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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 82 78
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,336 915 1,210
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.34% 2.96% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 3.31% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 494 780
10th Percentile £358 £348 £377
25th Percentile £425 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £756 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.19% -3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 56
10th Percentile £28.25 £21.57 £17.89
25th Percentile £41.94 £23.54 £24.75
Median hourly rate £64.00 £27.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year +132.73% -50.63% -14.96%
75th Percentile £77.50 £52.38 £72.44
90th Percentile £81.00 £69.20 £78.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £26.93 £56.49
% change year-on-year +137.70% -52.34% -22.01%

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 34,716 27,671 39,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.89% 89.53% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,993 16,979 25,588
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.43% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,102 844 2,136
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.28
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -2.35% -1.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.29
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.41% -13.00% +7.69%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 15 February 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 1,114 £538 -2.71% 1,560
UK excluding London -1 610 £525 +5.00% 1,291
London +15 543 £550 -9.24% 476
Work from Home +27 437 £538 +2.38% 780
North of England -14 226 £509 +16.90% 367
Midlands +15 128 £450 -14.29% 173
North West -22 107 £460 +15.00% 200
West Midlands +17 104 £508 -18.72% 100
Yorkshire -16 97 £525 -2.33% 122
South East -22 85 £550 -3.51% 406
Scotland +21 69 £540 +2.86% 71
South West -7 64 £550 +4.76% 151
East of England -9 33 £585 +58.64% 101
North East -3 25 £500 +17.65% 49
East Midlands -17 24 £420 -8.50% 74
Wales +8 19 £400 -30.43% 37
Northern Ireland -10 2 £385 +73.42% 13

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 45 (3.37%) Confluence
2 32 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 31 (2.32%) Apache
4 24 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.67%) JBoss
7 9 (0.67%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.45%) CMS
9 5 (0.37%) Drupal
9 5 (0.37%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.30%) nginx
10 4 (0.30%) WordPress
11 3 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.22%) MS Project Server
12 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.15%) SAS
12 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.22%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.075%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.075%) InDesign
7 1 (0.075%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.075%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.075%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.05%) SAP WM
2 13 (0.97%) SAP EWM
3 11 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.75%) SAP HCM
5 7 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.45%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
7 5 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.22%) Kondor
9 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.15%) Maximo
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.15%) Shopify
10 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 397 (29.72%) AWS
2 359 (26.87%) Azure
3 130 (9.73%) GCP
4 102 (7.63%) GitHub
4 102 (7.63%) Serverless
5 85 (6.36%) Power Platform
6 76 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
7 69 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
8 61 (4.57%) Amazon S3
9 53 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 52 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (3.59%) SaaS
12 44 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
13 42 (3.14%) Entra ID
14 33 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 31 (2.32%) Azure Data Factory
17 29 (2.17%) Azure AKS
18 28 (2.10%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 94 (7.04%) Firewall
2 54 (4.04%) DNS
3 32 (2.40%) Network Security
3 32 (2.40%) VPN
4 29 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 28 (2.10%) WAN
6 23 (1.72%) LAN
7 20 (1.50%) DHCP
8 12 (0.90%) Wireless
9 11 (0.82%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.82%) SSL
10 10 (0.75%) VXLAN
11 9 (0.67%) BGP
11 9 (0.67%) OSPF
12 8 (0.60%) HTTP
12 8 (0.60%) NetScaler
13 7 (0.52%) Internet
13 7 (0.52%) VSAN
14 6 (0.45%) MPLS
14 6 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (3.74%) Power BI
3 48 (3.59%) MongoDB
4 43 (3.22%) NoSQL
5 33 (2.47%) Relational Database
6 32 (2.40%) Data Lake
7 30 (2.25%) SQL Server
8 28 (2.10%) Big Data
8 28 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
9 25 (1.87%) DynamoDB
10 21 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
10 21 (1.57%) Metadata
11 18 (1.35%) MySQL
11 18 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
12 17 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (0.97%) BigQuery
14 13 (0.97%) Hadoop
15 12 (0.90%) Delta Lake
16 10 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 137 (10.25%) Jenkins
2 102 (7.63%) Git
3 76 (5.69%) JIRA
4 69 (5.16%) GitLab
5 26 (1.95%) JUnit
6 22 (1.65%) Selenium
7 18 (1.35%) Maven
8 17 (1.27%) Cucumber
9 12 (0.90%) CircleCI
10 11 (0.82%) Mockito
10 11 (0.82%) SonarQube
11 10 (0.75%) Eclipse
11 10 (0.75%) Gradle
12 9 (0.67%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.67%) IntelliJ
12 9 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.60%) Jaeger
14 6 (0.45%) JMeter
14 6 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
14 6 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 505 (37.80%) Social Skills
2 248 (18.56%) Finance
3 206 (15.42%) Public Sector
4 165 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (5.39%) Banking
6 57 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
7 43 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
8 35 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (2.25%) Marketing
11 28 (2.10%) Retail
12 26 (1.95%) Legal
13 22 (1.65%) Military
14 19 (1.42%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.20%) Telecoms
16 14 (1.05%) Front Office
16 14 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (0.82%) Electronics
17 11 (0.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 281 (21.03%) Senior
2 262 (19.61%) Lead
3 216 (16.17%) Architect
4 180 (13.47%) Developer
5 95 (7.11%) Analyst
6 77 (5.76%) Software Engineer
7 75 (5.61%) Consultant
8 53 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
9 50 (3.74%) Java Developer
10 46 (3.44%) Lead Developer
10 46 (3.44%) Senior Developer
11 42 (3.14%) Data Engineer
12 39 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
13 37 (2.77%) Business Analyst
14 35 (2.62%) Technical Leader
15 31 (2.32%) DevOps Engineer
16 29 (2.17%) SAP Consultant
16 29 (2.17%) Technical Architect
17 26 (1.95%) Designer
17 26 (1.95%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (7.34%) Node.js
2 86 (6.44%) Kafka
3 84 (6.29%) REST
4 77 (5.76%) React
5 76 (5.69%) Spring
6 68 (5.09%) Spring Boot
7 66 (4.94%) .NET
8 56 (4.19%) RESTful
9 51 (3.82%) Playwright
10 46 (3.44%) GraphQL
11 41 (3.07%) Middleware
12 39 (2.92%) SOAP
13 38 (2.84%) HTML
14 37 (2.77%) OAuth
14 37 (2.77%) YAML
15 35 (2.62%) PySpark
16 31 (2.32%) Vitest
17 30 (2.25%) AngularJS
17 30 (2.25%) OAuth2
18 28 (2.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 134 (10.03%) Cloud Native
2 90 (6.74%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.47%) Data Structures
6 31 (2.32%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.17%) Algorithms
8 27 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (2.02%) NHS
9 26 (1.95%) Virtual Team
10 25 (1.87%) Mobile App
11 24 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
11 24 (1.80%) Equities
12 19 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 19 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.35%) Derivative
14 17 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (1.05%) Public Cloud
16 13 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 71 (5.31%) Linux
2 67 (5.01%) Windows
3 32 (2.40%) Unix
4 30 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.82%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.67%) VMS
8 8 (0.60%) Android
8 8 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.22%) Solaris
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.075%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (34.13%) Agile
2 398 (29.79%) CI/CD
3 389 (29.12%) Problem-Solving
4 358 (26.80%) DevOps
5 269 (20.13%) Technical Leadership
6 259 (19.39%) Coaching
7 232 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 193 (14.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 193 (14.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 184 (13.77%) Software Engineering
10 182 (13.62%) Microservices
11 162 (12.13%) AI
12 156 (11.68%) Roadmaps
13 148 (11.08%) Containerisation
14 141 (10.55%) Analytics
15 137 (10.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 136 (10.18%) Test Automation
17 121 (9.06%) Data Modelling
18 111 (8.31%) Decision-Making
19 101 (7.56%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 302 (22.60%) Python
2 207 (15.49%) Java
3 176 (13.17%) SQL
4 121 (9.06%) TypeScript
5 105 (7.86%) JavaScript
6 71 (5.31%) PowerShell
7 63 (4.72%) C#
8 53 (3.97%) Bash
9 28 (2.10%) C++
10 20 (1.50%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.27%) Apex Code
11 17 (1.27%) Bicep
12 14 (1.05%) Groovy
12 14 (1.05%) Scala
13 13 (0.97%) ABAP
13 13 (0.97%) Go
14 12 (0.90%) Rust
15 11 (0.82%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.75%) PHP
17 9 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 328 (24.55%) Security Cleared
2 257 (19.24%) SC Cleared
3 178 (13.32%) Degree
4 50 (3.74%) AWS Certification
5 46 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 45 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (3.29%) DV Cleared
8 42 (3.14%) Azure Certification
9 31 (2.32%) Master's Degree
10 29 (2.17%) CISSP
11 26 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (1.42%) CISM
14 18 (1.35%) CCNP
15 15 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (1.12%) SAP Certification
16 12 (0.90%) PMI Certification
17 10 (0.75%) ACCA
17 10 (0.75%) CIMA
17 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (7.34%) QA
2 60 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 56 (4.19%) GDPR
4 54 (4.04%) Data Quality
5 40 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (2.47%) NIST
7 23 (1.72%) PCI DSS
8 22 (1.65%) NCSC
9 18 (1.35%) SLA
10 13 (0.97%) PMO
10 13 (0.97%) WCAG
11 10 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 9 (0.67%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.60%) GAAP
14 7 (0.52%) IFRS
14 7 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
15 5 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 209 (15.64%) Docker
2 66 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.05%) vSphere
5 12 (0.90%) Firmware
6 11 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.52%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.22%) Postfix
10 3 (0.22%) Xen
11 2 (0.15%) NFS
11 2 (0.15%) Varnish
12 1 (0.075%) HDFS
12 1 (0.075%) KVM
12 1 (0.075%) RHEV
12 1 (0.075%) zsh
Systems Management
1 208 (15.57%) Terraform
2 187 (14.00%) Kubernetes
3 81 (6.06%) Ansible
4 58 (4.34%) Grafana
5 47 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (0.90%) Puppet
10 9 (0.67%) Argo
11 8 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.60%) Kiali
11 8 (0.60%) SCCM
12 5 (0.37%) VxRail
13 4 (0.30%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.30%) vRealize
14 3 (0.22%) CloudHub
14 3 (0.22%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.15%) Istio
Vendors
1 204 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.34%) Google
2 58 (4.34%) Oracle
3 57 (4.27%) SAP
3 57 (4.27%) Splunk
4 52 (3.89%) Databricks
5 41 (3.07%) Salesforce
5 41 (3.07%) ServiceNow
6 34 (2.54%) Cisco
7 30 (2.25%) VMware
8 28 (2.10%) Palo Alto
9 25 (1.87%) F5
10 18 (1.35%) CheckPoint
11 16 (1.20%) Fortinet
12 14 (1.05%) Apple
12 14 (1.05%) Red Hat
13 13 (0.97%) AppDynamics
13 13 (0.97%) IBM
14 11 (0.82%) Dynatrace
14 11 (0.82%) MuleSoft