Mentoring Contracts in Lancashire

Mentorship
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 22 30 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 7 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 4.00% 1.03% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 1.30% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £963 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £975 £550
Median % change year-on-year -56.41% +77.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £438 £988 £600
90th Percentile - - £648
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 0
Median hourly rate £24.76 - -
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
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 158 154 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 90.29% 78.97% 87.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 74 118
10th Percentile £400 £313 £339
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £538 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% +0.94% +11.52%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £630 £747 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 51 42
10th Percentile £14.62 - £22.31
25th Percentile £23.87 £16.06 £28.85
Median hourly rate £28.75 £19.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.90% -54.87% +7.59%
75th Percentile £43.94 £46.03 £49.52
90th Percentile £60.59 £48.00 £53.43
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 Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in Lancashire

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in Lancashire

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in Lancashire

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Lancashire 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
Burnley - 5 - - 2
Preston -2 2 £425 -56.41% 68
Mentoring
North West

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (71.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) LAN
1 5 (71.43%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) Intranet
General
1 7 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (71.43%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (71.43%) Manufacturing
3 5 (71.43%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 5 (71.43%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) 2nd Line Support
1 5 (71.43%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Desktop Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Desktop Support
1 5 (71.43%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows 10
1 5 (71.43%) Windows 8
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2012
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2016
1 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Asset Management
2 5 (71.43%) Business Case
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 5 (71.43%) ITIL
2 5 (71.43%) Proactive Maintenance
2 5 (71.43%) Project Delivery
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Analysis
2 5 (71.43%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Content Management
3 1 (14.29%) Copywriting
3 1 (14.29%) Information Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Canon