Mentoring Contracts in the Thames Valley

Mentorship
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 72 104 72
Rank change year-on-year +32 -32 +18
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 30 41 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.99% 1.53% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.75% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 30 52
10th Percentile £185 £348 £462
25th Percentile £363 £400 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £450 £561
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% -19.82% +7.93%
75th Percentile £600 £584 £650
90th Percentile £669 £601 £725
South East median daily rate £493 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -6.19% -8.70% +8.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £26.73 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -55.45% +71.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Berkshire +18 16 £465 +16.13% 213
Buckinghamshire +15 7 £190 -68.33% 154
Oxfordshire +8 7 £625 +35.14% 111
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 (3.33%) Anypoint
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.33%) SAP CO
1 1 (3.33%) SAP FI
1 1 (3.33%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (3.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) BGP
1 1 (3.33%) Broadband
1 1 (3.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) IPv6
1 1 (3.33%) LAN
1 1 (3.33%) MPLS
1 1 (3.33%) OSPF
1 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.33%) SSL
1 1 (3.33%) VPN
1 1 (3.33%) WAN
1 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.67%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Back Office
5 1 (3.33%) Police
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Lead
2 5 (16.67%) Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Team Leader
5 2 (6.67%) Administrator
5 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Data Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) PMO Administrator
5 2 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Service Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Computer Operations Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft Developer
6 1 (3.33%) PMO Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.33%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) ADO
2 1 (3.33%) OAuth
2 1 (3.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) SOAP
2 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) EPoS
2 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (6.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (20.00%) Project Management
3 6 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 5 (16.67%) Agile
4 5 (16.67%) Analytics
4 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (16.67%) ITIL
4 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 5 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (13.33%) DevSecOps
5 4 (13.33%) Incident Management
5 4 (13.33%) Incident Response
5 4 (13.33%) Inventory Management
5 4 (13.33%) Migration
5 4 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (3.33%) DataWeave
2 1 (3.33%) Java
2 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Degree
2 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) PMI Certification
3 3 (10.00%) PMP
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.33%) ACCA
5 1 (3.33%) CCIE
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) PMO
2 2 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) NIST
2 2 (6.67%) SLA
3 1 (3.33%) COBIT
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) SCCM
1 2 (6.67%) SCOM
2 1 (3.33%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Cisco
2 2 (6.67%) Databricks
2 2 (6.67%) Google
2 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) SAP