Mentoring Contracts in the North West

Mentorship
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 42 66
Rank change year-on-year -14 +24 -4
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 73 104 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.74% 3.88% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 4.52% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 79 70
10th Percentile £381 £325 £361
25th Percentile £417 £429 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -10.36% +7.32%
75th Percentile £528 £534 £600
90th Percentile £644 £611 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £23.86 £25.80 £15.73
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.32
Median hourly rate £53.63 £27.00 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +98.63% -3.50% -56.95%
75th Percentile £84.75 £54.75 £55.69
90th Percentile £87.15 £71.40 £72.32
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
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 1,760 2,300 2,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.26% 85.88% 90.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,462 1,980
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £391 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £662 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 250 140
10th Percentile £16.13 £10.95 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.11 £13.50 £23.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.80 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +36.55% -35.06% +52.07%
75th Percentile £63.30 £46.11 £49.52
90th Percentile £84.88 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £29.02 £37.18 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.95% -0.85% +50.00%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in the North West

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mentoring in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Mentoring in the North West

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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 12 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
Manchester -2 41 £448 -14.56% 358
Cheshire +12 22 £475 - 66
Lancashire +7 7 £425 -56.41% 182
Merseyside -1 1 £450 - 48
Cumbria -31 1 - - 8
Mentoring
England

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (6.85%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.74%) CICS
2 2 (2.74%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.37%) CMS
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.37%) SAS
3 1 (1.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (6.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.37%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.44%) AWS
2 11 (15.07%) Serverless
3 10 (13.70%) Azure
4 8 (10.96%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (6.85%) OneDrive
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.11%) GitHub
7 3 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.11%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.37%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.37%) dbt
9 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) LAN
1 5 (6.85%) VPN
2 3 (4.11%) Ethernet
2 3 (4.11%) HTTPS
2 3 (4.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.37%) DNS
3 1 (1.37%) Firewall
3 1 (1.37%) Intranet
3 1 (1.37%) tcpdump
3 1 (1.37%) VoIP
3 1 (1.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.07%) MongoDB
2 10 (13.70%) NoSQL
3 8 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (9.59%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (9.59%) RDBMS
4 7 (9.59%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.48%) MySQL
6 3 (4.11%) Big Data
6 3 (4.11%) Hadoop
6 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.74%) DB2
7 2 (2.74%) DocumentDB
7 2 (2.74%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.37%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.37%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.37%) Power BI
8 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.85%) GitLab
1 5 (6.85%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.48%) JIRA
3 3 (4.11%) Git
3 3 (4.11%) Selenium
4 2 (2.74%) JUnit
4 2 (2.74%) SOAtest
5 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.37%) Maven
5 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.37%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (42.47%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.29%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.96%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.59%) Finance
5 6 (8.22%) Banking
5 6 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.85%) Automotive
6 5 (6.85%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.85%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.85%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.74%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.74%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Local Government
8 1 (1.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (16.44%) Architect
2 10 (13.70%) Senior
3 8 (10.96%) Developer
4 7 (9.59%) DBA
4 7 (9.59%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (8.22%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Lead
5 6 (8.22%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 5 (6.85%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Desktop Support
6 5 (6.85%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Security Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Administrator
8 3 (4.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.92%) Kafka
2 9 (12.33%) JSON
2 9 (12.33%) XML
3 5 (6.85%) Node.js
3 5 (6.85%) React
4 4 (5.48%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.11%) AWS CDK
5 3 (4.11%) JDBC
5 3 (4.11%) OAuth
5 3 (4.11%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.11%) OpenID
5 3 (4.11%) SOAP
6 2 (2.74%) .NET
6 2 (2.74%) Android SDK
6 2 (2.74%) HTML
6 2 (2.74%) J2EE
6 2 (2.74%) SAP PI
6 2 (2.74%) Spring
6 2 (2.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Management Information System
2 6 (8.22%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.11%) PKI
3 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.11%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.74%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.74%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.74%) VSAM
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.37%) IoT
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.37%) MISP
5 1 (1.37%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.22%) Windows
2 5 (6.85%) Windows 10
2 5 (6.85%) Windows 8
2 5 (6.85%) Windows Server
2 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2016
2 5 (6.85%) Windows XP
3 2 (2.74%) Android
3 2 (2.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.88%) Agile
2 20 (27.40%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (20.55%) CI/CD
4 14 (19.18%) Coaching
4 14 (19.18%) DevOps
5 13 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (16.44%) Software Engineering
6 12 (16.44%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (13.70%) Performance Optimisation
8 9 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (9.59%) Cloud Security
9 7 (9.59%) Database Security
9 7 (9.59%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (9.59%) Microservices
9 7 (9.59%) Project Delivery
9 7 (9.59%) Scrum
10 6 (8.22%) Asset Management
10 6 (8.22%) Data Loss Prevention
10 6 (8.22%) ITIL
10 6 (8.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.55%) Java
2 8 (10.96%) Python
3 7 (9.59%) JavaScript
3 7 (9.59%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.48%) SQL
5 3 (4.11%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.74%) COBOL
6 2 (2.74%) JCL
6 2 (2.74%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.74%) REXX
7 1 (1.37%) Bash
7 1 (1.37%) Bicep
7 1 (1.37%) Scala
7 1 (1.37%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 10 (13.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (12.33%) Degree
3 8 (10.96%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.37%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.37%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.37%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.96%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.85%) GDPR
2 5 (6.85%) QA
3 3 (4.11%) AUTOSAR
4 2 (2.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (12.33%) Docker
2 6 (8.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (8.22%) Terraform
2 5 (6.85%) SCCM
3 3 (4.11%) Ansible
3 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.11%) Progress Chef
3 3 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.37%) Grafana
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.37%) Nessus
4 1 (1.37%) OpenVAS
4 1 (1.37%) QRadar
Vendors
1 13 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.70%) Oracle
3 5 (6.85%) Canon
4 3 (4.11%) ForgeRock
4 3 (4.11%) Ping Identity
5 2 (2.74%) Ab Initio
5 2 (2.74%) Informatica
5 2 (2.74%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.74%) Parasoft
5 2 (2.74%) SAP
6 1 (1.37%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.37%) Carbon Black
6 1 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.37%) IBM
6 1 (1.37%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.37%) Qualys
6 1 (1.37%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.37%) Splunk
6 1 (1.37%) Virgin Media