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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 80 81
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,367 870 1,123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.90% 2.98% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 3.28% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 544 744
10th Percentile £331 £313 £390
25th Percentile £422 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £656
90th Percentile £748 £738 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +6.95% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 15 34
10th Percentile £27.65 £22.59 £15.17
25th Percentile £49.19 £25.01 £22.01
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% +26.67% -50.00%
75th Percentile £86.55 £86.08 £49.22
90th Percentile £96.75 £92.50 £57.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.50 £27.35 £31.00
% change year-on-year +154.11% -11.77% -58.67%

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 39,921 26,554 37,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 90.86% 86.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,152 17,143 24,256
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +1.04% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,393 1,068 2,439
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.81 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.95% -16.94% -6.17%
75th Percentile £66.00 £62.24 £59.95
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.71 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.52% -23.29% +1.39%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -5 1,160 £525 -0.94% 1,423
UK excluding London -7 602 £508 +6.95% 1,130
London -1 585 £550 -4.35% 514
Work from Home +12 437 £525 -2.78% 649
North of England -19 191 £510 +7.37% 336
Midlands +10 134 £475 +2.70% 163
South East -1 106 £550 +11.68% 313
West Midlands +10 100 £500 -4.76% 93
North West -21 97 £481 +6.06% 181
Yorkshire -22 73 £525 -6.67% 104
Scotland -2 61 £530 +0.95% 67
South West -15 59 £498 -0.50% 128
East of England -17 40 £519 +29.69% 103
East Midlands -11 33 £402 -12.70% 70
North East +1 26 £472 -11.66% 54
Wales -18 16 £400 +20.78% 29
Northern Ireland 0 4 £385 -6.10% 20

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 46 (3.37%) Confluence
2 39 (2.85%) Apache Spark
3 22 (1.61%) Apache
3 22 (1.61%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.51%) CMS
7 6 (0.44%) nginx
8 5 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.37%) SAS
9 4 (0.29%) Drupal
9 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.22%) MS Project Server
10 3 (0.22%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.22%) WordPress
11 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.15%) OpenEdge
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.073%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 25 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.15%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.073%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.073%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.073%) InDesign
9 1 (0.073%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.073%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.073%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.44%) SAP HCM
4 5 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
4 5 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.29%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.15%) Maximo
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.15%) Primavera
7 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.073%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 394 (28.82%) Azure
2 392 (28.68%) AWS
3 156 (11.41%) GCP
4 107 (7.83%) GitHub
5 103 (7.53%) Serverless
6 96 (7.02%) Power Platform
7 83 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (3.80%) Entra ID
10 50 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 48 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
12 46 (3.37%) Amazon S3
12 46 (3.37%) Azure AKS
13 45 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (3.00%) SaaS
15 28 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (1.90%) Azure Functions
17 25 (1.83%) Datadog
18 24 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 79 (5.78%) Firewall
2 41 (3.00%) DNS
2 41 (3.00%) WAN
3 23 (1.68%) LAN
3 23 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 20 (1.46%) VPN
5 19 (1.39%) BGP
6 18 (1.32%) DHCP
7 16 (1.17%) Network Security
8 15 (1.10%) OSPF
8 15 (1.10%) SD-WAN
8 15 (1.10%) VXLAN
9 12 (0.88%) Wireless
10 11 (0.80%) NX-OS
10 11 (0.80%) VLAN
11 9 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
11 9 (0.66%) HTTP
11 9 (0.66%) NetScaler
11 9 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (4.24%) Power BI
3 40 (2.93%) Relational Database
4 38 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 35 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 33 (2.41%) Data Lake
7 31 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (1.90%) Metadata
9 25 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
10 23 (1.68%) MongoDB
11 22 (1.61%) Big Data
12 15 (1.10%) DynamoDB
12 15 (1.10%) Hadoop
12 15 (1.10%) MySQL
13 13 (0.95%) Delta Lake
13 13 (0.95%) Tableau
14 12 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.80%) Oracle Database
16 10 (0.73%) GIS
17 9 (0.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 101 (7.39%) Git
1 101 (7.39%) Jenkins
2 85 (6.22%) JIRA
3 50 (3.66%) GitLab
4 20 (1.46%) JUnit
4 20 (1.46%) Selenium
5 13 (0.95%) Cucumber
6 11 (0.80%) JMeter
7 10 (0.73%) CircleCI
7 10 (0.73%) Maven
8 8 (0.59%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.59%) Jaeger
9 7 (0.51%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.44%) MLflow
10 6 (0.44%) Mockito
10 6 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.44%) WebDriver
11 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.37%) HP UFT
11 5 (0.37%) Postman
General
1 472 (34.53%) Social Skills
2 281 (20.56%) Finance
3 213 (15.58%) Public Sector
4 166 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (4.90%) Banking
6 54 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
7 33 (2.41%) Legal
8 31 (2.27%) Front Office
8 31 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 29 (2.12%) Retail
10 28 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (1.76%) Marketing
13 20 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.32%) Military
15 17 (1.24%) Aerospace
15 17 (1.24%) Telecoms
16 14 (1.02%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.80%) Law
18 8 (0.59%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 260 (19.02%) Lead
2 235 (17.19%) Senior
3 215 (15.73%) Developer
4 197 (14.41%) Architect
5 98 (7.17%) Analyst
6 63 (4.61%) Software Engineer
7 52 (3.80%) Lead Developer
8 50 (3.66%) Java Developer
9 49 (3.58%) Consultant
10 48 (3.51%) Senior Developer
11 47 (3.44%) Data Engineer
12 41 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
13 40 (2.93%) Designer
14 36 (2.63%) Business Analyst
15 35 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
16 34 (2.49%) DevOps Engineer
16 34 (2.49%) Technical Architect
17 32 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
18 31 (2.27%) Technical Leader
19 26 (1.90%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (7.24%) Node.js
2 79 (5.78%) REST
3 76 (5.56%) React
4 74 (5.41%) Kafka
5 73 (5.34%) Spring
6 69 (5.05%) Spring Boot
7 60 (4.39%) .NET
8 45 (3.29%) RESTful
9 39 (2.85%) GraphQL
10 37 (2.71%) Playwright
11 36 (2.63%) Middleware
12 34 (2.49%) PySpark
13 33 (2.41%) SOAP
13 33 (2.41%) YAML
14 32 (2.34%) OAuth
15 26 (1.90%) OAuth2
15 26 (1.90%) XML
16 25 (1.83%) JSON
17 24 (1.76%) AngularJS
17 24 (1.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 148 (10.83%) Cloud Native
2 100 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 66 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (3.07%) Data Centre
4 42 (3.07%) Management Information System
5 40 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 35 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (2.19%) Equities
8 26 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.83%) Data Structures
10 24 (1.76%) Derivative
10 24 (1.76%) Fixed Income
10 24 (1.76%) Mobile App
11 23 (1.68%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.61%) Virtual Team
13 21 (1.54%) AI Agents
14 20 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
16 17 (1.24%) NHS
17 16 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (5.71%) Windows
2 70 (5.12%) Linux
3 30 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.10%) Unix
5 10 (0.73%) Android
6 9 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.51%) VMS
8 6 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.44%) Solaris
8 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.073%) AIX
11 1 (0.073%) CentOS
11 1 (0.073%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (33.36%) Agile
2 418 (30.58%) CI/CD
3 394 (28.82%) DevOps
4 311 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
5 289 (21.14%) Technical Leadership
6 275 (20.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 240 (17.56%) Coaching
8 204 (14.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 203 (14.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 179 (13.09%) Decision-Making
11 170 (12.44%) AI
11 170 (12.44%) Microservices
12 166 (12.14%) Software Engineering
13 162 (11.85%) Roadmaps
14 154 (11.27%) Analytics
15 144 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 136 (9.95%) Data Modelling
17 132 (9.66%) Containerisation
18 131 (9.58%) Migration
19 128 (9.36%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 304 (22.24%) Python
2 206 (15.07%) Java
3 191 (13.97%) SQL
4 115 (8.41%) TypeScript
5 100 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 79 (5.78%) PowerShell
7 65 (4.75%) C#
8 39 (2.85%) Bash
9 27 (1.98%) Kotlin
10 20 (1.46%) Apex Code
11 17 (1.24%) C++
12 16 (1.17%) Bicep
13 15 (1.10%) Ruby
14 14 (1.02%) Go
14 14 (1.02%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.95%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.80%) PHP
16 11 (0.80%) R
16 11 (0.80%) Scala
17 10 (0.73%) Rust
Qualifications
1 367 (26.85%) Security Cleared
2 298 (21.80%) SC Cleared
3 149 (10.90%) Degree
4 52 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 46 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 42 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 32 (2.34%) AWS Certification
9 26 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.83%) CCNP
11 24 (1.76%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.39%) CISSP
13 18 (1.32%) ACCA
14 15 (1.10%) CIMA
15 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (1.02%) PMI Certification
16 13 (0.95%) CISM
17 11 (0.80%) DBS Check
17 11 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
18 10 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.68%) QA
2 61 (4.46%) Accessibility
3 56 (4.10%) Data Quality
4 42 (3.07%) GDPR
5 28 (2.05%) SLA
6 25 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.68%) NCSC
8 22 (1.61%) PCI DSS
9 21 (1.54%) PMO
10 17 (1.24%) NIST
11 8 (0.59%) GAAP
11 8 (0.59%) WCAG
12 7 (0.51%) GRC
12 7 (0.51%) IFRS
13 6 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.44%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
15 4 (0.29%) HL7
15 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 154 (11.27%) Docker
2 48 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.80%) vSphere
7 7 (0.51%) Firmware
8 6 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.22%) Postfix
10 3 (0.22%) Varnish
10 3 (0.22%) Xen
11 1 (0.073%) KVM
11 1 (0.073%) RHEV
11 1 (0.073%) UAG
Systems Management
1 201 (14.70%) Terraform
2 193 (14.12%) Kubernetes
3 82 (6.00%) Ansible
4 69 (5.05%) Grafana
5 54 (3.95%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
9 8 (0.59%) Istio
9 8 (0.59%) Kiali
10 7 (0.51%) SCCM
11 6 (0.44%) Argo
11 6 (0.44%) Data Guard
12 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.22%) Kibana
13 3 (0.22%) Oracle Identity Manager
13 3 (0.22%) Packer
13 3 (0.22%) Puppet
13 3 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 192 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 75 (5.49%) Oracle
3 63 (4.61%) Google
4 50 (3.66%) Databricks
5 48 (3.51%) ServiceNow
6 44 (3.22%) Salesforce
7 43 (3.15%) Cisco
7 43 (3.15%) SAP
8 42 (3.07%) Splunk
9 23 (1.68%) VMware
10 20 (1.46%) Palo Alto
11 17 (1.24%) OpenAI
11 17 (1.24%) Red Hat
12 16 (1.17%) ForgeRock
12 16 (1.17%) Okta
13 15 (1.10%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.02%) Aruba
14 14 (1.02%) Foundry
15 13 (0.95%) Dynatrace
15 13 (0.95%) F5