Mentoring Contracts in the Midlands

Mentorship
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 73 73 70
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 38 60 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.99% 2.18% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 2.65% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 39 76
10th Percentile £185 £399 £313
25th Percentile £393 £495 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £555 £694 £588
90th Percentile £601 £775 £644
England median daily rate £530 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -3.64% -6.14% +1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £18.00 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £44.55 -
90th Percentile - £48.25 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +31.25% -46.67% +114.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in the Midlands

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in the Midlands

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the Midlands

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in the Midlands

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Midlands 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
West Midlands -7 22 £525 -7.89% 183
East Midlands +8 15 £459 -6.13% 137
Mentoring
England

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (2.63%) SAS
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
3 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (7.89%) Serverless
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.26%) GCP
4 2 (5.26%) GitHub
4 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) Network Security
2 5 (13.16%) LAN
2 5 (13.16%) WAN
3 4 (10.53%) Firewall
4 3 (7.89%) SD-WAN
4 3 (7.89%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (5.26%) BGP
5 2 (5.26%) DHCP
5 2 (5.26%) DNS
5 2 (5.26%) EIGRP
5 2 (5.26%) OSPF
5 2 (5.26%) Unified Communications
5 2 (5.26%) VoIP
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.63%) Internet
6 1 (2.63%) Modbus
6 1 (2.63%) Profibus
6 1 (2.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.63%) Metadata
3 1 (2.63%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Git
1 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.53%) Finance
5 3 (7.89%) Retail
6 2 (5.26%) Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Automotive
7 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.63%) Legal
7 1 (2.63%) Local Government
7 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) Senior
2 6 (15.79%) Developer
2 6 (15.79%) Lead
3 5 (13.16%) Android Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Digital User Researcher
4 2 (5.26%) Network Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) Senior Network Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) Team Leader
4 2 (5.26%) User Researcher
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) Android Jetpack
1 5 (13.16%) Jetpack Compose
1 5 (13.16%) RESTful
2 2 (5.26%) Kafka
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.63%) .NET
3 1 (2.63%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.63%) Middleware
3 1 (2.63%) OAuth
3 1 (2.63%) OpenID
3 1 (2.63%) PySpark
3 1 (2.63%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) SAML
3 1 (2.63%) SOAP
3 1 (2.63%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.89%) EPoS
4 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Android
2 2 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Agile
2 14 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (28.95%) DevOps
4 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 10 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (21.05%) Computer Science
6 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (15.79%) Analytics
7 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (13.16%) Android Development
8 5 (13.16%) Data Analytics
8 5 (13.16%) Data Modelling
8 5 (13.16%) Scrum
8 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
8 5 (13.16%) Unit Testing
9 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (10.53%) Data Security
9 4 (10.53%) ETL
9 4 (10.53%) Project Management
9 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) Python
2 5 (13.16%) Kotlin
2 5 (13.16%) SQL
3 4 (10.53%) Java
4 2 (5.26%) Scala
5 1 (2.63%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.63%) Bash
5 1 (2.63%) C#
5 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.63%) Perl
5 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Degree
2 6 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.26%) CCNP
3 2 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) CCIE
4 1 (2.63%) CEH
4 1 (2.63%) CISA
4 1 (2.63%) CISM
4 1 (2.63%) CISSP
4 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.63%) OCP
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.26%) GDPR
3 2 (5.26%) NIST
3 2 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (2.63%) NCSC
4 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Ansible
2 2 (5.26%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.63%) Grafana
3 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.63%) SCOM
3 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Cisco
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle
3 2 (5.26%) Aruba
3 2 (5.26%) Juniper
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.26%) Mitel
4 1 (2.63%) Databricks
4 1 (2.63%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.63%) Meraki
4 1 (2.63%) Rockwell
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) Siemens
4 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.63%) VMware
4 1 (2.63%) Wonderware
4 1 (2.63%) Zscaler