Mentoring Contracts in South Wales

Mentorship
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 33 45
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 21 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 8.64% 1.29% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.50% 1.65% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 7
10th Percentile £303 £150 £359
25th Percentile £305 £176 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £405 £521
Median % change year-on-year -18.23% -22.30% -0.71%
75th Percentile £385 £715 £669
90th Percentile £468 £886 £800
Wales median daily rate £328 £405 £511
% change year-on-year -18.99% -20.69% -2.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 221 243 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.95% 78.39% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 169 339
10th Percentile £185 £143 £198
25th Percentile £291 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £507 £575 £586
90th Percentile £639 £678 £650
Wales median daily rate £405 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -19.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 23
10th Percentile £14.72 £11.12 £16.37
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.37 £22.50 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% +24.04% -23.62%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.38 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.80 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £19.82 £18.14
% change year-on-year +13.52% +9.26% -23.62%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in South Wales

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in South Wales

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in South Wales over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in South Wales

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in South Wales

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 17 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
Cardiff +24 20 £322 -60.30% 64
Gwent - 1 £540 - 5
Mentoring
Wales

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (4.76%) Confluence
1 1 (4.76%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) dbt
1 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
1 1 (4.76%) GCP
1 1 (4.76%) IaaS
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
1 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
1 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
1 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Selenium
1 3 (14.29%) SpecFlow
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (23.81%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Welsh Language
3 3 (14.29%) Multimedia
3 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Finance
5 1 (4.76%) Automotive
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Lead
2 7 (33.33%) Designer
3 6 (28.57%) Lead Designer
4 5 (23.81%) Interaction Designer
5 4 (19.05%) Senior
5 4 (19.05%) Software Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Test Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (9.52%) Lead Test Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Service Designer
8 1 (4.76%) Consultant
8 1 (4.76%) Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Lead Service Designer
8 1 (4.76%) Programme Manager
8 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) CSS
2 5 (23.81%) Node.js
3 4 (19.05%) React
4 3 (14.29%) HTML
5 2 (9.52%) Blazor
5 2 (9.52%) GWT
5 2 (9.52%) Jest
5 2 (9.52%) Puppeteer
6 1 (4.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) NHS
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (4.76%) IoT
2 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
2 12 (57.14%) Coaching
3 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (28.57%) User Experience
5 5 (23.81%) Interaction Design
5 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
5 5 (23.81%) TDD
6 4 (19.05%) Business Case
6 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
6 4 (19.05%) DevOps
7 3 (14.29%) Change Management
7 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (14.29%) Open Source
7 3 (14.29%) Product Management
7 3 (14.29%) Product Requirements
7 3 (14.29%) Service Design
7 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
7 3 (14.29%) Test Strategy
8 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
2 3 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) Go
3 1 (4.76%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) Degree
2 10 (47.62%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) CREST Certified
3 1 (4.76%) OSCE
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker