Mentoring Contracts in England

Mentorship
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 91 94
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 984 1,385 1,959
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.66% 2.74% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 3.04% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 889 1,348
10th Percentile £400 £390 £412
25th Percentile £463 £475 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +1.91% +9.52%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £700
90th Percentile £825 £756 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.36% +5.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 32 59
10th Percentile £15.43 £28.23 £10.77
25th Percentile £24.00 £59.06 £16.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +114.29% +5.26%
75th Percentile £52.16 £83.31 £53.38
90th Percentile £57.33 £85.00 £68.39
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% +114.29% +2.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
London +11 490 £588 -9.62% 637
North of England +44 183 £500 -9.09% 369
North West +27 110 £493 -10.36% 216
South East -5 108 £533 -7.39% 274
South West +22 100 £600 +1.95% 186
Yorkshire +47 71 £525 -2.33% 112
Midlands -15 60 £550 +15.79% 217
West Midlands +2 43 £570 +18.75% 142
East of England -12 18 £550 +5.77% 131
East Midlands -4 17 £489 +8.67% 74
North East +13 2 £550 -4.35% 45
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 22 (2.24%) Confluence
2 14 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.02%) Apache
5 9 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.51%) SAS
7 4 (0.41%) govService
8 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.30%) CMS
9 2 (0.20%) Drupal
9 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.20%) Mendix
9 2 (0.20%) nginx
9 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.10%) IIS
10 1 (0.10%) JBoss
10 1 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 15 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.51%) Sketch
5 4 (0.41%) InVision
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.10%) Revit
6 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.10%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.41%) Endur
3 4 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.30%) Shopify
5 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.20%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.20%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.20%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.20%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 175 (17.78%) Azure
2 134 (13.62%) AWS
3 52 (5.28%) Power Platform
4 40 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
6 33 (3.35%) GCP
7 28 (2.85%) Serverless
8 25 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 21 (2.13%) GitHub
10 18 (1.83%) SaaS
11 16 (1.63%) Azure API Management
11 16 (1.63%) PaaS
12 14 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (1.12%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (1.02%) Entra ID
14 10 (1.02%) IaaS
15 9 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.28%) Firewall
2 36 (3.66%) Network Security
3 29 (2.95%) DNS
4 23 (2.34%) VPN
4 23 (2.34%) WAN
5 18 (1.83%) Internet
5 18 (1.83%) LAN
6 16 (1.63%) Wireless
7 14 (1.42%) DHCP
8 13 (1.32%) BGP
9 11 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
9 11 (1.12%) SAN
9 11 (1.12%) SD-WAN
9 11 (1.12%) WLAN
10 10 (1.02%) Cisco ISE
10 10 (1.02%) OSPF
11 9 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
11 9 (0.91%) TCP/IP
11 9 (0.91%) VoIP
12 7 (0.71%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 48 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (4.78%) Power BI
4 46 (4.67%) Relational Database
5 25 (2.54%) NoSQL
6 20 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (2.03%) MongoDB
7 18 (1.83%) Big Data
8 16 (1.63%) Tableau
9 15 (1.52%) MySQL
10 13 (1.32%) RDBMS
11 12 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
12 11 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (1.02%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.71%) Hadoop
15 6 (0.61%) Apache Ignite
15 6 (0.61%) Dremio
15 6 (0.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 50 (5.08%) Git
2 42 (4.27%) JIRA
3 25 (2.54%) JUnit
4 23 (2.34%) Jenkins
5 19 (1.93%) GitLab
6 14 (1.42%) Cypress.io
7 9 (0.91%) Maven
8 6 (0.61%) Gradle
8 6 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.51%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.51%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.41%) Axure RP
10 4 (0.41%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.41%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.41%) Pylint
10 4 (0.41%) RStudio
11 3 (0.30%) Appium
11 3 (0.30%) NeoLoad
11 3 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 341 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 264 (26.83%) Finance
3 145 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 68 (6.91%) Banking
6 50 (5.08%) Front Office
7 42 (4.27%) Telecoms
8 36 (3.66%) Back Office
9 35 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (2.54%) Marketing
12 23 (2.34%) Law
12 23 (2.34%) Retail
13 22 (2.24%) Military
14 19 (1.93%) Manufacturing
15 18 (1.83%) Legal
16 15 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (1.42%) Local Government
18 13 (1.32%) Games
19 10 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 171 (17.38%) Senior
2 149 (15.14%) Developer
2 149 (15.14%) Lead
3 107 (10.87%) Analyst
4 93 (9.45%) Architect
5 47 (4.78%) Java Developer
6 43 (4.37%) Consultant
7 39 (3.96%) Software Engineer
8 34 (3.46%) Senior Analyst
9 31 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
10 30 (3.05%) Project Manager
11 28 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
11 28 (2.85%) Lead Developer
11 28 (2.85%) Senior Developer
12 26 (2.64%) Business Analyst
12 26 (2.64%) Network Engineer
13 22 (2.24%) Financial Analyst
14 21 (2.13%) Technical Leader
15 20 (2.03%) Banking Analyst
15 20 (2.03%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (6.20%) React
2 56 (5.69%) REST
3 43 (4.37%) Spring
4 40 (4.07%) .NET
5 38 (3.86%) Spring Boot
5 38 (3.86%) XML
6 31 (3.15%) Kafka
7 27 (2.74%) CSS
7 27 (2.74%) JPA
8 26 (2.64%) Hibernate
9 25 (2.54%) HTML
10 23 (2.34%) JSON
11 20 (2.03%) Web Services
12 19 (1.93%) AngularJS
13 18 (1.83%) Node.js
14 16 (1.63%) RESTful
15 11 (1.12%) Next.js
16 10 (1.02%) GraphQL
16 10 (1.02%) Redux
17 9 (0.91%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 76 (7.72%) Management Information System
2 53 (5.39%) Cyber Defence
3 52 (5.28%) Cyber Threat
4 46 (4.67%) Derivative
5 43 (4.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 43 (4.37%) Hedge funds
6 39 (3.96%) Data Centre
7 27 (2.74%) Product Ownership
7 27 (2.74%) Virtual Team
8 22 (2.24%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.73%) CMDB
10 16 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.32%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.32%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.32%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.22%) PKI
14 11 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.28%) Windows
2 44 (4.47%) Linux
3 17 (1.73%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.22%) Android
5 11 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.30%) Unix
9 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.20%) CentOS
10 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.10%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (29.88%) Agile
2 219 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
3 196 (19.92%) Coaching
4 151 (15.35%) DevOps
5 106 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 105 (10.67%) Scrum
7 99 (10.06%) Software Engineering
8 98 (9.96%) Cybersecurity
9 95 (9.65%) CI/CD
10 81 (8.23%) Technical Leadership
11 79 (8.03%) Analytics
12 77 (7.83%) Decision-Making
12 77 (7.83%) Roadmaps
13 76 (7.72%) ITIL
14 69 (7.01%) Stakeholder Management
15 67 (6.81%) Microservices
15 67 (6.81%) Service Management
16 66 (6.71%) Computer Science
17 63 (6.40%) Business Intelligence
17 63 (6.40%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 148 (15.04%) Python
2 116 (11.79%) SQL
3 111 (11.28%) Java
4 101 (10.26%) C#
5 72 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 61 (6.20%) TypeScript
7 29 (2.95%) PowerShell
8 20 (2.03%) Scala
9 16 (1.63%) C++
10 15 (1.52%) Bash
11 13 (1.32%) C
11 13 (1.32%) Ruby
12 12 (1.22%) Kotlin
13 9 (0.91%) Perl
14 8 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.71%) Go
15 7 (0.71%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.61%) PHP
16 6 (0.61%) R
16 6 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 255 (25.91%) Security Cleared
2 188 (19.11%) SC Cleared
3 126 (12.80%) Degree
4 85 (8.64%) DV Cleared
5 43 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 19 (1.93%) CISSP
9 16 (1.63%) CCIE
10 13 (1.32%) CCNP
11 11 (1.12%) CISM
12 10 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.81%) CCNA
14 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.61%) CCIE Data Center
15 6 (0.61%) PMI Certification
16 5 (0.51%) Azure Certification
16 5 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
17 4 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 4 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.20%) QA
2 54 (5.49%) NIST
3 40 (4.07%) NIST 800
4 33 (3.35%) Data Quality
5 17 (1.73%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.12%) SLA
8 8 (0.81%) GDPR
8 8 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.71%) GRC
10 6 (0.61%) PMO
11 5 (0.51%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.51%) NCSC
12 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.10%) HAZOP
13 1 (0.10%) IASME
13 1 (0.10%) NEBOSH
13 1 (0.10%) SEPA
System Software
1 50 (5.08%) Docker
2 26 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.41%) vCloud
6 4 (0.41%) vSphere
7 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.20%) NFS
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.10%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.10%) iptables
9 1 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.10%) XenApp
9 1 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 48 (4.88%) Terraform
3 28 (2.85%) Ansible
4 9 (0.91%) Grafana
5 7 (0.71%) CA Service Virtualization
6 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.61%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.51%) Nessus
7 5 (0.51%) SCCM
7 5 (0.51%) WSUS
8 4 (0.41%) Kibana
8 4 (0.41%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.41%) Puppet
8 4 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.41%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.30%) logstash
9 3 (0.30%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 147 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.47%) Cisco
3 38 (3.86%) Oracle
4 28 (2.85%) ServiceNow
5 26 (2.64%) VMware
6 24 (2.44%) SAP
7 21 (2.13%) Palo Alto
8 19 (1.93%) Google
9 16 (1.63%) Red Hat
10 15 (1.52%) Juniper
10 15 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.32%) Databricks
11 13 (1.32%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.02%) CA
13 9 (0.91%) Adobe
13 9 (0.91%) SolarWinds
14 8 (0.81%) CheckPoint
14 8 (0.81%) Informatica
14 8 (0.81%) Micro Focus
15 7 (0.71%) Sparx