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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 78 77
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,241 940 1,205
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.26% 3.02% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 3.39% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 765 521 778
10th Percentile £363 £350 £396
25th Percentile £429 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% +0.91% -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £659
90th Percentile £738 £756 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £534
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.62% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 19 54
10th Percentile £24.96 £21.57 £17.93
25th Percentile £39.74 £23.54 £35.94
Median hourly rate £58.75 £27.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +113.64% -51.32% +31.37%
75th Percentile £74.69 £52.38 £73.31
90th Percentile £80.30 £69.20 £78.63
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 33,264 27,700 38,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.38% 89.09% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,060 16,780 25,534
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £643
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,011 875 1,974
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.72% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.43 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.80% -18.85% +44.23%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 1,049 £550 -4.35% 2,759
UK excluding London -13 568 £525 +0.96% 2,574
London 0 499 £550 -10.20% 635
Work from Home +12 403 £540 +2.92% 1,463
North of England -13 223 £519 +17.97% 542
Midlands +8 117 £450 -20.00% 310
Yorkshire -7 101 £537 -2.36% 201
North West -28 100 £468 +16.88% 262
West Midlands +14 91 £514 -16.90% 118
South East -37 76 £513 -6.82% 816
South West -2 63 £550 +4.76% 338
Scotland +19 59 £535 +2.15% 123
East of England -6 30 £585 +58.64% 362
East Midlands -16 26 £425 +3.00% 186
North East -7 25 £500 +17.65% 81
Wales -2 10 £400 -30.43% 117
Northern Ireland -13 2 £385 +30.95% 42

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 (3.22%) Confluence
2 24 (1.93%) Apache
2 24 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.81%) JBoss
5 10 (0.81%) WebLogic
6 9 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.48%) CMS
8 5 (0.40%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.24%) Drupal
10 3 (0.24%) MS Project Server
10 3 (0.24%) nginx
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.16%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.64%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.24%) LaTeX
7 2 (0.16%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.081%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.081%) InDesign
8 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (1.13%) SAP WM
2 13 (1.05%) SAP EWM
3 12 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.89%) 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
6 5 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.24%) Kondor
8 3 (0.24%) Maximo
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.16%) Shopify
9 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 363 (29.25%) AWS
2 320 (25.79%) Azure
3 113 (9.11%) GCP
4 100 (8.06%) Serverless
5 98 (7.90%) GitHub
6 74 (5.96%) Power Platform
7 70 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
10 54 (4.35%) Amazon S3
11 51 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 48 (3.87%) SaaS
13 40 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
14 37 (2.98%) Entra ID
15 36 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 35 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 33 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
17 33 (2.66%) Datadog
18 32 (2.58%) PaaS
19 31 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (7.25%) Firewall
2 53 (4.27%) DNS
3 35 (2.82%) VPN
4 30 (2.42%) TCP/IP
5 28 (2.26%) Network Security
6 25 (2.01%) WAN
7 19 (1.53%) LAN
8 18 (1.45%) DHCP
9 13 (1.05%) Wireless
10 12 (0.97%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.97%) SSL
11 8 (0.64%) BGP
11 8 (0.64%) OSPF
11 8 (0.64%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.56%) Internet
12 7 (0.56%) NetScaler
12 7 (0.56%) VLAN
12 7 (0.56%) VSAN
13 6 (0.48%) MPLS
13 6 (0.48%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (3.95%) MongoDB
2 49 (3.95%) NoSQL
3 45 (3.63%) Power BI
4 29 (2.34%) DynamoDB
5 27 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (2.18%) Relational Database
6 26 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.10%) Data Lake
7 24 (1.93%) SQL Server
8 23 (1.85%) Big Data
9 19 (1.53%) BigQuery
10 18 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
11 17 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.29%) MySQL
13 15 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.05%) Redis
15 12 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (0.89%) Metadata
16 11 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 140 (11.28%) Jenkins
2 102 (8.22%) Git
3 72 (5.80%) JIRA
4 65 (5.24%) GitLab
5 24 (1.93%) Selenium
6 23 (1.85%) JUnit
7 22 (1.77%) Maven
8 17 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.29%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.13%) Gradle
11 12 (0.97%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.81%) Eclipse
13 9 (0.73%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.73%) IntelliJ
13 9 (0.73%) Mockito
13 9 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.64%) Jaeger
15 6 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
15 6 (0.48%) Postman
16 4 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 478 (38.52%) Social Skills
2 229 (18.45%) Finance
3 195 (15.71%) Public Sector
4 146 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (5.88%) Banking
6 52 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
7 41 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (2.74%) Marketing
9 32 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.93%) Retail
12 23 (1.85%) Military
13 22 (1.77%) Legal
14 21 (1.69%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.21%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.13%) Telecoms
17 12 (0.97%) Electronics
18 11 (0.89%) Aerospace
18 11 (0.89%) Law
19 10 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 260 (20.95%) Senior
2 234 (18.86%) Lead
3 216 (17.41%) Architect
4 158 (12.73%) Developer
5 82 (6.61%) Analyst
6 71 (5.72%) Consultant
7 66 (5.32%) Software Engineer
8 53 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
9 43 (3.46%) Java Developer
10 41 (3.30%) Senior Developer
11 39 (3.14%) Data Engineer
12 37 (2.98%) Lead Developer
13 36 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
14 35 (2.82%) Technical Architect
15 33 (2.66%) Business Analyst
16 32 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
16 32 (2.58%) Technical Leader
17 28 (2.26%) SAP Consultant
18 24 (1.93%) Principal Engineer
19 23 (1.85%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.53%) Node.js
2 80 (6.45%) Kafka
3 70 (5.64%) REST
4 65 (5.24%) Spring
5 64 (5.16%) .NET
6 63 (5.08%) React
7 62 (5.00%) Spring Boot
8 60 (4.83%) RESTful
9 50 (4.03%) GraphQL
10 49 (3.95%) Playwright
11 42 (3.38%) Middleware
12 37 (2.98%) HTML
12 37 (2.98%) SOAP
12 37 (2.98%) YAML
13 33 (2.66%) OAuth
14 31 (2.50%) Vitest
15 29 (2.34%) PySpark
16 28 (2.26%) JSON
17 27 (2.18%) OAuth2
17 27 (2.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 126 (10.15%) Cloud Native
2 98 (7.90%) Product Ownership
3 48 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (2.34%) Management Information System
5 28 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.18%) Algorithms
6 27 (2.18%) Virtual Team
7 26 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (2.01%) Data Structures
9 24 (1.93%) NHS
10 21 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 19 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.45%) Mobile App
14 17 (1.37%) Public Cloud
15 16 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
17 13 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
17 13 (1.05%) Equities
17 13 (1.05%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (5.64%) Linux
2 62 (5.00%) Windows
3 35 (2.82%) Unix
4 30 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.73%) VMS
7 6 (0.48%) Android
7 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.32%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.16%) Solaris
11 1 (0.081%) CentOS
11 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (35.05%) Agile
2 368 (29.65%) Problem-Solving
3 360 (29.01%) CI/CD
4 335 (26.99%) DevOps
5 247 (19.90%) Technical Leadership
6 244 (19.66%) Coaching
7 220 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 181 (14.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 170 (13.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 170 (13.70%) Software Engineering
10 164 (13.22%) Microservices
11 150 (12.09%) Roadmaps
12 142 (11.44%) Containerisation
13 138 (11.12%) AI
14 126 (10.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 123 (9.91%) Test Automation
16 114 (9.19%) Analytics
17 106 (8.54%) Data Modelling
18 100 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
19 98 (7.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 267 (21.51%) Python
2 194 (15.63%) Java
3 158 (12.73%) SQL
4 100 (8.06%) TypeScript
5 92 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 66 (5.32%) PowerShell
7 58 (4.67%) C#
8 54 (4.35%) Bash
9 31 (2.50%) C++
10 19 (1.53%) Apex Code
11 16 (1.29%) Bicep
12 14 (1.13%) Groovy
12 14 (1.13%) Scala
13 13 (1.05%) ABAP
13 13 (1.05%) Go
14 12 (0.97%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.97%) Rust
15 11 (0.89%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.64%) Ruby
17 7 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 295 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 223 (17.97%) SC Cleared
3 161 (12.97%) Degree
4 48 (3.87%) AWS Certification
5 42 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (3.06%) DV Cleared
8 35 (2.82%) Azure Certification
9 29 (2.34%) CISSP
10 25 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (1.61%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.53%) CISM
13 16 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (1.29%) CCNP
14 15 (1.21%) SAP Certification
15 13 (1.05%) PMI Certification
16 12 (0.97%) MCP
17 9 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
18 8 (0.64%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (7.57%) QA
2 58 (4.67%) GDPR
3 49 (3.95%) Accessibility
4 43 (3.46%) Data Quality
5 39 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (2.82%) NIST
7 23 (1.85%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.61%) NCSC
9 18 (1.45%) SLA
10 14 (1.13%) PMO
11 13 (1.05%) WCAG
12 11 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 11 (0.89%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.48%) GAAP
14 6 (0.48%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
15 5 (0.40%) IFRS
System Software
1 206 (16.60%) Docker
2 62 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.05%) vSphere
6 12 (0.97%) Firmware
7 9 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.56%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.32%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.24%) Xen
12 2 (0.16%) NFS
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.16%) Varnish
13 1 (0.081%) HDFS
13 1 (0.081%) KVM
13 1 (0.081%) Postfix
13 1 (0.081%) RHEV
13 1 (0.081%) zsh
Systems Management
1 194 (15.63%) Terraform
2 176 (14.18%) Kubernetes
3 81 (6.53%) Ansible
4 48 (3.87%) Grafana
5 45 (3.63%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 13 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.97%) Puppet
9 9 (0.73%) Argo
10 8 (0.64%) Kiali
11 7 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.56%) SCCM
12 5 (0.40%) VxRail
13 4 (0.32%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.32%) vRealize
14 3 (0.24%) CloudHub
14 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
14 3 (0.24%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 185 (14.91%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.75%) SAP
3 52 (4.19%) Splunk
4 51 (4.11%) Oracle
5 47 (3.79%) Google
6 43 (3.46%) Salesforce
7 42 (3.38%) ServiceNow
8 40 (3.22%) Databricks
9 34 (2.74%) Cisco
10 31 (2.50%) VMware
11 27 (2.18%) Palo Alto
12 25 (2.01%) F5
13 18 (1.45%) CheckPoint
14 15 (1.21%) Fortinet
15 14 (1.13%) AppDynamics
15 14 (1.13%) Apple
16 13 (1.05%) IBM
16 13 (1.05%) Red Hat
17 12 (0.97%) Dynatrace
18 10 (0.81%) MuleSoft