Mentoring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Mentorship
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 90 82
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 +3
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 526 664 919
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.56% 2.78% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 3.10% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 482 653
10th Percentile £352 £369 £356
25th Percentile £425 £463 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £505
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.91% +1.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £575
90th Percentile £775 £692 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 26 42
10th Percentile £15.17 £29.25 £10.79
25th Percentile £18.84 £60.69 £16.56
Median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% +114.29% +2.94%
75th Percentile £57.33 £83.31 £55.32
90th Percentile £66.88 £85.00 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -46.67% +82.93% +2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,415 21,396 27,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.54% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,848 19,199
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,314 1,359
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.17
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.63 £14.04
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.21
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mentoring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
North of England +50 182 £500 -9.09% 404
North West +29 108 £493 -10.36% 218
South East -5 108 £525 -8.70% 279
South West +25 102 £600 +1.95% 181
Yorkshire +48 72 £550 +2.33% 142
Midlands -2 64 £538 +13.26% 250
Scotland -10 52 £488 -7.14% 102
West Midlands -2 42 £570 +18.75% 157
East Midlands +5 22 £406 -10.33% 92
East of England -13 22 £483 -7.21% 149
Northern Ireland +18 16 £600 +50.00% 38
Wales +9 6 £200 -61.63% 47
North East +14 2 £550 -1.12% 48
Isle of Man - 2 - - 1
Mentoring
UK

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (1.90%) Confluence
2 7 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.57%) IIS
4 2 (0.38%) Drupal
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.38%) nginx
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.19%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.38%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.38%) Lectora
Business Applications
1 7 (1.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.38%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.38%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.38%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.38%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.38%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 66 (12.55%) Azure
2 62 (11.79%) AWS
3 37 (7.03%) Serverless
4 23 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (4.37%) Power Platform
5 17 (3.23%) Amazon S3
6 15 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.28%) OpenShift
8 11 (2.09%) IaaS
8 11 (2.09%) PaaS
9 9 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (1.71%) GCP
9 9 (1.71%) SaaS
10 6 (1.14%) Azure Functions
10 6 (1.14%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.14%) GitHub
11 5 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.76%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.60%) Firewall
2 25 (4.75%) Network Security
3 23 (4.37%) DNS
4 19 (3.61%) WAN
5 14 (2.66%) VPN
6 13 (2.47%) LAN
6 13 (2.47%) SAN
7 11 (2.09%) DHCP
8 9 (1.71%) BGP
8 9 (1.71%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (1.71%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (1.71%) Cisco ISE
8 9 (1.71%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.71%) Wireless
9 8 (1.52%) VoIP
10 7 (1.33%) WLAN
11 6 (1.14%) Internet
11 6 (1.14%) MPLS
11 6 (1.14%) OSPF
11 6 (1.14%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (5.51%) SQL Server
3 28 (5.32%) Relational Database
4 21 (3.99%) MongoDB
5 17 (3.23%) NoSQL
6 16 (3.04%) Power BI
7 13 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
9 11 (2.09%) RDBMS
10 10 (1.90%) MySQL
11 8 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.14%) Tableau
13 5 (0.95%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.76%) Big Data
14 4 (0.76%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (0.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (4.94%) JIRA
2 24 (4.56%) Git
3 15 (2.85%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.66%) JUnit
5 10 (1.90%) GitLab
6 6 (1.14%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.76%) Maven
7 4 (0.76%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.57%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.57%) Gradle
9 2 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.38%) Selenium
9 2 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.38%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.19%) Hudson
10 1 (0.19%) MSI
10 1 (0.19%) Subversion
10 1 (0.19%) XCUITest
General
1 189 (35.93%) Social Skills
2 104 (19.77%) Public Sector
3 85 (16.16%) Finance
4 82 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (6.27%) Telecoms
6 21 (3.99%) Military
7 18 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.47%) Banking
9 12 (2.28%) Legal
10 11 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.33%) Law
12 7 (1.33%) Publishing
13 6 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.76%) French Language
15 3 (0.57%) Automotive
15 3 (0.57%) Electronics
15 3 (0.57%) Marketing
15 3 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (13.12%) Lead
2 62 (11.79%) Developer
2 62 (11.79%) Senior
3 50 (9.51%) Architect
4 49 (9.32%) Analyst
5 27 (5.13%) Consultant
6 23 (4.37%) Java Developer
7 19 (3.61%) Network Engineer
8 18 (3.42%) Project Manager
8 18 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (3.04%) DBA
10 15 (2.85%) Software Engineer
11 14 (2.66%) Capacity Manager
11 14 (2.66%) Lead Developer
11 14 (2.66%) Problem Manager
11 14 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (2.47%) Cyber Defence Analyst
12 13 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (2.28%) Availability Manager
13 12 (2.28%) Capacity and Availability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (7.22%) React
2 25 (4.75%) REST
3 19 (3.61%) Spring
4 18 (3.42%) Spring Boot
5 17 (3.23%) CSS
6 16 (3.04%) JSON
7 15 (2.85%) HTML
8 14 (2.66%) XML
9 13 (2.47%) AWS CDK
9 13 (2.47%) JPA
9 13 (2.47%) Kafka
10 12 (2.28%) Hibernate
11 10 (1.90%) RESTful
12 9 (1.71%) .NET
12 9 (1.71%) AngularJS
12 9 (1.71%) Node.js
13 8 (1.52%) Web Services
14 5 (0.95%) OpenAPI
14 5 (0.95%) RAML
14 5 (0.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 72 (13.69%) Management Information System
2 53 (10.08%) Cyber Defence
2 53 (10.08%) Cyber Threat
3 45 (8.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 23 (4.37%) Virtual Team
5 21 (3.99%) Data Centre
6 19 (3.61%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.28%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (1.90%) CMDB
8 10 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.71%) Operational Technology
9 9 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
9 9 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.33%) NHS
11 7 (1.33%) PKI
12 6 (1.14%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 49 (9.32%) Windows
2 30 (5.70%) Linux
3 21 (3.99%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.52%) Android
6 7 (1.33%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.76%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.76%) Unix
10 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (31.75%) Agile
2 126 (23.95%) Coaching
3 106 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (15.21%) Cybersecurity
5 66 (12.55%) DevOps
6 61 (11.60%) ITIL
7 60 (11.41%) Incident Management
8 57 (10.84%) SIEM
9 54 (10.27%) Incident Response
9 54 (10.27%) Service Management
10 52 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (9.89%) Root Cause Analysis
11 51 (9.70%) Scrum
12 49 (9.32%) Problem Management
13 47 (8.94%) Information Security
14 45 (8.56%) Protective Monitoring
15 43 (8.17%) Quality Management
16 40 (7.60%) Roadmaps
17 39 (7.41%) CI/CD
17 39 (7.41%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 55 (10.46%) Java
2 44 (8.37%) Python
3 38 (7.22%) JavaScript
4 37 (7.03%) SQL
4 37 (7.03%) TypeScript
5 21 (3.99%) PowerShell
6 20 (3.80%) Bash
7 15 (2.85%) C#
8 13 (2.47%) C++
9 10 (1.90%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.71%) C
11 7 (1.33%) Perl
12 6 (1.14%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.95%) Groovy
13 5 (0.95%) PHP
13 5 (0.95%) Ruby
14 4 (0.76%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.38%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.38%) X++
Qualifications
1 192 (36.50%) Security Cleared
2 127 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 76 (14.45%) DV Cleared
4 69 (13.12%) Degree
5 25 (4.75%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (2.85%) CCNP
6 15 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.66%) CISSP
8 11 (2.09%) CCNA
8 11 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (1.52%) CCIE
10 8 (1.52%) CISM
11 7 (1.33%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.14%) CCIE Data Center
12 6 (1.14%) MCTS
13 5 (0.95%) MCITP
14 4 (0.76%) HNC
15 2 (0.38%) MCSE
15 2 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.94%) NIST
2 38 (7.22%) NIST 800
3 28 (5.32%) QA
4 26 (4.94%) Accessibility
5 18 (3.42%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.14%) SLA
8 5 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.95%) PMO
9 4 (0.76%) NCSC
9 4 (0.76%) WCAG
10 2 (0.38%) GDPR
10 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.19%) HAZOP
11 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.19%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.19%) P3O
System Software
1 26 (4.94%) Docker
2 25 (4.75%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.95%) vSphere
6 3 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.38%) Firmware
8 1 (0.19%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.19%) iptables
8 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.19%) XenApp
8 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (5.32%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.75%) Ansible
3 20 (3.80%) Terraform
4 11 (2.09%) Grafana
5 8 (1.52%) SCCM
6 6 (1.14%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.95%) WSUS
8 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.76%) Nessus
8 4 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.76%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.57%) Kibana
9 3 (0.57%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.57%) Puppet
9 3 (0.57%) VxRail
10 2 (0.38%) CEMLI
10 2 (0.38%) PaperCut
10 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 107 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.89%) Cisco
3 27 (5.13%) Oracle
4 20 (3.80%) VMware
5 12 (2.28%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.90%) F5
7 10 (1.90%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.71%) Fortinet
8 9 (1.71%) SAP
9 8 (1.52%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.33%) CheckPoint
10 7 (1.33%) Sparx
11 6 (1.14%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.14%) CA
11 6 (1.14%) HP
11 6 (1.14%) Sophos
11 6 (1.14%) Veeam
12 5 (0.95%) EMC
12 5 (0.95%) Infoblox