Mentoring Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Mentorship
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Mentoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 -14 +24
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 3 6 19
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.41% 4.62% 11.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 4.96% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £295
25th Percentile £378 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £150 £600
Median % change year-on-year +156.67% -75.00% -
75th Percentile £393 - £688
90th Percentile - - £700
UK median daily rate £537 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -0.56% -1.82% -5.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 172 121 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 80.75% 93.08% 78.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 68 71
10th Percentile £334 £148 £206
25th Percentile £400 £225 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £340 £500
Median % change year-on-year +36.03% -32.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £625
90th Percentile £625 £579 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 22
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £14.29 £24.18 £12.25
Median hourly rate £28.22 £35.25 £13.47
Median % change year-on-year -19.94% +161.79% -13.13%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.50 £21.65
90th Percentile - £78.47 £31.04
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Mentoring
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Mentoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Mentoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. 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
County Antrim -6 1 - - 16
County Armagh - 1 £385 - 1
Mentoring
UK

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) NFC
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) SNA
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) WLAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Contactless
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) EMV
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet