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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 90 95
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 +16
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 986 1,364 1,956
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.67% 2.73% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 3.02% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 875 1,351
10th Percentile £400 £391 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
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 £839 £763 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 33 57
10th Percentile £15.69 £28.49 £10.91
25th Percentile £24.00 £56.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +114.29% -9.09%
75th Percentile £56.49 £83.31 £55.84
90th Percentile £62.50 £85.00 £68.48
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -46.67% +82.93% +2.50%

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 31,926 45,112 64,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 31,664 45,849
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,598 1,761
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +10 486 £590 -9.23% 660
North of England +50 182 £500 -9.09% 404
North West +29 108 £493 -10.36% 218
South East -5 108 £525 -8.70% 279
South West +25 102 £600 +1.95% 181
Yorkshire +48 72 £550 +2.33% 142
Midlands -2 64 £538 +13.26% 250
West Midlands -2 42 £570 +18.75% 157
East Midlands +5 22 £406 -10.33% 92
East of England -13 22 £483 -7.21% 149
North East +14 2 £550 -1.12% 48
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 24 (2.43%) Confluence
2 14 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.01%) 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%) Appian
10 1 (0.10%) IIS
10 1 (0.10%) JBoss
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
5 4 (0.41%) InVision
5 4 (0.41%) Sketch
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
1 167 (16.94%) Azure
2 129 (13.08%) AWS
3 51 (5.17%) Power Platform
4 37 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
5 34 (3.45%) GCP
6 30 (3.04%) Serverless
7 25 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
8 19 (1.93%) GitHub
8 19 (1.93%) SaaS
9 18 (1.83%) Azure API Management
9 18 (1.83%) PaaS
10 14 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (1.22%) IaaS
12 11 (1.12%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.12%) Entra ID
13 10 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.07%) Firewall
2 35 (3.55%) Network Security
3 28 (2.84%) DNS
4 24 (2.43%) WAN
5 21 (2.13%) VPN
6 18 (1.83%) LAN
7 17 (1.72%) Internet
8 16 (1.62%) Wireless
9 14 (1.42%) DHCP
10 13 (1.32%) BGP
11 11 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
11 11 (1.12%) SD-WAN
11 11 (1.12%) WLAN
12 10 (1.01%) Cisco ISE
12 10 (1.01%) OSPF
12 10 (1.01%) SAN
13 9 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
13 9 (0.91%) TCP/IP
13 9 (0.91%) VoIP
14 7 (0.71%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 47 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (4.67%) Power BI
4 44 (4.46%) Relational Database
5 24 (2.43%) NoSQL
6 20 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (1.83%) Big Data
7 18 (1.83%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.62%) Tableau
9 15 (1.52%) MySQL
10 12 (1.22%) RDBMS
11 11 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.71%) Hadoop
15 6 (0.61%) Apache Arrow
15 6 (0.61%) Apache Ignite
15 6 (0.61%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 50 (5.07%) Git
2 44 (4.46%) JIRA
3 25 (2.54%) JUnit
4 24 (2.43%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.83%) 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%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.51%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.41%) Axure RP
10 4 (0.41%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.41%) Pylint
10 4 (0.41%) RStudio
10 4 (0.41%) Selenium
10 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.30%) Appium
11 3 (0.30%) NeoLoad
General
1 346 (35.09%) Social Skills
2 260 (26.37%) Finance
3 146 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (12.07%) Public Sector
5 70 (7.10%) Banking
6 49 (4.97%) Front Office
7 43 (4.36%) Telecoms
8 37 (3.75%) Back Office
9 36 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (2.54%) Marketing
12 24 (2.43%) Law
13 22 (2.23%) Military
13 22 (2.23%) Retail
14 19 (1.93%) Legal
14 19 (1.93%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.42%) Games
17 13 (1.32%) Local Government
18 10 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 168 (17.04%) Senior
2 149 (15.11%) Developer
3 145 (14.71%) Lead
4 106 (10.75%) Analyst
5 95 (9.63%) Architect
6 48 (4.87%) Java Developer
7 45 (4.56%) Consultant
8 39 (3.96%) Software Engineer
9 33 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
10 31 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
11 28 (2.84%) Project Manager
11 28 (2.84%) Senior Developer
12 27 (2.74%) Business Analyst
12 27 (2.74%) Lead Developer
13 26 (2.64%) DevOps Engineer
13 26 (2.64%) Network Engineer
14 23 (2.33%) Designer
15 22 (2.23%) Financial Analyst
16 21 (2.13%) Technical Leader
17 20 (2.03%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (6.19%) React
2 57 (5.78%) REST
3 43 (4.36%) Spring
4 38 (3.85%) Spring Boot
5 37 (3.75%) .NET
5 37 (3.75%) XML
6 30 (3.04%) Kafka
7 27 (2.74%) JPA
8 26 (2.64%) CSS
8 26 (2.64%) Hibernate
8 26 (2.64%) HTML
9 22 (2.23%) JSON
9 22 (2.23%) Web Services
10 21 (2.13%) AngularJS
11 18 (1.83%) Node.js
11 18 (1.83%) RESTful
12 11 (1.12%) Next.js
13 10 (1.01%) GraphQL
13 10 (1.01%) Redux
14 9 (0.91%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 76 (7.71%) Management Information System
2 57 (5.78%) Cyber Defence
2 57 (5.78%) Cyber Threat
3 47 (4.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 46 (4.67%) Derivative
5 43 (4.36%) Hedge funds
6 38 (3.85%) Data Centre
7 28 (2.84%) Product Ownership
8 27 (2.74%) Virtual Team
9 22 (2.23%) Public Cloud
10 17 (1.72%) CMDB
10 17 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.32%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.32%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.32%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.22%) PKI
15 11 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.58%) Windows
2 44 (4.46%) Linux
3 21 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.22%) Android
5 10 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.41%) Unix
8 4 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.10%) CentOS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (29.61%) Agile
2 220 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
3 195 (19.78%) Coaching
4 144 (14.60%) DevOps
5 109 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 103 (10.45%) Scrum
7 102 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
8 97 (9.84%) Software Engineering
9 92 (9.33%) CI/CD
10 80 (8.11%) Analytics
11 79 (8.01%) Roadmaps
11 79 (8.01%) Technical Leadership
12 76 (7.71%) Decision-Making
12 76 (7.71%) ITIL
13 68 (6.90%) SIEM
13 68 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 67 (6.80%) Computer Science
14 67 (6.80%) Service Management
15 66 (6.69%) Microservices
16 63 (6.39%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 147 (14.91%) Python
2 114 (11.56%) SQL
3 112 (11.36%) Java
4 100 (10.14%) C#
5 72 (7.30%) JavaScript
6 60 (6.09%) TypeScript
7 28 (2.84%) PowerShell
8 20 (2.03%) Scala
9 16 (1.62%) Bash
10 15 (1.52%) C++
11 12 (1.22%) C
11 12 (1.22%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.22%) Ruby
12 8 (0.81%) Perl
13 7 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.61%) Go
14 6 (0.61%) PHP
14 6 (0.61%) R
14 6 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 255 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 184 (18.66%) SC Cleared
3 133 (13.49%) Degree
4 89 (9.03%) DV Cleared
5 45 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (2.03%) CISSP
7 20 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.52%) CCIE
9 13 (1.32%) CCNP
10 12 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.12%) CISM
12 10 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.91%) CCNA
14 7 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.61%) CCIE Data Center
15 6 (0.61%) MCTS
16 5 (0.51%) MCITP
16 5 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
16 5 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.29%) QA
2 54 (5.48%) NIST
3 40 (4.06%) NIST 800
4 34 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.93%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.12%) SLA
8 7 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.71%) GDPR
8 7 (0.71%) GRC
8 7 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.61%) PMO
10 5 (0.51%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.51%) NCSC
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.10%) HAZOP
12 1 (0.10%) IASME
12 1 (0.10%) IFRS
12 1 (0.10%) NEBOSH
12 1 (0.10%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (4.87%) Docker
2 30 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.41%) vCloud
5 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.41%) vSphere
6 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.20%) NFS
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.10%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.10%) iptables
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.10%) XenApp
8 1 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 47 (4.77%) Terraform
3 28 (2.84%) Ansible
4 9 (0.91%) Grafana
5 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.51%) CA Service Virtualization
6 5 (0.51%) Nessus
6 5 (0.51%) SCCM
6 5 (0.51%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.51%) WSUS
7 4 (0.41%) Kibana
7 4 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.41%) Puppet
7 4 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (0.41%) ZABBIX
8 3 (0.30%) logstash
8 3 (0.30%) NetBackup
8 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 150 (15.21%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.46%) Cisco
3 36 (3.65%) Oracle
4 30 (3.04%) ServiceNow
5 25 (2.54%) VMware
6 24 (2.43%) SAP
7 21 (2.13%) Palo Alto
8 20 (2.03%) Google
9 16 (1.62%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.52%) Juniper
11 14 (1.42%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.32%) Databricks
12 13 (1.32%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.91%) SolarWinds
14 8 (0.81%) Adobe
14 8 (0.81%) CA
14 8 (0.81%) CheckPoint
14 8 (0.81%) Informatica
15 7 (0.71%) IBM
15 7 (0.71%) Sparx