Management Information System
2 28 (3.91%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.35%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.35%) Onboarding
4 16 (2.23%) PKI
5 14 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (1.82%) EPoS
6 13 (1.82%) Public Cloud
7 12 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (1.68%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.68%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.26%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.26%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.12%) CMDB
9 8 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 8 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.56%) Linux
2 36 (5.03%) Windows
3 13 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.54%) Unix
6 9 (1.26%) Android
7 5 (0.70%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.70%) Windows 8
7 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.70%) Windows XP
8 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.42%) CentOS
8 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.14%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (30.45%) Agile
2 204 (28.49%) Problem-Solving
3 165 (23.04%) CI/CD
4 162 (22.63%) DevOps
5 148 (20.67%) Technical Leadership
6 136 (18.99%) Coaching
7 88 (12.29%) Software Engineering
8 83 (11.59%) Test Automation
9 74 (10.34%) Analytics
9 74 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
10 70 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 68 (9.50%) Computer Science
12 66 (9.22%) Microservices
13 62 (8.66%) Project Management
14 59 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
15 58 (8.10%) Roadmaps
16 57 (7.96%) Scrum
17 53 (7.40%) Migration
18 52 (7.26%) Continuous Integration
19 51 (7.12%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 158 (22.07%) Python
2 123 (17.18%) Java
3 102 (14.25%) SQL
4 99 (13.83%) JavaScript
5 46 (6.42%) PowerShell
6 45 (6.28%) TypeScript
7 31 (4.33%) Bash
8 27 (3.77%) C#
9 17 (2.37%) Kotlin
10 14 (1.96%) C++
10 14 (1.96%) Go
11 12 (1.68%) Ruby
12 11 (1.54%) PHP
12 11 (1.54%) Scala
13 8 (1.12%) Apex Code
13 8 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.70%) COBOL
14 5 (0.70%) Groovy
14 5 (0.70%) Perl
14 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 169 (23.60%) Security Cleared
2 121 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 97 (13.55%) Degree
4 54 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.47%) DV Cleared
6 25 (3.49%) AWS Certification
7 23 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (2.51%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.68%) CCNA
10 12 (1.68%) CCNP
11 11 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.26%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.98%) CEH
15 6 (0.84%) CCIE
15 6 (0.84%) OCP
15 6 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.84%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.73%) QA
2 24 (3.35%) Accessibility
2 24 (3.35%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.65%) GDPR
4 17 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.96%) NIST
6 10 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.98%) NCSC
8 6 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 6 (0.84%) PMO
9 5 (0.70%) SLA
10 4 (0.56%) WCAG
11 3 (0.42%) AUTOSAR
12 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.28%) DICOM
12 2 (0.28%) HL7
12 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 69 (9.64%) Docker
2 30 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.56%) vSphere
6 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.14%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.14%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.14%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 91 (12.71%) Kubernetes
2 77 (10.75%) Terraform
3 36 (5.03%) Ansible
4 18 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (1.82%) SCCM
6 12 (1.68%) Grafana
7 11 (1.54%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.98%) Puppet
9 6 (0.84%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.84%) MOM
9 6 (0.84%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.56%) Kibana
11 3 (0.42%) Istio
11 3 (0.42%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.42%) SCOM
12 2 (0.28%) Argo
12 2 (0.28%) PTC Integrity
12 2 (0.28%) QRadar
12 2 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 98 (13.69%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.38%) Oracle
3 31 (4.33%) SAP
4 29 (4.05%) Google
5 26 (3.63%) Cisco
6 22 (3.07%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.93%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.96%) IBM
9 11 (1.54%) Databricks
10 10 (1.40%) ForgeRock
10 10 (1.40%) VMware
11 9 (1.26%) Juniper
11 9 (1.26%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.26%) Palo Alto
11 9 (1.26%) Ping Identity
12 8 (1.12%) Adobe
12 8 (1.12%) Splunk
13 7 (0.98%) Rockwell
13 7 (0.98%) Siemens
14 6 (0.84%) Informatica