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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 84 83
Rank change year-on-year +19 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,230 988 1,298
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 2.63% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 3.06% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 573 856
10th Percentile £360 £375 £370
25th Percentile £428 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £637 £675 £686
90th Percentile £703 £798 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 49
10th Percentile £16.67 £25.19 £51.25
25th Percentile £23.78 £36.25 £56.40
Median hourly rate £45.97 £52.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -12.44% -7.06% +5.10%
75th Percentile £78.75 £66.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £80.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.06% +2.71%

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 29,791 32,257 42,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.47% 86.03% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,528 19,416 28,791
10th Percentile £294 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,881 1,250 1,579
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.03 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%
75th Percentile £42.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.14 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £40.33 £43.75
% change year-on-year -44.79% -7.83% +69.08%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +13 1,021 £525 -7.00% 2,552
UK excluding London +2 570 £500 -4.76% 2,184
London +25 509 £550 -9.54% 940
Work from Home +29 405 £536 -4.29% 1,586
North of England -2 196 £500 +8.11% 590
North West -10 97 £460 +8.24% 349
South East +3 93 £500 -9.09% 687
Scotland +23 87 £478 -3.34% 194
Yorkshire -12 84 £525 -5.75% 161
Midlands -4 83 £463 -18.50% 263
South West +34 78 £539 -22.76% 217
West Midlands -11 56 £525 -15.12% 157
East Midlands -2 27 £447 +11.75% 106
East of England -9 27 £545 +50.34% 185
North East -2 17 £550 +29.41% 85
Wales +11 11 £478 -16.96% 66
Northern Ireland -14 3 £975 +77.27% 22

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 30 (2.44%) Confluence
2 27 (2.20%) Apache
3 20 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.54%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.38%) CMS
6 11 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.81%) WebLogic
8 7 (0.57%) JBoss
9 6 (0.49%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.49%) SAS
10 5 (0.41%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.24%) Alfresco
12 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.24%) Camunda
12 3 (0.24%) CICS
12 3 (0.24%) Drupal
12 3 (0.24%) Oracle Service Bus
12 3 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.81%) Siemens NX
3 8 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.16%) Trello
7 1 (0.081%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.081%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.081%) DaVinci Resolve
7 1 (0.081%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 14 (1.14%) SAP WM
2 13 (1.06%) SAP EWM
3 10 (0.81%) Teamcenter
4 8 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.57%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.33%) Magento
6 4 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.33%) Primavera
6 4 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.24%) Kondor
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.16%) Actimize
8 2 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.16%) Shopify
8 2 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 337 (27.40%) AWS
2 314 (25.53%) Azure
3 105 (8.54%) Serverless
4 93 (7.56%) GCP
5 82 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 80 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
7 70 (5.69%) GitHub
8 65 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
9 57 (4.63%) Power Platform
10 49 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
11 48 (3.90%) Entra ID
12 46 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 42 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
14 41 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
17 32 (2.60%) SaaS
18 29 (2.36%) Snowflake
19 28 (2.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 27 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (4.23%) Firewall
2 38 (3.09%) Network Security
3 33 (2.68%) VPN
4 32 (2.60%) DNS
5 22 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 22 (1.79%) WAN
6 17 (1.38%) Wireless
7 15 (1.22%) LAN
7 15 (1.22%) SSL
8 14 (1.14%) DHCP
9 9 (0.73%) Internet
9 9 (0.73%) iSCSI
9 9 (0.73%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.57%) BGP
10 7 (0.57%) Fibre Channel
10 7 (0.57%) OSPF
11 6 (0.49%) 4G
11 6 (0.49%) MPLS
12 5 (0.41%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (6.18%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (4.31%) MongoDB
3 49 (3.98%) DynamoDB
4 47 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
5 46 (3.74%) NoSQL
6 38 (3.09%) Power BI
7 37 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 36 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (2.20%) MySQL
10 23 (1.87%) Redis
11 22 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
11 22 (1.79%) Big Data
11 22 (1.79%) BigQuery
11 22 (1.79%) Relational Database
12 16 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
14 14 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (1.14%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.14%) Oracle Database
15 10 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 135 (10.98%) Git
2 126 (10.24%) Jenkins
3 88 (7.15%) JIRA
4 63 (5.12%) GitLab
5 26 (2.11%) Maven
6 25 (2.03%) JUnit
7 23 (1.87%) SonarQube
8 21 (1.71%) Selenium
9 19 (1.54%) Cypress.io
10 15 (1.22%) SoapUI
11 13 (1.06%) Gradle
12 12 (0.98%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.98%) Mockito
13 11 (0.89%) Postman
14 8 (0.65%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.65%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.65%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
16 6 (0.49%) IntelliJ
16 6 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 411 (33.41%) Social Skills
2 224 (18.21%) Finance
3 192 (15.61%) Public Sector
4 166 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (6.26%) Banking
6 51 (4.15%) Marketing
7 42 (3.41%) Manufacturing
8 39 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
9 32 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 23 (1.87%) Military
13 20 (1.63%) Aerospace
14 19 (1.54%) Legal
15 17 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.14%) Local Government
17 13 (1.06%) Electronics
17 13 (1.06%) Law
17 13 (1.06%) Retail
18 12 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 261 (21.22%) Senior
2 228 (18.54%) Lead
3 194 (15.77%) Developer
4 184 (14.96%) Architect
5 74 (6.02%) Consultant
6 65 (5.28%) Analyst
7 64 (5.20%) Senior Developer
8 63 (5.12%) Software Engineer
9 47 (3.82%) Technical Leader
10 43 (3.50%) Data Engineer
11 38 (3.09%) Java Developer
11 38 (3.09%) Technical Architect
12 37 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
13 36 (2.93%) Lead Developer
14 35 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
15 33 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
16 24 (1.95%) SAP Consultant
16 24 (1.95%) Senior Software Engineer
17 21 (1.71%) Senior Analyst
18 20 (1.63%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (7.07%) React
2 80 (6.50%) RESTful
3 78 (6.34%) Node.js
4 72 (5.85%) Kafka
5 70 (5.69%) .NET
6 62 (5.04%) REST
7 59 (4.80%) Spring
8 56 (4.55%) Spring Boot
9 54 (4.39%) HTML
10 51 (4.15%) SOAP
11 47 (3.82%) GraphQL
12 40 (3.25%) AngularJS
13 37 (3.01%) CSS
14 34 (2.76%) Web Services
15 31 (2.52%) XML
16 29 (2.36%) OAuth
16 29 (2.36%) Playwright
17 23 (1.87%) JSON
18 22 (1.79%) HTML5
18 22 (1.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 104 (8.46%) Cloud Native
2 86 (6.99%) Product Ownership
3 36 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
4 32 (2.60%) Mobile App
4 32 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.44%) Public Cloud
6 28 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 26 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 21 (1.71%) Algorithms
9 21 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 17 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
11 17 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (1.22%) Security Posture
13 14 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (1.14%) PKI
14 13 (1.06%) Data Centre
14 13 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 70 (5.69%) Linux
2 65 (5.28%) Windows
3 40 (3.25%) Unix
4 28 (2.28%) Android
5 27 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.46%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.65%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.49%) VMS
10 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.16%) SUSE
11 2 (0.16%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.081%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.081%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (37.40%) Agile
2 341 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
3 308 (25.04%) CI/CD
4 286 (23.25%) DevOps
5 222 (18.05%) Coaching
6 216 (17.56%) Technical Leadership
7 178 (14.47%) Software Engineering
8 170 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 155 (12.60%) Infrastructure as Code
10 147 (11.95%) Microservices
11 135 (10.98%) Roadmaps
12 134 (10.89%) Containerisation
12 134 (10.89%) Test Automation
13 132 (10.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 106 (8.62%) Analytics
15 103 (8.37%) Scrum
16 90 (7.32%) Data Modelling
17 88 (7.15%) AI
18 86 (6.99%) Migration
19 80 (6.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 227 (18.46%) Python
2 176 (14.31%) Java
3 164 (13.33%) SQL
4 131 (10.65%) JavaScript
5 96 (7.80%) TypeScript
6 57 (4.63%) C#
7 45 (3.66%) Bash
8 41 (3.33%) PowerShell
9 26 (2.11%) Apex Code
9 26 (2.11%) C++
10 22 (1.79%) Kotlin
11 20 (1.63%) Go
11 20 (1.63%) Scala
12 12 (0.98%) Bicep
12 12 (0.98%) Groovy
12 12 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.73%) PHP
14 8 (0.65%) Swift
15 7 (0.57%) ABAP
15 7 (0.57%) C
Qualifications
1 273 (22.20%) Security Cleared
2 190 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 141 (11.46%) Degree
4 59 (4.80%) AWS Certification
5 53 (4.31%) DV Cleared
6 52 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.76%) Azure Certification
8 27 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (1.63%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.54%) CISSP
13 15 (1.22%) SAP Certification
14 12 (0.98%) CCNP
15 11 (0.89%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.73%) PMP
17 8 (0.65%) CISM
18 7 (0.57%) MCSE
19 6 (0.49%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.02%) QA
2 73 (5.93%) GDPR
3 56 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 50 (4.07%) Data Quality
5 34 (2.76%) NIST
6 27 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.79%) SLA
8 19 (1.54%) WCAG
9 13 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 13 (1.06%) PCI DSS
9 13 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.98%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.89%) PMO
12 7 (0.57%) NCSC
12 7 (0.57%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.41%) GRC
15 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 177 (14.39%) Docker
2 60 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.98%) vSphere
5 9 (0.73%) Firmware
5 9 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.57%) NFS
7 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.41%) zsh
8 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.24%) HDFS
10 1 (0.081%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.081%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.081%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 167 (13.58%) Terraform
2 155 (12.60%) Kubernetes
3 41 (3.33%) Ansible
4 27 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 24 (1.95%) Grafana
6 15 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.14%) Puppet
8 13 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.89%) Argo
10 8 (0.65%) SCCM
11 7 (0.57%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.49%) Istio
12 6 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.41%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.24%) Control-M
14 3 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
14 3 (0.24%) Kibana
14 3 (0.24%) Oozie
14 3 (0.24%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.16%) OpenView
Vendors
1 171 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 57 (4.63%) SAP
3 56 (4.55%) Oracle
4 45 (3.66%) Salesforce
5 44 (3.58%) Splunk
6 41 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 40 (3.25%) Google
8 34 (2.76%) VMware
9 29 (2.36%) Cisco
10 25 (2.03%) Databricks
11 18 (1.46%) Palo Alto
12 16 (1.30%) F5
13 14 (1.14%) IBM
14 12 (0.98%) CheckPoint
15 11 (0.89%) NetApp
15 11 (0.89%) Siemens
15 11 (0.89%) Veeam
16 9 (0.73%) Apple
17 8 (0.65%) Workday
18 7 (0.57%) MuleSoft