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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 77 76
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +17
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,262 945 1,178
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.34% 2.98% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.35% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 782 521 754
10th Percentile £360 £350 £383
25th Percentile £429 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% +3.27% -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £521 £535
% change year-on-year +0.72% -2.57% -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 19 55
10th Percentile £24.96 £21.57 £17.98
25th Percentile £39.74 £23.54 £38.75
Median hourly rate £58.75 £27.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +113.64% -51.32% +15.29%
75th Percentile £74.69 £52.38 £72.88
90th Percentile £80.30 £69.20 £78.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £26.93 £56.49
% change year-on-year +132.13% -52.34% -13.76%

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 33,128 28,199 37,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.64% 88.95% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,004 17,123 24,892
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £720 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,016 901 1,818
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -13.33% +17.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £40.00
% change year-on-year -22.03% -23.05% +53.85%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +2 1,070 £539 -6.30% 2,617
UK excluding London -17 579 £525 +0.72% 2,449
London -1 510 £550 -10.93% 611
Work from Home +25 417 £534 +1.76% 1,373
North of England -11 225 £517 +18.52% 500
Midlands +9 122 £450 -25.00% 294
North West -21 103 £455 +15.04% 239
Yorkshire -13 100 £537 -6.20% 185
West Midlands +6 91 £504 -19.36% 116
South East -37 78 £525 -4.55% 778
South West 0 64 £550 +4.76% 330
Scotland +13 61 £525 +0.48% 120
East Midlands -9 31 £416 +0.88% 172
East of England -9 30 £585 +58.64% 341
North East -5 25 £500 +17.65% 79
Wales -4 9 £400 -30.43% 119
Northern Ireland -14 2 £385 +30.95% 40

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 41 (3.25%) Confluence
2 26 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 25 (1.98%) Apache
4 20 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.79%) JBoss
6 10 (0.79%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.63%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.48%) CMS
9 5 (0.40%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.24%) Drupal
11 3 (0.24%) MS Project Server
11 3 (0.24%) SAS
12 2 (0.16%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.16%) nginx
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.87%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.55%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) LaTeX
5 3 (0.24%) Siemens NX
6 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.079%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.079%) InDesign
7 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (1.11%) SAP WM
2 13 (1.03%) SAP EWM
3 12 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.87%) SAP HCM
5 6 (0.48%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.24%) Kondor
8 3 (0.24%) Maximo
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 372 (29.48%) AWS
2 333 (26.39%) Azure
3 117 (9.27%) GCP
4 101 (8.00%) GitHub
5 97 (7.69%) Serverless
6 76 (6.02%) Power Platform
7 69 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
7 69 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
8 53 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (4.04%) Amazon S3
9 51 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 49 (3.88%) SaaS
11 42 (3.33%) Entra ID
11 42 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
12 37 (2.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (2.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 34 (2.69%) Datadog
15 33 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
16 31 (2.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (7.37%) Firewall
2 53 (4.20%) DNS
3 35 (2.77%) VPN
4 30 (2.38%) Network Security
5 29 (2.30%) TCP/IP
6 28 (2.22%) WAN
7 19 (1.51%) LAN
8 18 (1.43%) DHCP
9 14 (1.11%) SD-WAN
10 13 (1.03%) Wireless
11 12 (0.95%) SSL
12 10 (0.79%) BGP
12 10 (0.79%) OSPF
12 10 (0.79%) VXLAN
13 8 (0.63%) MPLS
13 8 (0.63%) VLAN
14 7 (0.55%) Internet
14 7 (0.55%) VSAN
15 6 (0.48%) NetScaler
15 6 (0.48%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (4.12%) NoSQL
3 50 (3.96%) MongoDB
4 45 (3.57%) Power BI
5 29 (2.30%) DynamoDB
6 27 (2.14%) Data Lake
6 27 (2.14%) Relational Database
7 26 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (2.06%) Big Data
7 26 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (1.98%) SQL Server
9 18 (1.43%) BigQuery
9 18 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
10 17 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (1.27%) MySQL
12 14 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.03%) Metadata
13 13 (1.03%) Redis
14 12 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (0.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 141 (11.17%) Jenkins
2 108 (8.56%) Git
3 77 (6.10%) JIRA
4 65 (5.15%) GitLab
5 25 (1.98%) Selenium
6 24 (1.90%) JUnit
7 22 (1.74%) Maven
8 17 (1.35%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.27%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.19%) Gradle
11 12 (0.95%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.79%) Mockito
13 9 (0.71%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.71%) Eclipse
13 9 (0.71%) IntelliJ
14 8 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.55%) Jaeger
16 6 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
16 6 (0.48%) Postman
17 5 (0.40%) SpecFlow
General
1 481 (38.11%) Social Skills
2 237 (18.78%) Finance
3 202 (16.01%) Public Sector
4 161 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (6.10%) Banking
6 53 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
8 38 (3.01%) Marketing
9 32 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.90%) Military
12 23 (1.82%) Retail
13 22 (1.74%) Legal
13 22 (1.74%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.11%) Financial Institution
14 14 (1.11%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.95%) Aerospace
15 12 (0.95%) Electronics
16 11 (0.87%) Local Government
17 10 (0.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 266 (21.08%) Senior
2 239 (18.94%) Lead
3 222 (17.59%) Architect
4 161 (12.76%) Developer
5 89 (7.05%) Analyst
6 72 (5.71%) Consultant
7 66 (5.23%) Software Engineer
8 54 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
9 42 (3.33%) Java Developer
10 38 (3.01%) Data Engineer
10 38 (3.01%) Senior Developer
10 38 (3.01%) Technical Architect
11 37 (2.93%) Lead Developer
11 37 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
12 35 (2.77%) Business Analyst
13 34 (2.69%) Technical Leader
14 32 (2.54%) DevOps Engineer
15 28 (2.22%) SAP Consultant
16 25 (1.98%) Lead Architect
17 24 (1.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.42%) Node.js
2 79 (6.26%) Kafka
3 70 (5.55%) REST
4 65 (5.15%) .NET
4 65 (5.15%) Spring
5 62 (4.91%) React
6 61 (4.83%) Spring Boot
7 58 (4.60%) RESTful
8 52 (4.12%) Playwright
9 51 (4.04%) GraphQL
10 40 (3.17%) Middleware
11 39 (3.09%) HTML
12 38 (3.01%) YAML
13 36 (2.85%) SOAP
14 34 (2.69%) OAuth
15 31 (2.46%) Vitest
16 30 (2.38%) PySpark
17 28 (2.22%) JSON
18 27 (2.14%) OAuth2
18 27 (2.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 125 (9.90%) Cloud Native
2 99 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 47 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (2.61%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.30%) Algorithms
5 29 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.14%) Data Structures
6 27 (2.14%) Virtual Team
7 26 (2.06%) Data Centre
7 26 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 24 (1.90%) NHS
8 24 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 23 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (1.51%) Mobile App
12 15 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.11%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 70 (5.55%) Linux
2 63 (4.99%) Windows
3 35 (2.77%) Unix
4 30 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.79%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.71%) VMS
7 7 (0.55%) Android
8 4 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.079%) CentOS
11 1 (0.079%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (35.66%) Agile
2 375 (29.71%) Problem-Solving
3 368 (29.16%) CI/CD
4 335 (26.55%) DevOps
5 246 (19.49%) Coaching
6 244 (19.33%) Technical Leadership
7 219 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 184 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 177 (14.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 171 (13.55%) Software Engineering
11 163 (12.92%) Microservices
12 156 (12.36%) Roadmaps
13 144 (11.41%) Containerisation
14 139 (11.01%) AI
15 129 (10.22%) Test Automation
16 125 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 117 (9.27%) Analytics
18 103 (8.16%) Data Modelling
19 101 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
20 97 (7.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 270 (21.39%) Python
2 190 (15.06%) Java
3 158 (12.52%) SQL
4 101 (8.00%) TypeScript
5 93 (7.37%) JavaScript
6 65 (5.15%) PowerShell
7 58 (4.60%) C#
8 54 (4.28%) Bash
9 31 (2.46%) C++
10 19 (1.51%) Apex Code
11 16 (1.27%) Bicep
11 16 (1.27%) Scala
12 14 (1.11%) Go
12 14 (1.11%) Groovy
13 12 (0.95%) ABAP
13 12 (0.95%) Kotlin
14 11 (0.87%) Rust
14 11 (0.87%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.63%) R
15 8 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 301 (23.85%) Security Cleared
2 225 (17.83%) SC Cleared
3 161 (12.76%) Degree
4 51 (4.04%) AWS Certification
5 44 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 42 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 42 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (3.25%) Azure Certification
8 32 (2.54%) CISSP
9 25 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (1.58%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.51%) CISM
13 16 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (1.27%) CCNP
14 15 (1.19%) SAP Certification
15 13 (1.03%) PMI Certification
16 12 (0.95%) MCP
17 10 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (0.79%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (7.45%) QA
2 62 (4.91%) GDPR
3 49 (3.88%) Accessibility
4 46 (3.65%) Data Quality
5 42 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (3.09%) NIST
7 26 (2.06%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.51%) NCSC
9 18 (1.43%) SLA
10 14 (1.11%) PMO
11 13 (1.03%) WCAG
12 11 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 11 (0.87%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.48%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
16 5 (0.40%) GAAP
16 5 (0.40%) IFRS
System Software
1 210 (16.64%) Docker
2 64 (5.07%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.95%) Firmware
5 12 (0.95%) vSphere
6 8 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.24%) HDFS
10 3 (0.24%) Xen
11 2 (0.16%) NFS
11 2 (0.16%) Varnish
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.16%) zsh
12 1 (0.079%) KVM
12 1 (0.079%) Postfix
12 1 (0.079%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 193 (15.29%) Terraform
2 180 (14.26%) Kubernetes
3 82 (6.50%) Ansible
4 48 (3.80%) Grafana
5 44 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.95%) Puppet
9 9 (0.71%) Argo
10 7 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.55%) Kiali
11 6 (0.48%) SCCM
12 5 (0.40%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.40%) VxRail
13 4 (0.32%) vRealize
14 3 (0.24%) CloudHub
14 3 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
14 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
14 3 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 187 (14.82%) Microsoft
2 57 (4.52%) SAP
3 51 (4.04%) Splunk
4 50 (3.96%) Oracle
5 46 (3.65%) Google
5 46 (3.65%) Salesforce
6 43 (3.41%) ServiceNow
7 40 (3.17%) Databricks
8 37 (2.93%) Cisco
9 31 (2.46%) VMware
10 27 (2.14%) Palo Alto
11 23 (1.82%) F5
12 17 (1.35%) CheckPoint
13 15 (1.19%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.11%) AppDynamics
15 13 (1.03%) Apple
16 12 (0.95%) Dynatrace
16 12 (0.95%) IBM
16 12 (0.95%) Red Hat
17 10 (0.79%) MuleSoft