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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 72 87
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 +10
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Mentoring 42 49 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.52% 2.18% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.57% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 33 36
10th Percentile £185 £363 £361
25th Percentile £288 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.45% +6.80%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £591
90th Percentile £652 £638 £684
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
South East median hourly rate £76.50 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +33.04% +9.52% +387.47%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,529 1,906 2,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.67% 84.64% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,084 1,706
10th Percentile £300 £269 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 102 87
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.70 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.12 £23.37 £24.50
Median hourly rate £24.58 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.26% +15.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £67.38 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.61 £74.87
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +80.31%

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

Mentoring
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Mentoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the Thames Valley

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Mentoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Mentoring

Mentoring
DemandTrendContract 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 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +21 31 £600 +11.11% 179
Buckinghamshire -8 7 £190 -63.20% 52
Oxfordshire -8 4 £250 -35.48% 54
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 2 (4.76%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) CMS
2 1 (2.38%) SAS
2 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.38%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.38%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.38%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.38%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (2.38%) SAP PM
2 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.38%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 14 (33.33%) Azure
2 9 (21.43%) AWS
3 6 (14.29%) GCP
4 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.14%) Serverless
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.76%) OCI
6 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub
7 1 (2.38%) SaaS
7 1 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) Network Security
2 3 (7.14%) Firewall
3 2 (4.76%) DNS
3 2 (4.76%) HTTP
3 2 (4.76%) SAN
3 2 (4.76%) SSL
3 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.38%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.38%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.38%) LAN
4 1 (2.38%) WAN
4 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.38%) Data Vault
2 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (2.38%) MySQL
2 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.38%) Power BI
2 1 (2.38%) Power Query
2 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.38%) Sisense
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Git
1 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 21 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Finance
4 3 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.76%) French Language
5 2 (4.76%) Legal
5 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.38%) Automotive
6 1 (2.38%) Back Office
6 1 (2.38%) German Language
6 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Italian Language
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
6 1 (2.38%) Police
6 1 (2.38%) Retail
6 1 (2.38%) Spanish Language
6 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Lead
2 8 (19.05%) Architect
3 5 (11.90%) Analyst
3 5 (11.90%) Support Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Consultant
4 3 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 3 (7.14%) Team Leader
4 3 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Technical Support
4 3 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Administrator
5 2 (4.76%) Backup Administrator
5 2 (4.76%) Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Senior
5 2 (4.76%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Storage Administrator
5 2 (4.76%) Storage and Backup Administrator
6 1 (2.38%) IT Manager
6 1 (2.38%) Release Manager
6 1 (2.38%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) .NET
1 3 (7.14%) OAuth
2 2 (4.76%) .NET Framework
2 2 (4.76%) OAuth2
2 2 (4.76%) React
2 2 (4.76%) REST
2 2 (4.76%) RESTful
2 2 (4.76%) SOAP
2 2 (4.76%) Web Services
3 1 (2.38%) CSS
3 1 (2.38%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.38%) HTML
3 1 (2.38%) Kafka
3 1 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.38%) MDX
3 1 (2.38%) Node.js
3 1 (2.38%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Security Posture
2 5 (11.90%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.90%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (9.52%) EPoS
4 3 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.38%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.38%) IoT
6 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Linux
2 6 (14.29%) Windows
3 3 (7.14%) Unix
3 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (26.19%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (26.19%) SIEM
3 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 9 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 7 (16.67%) DevOps
5 7 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 6 (14.29%) Agile
6 6 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 6 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 6 (14.29%) Security Operations
6 6 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 6 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (11.90%) Analytics
7 5 (11.90%) Coaching
7 5 (11.90%) Data Privacy
7 5 (11.90%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (11.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
1 5 (11.90%) Python
2 4 (9.52%) SQL
3 3 (7.14%) Bash
3 3 (7.14%) Search Processing Language
4 2 (4.76%) C#
4 2 (4.76%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.38%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.67%) Degree
3 6 (14.29%) CISSP
4 5 (11.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
5 3 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 3 (7.14%) CCSP
5 3 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (7.14%) GCIA
6 2 (4.76%) CFCE
6 2 (4.76%) GCFA
6 2 (4.76%) GCIH
7 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.38%) GCED
7 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.38%) SANS
7 1 (2.38%) VCP5
7 1 (2.38%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (14.29%) GDPR
2 6 (14.29%) NIST
3 4 (9.52%) HIPAA
4 3 (7.14%) PCI DSS
4 3 (7.14%) PSD2
4 3 (7.14%) SOC 2
5 2 (4.76%) ISO 9001
6 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
6 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
6 1 (2.38%) GRC
6 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.38%) NFS
3 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Terraform
2 3 (7.14%) Ansible
2 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.76%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (2.38%) QRadar
4 1 (2.38%) SCCM
4 1 (2.38%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.67%) Splunk
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle
4 3 (7.14%) NetApp
4 3 (7.14%) SAP
4 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.76%) 3PAR
5 2 (4.76%) ArcSight
5 2 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (4.76%) HP
5 2 (4.76%) LogRhythm
5 2 (4.76%) Nimble Storage
5 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.76%) Veritas
6 1 (2.38%) BMC
6 1 (2.38%) Intel
6 1 (2.38%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (2.38%) Progress
6 1 (2.38%) Remedy
6 1 (2.38%) Salesforce