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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 75 79
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +16
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,232 936 1,179
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.33% 2.97% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 3.34% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 763 516 757
10th Percentile £363 £350 £381
25th Percentile £439 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £571 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% +2.01% -4.44%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £523 £537
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.61% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 21 53
10th Percentile £24.96 £22.00 £17.88
25th Percentile £39.74 £23.60 £38.75
Median hourly rate £58.75 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +67.86% -38.04% +31.37%
75th Percentile £74.69 £53.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.30 £68.75 £78.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £27.43 £56.49
% change year-on-year +127.89% -51.45% -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 32,398 27,994 37,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.63% 88.92% 87.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,495 16,988 25,007
10th Percentile £305 £307 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,977 897 1,738
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.62 £14.02
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.94 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £38.85
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -16.34% +19.54%
75th Percentile £57.00 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.92 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.83 £40.28
% change year-on-year -22.15% -23.46% +54.90%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 1,047 £550 -4.35% 2,940
UK excluding London -13 560 £525 +0.48% 2,794
London +3 504 £550 -10.93% 613
Work from Home +20 408 £537 -2.45% 1,447
North of England -7 221 £519 +18.57% 569
Midlands +8 112 £450 -25.00% 329
North West -23 101 £455 +13.75% 261
Yorkshire -6 98 £537 -6.20% 226
West Midlands +5 84 £520 -16.80% 116
South East -30 77 £525 -4.55% 863
South West +3 62 £550 +6.28% 355
Scotland +21 60 £525 +0.48% 131
East of England -5 29 £585 +58.64% 429
East Midlands -13 28 £423 +5.63% 206
North East -7 25 £500 +17.65% 85
Wales -3 10 £400 -30.43% 141
Northern Ireland -14 1 - - 53

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 38 (3.08%) Confluence
2 26 (2.11%) Apache
3 25 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.81%) JBoss
6 10 (0.81%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.65%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.49%) CMS
9 5 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.24%) Drupal
11 3 (0.24%) SAS
12 2 (0.16%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.16%) MS Project Server
12 2 (0.16%) nginx
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.57%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.24%) LaTeX
6 3 (0.24%) 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 (1.14%) SAP WM
2 13 (1.06%) SAP EWM
3 12 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.89%) SAP HCM
5 6 (0.49%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.24%) Kondor
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
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 (29.46%) AWS
2 326 (26.46%) Azure
3 114 (9.25%) GCP
4 100 (8.12%) GitHub
5 94 (7.63%) Serverless
6 75 (6.09%) Power Platform
7 69 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
9 49 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (3.90%) SaaS
11 47 (3.81%) Amazon S3
11 47 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 42 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
13 41 (3.33%) Entra ID
14 34 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (2.76%) Datadog
15 32 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 30 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
16 30 (2.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (7.39%) Firewall
2 51 (4.14%) DNS
3 35 (2.84%) VPN
4 30 (2.44%) Network Security
5 29 (2.35%) TCP/IP
6 26 (2.11%) WAN
7 18 (1.46%) DHCP
8 17 (1.38%) LAN
9 13 (1.06%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.97%) SSL
10 12 (0.97%) Wireless
11 10 (0.81%) BGP
11 10 (0.81%) OSPF
11 10 (0.81%) VXLAN
12 8 (0.65%) VLAN
13 7 (0.57%) MPLS
13 7 (0.57%) VSAN
14 6 (0.49%) Internet
14 6 (0.49%) NetScaler
14 6 (0.49%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (4.22%) NoSQL
3 50 (4.06%) MongoDB
4 44 (3.57%) Power BI
5 29 (2.35%) DynamoDB
6 28 (2.27%) Data Lake
7 26 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (2.11%) Relational Database
8 25 (2.03%) Big Data
8 25 (2.03%) SQL Server
9 23 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (1.46%) BigQuery
10 18 (1.46%) Oracle Reports
11 17 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.30%) MySQL
13 14 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (1.14%) Metadata
14 13 (1.06%) Redis
15 12 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 138 (11.20%) Jenkins
2 110 (8.93%) Git
3 74 (6.01%) JIRA
4 65 (5.28%) GitLab
5 25 (2.03%) Selenium
6 24 (1.95%) JUnit
7 22 (1.79%) Maven
8 17 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.30%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.22%) Gradle
11 12 (0.97%) CircleCI
12 11 (0.89%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.81%) Mockito
14 9 (0.73%) Eclipse
14 9 (0.73%) IntelliJ
15 8 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
16 7 (0.57%) Jaeger
17 6 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
17 6 (0.49%) Postman
18 5 (0.41%) SpecFlow
General
1 466 (37.82%) Social Skills
2 230 (18.67%) Finance
3 193 (15.67%) Public Sector
4 157 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (6.17%) Banking
6 50 (4.06%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
8 37 (3.00%) Marketing
9 30 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (1.87%) Military
12 22 (1.79%) Legal
12 22 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.79%) Retail
13 14 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.14%) Telecoms
14 12 (0.97%) Aerospace
14 12 (0.97%) Electronics
15 11 (0.89%) Law
16 10 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 259 (21.02%) Senior
2 233 (18.91%) Lead
3 216 (17.53%) Architect
4 157 (12.74%) Developer
5 87 (7.06%) Analyst
6 72 (5.84%) Consultant
7 67 (5.44%) Software Engineer
8 50 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
9 41 (3.33%) Java Developer
10 38 (3.08%) Data Engineer
10 38 (3.08%) Senior Developer
11 37 (3.00%) Technical Architect
12 36 (2.92%) Lead Developer
13 35 (2.84%) Business Analyst
13 35 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
14 33 (2.68%) Technical Leader
15 32 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
16 28 (2.27%) SAP Consultant
17 25 (2.03%) Senior Software Engineer
18 24 (1.95%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.57%) Kafka
1 81 (6.57%) Node.js
2 67 (5.44%) REST
3 65 (5.28%) Spring
4 64 (5.19%) .NET
5 61 (4.95%) React
5 61 (4.95%) Spring Boot
6 58 (4.71%) RESTful
7 51 (4.14%) GraphQL
7 51 (4.14%) Playwright
8 38 (3.08%) HTML
9 36 (2.92%) Middleware
9 36 (2.92%) YAML
10 34 (2.76%) OAuth
10 34 (2.76%) SOAP
11 31 (2.52%) Vitest
12 30 (2.44%) PySpark
13 28 (2.27%) JSON
14 27 (2.19%) OAuth2
14 27 (2.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 122 (9.90%) Cloud Native
2 96 (7.79%) Product Ownership
3 47 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (2.68%) Management Information System
5 31 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.35%) Algorithms
7 27 (2.19%) Data Structures
8 26 (2.11%) Data Centre
9 25 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (2.03%) Virtual Team
10 23 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (1.87%) NHS
10 23 (1.87%) Public Cloud
11 21 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.62%) Mobile App
13 15 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.14%) Security Posture
14 14 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 70 (5.68%) Linux
2 64 (5.19%) Windows
3 34 (2.76%) Unix
4 31 (2.52%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.73%) VMS
7 8 (0.65%) Android
8 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.081%) CentOS
12 1 (0.081%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (35.88%) Agile
2 364 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
3 358 (29.06%) CI/CD
4 324 (26.30%) DevOps
5 244 (19.81%) Coaching
6 230 (18.67%) Technical Leadership
7 210 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 178 (14.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 174 (14.12%) Software Engineering
10 173 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 162 (13.15%) Microservices
12 152 (12.34%) Roadmaps
13 140 (11.36%) Containerisation
14 136 (11.04%) AI
15 127 (10.31%) Test Automation
16 118 (9.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 116 (9.42%) Analytics
18 101 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
19 99 (8.04%) Data Modelling
20 93 (7.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 260 (21.10%) Python
2 189 (15.34%) Java
3 155 (12.58%) SQL
4 101 (8.20%) TypeScript
5 92 (7.47%) JavaScript
6 64 (5.19%) PowerShell
7 56 (4.55%) C#
8 54 (4.38%) Bash
9 32 (2.60%) C++
10 16 (1.30%) Bicep
10 16 (1.30%) Scala
11 14 (1.14%) Apex Code
11 14 (1.14%) Go
11 14 (1.14%) Groovy
12 13 (1.06%) Kotlin
13 12 (0.97%) ABAP
14 11 (0.89%) Rust
15 10 (0.81%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.65%) Ruby
17 6 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 293 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 220 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 157 (12.74%) Degree
4 48 (3.90%) AWS Certification
5 45 (3.65%) DV Cleared
6 40 (3.25%) Azure Certification
6 40 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (2.60%) CISSP
8 26 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.54%) CISM
10 19 (1.54%) Master's Degree
11 15 (1.22%) CCNP
11 15 (1.22%) SAP Certification
12 14 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (1.06%) PMI Certification
14 12 (0.97%) MCP
15 10 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.73%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (7.06%) QA
2 64 (5.19%) GDPR
3 50 (4.06%) Accessibility
4 47 (3.81%) Data Quality
5 42 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (3.17%) NIST
7 26 (2.11%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.46%) NCSC
9 17 (1.38%) SLA
10 14 (1.14%) WCAG
11 13 (1.06%) PMO
12 12 (0.97%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.49%) SOC 2
17 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
17 5 (0.41%) GAAP
17 5 (0.41%) IFRS
System Software
1 205 (16.64%) Docker
2 64 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.06%) vSphere
6 12 (0.97%) Firmware
7 8 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.57%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.24%) HDFS
10 3 (0.24%) NFS
10 3 (0.24%) Xen
11 2 (0.16%) Varnish
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.16%) zsh
12 1 (0.081%) KVM
12 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.081%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 188 (15.26%) Terraform
2 178 (14.45%) Kubernetes
3 78 (6.33%) Ansible
4 48 (3.90%) Grafana
5 41 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.97%) Puppet
9 9 (0.73%) Argo
10 7 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.57%) Kiali
11 6 (0.49%) SCCM
12 5 (0.41%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.41%) VxRail
13 4 (0.32%) vRealize
14 3 (0.24%) CloudHub
14 3 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
14 3 (0.24%) Oozie
14 3 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 184 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.38%) SAP
3 52 (4.22%) Splunk
4 48 (3.90%) Oracle
5 45 (3.65%) Google
6 42 (3.41%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.33%) Salesforce
8 40 (3.25%) Databricks
9 36 (2.92%) Cisco
10 32 (2.60%) VMware
11 27 (2.19%) Palo Alto
12 22 (1.79%) F5
13 17 (1.38%) CheckPoint
14 14 (1.14%) AppDynamics
14 14 (1.14%) Fortinet
15 13 (1.06%) Apple
16 12 (0.97%) Dynatrace
17 11 (0.89%) IBM
18 10 (0.81%) Red Hat
18 10 (0.81%) SolarWinds