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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 80 77
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 +18
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,308 1,025 1,301
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.65% 2.81% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 3.25% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 566 850
10th Percentile £363 £375 £380
25th Percentile £427 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £655
90th Percentile £715 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £530 £535
% change year-on-year -2.83% -0.93% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 25 51
10th Percentile £20.00 £24.26 £25.00
25th Percentile £27.50 £35.00 £53.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £49.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -13.26% +36.12%
75th Percentile £77.50 £63.75 £76.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £69.50 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £49.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +19.90% -13.26% -0.89%

All Process and 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 32,161 31,515 40,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.65% 86.38% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,137 18,969 27,555
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,122 1,120 1,583
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.23 £18.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +25.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.48 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -31.42% -25.42% +42.74%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +4 1,106 £525 -8.70% 3,307
UK excluding London 0 607 £515 -2.83% 2,281
London +10 539 £550 -8.33% 1,451
Work from Home +22 431 £534 -5.11% 1,625
North of England -7 213 £507 +15.23% 556
Midlands 0 109 £450 -26.47% 305
North West -13 102 £468 +16.88% 339
South East -2 96 £513 -6.82% 742
Yorkshire -14 92 £525 -12.10% 167
West Midlands -3 79 £508 -18.72% 178
South West +18 77 £550 -19.71% 232
Scotland +13 73 £525 +0.14% 191
East of England -1 32 £535 +47.59% 182
East Midlands -1 30 £428 +6.88% 123
North East -3 22 £500 +15.61% 53
Wales +5 11 £478 -19.58% 70
Northern Ireland -16 3 £975 +77.27% 36

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 (3.13%) Confluence
2 30 (2.29%) Apache
3 23 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (1.45%) CMS
5 14 (1.07%) WebLogic
6 13 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.84%) JBoss
9 8 (0.61%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.31%) Drupal
10 4 (0.31%) SAS
11 3 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.23%) WordPress
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.15%) Camunda
12 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (0.84%) MS Visio
1 11 (0.84%) Siemens NX
2 7 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.15%) Trello
5 1 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.076%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.076%) DaVinci Resolve
5 1 (0.076%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 15 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.07%) SAP WM
3 13 (0.99%) SAP EWM
4 10 (0.76%) Teamcenter
5 9 (0.69%) SAP HCM
6 7 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.31%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.31%) Magento
7 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.23%) Kondor
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.15%) Actimize
9 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.15%) Shopify
9 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 382 (29.20%) AWS
2 336 (25.69%) Azure
3 111 (8.49%) GCP
4 104 (7.95%) Serverless
5 83 (6.35%) GitHub
6 77 (5.89%) Amazon S3
7 72 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
8 71 (5.43%) Power Platform
9 70 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
10 53 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
11 52 (3.98%) Entra ID
12 49 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 46 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
14 43 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 42 (3.21%) SaaS
16 37 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
18 31 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 29 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
20 28 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.28%) Firewall
2 40 (3.06%) DNS
3 38 (2.91%) VPN
4 34 (2.60%) Network Security
5 20 (1.53%) WAN
6 19 (1.45%) TCP/IP
7 15 (1.15%) DHCP
7 15 (1.15%) Wireless
8 14 (1.07%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.99%) LAN
10 12 (0.92%) SSL
11 11 (0.84%) BGP
11 11 (0.84%) OSPF
12 9 (0.69%) iSCSI
12 9 (0.69%) MPLS
12 9 (0.69%) VLAN
13 8 (0.61%) Internet
14 7 (0.54%) Fibre Channel
14 7 (0.54%) HTTP
14 7 (0.54%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (4.59%) MongoDB
3 51 (3.90%) NoSQL
4 46 (3.52%) Power BI
5 41 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (2.98%) DynamoDB
7 33 (2.52%) SQL Server
8 32 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 25 (1.91%) Big Data
10 25 (1.91%) MySQL
11 22 (1.68%) BigQuery
11 22 (1.68%) Redis
11 22 (1.68%) Relational Database
12 20 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (1.15%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
14 14 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
15 12 (0.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 150 (11.47%) Git
2 139 (10.63%) Jenkins
3 100 (7.65%) JIRA
4 70 (5.35%) GitLab
5 32 (2.45%) JUnit
6 27 (2.06%) Maven
7 23 (1.76%) SonarQube
8 22 (1.68%) Selenium
9 17 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 15 (1.15%) Gradle
11 14 (1.07%) Mockito
12 12 (0.92%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.84%) CircleCI
14 10 (0.76%) SoapUI
15 9 (0.69%) Eclipse
15 9 (0.69%) IntelliJ
15 9 (0.69%) Postman
15 9 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
16 8 (0.61%) Bitbucket
17 6 (0.46%) SpecFlow
General
1 467 (35.70%) Social Skills
2 243 (18.58%) Finance
3 201 (15.37%) Public Sector
4 174 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (6.50%) Banking
6 52 (3.98%) Marketing
7 51 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 39 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (1.76%) Legal
12 23 (1.76%) Military
13 22 (1.68%) Telecoms
14 21 (1.61%) Aerospace
15 20 (1.53%) Retail
16 17 (1.30%) Electronics
17 14 (1.07%) Law
18 12 (0.92%) Local Government
19 11 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 263 (20.11%) Lead
2 252 (19.27%) Senior
3 207 (15.83%) Architect
4 196 (14.98%) Developer
5 82 (6.27%) Consultant
6 74 (5.66%) Software Engineer
7 69 (5.28%) Analyst
8 56 (4.28%) Senior Developer
9 51 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
10 47 (3.59%) Technical Leader
11 41 (3.13%) Data Engineer
12 40 (3.06%) Java Developer
12 40 (3.06%) Technical Architect
13 39 (2.98%) Lead Developer
14 38 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
15 33 (2.52%) AWS Engineer
16 27 (2.06%) Senior Software Engineer
17 26 (1.99%) SAP Consultant
18 22 (1.68%) Business Analyst
19 21 (1.61%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (6.80%) Node.js
2 88 (6.73%) Kafka
3 86 (6.57%) React
4 79 (6.04%) RESTful
5 78 (5.96%) .NET
6 74 (5.66%) REST
7 64 (4.89%) Spring
8 59 (4.51%) HTML
9 56 (4.28%) Spring Boot
10 52 (3.98%) GraphQL
10 52 (3.98%) SOAP
11 42 (3.21%) Playwright
12 41 (3.13%) AngularJS
13 38 (2.91%) OAuth
14 37 (2.83%) CSS
15 30 (2.29%) XML
16 28 (2.14%) Web Services
17 27 (2.06%) OAuth2
18 26 (1.99%) JSON
19 25 (1.91%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 120 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 99 (7.57%) Product Ownership
3 34 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (2.37%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.29%) Public Cloud
6 29 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (2.06%) Mobile App
8 26 (1.99%) Management Information System
9 25 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 23 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
11 22 (1.68%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (1.38%) Virtual Team
14 17 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 17 (1.30%) NHS
14 17 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 16 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
16 13 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 76 (5.81%) Linux
2 69 (5.28%) Windows
3 40 (3.06%) Unix
4 30 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 27 (2.06%) Android
6 21 (1.61%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.84%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.54%) VMS
10 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.076%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.076%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (38.00%) Agile
2 374 (28.59%) Problem-Solving
3 349 (26.68%) CI/CD
4 319 (24.39%) DevOps
5 243 (18.58%) Coaching
6 234 (17.89%) Technical Leadership
7 199 (15.21%) Software Engineering
8 193 (14.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 183 (13.99%) Infrastructure as Code
10 167 (12.77%) Microservices
11 162 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
12 152 (11.62%) Containerisation
13 143 (10.93%) Roadmaps
14 142 (10.86%) Test Automation
15 119 (9.10%) Analytics
16 111 (8.49%) AI
17 108 (8.26%) Scrum
18 100 (7.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 97 (7.42%) Data Modelling
20 93 (7.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 244 (18.65%) Python
2 199 (15.21%) Java
3 171 (13.07%) SQL
4 125 (9.56%) JavaScript
5 108 (8.26%) TypeScript
6 67 (5.12%) C#
7 56 (4.28%) PowerShell
8 48 (3.67%) Bash
9 34 (2.60%) C++
10 26 (1.99%) Apex Code
11 25 (1.91%) Scala
12 22 (1.68%) Kotlin
13 20 (1.53%) Go
14 14 (1.07%) Groovy
15 12 (0.92%) Shell Script
16 11 (0.84%) PHP
17 10 (0.76%) Bicep
17 10 (0.76%) Swift
18 9 (0.69%) ABAP
19 7 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 291 (22.25%) Security Cleared
2 207 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 149 (11.39%) Degree
4 63 (4.82%) AWS Certification
5 56 (4.28%) DV Cleared
6 52 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (2.98%) Azure Certification
8 31 (2.37%) CISSP
9 30 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (1.99%) Master's Degree
11 21 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.15%) CISM
13 14 (1.07%) PMI Certification
13 14 (1.07%) SAP Certification
14 13 (0.99%) CCNP
15 12 (0.92%) PMP
16 10 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (0.69%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (6.65%) QA
2 80 (6.12%) GDPR
3 57 (4.36%) Accessibility
4 55 (4.20%) Data Quality
5 44 (3.36%) NIST
6 42 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.76%) PCI DSS
8 21 (1.61%) SLA
9 17 (1.30%) WCAG
10 16 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 15 (1.15%) PMO
12 14 (1.07%) HIPAA
12 14 (1.07%) NCSC
13 8 (0.61%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
16 5 (0.38%) GRC
16 5 (0.38%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 208 (15.90%) Docker
2 72 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.15%) vSphere
5 10 (0.76%) Firmware
5 10 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.54%) NFS
7 7 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.38%) zsh
10 3 (0.23%) HDFS
11 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.076%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.076%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.076%) Varnish
12 1 (0.076%) Xen
12 1 (0.076%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 187 (14.30%) Terraform
2 172 (13.15%) Kubernetes
3 51 (3.90%) Ansible
4 29 (2.22%) Grafana
5 27 (2.06%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (1.30%) Puppet
8 14 (1.07%) Argo
9 10 (0.76%) SCCM
10 9 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.46%) Istio
13 4 (0.31%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.31%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.31%) VxRail
14 3 (0.23%) CloudHub
14 3 (0.23%) Control-M
14 3 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
14 3 (0.23%) Oozie
Vendors
1 197 (15.06%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.13%) SAP
3 53 (4.05%) Salesforce
4 52 (3.98%) Oracle
5 48 (3.67%) Google
5 48 (3.67%) ServiceNow
6 45 (3.44%) Splunk
7 40 (3.06%) VMware
8 35 (2.68%) Databricks
9 34 (2.60%) Cisco
10 24 (1.83%) Palo Alto
11 22 (1.68%) F5
12 15 (1.15%) IBM
13 13 (0.99%) Apple
13 13 (0.99%) CheckPoint
14 12 (0.92%) NetApp
14 12 (0.92%) Siemens
15 11 (0.84%) Fortinet
15 11 (0.84%) Veeam
16 10 (0.76%) Citrix