Mentoring Contract Job Trends

Mentorship
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Mentoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 80 76
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +14
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,332 890 1,203
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.31% 2.92% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.26% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 479 777
10th Percentile £360 £345 £377
25th Percentile £428 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.19% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 54
10th Percentile £28.25 £21.57 £17.85
25th Percentile £41.94 £23.54 £25.09
Median hourly rate £64.00 £27.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year +132.73% -50.63% -14.96%
75th Percentile £77.50 £52.38 £73.31
90th Percentile £81.00 £69.20 £78.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £26.93 £56.49
% change year-on-year +137.70% -52.34% -24.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 34,951 27,281 38,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.91% 89.56% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,148 16,723 25,428
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.59% -1.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,114 833 2,148
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -4.41% -2.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% -12.06% +7.63%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mentoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Mentoring job vacancy trend in the UK

Mentoring
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 17 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 17 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 February 2026. 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
England -1 1,108 £538 -2.27% 1,673
UK excluding London -3 607 £525 +5.00% 1,419
London +10 542 £550 -8.33% 594
Work from Home +20 438 £538 +2.38% 856
North of England -12 223 £510 +18.60% 386
Midlands +18 128 £450 -14.08% 182
North West -22 106 £468 +16.88% 208
West Midlands +13 104 £508 -15.33% 100
Yorkshire -4 95 £525 - 135
South East -18 84 £550 -2.65% 450
Scotland +22 70 £540 +2.86% 87
South West -8 64 £550 +4.76% 165
East of England -9 33 £585 +33.71% 123
North East -3 25 £500 +17.65% 47
East Midlands -14 24 £420 -8.50% 81
Wales +4 19 £400 -30.43% 43
Northern Ireland -10 2 £385 +73.42% 14

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 45 (3.38%) Confluence
2 33 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 31 (2.33%) Apache
4 23 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.68%) JBoss
7 9 (0.68%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.45%) CMS
9 5 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.30%) Drupal
10 4 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.30%) nginx
11 3 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.23%) MS Project Server
11 3 (0.23%) WordPress
12 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.23%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.075%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.075%) InDesign
7 1 (0.075%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.075%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.075%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.05%) SAP WM
2 13 (0.98%) SAP EWM
3 11 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.75%) SAP HCM
5 7 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.45%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.15%) Kondor
10 2 (0.15%) Maximo
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.15%) Shopify
10 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 398 (29.88%) AWS
2 359 (26.95%) Azure
3 130 (9.76%) GCP
4 103 (7.73%) GitHub
5 102 (7.66%) Serverless
6 84 (6.31%) Power Platform
7 76 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
8 69 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
9 61 (4.58%) Amazon S3
10 53 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 52 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (3.60%) SaaS
13 44 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
14 42 (3.15%) Entra ID
15 33 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
16 32 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 31 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
18 29 (2.18%) Azure AKS
18 29 (2.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 94 (7.06%) Firewall
2 54 (4.05%) DNS
3 32 (2.40%) Network Security
3 32 (2.40%) VPN
4 29 (2.18%) TCP/IP
5 27 (2.03%) WAN
6 22 (1.65%) LAN
7 20 (1.50%) DHCP
8 11 (0.83%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.83%) SSL
8 11 (0.83%) Wireless
9 10 (0.75%) VXLAN
10 9 (0.68%) BGP
10 9 (0.68%) OSPF
11 8 (0.60%) HTTP
11 8 (0.60%) NetScaler
12 7 (0.53%) Internet
12 7 (0.53%) VSAN
13 6 (0.45%) VLAN
13 6 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (3.68%) Power BI
3 48 (3.60%) MongoDB
4 43 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 32 (2.40%) Relational Database
6 31 (2.33%) Data Lake
7 30 (2.25%) SQL Server
8 28 (2.10%) Big Data
8 28 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
9 25 (1.88%) DynamoDB
10 21 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
10 21 (1.58%) Metadata
11 18 (1.35%) MySQL
11 18 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
12 17 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (0.98%) BigQuery
14 13 (0.98%) Hadoop
15 12 (0.90%) Delta Lake
16 10 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 137 (10.29%) Jenkins
2 100 (7.51%) Git
3 76 (5.71%) JIRA
4 68 (5.11%) GitLab
5 25 (1.88%) JUnit
6 22 (1.65%) Selenium
7 17 (1.28%) Cucumber
7 17 (1.28%) Maven
8 13 (0.98%) CircleCI
9 11 (0.83%) Mockito
9 11 (0.83%) SonarQube
10 10 (0.75%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.75%) Eclipse
11 9 (0.68%) Gradle
11 9 (0.68%) IntelliJ
11 9 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.60%) Jaeger
13 6 (0.45%) JMeter
13 6 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
13 6 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 506 (37.99%) Social Skills
2 248 (18.62%) Finance
3 207 (15.54%) Public Sector
4 165 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (5.41%) Banking
6 57 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
7 43 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
8 35 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (2.25%) Marketing
11 28 (2.10%) Retail
12 26 (1.95%) Legal
13 22 (1.65%) Military
14 19 (1.43%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.20%) Telecoms
16 14 (1.05%) Front Office
16 14 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.90%) Law
18 11 (0.83%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 281 (21.10%) Senior
2 262 (19.67%) Lead
3 214 (16.07%) Architect
4 181 (13.59%) Developer
5 95 (7.13%) Analyst
6 77 (5.78%) Software Engineer
7 75 (5.63%) Consultant
8 53 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
9 50 (3.75%) Java Developer
10 47 (3.53%) Lead Developer
11 46 (3.45%) Senior Developer
12 42 (3.15%) Data Engineer
13 39 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
14 37 (2.78%) Business Analyst
15 35 (2.63%) Technical Leader
16 31 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
17 29 (2.18%) SAP Consultant
17 29 (2.18%) Technical Architect
18 26 (1.95%) Designer
19 25 (1.88%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (7.43%) Node.js
2 86 (6.46%) Kafka
3 83 (6.23%) REST
4 78 (5.86%) React
5 74 (5.56%) Spring
6 66 (4.95%) .NET
6 66 (4.95%) Spring Boot
7 56 (4.20%) RESTful
8 51 (3.83%) Playwright
9 46 (3.45%) GraphQL
10 41 (3.08%) Middleware
11 39 (2.93%) SOAP
12 38 (2.85%) HTML
13 37 (2.78%) OAuth
13 37 (2.78%) YAML
14 36 (2.70%) PySpark
15 31 (2.33%) Vitest
16 30 (2.25%) AngularJS
16 30 (2.25%) OAuth2
17 28 (2.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 134 (10.06%) Cloud Native
2 91 (6.83%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (2.93%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.48%) Data Structures
6 31 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.18%) Algorithms
8 28 (2.10%) NHS
9 27 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.95%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.88%) Mobile App
12 24 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
12 24 (1.80%) Equities
13 19 (1.43%) Data Centre
13 19 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
13 19 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.35%) Derivative
15 17 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (1.05%) Public Cloud
17 13 (0.98%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (5.33%) Linux
2 66 (4.95%) Windows
3 31 (2.33%) Unix
4 30 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 12 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.68%) VMS
7 8 (0.60%) Android
7 8 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.30%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.23%) Solaris
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.075%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (34.31%) Agile
2 398 (29.88%) CI/CD
3 389 (29.20%) Problem-Solving
4 357 (26.80%) DevOps
5 270 (20.27%) Technical Leadership
6 259 (19.44%) Coaching
7 232 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 195 (14.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 194 (14.56%) Infrastructure as Code
10 184 (13.81%) Software Engineering
11 181 (13.59%) Microservices
12 162 (12.16%) AI
13 158 (11.86%) Roadmaps
14 147 (11.04%) Containerisation
15 140 (10.51%) Analytics
16 137 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 135 (10.14%) Test Automation
18 120 (9.01%) Data Modelling
19 113 (8.48%) Decision-Making
20 100 (7.51%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 302 (22.67%) Python
2 205 (15.39%) Java
3 175 (13.14%) SQL
4 122 (9.16%) TypeScript
5 105 (7.88%) JavaScript
6 71 (5.33%) PowerShell
7 62 (4.65%) C#
8 53 (3.98%) Bash
9 28 (2.10%) C++
10 20 (1.50%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.28%) Apex Code
11 17 (1.28%) Bicep
12 15 (1.13%) Scala
13 14 (1.05%) Groovy
14 13 (0.98%) ABAP
14 13 (0.98%) Go
15 12 (0.90%) Rust
16 10 (0.75%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.68%) R
17 9 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 328 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 257 (19.29%) SC Cleared
3 177 (13.29%) Degree
4 50 (3.75%) AWS Certification
5 47 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 44 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 42 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 31 (2.33%) Master's Degree
9 29 (2.18%) CISSP
10 26 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.43%) CISM
13 18 (1.35%) CCNP
14 15 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (1.13%) SAP Certification
15 12 (0.90%) PMI Certification
16 10 (0.75%) ACCA
16 10 (0.75%) CIMA
16 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (7.28%) QA
2 61 (4.58%) Accessibility
3 56 (4.20%) GDPR
4 54 (4.05%) Data Quality
5 40 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (2.48%) NIST
7 23 (1.73%) PCI DSS
8 22 (1.65%) NCSC
9 18 (1.35%) SLA
10 13 (0.98%) PMO
10 13 (0.98%) WCAG
11 10 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 9 (0.68%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.60%) GAAP
14 7 (0.53%) IFRS
14 7 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
15 5 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 207 (15.54%) Docker
2 65 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.05%) vSphere
5 12 (0.90%) Firmware
6 11 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.53%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.23%) Postfix
10 3 (0.23%) Xen
11 2 (0.15%) NFS
11 2 (0.15%) Varnish
12 1 (0.075%) HDFS
12 1 (0.075%) KVM
12 1 (0.075%) RHEV
12 1 (0.075%) zsh
Systems Management
1 208 (15.62%) Terraform
2 185 (13.89%) Kubernetes
3 81 (6.08%) Ansible
4 58 (4.35%) Grafana
5 47 (3.53%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (0.90%) Puppet
10 9 (0.68%) Argo
11 8 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.60%) Kiali
11 8 (0.60%) SCCM
12 5 (0.38%) VxRail
13 4 (0.30%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.30%) vRealize
14 3 (0.23%) CloudHub
14 3 (0.23%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.15%) Istio
Vendors
1 203 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.35%) Google
3 57 (4.28%) Oracle
3 57 (4.28%) SAP
4 56 (4.20%) Splunk
5 53 (3.98%) Databricks
6 41 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 39 (2.93%) ServiceNow
8 34 (2.55%) Cisco
9 29 (2.18%) VMware
10 28 (2.10%) Palo Alto
11 25 (1.88%) F5
12 18 (1.35%) CheckPoint
13 16 (1.20%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.05%) Apple
14 14 (1.05%) Red Hat
15 13 (0.98%) AppDynamics
15 13 (0.98%) IBM
16 11 (0.83%) Dynatrace
16 11 (0.83%) MuleSoft