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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 74 79
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,257 938 1,181
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.34% 2.98% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.35% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 519 756
10th Percentile £360 £350 £384
25th Percentile £429 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% +3.64% -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £523 £535
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.34% -2.73%
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 33,018 28,000 37,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.63% 88.93% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 16,996 25,071
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 2,000 892 1,828
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £17.10
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 £69.37 £74.99 £75.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.55 £30.78 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.24% -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 21 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 21 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 21 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 1,068 £540 -6.09% 2,550
UK excluding London -10 576 £525 +0.48% 2,363
London +1 510 £550 -10.93% 607
Work from Home +20 413 £534 -0.60% 1,299
North of England -6 225 £517 +18.52% 497
Midlands +4 119 £450 -25.00% 285
North West -26 103 £455 +15.04% 238
Yorkshire -8 100 £537 -6.20% 188
West Midlands +6 89 £508 -18.72% 107
South East -30 78 £525 -4.55% 734
South West 0 64 £550 +4.76% 318
Scotland +19 60 £525 +0.48% 113
East of England -11 30 £585 +58.64% 332
East Midlands -16 30 £420 +5.00% 173
North East -7 25 £500 +17.65% 74
Wales +1 10 £400 -30.43% 114
Northern Ireland -11 2 £385 +30.95% 39

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 40 (3.18%) Confluence
2 27 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 26 (2.07%) Apache
4 20 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.80%) JBoss
6 10 (0.80%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.64%) 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%) SAS
12 2 (0.16%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.16%) MS Project Server
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 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) LaTeX
5 3 (0.24%) Siemens NX
6 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.080%) InDesign
7 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (1.11%) SAP WM
2 13 (1.03%) SAP EWM
3 12 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.88%) 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 (29.59%) AWS
2 330 (26.25%) Azure
3 117 (9.31%) GCP
4 100 (7.96%) GitHub
5 98 (7.80%) Serverless
6 76 (6.05%) Power Platform
7 69 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
10 51 (4.06%) Amazon S3
10 51 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 49 (3.90%) SaaS
12 42 (3.34%) Entra ID
12 42 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
13 37 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 34 (2.70%) Datadog
16 33 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
17 31 (2.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (7.32%) Firewall
2 51 (4.06%) DNS
3 35 (2.78%) VPN
4 30 (2.39%) Network Security
5 29 (2.31%) TCP/IP
6 27 (2.15%) WAN
7 18 (1.43%) DHCP
7 18 (1.43%) LAN
8 14 (1.11%) SD-WAN
9 13 (1.03%) Wireless
10 12 (0.95%) SSL
11 10 (0.80%) BGP
11 10 (0.80%) OSPF
11 10 (0.80%) VXLAN
12 8 (0.64%) MPLS
12 8 (0.64%) VLAN
13 7 (0.56%) Internet
13 7 (0.56%) VSAN
14 6 (0.48%) NetScaler
14 6 (0.48%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (4.14%) NoSQL
3 50 (3.98%) MongoDB
4 45 (3.58%) Power BI
5 29 (2.31%) DynamoDB
6 28 (2.23%) Data Lake
7 27 (2.15%) Big Data
7 27 (2.15%) Relational Database
8 26 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
9 25 (1.99%) SQL Server
10 18 (1.43%) BigQuery
10 18 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
11 17 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.27%) MySQL
13 14 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (1.11%) Metadata
14 13 (1.03%) Redis
15 12 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 141 (11.22%) Jenkins
2 108 (8.59%) Git
3 76 (6.05%) JIRA
4 65 (5.17%) GitLab
5 25 (1.99%) Selenium
6 24 (1.91%) JUnit
7 22 (1.75%) Maven
8 17 (1.35%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.27%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.19%) Gradle
11 12 (0.95%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.80%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.80%) Mockito
13 9 (0.72%) Eclipse
13 9 (0.72%) IntelliJ
14 8 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.56%) Jaeger
16 6 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
16 6 (0.48%) Postman
17 5 (0.40%) SpecFlow
General
1 475 (37.79%) Social Skills
2 234 (18.62%) Finance
3 202 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 160 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (6.05%) Banking
6 53 (4.22%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
8 38 (3.02%) Marketing
9 31 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.91%) Military
11 22 (1.75%) Legal
11 22 (1.75%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.75%) Retail
12 14 (1.11%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.11%) Telecoms
13 12 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.95%) Electronics
14 11 (0.88%) Local Government
15 10 (0.80%) Law
Job Titles
1 264 (21.00%) Senior
2 239 (19.01%) Lead
3 222 (17.66%) Architect
4 159 (12.65%) Developer
5 88 (7.00%) Analyst
6 72 (5.73%) Consultant
7 67 (5.33%) Software Engineer
8 54 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
9 42 (3.34%) Java Developer
10 38 (3.02%) Data Engineer
10 38 (3.02%) Senior Developer
10 38 (3.02%) Technical Architect
11 37 (2.94%) Lead Developer
12 36 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (2.78%) Business Analyst
14 34 (2.70%) Technical Leader
15 32 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
16 28 (2.23%) SAP Consultant
17 25 (1.99%) Lead Architect
17 25 (1.99%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.44%) Kafka
1 81 (6.44%) Node.js
2 69 (5.49%) REST
3 65 (5.17%) .NET
3 65 (5.17%) Spring
4 63 (5.01%) React
5 61 (4.85%) Spring Boot
6 58 (4.61%) RESTful
7 51 (4.06%) GraphQL
7 51 (4.06%) Playwright
8 39 (3.10%) Middleware
9 38 (3.02%) HTML
9 38 (3.02%) YAML
10 36 (2.86%) SOAP
11 34 (2.70%) OAuth
12 31 (2.47%) Vitest
13 30 (2.39%) PySpark
14 28 (2.23%) JSON
15 27 (2.15%) OAuth2
15 27 (2.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 125 (9.94%) Cloud Native
2 98 (7.80%) Product Ownership
3 47 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 30 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.31%) Algorithms
7 27 (2.15%) Data Structures
7 27 (2.15%) Virtual Team
8 26 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 26 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (1.91%) NHS
9 24 (1.91%) Public Cloud
10 23 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
12 19 (1.51%) Mobile App
13 15 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.11%) Security Posture
14 14 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 70 (5.57%) Linux
2 64 (5.09%) Windows
3 35 (2.78%) Unix
4 31 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.72%) VMS
7 7 (0.56%) Android
8 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.080%) CentOS
12 1 (0.080%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (35.72%) Agile
2 373 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
3 367 (29.20%) CI/CD
4 334 (26.57%) DevOps
5 245 (19.49%) Coaching
6 241 (19.17%) Technical Leadership
7 218 (17.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 182 (14.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 177 (14.08%) Infrastructure as Code
10 174 (13.84%) Software Engineering
11 164 (13.05%) Microservices
12 156 (12.41%) Roadmaps
13 144 (11.46%) Containerisation
14 139 (11.06%) AI
15 130 (10.34%) Test Automation
16 123 (9.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 118 (9.39%) Analytics
18 103 (8.19%) Data Modelling
19 101 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
20 96 (7.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 270 (21.48%) Python
2 191 (15.19%) Java
3 160 (12.73%) SQL
4 102 (8.11%) TypeScript
5 94 (7.48%) JavaScript
6 64 (5.09%) PowerShell
7 57 (4.53%) C#
8 54 (4.30%) Bash
9 32 (2.55%) C++
10 18 (1.43%) 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 (0.88%) Rust
14 11 (0.88%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.64%) R
15 8 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 301 (23.95%) Security Cleared
2 224 (17.82%) SC Cleared
3 159 (12.65%) Degree
4 51 (4.06%) AWS Certification
5 45 (3.58%) DV Cleared
6 41 (3.26%) Azure Certification
6 41 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (2.55%) CISSP
9 26 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (1.59%) 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 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (0.80%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (7.32%) QA
2 63 (5.01%) GDPR
3 50 (3.98%) Accessibility
4 47 (3.74%) Data Quality
5 42 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (3.10%) NIST
7 26 (2.07%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.43%) NCSC
8 18 (1.43%) SLA
9 14 (1.11%) WCAG
10 13 (1.03%) PMO
11 11 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 11 (0.88%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.48%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
15 5 (0.40%) GAAP
15 5 (0.40%) IFRS
System Software
1 209 (16.63%) Docker
2 64 (5.09%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.03%) vSphere
6 12 (0.95%) Firmware
7 8 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.56%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.24%) HDFS
10 3 (0.24%) NFS
10 3 (0.24%) Xen
11 2 (0.16%) Varnish
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.16%) zsh
12 1 (0.080%) KVM
12 1 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.080%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 192 (15.27%) Terraform
2 179 (14.24%) Kubernetes
3 82 (6.52%) Ansible
4 48 (3.82%) Grafana
5 44 (3.50%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.95%) Puppet
9 9 (0.72%) Argo
10 7 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.56%) 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%) Hadoop YARN
14 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
14 3 (0.24%) Oozie
14 3 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 187 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 55 (4.38%) SAP
3 52 (4.14%) Splunk
4 50 (3.98%) Oracle
5 46 (3.66%) Google
6 45 (3.58%) Salesforce
7 43 (3.42%) ServiceNow
8 40 (3.18%) Databricks
9 37 (2.94%) Cisco
10 32 (2.55%) VMware
11 27 (2.15%) Palo Alto
12 22 (1.75%) F5
13 17 (1.35%) CheckPoint
14 15 (1.19%) Fortinet
15 14 (1.11%) AppDynamics
16 13 (1.03%) Apple
17 12 (0.95%) Dynatrace
17 12 (0.95%) IBM
17 12 (0.95%) Red Hat
18 10 (0.80%) MuleSoft