Mentoring Contracts in the South East

Mentorship
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 107 99 88
Rank change year-on-year -8 -11 +7
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 52 110 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.73% 1.98% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.33% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 73 101
10th Percentile £244 £352 £425
25th Percentile £363 £400 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -8.70% +8.54%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £650
90th Percentile £678 £805 £721
England median daily rate £530 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -3.64% -6.14% +1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £25.63 £57.00
25th Percentile - £26.05 £58.13
Median hourly rate - £26.73 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -55.45% +71.43%
75th Percentile - £48.37 £67.88
90th Percentile - £61.35 £72.60
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in the South East

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in the South East

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the South East

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in the South East

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the South East 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
Thames Valley +32 30 £452 +0.44% 153
Berkshire +18 16 £465 +16.13% 93
Hampshire -3 12 £500 -19.19% 105
Buckinghamshire +15 7 £190 -68.33% 33
Oxfordshire +8 7 £625 +35.14% 53
Surrey +13 6 £278 -49.55% 48
West Sussex +8 2 £700 +75.00% 22
Middlesex +9 1 £600 +84.46% 9
East Sussex -2 1 £650 -16.13% 22
Mentoring
England

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (1.92%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.92%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.92%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.92%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.92%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.15%) Azure
2 4 (7.69%) AWS
2 4 (7.69%) GCP
3 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.77%) SaaS
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (1.92%) Datadog
5 1 (1.92%) Figma
5 1 (1.92%) OCI
5 1 (1.92%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) BGP
1 1 (1.92%) Broadband
1 1 (1.92%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (1.92%) DHCP
1 1 (1.92%) DNS
1 1 (1.92%) Firewall
1 1 (1.92%) IPv6
1 1 (1.92%) LAN
1 1 (1.92%) MPLS
1 1 (1.92%) OSPF
1 1 (1.92%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.92%) SSL
1 1 (1.92%) VPN
1 1 (1.92%) WAN
1 1 (1.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.85%) Power BI
3 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) JIRA
2 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.77%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.92%) JMeter
3 1 (1.92%) JUnit
3 1 (1.92%) Selenium
3 1 (1.92%) TestRail
General
1 23 (44.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.69%) Finance
5 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Back Office
6 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Police
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Lead
2 8 (15.38%) Architect
3 7 (13.46%) Senior
4 6 (11.54%) Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Team Leader
6 3 (5.77%) Tester
7 2 (3.85%) Administrator
7 2 (3.85%) Data Manager
7 2 (3.85%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Programme Manager
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Tester
7 2 (3.85%) Service Manager
7 2 (3.85%) Support Specialist
7 2 (3.85%) Technical Specialist
7 2 (3.85%) Technical Support
7 2 (3.85%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) SOAP
2 3 (5.77%) XML
3 2 (3.85%) ADO
3 2 (3.85%) CSS
3 2 (3.85%) HTML
3 2 (3.85%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.92%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.92%) OAuth
4 1 (1.92%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.92%) REST
4 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) EPoS
1 4 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.85%) CMDB
3 2 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.85%) NHS
3 2 (3.85%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.85%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.92%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.92%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.92%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.92%) IoT
4 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Windows
2 3 (5.77%) Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (28.85%) Agile
3 12 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (19.23%) Project Management
5 9 (17.31%) Coaching
5 9 (17.31%) Computer Science
5 9 (17.31%) Service Delivery
6 8 (15.38%) Analytics
6 8 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (15.38%) ITIL
6 8 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 8 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (13.46%) Incident Response
7 7 (13.46%) Process Improvement
8 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
8 6 (11.54%) DevOps
8 6 (11.54%) ITSM
8 6 (11.54%) Risk Management
9 5 (9.62%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (9.62%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.62%) Python
2 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 4 (7.69%) SQL
3 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.85%) Apex Code
4 2 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.92%) C#
5 1 (1.92%) DataWeave
5 1 (1.92%) Java
5 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Degree
1 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.69%) PMI Certification
4 4 (7.69%) PMP
5 2 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.92%) ACCA
6 1 (1.92%) APMP
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.92%) CCIE
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) QA
2 4 (7.69%) PMO
3 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (3.85%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.85%) NIST
3 2 (3.85%) SLA
4 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.92%) COBIT
4 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.92%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) SCCM
1 2 (3.85%) SCOM
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) CloudHub
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Puppet
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.85%) ArcSight
3 2 (3.85%) Cisco
3 2 (3.85%) Databricks
3 2 (3.85%) Google
3 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.85%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.92%) LogRhythm
4 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle
4 1 (1.92%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.92%) SAP