Mentoring Contract Job Trends in the North West

Mentorship
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Mentoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 34 71
Rank change year-on-year -14 +37 +4
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 109 108 68
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.34% 5.01% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 5.79% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 49 44
10th Percentile £316 - £357
25th Percentile £381 £294 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £535
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -25.16% +6.90%
75th Percentile £575 £458 £652
90th Percentile £650 £638 £750
England median daily rate £537 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.65% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 5
10th Percentile £41.94 £23.99 £33.10
25th Percentile £44.58 £24.76 £52.00
Median hourly rate £58.75 £45.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% -37.93% +107.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £72.25 £66.90 £81.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £47.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +42.11% -15.91% -13.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,217 1,865 2,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.33% 86.58% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,445 1,047 1,599
10th Percentile £213 £265 £300
25th Percentile £358 £389 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £565 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 106 156
10th Percentile £16.43 £16.00 £15.88
25th Percentile £20.73 £21.10 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.75 £31.25 £35.73
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -12.53% +34.66%
75th Percentile £53.13 £51.91 £47.41
90th Percentile £69.72 £68.96 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mentoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Mentoring job vacancy trend in the North West

Mentoring
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Mentoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the North West over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the North West

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Mentoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mentoring in the North West over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Mentoring in the North West

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Manchester -20 64 £475 +31.03% 114
Cheshire -5 19 £449 -28.24% 31
Cumbria - 11 £450 - 8
Lancashire -9 8 £424 +3.55% 67
Merseyside -12 5 £330 - 24
Mentoring
England

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.75%) Confluence
2 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.92%) JBoss
3 1 (0.92%) Mule
3 1 (0.92%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.92%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (9.17%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (9.17%) Teamcenter
2 4 (3.67%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (2.75%) Kondor
4 1 (0.92%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.92%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.92%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.92%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (31.19%) AWS
2 26 (23.85%) Azure
3 18 (16.51%) Serverless
4 13 (11.93%) GCP
5 12 (11.01%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (11.01%) GitHub
6 9 (8.26%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (7.34%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (7.34%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.34%) SaaS
8 7 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (6.42%) Amazon EventBridge
8 7 (6.42%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (5.50%) Datadog
10 5 (4.59%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (4.59%) Apigee
10 5 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.42%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.59%) DNS
2 5 (4.59%) Firewall
3 2 (1.83%) DHCP
3 2 (1.83%) iSCSI
3 2 (1.83%) NetScaler
3 2 (1.83%) SAN
3 2 (1.83%) VLAN
4 1 (0.92%) DWDM
4 1 (0.92%) LAN
4 1 (0.92%) Network Security
4 1 (0.92%) SSL
4 1 (0.92%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.92%) VPN
4 1 (0.92%) WAN
4 1 (0.92%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.84%) NoSQL
2 11 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.17%) MongoDB
4 9 (8.26%) RDBMS
4 9 (8.26%) Relational Database
5 8 (7.34%) DynamoDB
6 7 (6.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (5.50%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (4.59%) MySQL
8 5 (4.59%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (4.59%) Redis
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.75%) Power BI
10 2 (1.83%) Big Data
10 2 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.83%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.92%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (10.09%) Git
2 9 (8.26%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.34%) JIRA
4 6 (5.50%) Gradle
5 5 (4.59%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.67%) Maven
6 4 (3.67%) SonarLint
7 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.83%) GitLab
7 2 (1.83%) JUnit
7 2 (1.83%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.92%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.92%) CocoaPods
8 1 (0.92%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.92%) fastlane
8 1 (0.92%) Mockito
8 1 (0.92%) Selenium
8 1 (0.92%) SpecFlow
General
1 35 (32.11%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (15.60%) Finance
3 17 (15.60%) Manufacturing
4 16 (14.68%) Public Sector
5 11 (10.09%) Aerospace
6 10 (9.17%) Banking
7 6 (5.50%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.67%) Electronics
9 4 (3.67%) Law
10 3 (2.75%) Military
11 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.92%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.92%) Retail
11 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (21.10%) Architect
2 22 (20.18%) Lead
3 15 (13.76%) Senior
4 10 (9.17%) Software Engineer
5 9 (8.26%) Developer
6 8 (7.34%) Analyst
7 7 (6.42%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.50%) Java Architect
8 6 (5.50%) Java Technical Architect
9 5 (4.59%) DBA
9 5 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.59%) Technical Leader
10 4 (3.67%) Backend Developer
10 4 (3.67%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.67%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 3 (2.75%) Data Engineer
11 3 (2.75%) Lead DevOps
11 3 (2.75%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.68%) Spring Boot
2 12 (11.01%) Spring
3 11 (10.09%) Kafka
4 8 (7.34%) RESTful
5 7 (6.42%) JSON
6 6 (5.50%) LangChain
6 6 (5.50%) OAuth
6 6 (5.50%) XML
7 5 (4.59%) .NET
7 5 (4.59%) J2EE
7 5 (4.59%) JWT
8 4 (3.67%) Dropwizard
8 4 (3.67%) Micronaut
8 4 (3.67%) OAuth2
8 4 (3.67%) Playwright
8 4 (3.67%) pytest
9 3 (2.75%) Celery
9 3 (2.75%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.75%) HTML
9 3 (2.75%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.17%) Analytical Mindset
1 10 (9.17%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.34%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.59%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.59%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.67%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.67%) N-Tier
5 3 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.75%) SCADA
5 3 (2.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.83%) Clustering
6 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.83%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.83%) PKI
6 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.83%) Replication
7 1 (0.92%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.50%) Windows
1 6 (5.50%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.75%) Unix
3 2 (1.83%) Linux
3 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.92%) Android
4 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.94%) Agile
2 27 (24.77%) Coaching
3 25 (22.94%) CI/CD
3 25 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (21.10%) DevOps
5 22 (20.18%) Microservices
6 20 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (13.76%) AI
8 15 (13.76%) Test Automation
9 14 (12.84%) Data Modelling
9 14 (12.84%) TDD
10 13 (11.93%) Design Patterns
10 13 (11.93%) Knowledge Transfer
10 13 (11.93%) Roadmaps
10 13 (11.93%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (11.93%) Use Case
11 12 (11.01%) Clean Code
11 12 (11.01%) Containerisation
11 12 (11.01%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.18%) Java
2 13 (11.93%) Python
3 11 (10.09%) SQL
4 5 (4.59%) Kotlin
5 4 (3.67%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.75%) C#
7 1 (0.92%) Bash
7 1 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.92%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.92%) PHP
7 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.92%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (31.19%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.10%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.26%) Degree
4 5 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.59%) CISSP
5 4 (3.67%) CISM
6 3 (2.75%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.75%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.83%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.92%) ACCA
8 1 (0.92%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.92%) CIMA
8 1 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.92%) GIAC
8 1 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) QA
2 5 (4.59%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.67%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.67%) ISO 20022
3 4 (3.67%) NIST
4 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.75%) NCSC
5 2 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.92%) GAAP
6 1 (0.92%) GDPR
6 1 (0.92%) IEC 61131
6 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.92%) SOC 1
System Software
1 21 (19.27%) Docker
2 6 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (16.51%) Terraform
2 12 (11.01%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.67%) Ansible
4 3 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.83%) Control-M
5 2 (1.83%) Grafana
5 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.83%) SCCM
6 1 (0.92%) MOM
6 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.92%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 10 (9.17%) Siemens
2 8 (7.34%) Google
2 8 (7.34%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.34%) Oracle
3 5 (4.59%) Gigya
3 5 (4.59%) SAP
4 4 (3.67%) Veeam
4 4 (3.67%) VMware
5 3 (2.75%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.75%) F5
6 2 (1.83%) Cisco
6 2 (1.83%) Dell
6 2 (1.83%) NetApp
6 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.83%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.83%) Wonderware
7 1 (0.92%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.92%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.92%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.92%) Palo Alto