Mentoring Contract Job Trends

Mentorship
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Mentoring skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 91 89
Rank change year-on-year +22 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,182 969 1,321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.59% 2.51% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 2.94% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 604 861
10th Percentile £330 £375 £380
25th Percentile £413 £475 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £552 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -3.25% -2.98%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £700 £825 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -12.27% +3.29% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 25 42
10th Percentile £16.67 £28.37 £36.63
25th Percentile £23.78 £37.50 £52.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £56.91
Median % change year-on-year - -7.75% +8.40%
75th Percentile £81.00 £63.75 £77.31
90th Percentile £87.63 £70.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £56.49 £56.49
% change year-on-year -11.49% - +10.22%

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 29,787 32,986 45,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.50% 85.58% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,511 20,413 30,693
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £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 1,790 1,498 1,548
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.68
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.55% +46.42%
75th Percentile £43.94 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -47.67% +7.50% +73.91%

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
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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +13 979 £525 -8.70% 3,421
UK excluding London +8 540 £483 -12.27% 2,853
London +38 513 £550 -8.33% 1,208
Work from Home +27 393 £525 -8.70% 1,838
North of England -9 169 £496 +0.66% 719
North West -7 96 £468 +3.89% 396
South East +14 92 £500 -9.09% 898
Scotland +29 81 £475 -4.43% 172
Midlands -20 76 £463 -19.57% 441
South West +26 72 £539 -21.92% 292
Yorkshire -13 68 £507 -9.46% 248
West Midlands -23 47 £525 -16.00% 227
East of England +10 30 £497 +21.10% 272
East Midlands -5 29 £447 +11.75% 196
Wales +21 22 £312 -45.74% 79
North East -5 5 £563 +6.23% 87
Northern Ireland -15 4 £410 -2.84% 36

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 28 (2.37%) Confluence
2 24 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 22 (1.86%) Apache
4 20 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.35%) CMS
6 9 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.51%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.51%) SAS
8 5 (0.42%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.42%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.25%) Alfresco
9 3 (0.25%) Camunda
9 3 (0.25%) CICS
9 3 (0.25%) Drupal
9 3 (0.25%) Oracle Service Bus
9 3 (0.25%) WordPress
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (1.10%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.85%) Siemens NX
4 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.17%) Trello
7 1 (0.085%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.085%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.085%) DaVinci Resolve
7 1 (0.085%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 12 (1.02%) SAP WM
2 11 (0.93%) SAP EWM
3 10 (0.85%) Teamcenter
4 9 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.42%) Shopify
7 4 (0.34%) Magento
7 4 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.34%) Primavera
7 4 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.34%) SAP HCM
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.17%) Actimize
9 2 (0.17%) BASE24
9 2 (0.17%) Endur
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 307 (25.97%) AWS
2 302 (25.55%) Azure
3 92 (7.78%) GCP
4 89 (7.53%) Serverless
5 74 (6.26%) AWS Lambda
6 72 (6.09%) Amazon S3
7 62 (5.25%) GitHub
8 58 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (4.40%) Power Platform
10 46 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
11 39 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 39 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 39 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (3.05%) Entra ID
13 33 (2.79%) SaaS
14 32 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (2.71%) Amazon ECS
15 28 (2.37%) AWS Step Functions
16 27 (2.28%) Snowflake
17 26 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.06%) Firewall
2 35 (2.96%) VPN
3 34 (2.88%) Network Security
4 31 (2.62%) DNS
5 23 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.69%) WAN
7 19 (1.61%) LAN
8 17 (1.44%) Wireless
9 15 (1.27%) DHCP
10 11 (0.93%) SSL
11 10 (0.85%) HTTPS
12 9 (0.76%) iSCSI
12 9 (0.76%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.59%) BGP
13 7 (0.59%) Fibre Channel
13 7 (0.59%) HTTP
13 7 (0.59%) OSPF
14 6 (0.51%) 4G
14 6 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (0.51%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (3.98%) DynamoDB
3 41 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (3.21%) NoSQL
4 38 (3.21%) SQL Server
5 37 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 37 (3.13%) MongoDB
6 32 (2.71%) Power BI
7 25 (2.12%) MySQL
8 24 (2.03%) Big Data
9 23 (1.95%) Redis
10 19 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (1.61%) Relational Database
11 17 (1.44%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.18%) Oracle Database
13 13 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (1.02%) Data Lake
15 11 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 10 (0.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 127 (10.74%) Git
2 111 (9.39%) Jenkins
3 87 (7.36%) JIRA
4 49 (4.15%) GitLab
5 24 (2.03%) Maven
5 24 (2.03%) SonarQube
6 20 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 19 (1.61%) JUnit
8 17 (1.44%) Selenium
9 16 (1.35%) SoapUI
10 14 (1.18%) Gradle
11 11 (0.93%) Mockito
11 11 (0.93%) Postman
11 11 (0.93%) REST Assured
12 10 (0.85%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.76%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.59%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.59%) Subversion
15 6 (0.51%) Xcode
15 6 (0.51%) XCTest
General
1 395 (33.42%) Social Skills
2 233 (19.71%) Finance
3 179 (15.14%) Public Sector
4 169 (14.30%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (6.26%) Banking
6 50 (4.23%) Manufacturing
7 48 (4.06%) Marketing
8 40 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (2.20%) Telecoms
12 21 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (1.69%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.44%) Military
15 16 (1.35%) Law
16 15 (1.27%) Legal
17 14 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (1.10%) Back Office
18 13 (1.10%) Financial Institution
18 13 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 232 (19.63%) Senior
2 230 (19.46%) Lead
3 195 (16.50%) Developer
4 173 (14.64%) Architect
5 61 (5.16%) Software Engineer
6 59 (4.99%) Senior Developer
7 56 (4.74%) Consultant
8 53 (4.48%) Analyst
9 47 (3.98%) Technical Leader
10 43 (3.64%) Data Engineer
11 40 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
12 38 (3.21%) Technical Architect
13 36 (3.05%) Lead Developer
14 35 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
15 34 (2.88%) Java Developer
16 32 (2.71%) Designer
17 28 (2.37%) DevOps Engineer
18 24 (2.03%) Principal Engineer
19 23 (1.95%) Senior Software Engineer
19 23 (1.95%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (7.11%) React
2 77 (6.51%) Node.js
2 77 (6.51%) RESTful
3 70 (5.92%) Kafka
4 62 (5.25%) .NET
5 56 (4.74%) Spring Boot
6 53 (4.48%) HTML
6 53 (4.48%) Spring
7 52 (4.40%) REST
8 47 (3.98%) SOAP
9 46 (3.89%) GraphQL
10 45 (3.81%) CSS
11 37 (3.13%) OAuth
12 35 (2.96%) AngularJS
13 34 (2.88%) Web Services
14 26 (2.20%) XML
15 22 (1.86%) Playwright
16 21 (1.78%) OAuth2
17 20 (1.69%) React Native
18 19 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 93 (7.87%) Cloud Native
2 81 (6.85%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.38%) Management Information System
4 33 (2.79%) Mobile App
5 32 (2.71%) Onboarding
6 31 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
7 28 (2.37%) Public Cloud
8 24 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
8 24 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 23 (1.95%) Data Structures
10 21 (1.78%) Algorithms
10 21 (1.78%) Security Posture
11 19 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (1.61%) PKI
12 16 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
13 14 (1.18%) Data Centre
14 13 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.10%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 74 (6.26%) Windows
2 69 (5.84%) Linux
3 33 (2.79%) Unix
3 33 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 30 (2.54%) Android
5 17 (1.44%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.42%) Windows 8
8 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (0.42%) Windows XP
9 4 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.34%) VMS
10 3 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.17%) SUSE
12 1 (0.085%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.085%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (38.83%) Agile
2 342 (28.93%) Problem-Solving
3 292 (24.70%) CI/CD
4 270 (22.84%) DevOps
5 213 (18.02%) Coaching
6 203 (17.17%) Technical Leadership
7 159 (13.45%) Software Engineering
8 150 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 140 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 124 (10.49%) Test Automation
11 119 (10.07%) Microservices
11 119 (10.07%) Roadmaps
12 117 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 109 (9.22%) Containerisation
14 106 (8.97%) Scrum
15 99 (8.38%) Analytics
16 87 (7.36%) User Experience
17 81 (6.85%) Computer Science
18 76 (6.43%) Performance Optimisation
19 74 (6.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 219 (18.53%) Python
2 179 (15.14%) Java
3 147 (12.44%) SQL
4 135 (11.42%) JavaScript
5 96 (8.12%) TypeScript
6 58 (4.91%) C#
7 41 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 36 (3.05%) Bash
9 28 (2.37%) Kotlin
10 25 (2.12%) Apex Code
11 24 (2.03%) C++
12 20 (1.69%) Go
13 16 (1.35%) Scala
14 12 (1.02%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.85%) Bicep
15 10 (0.85%) PHP
16 9 (0.76%) Groovy
17 8 (0.68%) Swift
18 7 (0.59%) COBOL
19 6 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 242 (20.47%) Security Cleared
2 165 (13.96%) SC Cleared
3 159 (13.45%) Degree
4 63 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 47 (3.98%) DV Cleared
7 36 (3.05%) Master's Degree
8 34 (2.88%) Azure Certification
9 25 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (1.52%) CISSP
13 17 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (1.10%) SAP Certification
15 12 (1.02%) CCNP
15 12 (1.02%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.76%) PMP
17 8 (0.68%) CISM
18 7 (0.59%) OCP
18 7 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (5.41%) GDPR
2 63 (5.33%) QA
3 49 (4.15%) Accessibility
4 48 (4.06%) Data Quality
5 36 (3.05%) NIST
6 32 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 20 (1.69%) SLA
9 14 (1.18%) WCAG
10 12 (1.02%) PMO
11 11 (0.93%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.85%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.76%) NCSC
14 8 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.59%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
16 6 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 4 (0.34%) GRC
System Software
1 153 (12.94%) Docker
2 59 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.76%) vSphere
5 8 (0.68%) Firmware
5 8 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.59%) NFS
7 6 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.42%) HDFS
8 5 (0.42%) zsh
9 4 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.085%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.085%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.085%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.085%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 154 (13.03%) Terraform
2 148 (12.52%) Kubernetes
3 36 (3.05%) Ansible
4 23 (1.95%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.78%) Grafana
6 17 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.10%) SCCM
9 9 (0.76%) Argo
9 9 (0.76%) Puppet
10 7 (0.59%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.51%) Istio
12 4 (0.34%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.25%) Control-M
13 3 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
13 3 (0.25%) Kibana
13 3 (0.25%) Oozie
13 3 (0.25%) QRadar
14 2 (0.17%) OpenView
14 2 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 170 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.99%) Oracle
3 53 (4.48%) SAP
4 46 (3.89%) Salesforce
5 40 (3.38%) Google
5 40 (3.38%) ServiceNow
6 32 (2.71%) Splunk
7 30 (2.54%) VMware
8 22 (1.86%) Cisco
9 20 (1.69%) Databricks
10 17 (1.44%) IBM
11 13 (1.10%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.02%) F5
13 11 (0.93%) NetApp
13 11 (0.93%) Siemens
14 10 (0.85%) ForgeRock
15 9 (0.76%) CheckPoint
15 9 (0.76%) Veeam
16 8 (0.68%) Adobe
17 7 (0.59%) Citrix