Mentoring Contracts in the Thames Valley

Mentorship
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Mentoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mentoring over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 70 90
Rank change year-on-year -29 +20 -1
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 38 80 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.45% 2.85% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 3.12% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 46 48
10th Percentile £340 £406 £360
25th Percentile - £510 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £555 £511
Median % change year-on-year -27.93% +8.56% +5.09%
75th Percentile £528 £650 £588
90th Percentile £600 £731 £604
South East median daily rate £540 £578 £511
% change year-on-year -6.57% +13.06% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.41 £75.25 -
Median hourly rate £30.83 £75.50 £10.77
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +601.02% +19.67%
75th Percentile £31.24 £75.75 -
90th Percentile - - £36.11
South East median hourly rate £50.41 £60.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.98% +71.43% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Mentoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,283 2,565 3,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.94% 91.31% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,279 1,780 2,115
10th Percentile £213 £318 £226
25th Percentile £366 £413 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year - +2.99% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 62 88
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.38 £11.91
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.21
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +197.79% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.29 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £60.41
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -3.06% +127.90% -21.82%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Berkshire -33 29 £400 -33.33% 62
Buckinghamshire +14 7 £545 -0.91% 31
Oxfordshire +5 2 £388 -15.30% 33
Mentoring
South East

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.53%) AWS
1 4 (10.53%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.63%) PaaS
3 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) SAN
2 5 (13.16%) DHCP
2 5 (13.16%) DNS
3 4 (10.53%) NAS
4 1 (2.63%) Firewall
4 1 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.63%) Network Security
4 1 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (10.53%) MySQL
2 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.89%) Power BI
4 1 (2.63%) Big Data
4 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) JIRA
2 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.63%) Maven
4 1 (2.63%) MSI
4 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (21.05%) Finance
2 7 (18.42%) Telecoms
3 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Architect
2 5 (13.16%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (13.16%) Support Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Analyst
4 3 (7.89%) Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Lead
5 2 (5.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Backup Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Java Scrum Master
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Scrum Master
5 2 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) .NET
1 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.63%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Fat Client
1 4 (10.53%) PKI
1 4 (10.53%) Thin Client
2 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.26%) Life Science
3 2 (5.26%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.26%) PMI
3 2 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) FMCG
4 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (31.58%) Windows
2 7 (18.42%) Linux
2 7 (18.42%) Windows Server 2019
3 6 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (10.53%) Ubuntu
5 3 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (7.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.63%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (28.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (26.32%) Coaching
4 7 (18.42%) ITIL
4 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (15.79%) Agile
5 6 (15.79%) Change Management
5 6 (15.79%) Project Management
5 6 (15.79%) Risk Management
5 6 (15.79%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (13.16%) IT Strategy
6 5 (13.16%) PRINCE2
6 5 (13.16%) Problem Management
6 5 (13.16%) Resource Allocation
6 5 (13.16%) Scrum
6 5 (13.16%) Service Delivery
7 4 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (10.53%) Information Security
7 4 (10.53%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.89%) C#
2 3 (7.89%) Java
2 3 (7.89%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.26%) Python
3 2 (5.26%) SQL
4 1 (2.63%) F#
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
1 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.26%) PgMP
3 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.63%) CEH
4 1 (2.63%) CISSP
4 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (26.32%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) P3O
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.63%) Docker
4 1 (2.63%) XenApp
4 1 (2.63%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Ansible
2 4 (10.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (10.53%) Nessus
2 4 (10.53%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (10.53%) vCenter Server
2 4 (10.53%) WSUS
2 4 (10.53%) ZABBIX
3 3 (7.89%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.05%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.53%) Oracle
3 4 (10.53%) Veeam
3 4 (10.53%) VMware
4 3 (7.89%) 3PAR
4 3 (7.89%) HP
4 3 (7.89%) NetApp
4 3 (7.89%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (7.89%) Veritas
5 2 (5.26%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.63%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco
6 1 (2.63%) Citrix
6 1 (2.63%) FireEye
6 1 (2.63%) Informatica
6 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.63%) Tanium