Mentoring Contracts

Mentorship
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Mentoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mentoring over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 75 94 99
Rank change year-on-year +19 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,272 2,128 2,319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.83% 2.77% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 3.07% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 834 1,399 1,589
10th Percentile £380 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +6.80%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £774 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -2.73% +10.00% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 49 43
10th Percentile £24.90 £15.20 £10.80
25th Percentile £55.00 £17.72 £16.37
Median hourly rate £56.49 £55.00 £27.73
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% +98.34% +135.40%
75th Percentile £76.63 £77.25 £55.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £84.00 £65.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.49 £61.92 £24.79
% change year-on-year -8.77% +149.79% +110.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mentoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,726 69,214 81,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.51% 90.15% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,590 47,923 56,854
10th Percentile £310 £338 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +5.26% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £623
90th Percentile £745 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,525 1,676 1,999
10th Percentile £14.45 £13.41 £11.99
25th Percentile £18.95 £17.56 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +62.79% -17.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.73 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.90 £32.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year +35.08% +80.56% -20.00%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mentoring.

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mentoring.

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Top 17 Contract 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 7 December 2023. 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 +18 1,080 £575 -4.17% 2,210
London +34 590 £575 -8.00% 832
UK excluding London -6 548 £535 -2.73% 1,517
Work from Home -3 414 £560 -4.44% 1,274
North of England +8 135 £545 +3.81% 494
South East -23 107 £545 -5.22% 359
South West +29 106 £600 -4.00% 176
Scotland +3 96 £500 -9.05% 92
North West +17 74 £535 +7.00% 259
Midlands +6 63 £500 -7.41% 215
Yorkshire -1 57 £550 - 163
West Midlands +3 51 £475 -12.04% 142
East of England -8 31 £548 -13.10% 148
Wales +13 23 £210 -65.00% 43
East Midlands +28 13 £563 +2.27% 73
Northern Ireland +9 10 £448 - 23
North East +15 4 £450 -10.00% 79

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 30 (2.36%) Confluence
2 21 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.94%) Apache
3 12 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.63%) MS Exchange
6 7 (0.55%) IIS
7 6 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.39%) SAS
9 4 (0.31%) nginx
9 4 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
9 4 (0.31%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.24%) Camunda
10 3 (0.24%) JBoss
10 3 (0.24%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.16%) Drupal
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.079%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.079%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 21 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.47%) Sketch
6 5 (0.39%) InVision
6 5 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.16%) Simulink
8 1 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.079%) Revit
Business Applications
1 24 (1.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 21 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (1.02%) Loan IQ
5 12 (0.94%) SAP MM
6 7 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.55%) SAP PP
7 5 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
7 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.39%) SAP HCM
8 4 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.31%) Shopify
9 3 (0.24%) Magento
9 3 (0.24%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.16%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
10 2 (0.16%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 267 (20.99%) AWS
2 241 (18.95%) Azure
3 77 (6.05%) Serverless
4 54 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (4.17%) GCP
6 48 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
7 47 (3.69%) Power Platform
8 43 (3.38%) GitHub
8 43 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
9 37 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 35 (2.75%) Amazon S3
11 28 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
12 27 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (1.65%) PaaS
13 21 (1.65%) SaaS
14 20 (1.57%) OpenShift
15 18 (1.42%) IaaS
16 16 (1.26%) AWS Step Functions
17 15 (1.18%) Entra ID
18 14 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 58 (4.56%) Firewall
2 45 (3.54%) Network Security
3 37 (2.91%) WAN
4 35 (2.75%) DNS
4 35 (2.75%) TCP/IP
5 31 (2.44%) LAN
6 29 (2.28%) SAN
7 23 (1.81%) VPN
8 21 (1.65%) SD-WAN
9 17 (1.34%) HTTP
10 16 (1.26%) Wireless
11 15 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (1.02%) NAS
12 13 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 11 (0.86%) VSAN
14 10 (0.79%) BGP
14 10 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
15 9 (0.71%) Kerberos
15 9 (0.71%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.64%) Relational Database
2 58 (4.56%) SQL Server
3 55 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (3.30%) NoSQL
5 38 (2.99%) Power BI
6 32 (2.52%) RDBMS
7 30 (2.36%) Big Data
8 28 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (2.20%) MongoDB
9 23 (1.81%) MySQL
10 22 (1.73%) Oracle Reports
11 20 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
12 19 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (1.26%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.10%) Oracle Database
15 13 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (0.94%) DynamoDB
17 11 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 9 (0.71%) DB2
18 9 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 93 (7.31%) Jenkins
2 74 (5.82%) JIRA
3 72 (5.66%) Git
4 32 (2.52%) Cypress.io
5 20 (1.57%) TeamCity
6 18 (1.42%) GitLab
6 18 (1.42%) Selenium
6 18 (1.42%) Visual Studio
7 17 (1.34%) Maven
8 16 (1.26%) Rational DOORS
9 12 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 12 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (0.86%) Gradle
10 11 (0.86%) webpack
11 9 (0.71%) HP UFT
11 9 (0.71%) JMeter
11 9 (0.71%) Robot Framework
11 9 (0.71%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.63%) Artifactory
12 8 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 414 (32.55%) Social Skills
2 319 (25.08%) Finance
3 176 (13.84%) Public Sector
4 139 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
5 116 (9.12%) Banking
6 106 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 54 (4.25%) Law
8 37 (2.91%) Manufacturing
8 37 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
9 33 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 33 (2.59%) Investment Banking
10 32 (2.52%) Telecoms
11 31 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (2.36%) Marketing
13 24 (1.89%) Back Office
14 23 (1.81%) Legal
15 22 (1.73%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
16 19 (1.49%) Front Office
17 18 (1.42%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 212 (16.67%) Developer
2 200 (15.72%) Senior
3 183 (14.39%) Lead
4 148 (11.64%) Architect
5 98 (7.70%) Analyst
6 71 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 52 (4.09%) Consultant
8 51 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
9 50 (3.93%) Business Analyst
10 48 (3.77%) Project Manager
11 41 (3.22%) Software Engineer
12 39 (3.07%) Senior Developer
13 35 (2.75%) Lead Developer
13 35 (2.75%) Technical Architect
14 34 (2.67%) Data Engineer
15 31 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
16 30 (2.36%) Java Developer
16 30 (2.36%) Systems Engineer
17 25 (1.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 25 (1.97%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (6.21%) React
2 74 (5.82%) .NET
3 61 (4.80%) REST
4 54 (4.25%) HTML
5 50 (3.93%) CSS
6 49 (3.85%) Kafka
7 47 (3.69%) Node.js
8 40 (3.14%) XML
9 33 (2.59%) Spring
10 31 (2.44%) AngularJS
11 28 (2.20%) GraphQL
12 25 (1.97%) JSON
13 24 (1.89%) SOAP
14 23 (1.81%) AWS CDK
15 21 (1.65%) Redux
15 21 (1.65%) Spring Boot
16 20 (1.57%) Web Services
17 18 (1.42%) LDAP
18 17 (1.34%) OAuth
18 17 (1.34%) Velocity
Miscellaneous
1 67 (5.27%) Product Ownership
2 51 (4.01%) Data Centre
3 48 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 33 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.28%) Public Cloud
6 28 (2.20%) CMDB
7 24 (1.89%) Algorithms
8 23 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.65%) Mobile App
10 19 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
10 19 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (1.42%) PKI
12 16 (1.26%) Hedge funds
13 15 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
14 13 (1.02%) Cloud Native
14 13 (1.02%) Data Structures
15 11 (0.86%) Derivative
15 11 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 78 (6.13%) Windows
2 72 (5.66%) Linux
3 23 (1.81%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (1.73%) Ubuntu
5 19 (1.49%) Unix
6 12 (0.94%) CentOS
7 11 (0.86%) Debian
7 11 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.79%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.47%) Android
9 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.24%) AIX
10 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.24%) Solaris
11 2 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.16%) Fedora
11 2 (0.16%) VMS
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (36.40%) Agile
2 332 (26.10%) Coaching
3 249 (19.58%) DevOps
4 221 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
5 176 (13.84%) CI/CD
6 139 (10.93%) Scrum
7 129 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 126 (9.91%) Project Management
9 118 (9.28%) Roadmaps
10 102 (8.02%) Software Engineering
11 99 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 94 (7.39%) Infrastructure as Code
13 92 (7.23%) Computer Science
14 89 (7.00%) Test Automation
15 82 (6.45%) Microservices
15 82 (6.45%) Project Delivery
16 81 (6.37%) ITIL
17 80 (6.29%) Analytics
17 80 (6.29%) Technical Leadership
18 77 (6.05%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 189 (14.86%) Python
2 181 (14.23%) Java
3 140 (11.01%) SQL
4 121 (9.51%) JavaScript
5 95 (7.47%) C#
6 79 (6.21%) TypeScript
7 49 (3.85%) Bash
7 49 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 40 (3.14%) Shell Script
9 33 (2.59%) C++
10 28 (2.20%) Go
11 19 (1.49%) Scala
12 18 (1.42%) Ruby
13 16 (1.26%) C
14 14 (1.10%) Perl
15 13 (1.02%) Apex Code
16 12 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 11 (0.86%) Groovy
18 10 (0.79%) R
18 10 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 269 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 226 (17.77%) SC Cleared
3 199 (15.64%) Degree
4 69 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
6 53 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 30 (2.36%) CCNP
7 30 (2.36%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.73%) Azure Certification
9 21 (1.65%) CCNA
10 19 (1.49%) CCIE
11 16 (1.26%) CCIE Security
12 14 (1.10%) CISSP
12 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (1.02%) Chartered Engineer
14 12 (0.94%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.86%) CISM
16 10 (0.79%) PMI Certification
16 10 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (4.64%) QA
2 27 (2.12%) Accessibility
2 27 (2.12%) SLA
3 20 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 18 (1.42%) PCI DSS
5 16 (1.26%) NCSC
6 14 (1.10%) NIST
6 14 (1.10%) PMO
7 13 (1.02%) GDPR
8 12 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.24%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.16%) EMIR
13 2 (0.16%) GRC
13 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 88 (6.92%) Docker
2 64 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 36 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.63%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.55%) Postfix
6 7 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.55%) XenDesktop
7 6 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.39%) NFS
8 5 (0.39%) vSphere
9 2 (0.16%) HDFS
9 2 (0.16%) KVM
9 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.16%) Xen
10 1 (0.079%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 1 (0.079%) Firmware
10 1 (0.079%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 114 (8.96%) Terraform
2 88 (6.92%) Kubernetes
3 50 (3.93%) Ansible
4 31 (2.44%) Puppet
5 24 (1.89%) Grafana
6 17 (1.34%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.02%) Packer
8 9 (0.71%) Nessus
9 8 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
9 8 (0.63%) SCCM
9 8 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.55%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.55%) vRealize
11 6 (0.47%) CA Service Virtualization
11 6 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.47%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.47%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.47%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 144 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 84 (6.60%) Oracle
3 58 (4.56%) SAP
4 53 (4.17%) VMware
5 40 (3.14%) Cisco
6 39 (3.07%) Salesforce
7 33 (2.59%) Splunk
8 29 (2.28%) Red Hat
9 28 (2.20%) ServiceNow
10 24 (1.89%) Google
10 24 (1.89%) Sparx
11 16 (1.26%) HP
12 15 (1.18%) F5
12 15 (1.18%) Micro Focus
13 14 (1.10%) Databricks
13 14 (1.10%) Fortinet
13 14 (1.10%) Veeam
14 13 (1.02%) Atlassian
14 13 (1.02%) Juniper
15 12 (0.94%) McAfee