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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 79 75
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +18
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,232 934 1,195
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.40% 2.96% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 3.34% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 762 520 771
10th Percentile £363 £350 £380
25th Percentile £442 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 21 51
10th Percentile £26.80 £22.00 £20.50
25th Percentile £41.94 £23.60 £41.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -38.04% +36.12%
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 £76.25
90th Percentile £80.40 £68.75 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £27.43 £56.49
% change year-on-year +132.45% -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 31,821 27,941 37,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.79% 88.66% 87.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,057 16,962 24,992
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £744 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,969 885 1,593
10th Percentile £14.60 £15.62 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.48 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.25 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -20.38% +16.41%
75th Percentile £56.00 £61.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.49 £74.82 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.11 £43.90
% change year-on-year -20.86% -31.42% +59.64%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -1 1,045 £550 -4.35% 2,393
UK excluding London -12 564 £525 - 2,203
London +4 503 £550 -10.93% 612
Work from Home +22 414 £530 -3.64% 1,393
North of England -9 224 £513 +15.17% 457
Midlands +1 112 £447 -26.96% 233
North West -15 108 £458 +14.38% 227
Yorkshire -5 95 £532 -14.45% 167
West Midlands +6 83 £505 -19.20% 93
South East -30 76 £525 -4.55% 708
Scotland +18 62 £514 -1.91% 119
South West -9 60 £550 +4.76% 289
East Midlands -8 29 £423 +5.63% 140
East of England -13 28 £585 +58.64% 306
North East -2 24 £519 +4.80% 65
Wales +3 12 £438 -23.91% 106
Northern Ireland -14 1 - - 34

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 36 (2.92%) Confluence
2 26 (2.11%) Apache
3 25 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.81%) JBoss
5 10 (0.81%) WebLogic
6 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.65%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.57%) CMS
9 5 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.24%) Drupal
10 3 (0.24%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.24%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) CICS
11 2 (0.16%) MS Project Server
11 2 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.73%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.73%) Siemens NX
4 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.49%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.16%) LaTeX
6 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.081%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.081%) InDesign
7 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (1.14%) SAP WM
2 13 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.06%) SAP EWM
3 11 (0.89%) SAP HCM
4 8 (0.65%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.32%) Fidessa
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%) Magento
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 363 (29.46%) AWS
2 320 (25.97%) Azure
3 114 (9.25%) GCP
4 96 (7.79%) GitHub
4 96 (7.79%) Serverless
5 73 (5.93%) Power Platform
6 66 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
7 64 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (4.06%) Amazon S3
10 49 (3.98%) SaaS
11 47 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
13 40 (3.25%) Entra ID
14 34 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (2.68%) Datadog
16 32 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 31 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
18 29 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
19 28 (2.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (7.06%) Firewall
2 46 (3.73%) DNS
3 33 (2.68%) VPN
4 29 (2.35%) Network Security
5 28 (2.27%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.95%) WAN
7 17 (1.38%) DHCP
8 16 (1.30%) LAN
9 12 (0.97%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.97%) SSL
9 12 (0.97%) Wireless
10 10 (0.81%) BGP
10 10 (0.81%) OSPF
10 10 (0.81%) VXLAN
11 8 (0.65%) VLAN
12 7 (0.57%) MPLS
12 7 (0.57%) VSAN
13 6 (0.49%) Internet
13 6 (0.49%) NetScaler
13 6 (0.49%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (4.22%) MongoDB
3 51 (4.14%) NoSQL
4 43 (3.49%) Power BI
5 29 (2.35%) DynamoDB
6 28 (2.27%) Data Lake
7 26 (2.11%) Big Data
7 26 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (2.11%) SQL Server
8 25 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (1.70%) Relational Database
10 19 (1.54%) BigQuery
11 18 (1.46%) Oracle Reports
12 17 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (1.30%) MySQL
14 15 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
14 15 (1.22%) Redis
15 13 (1.06%) Metadata
16 12 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
16 12 (0.97%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 137 (11.12%) Jenkins
2 115 (9.33%) Git
3 74 (6.01%) JIRA
4 63 (5.11%) GitLab
5 25 (2.03%) JUnit
6 23 (1.87%) Selenium
7 21 (1.70%) Maven
8 17 (1.38%) SonarQube
9 16 (1.30%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.22%) Gradle
11 13 (1.06%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.06%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.89%) Mockito
13 9 (0.73%) Eclipse
13 9 (0.73%) IntelliJ
14 6 (0.49%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.49%) Jaeger
14 6 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
14 6 (0.49%) Postman
15 5 (0.41%) REST Assured
General
1 449 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 230 (18.67%) Finance
3 196 (15.91%) Public Sector
4 158 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (6.25%) Banking
6 50 (4.06%) Influencing Skills
7 41 (3.33%) Marketing
7 41 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 28 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (2.03%) Military
11 22 (1.79%) Legal
12 21 (1.70%) Retail
13 18 (1.46%) Aerospace
14 15 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.06%) Financial Institution
16 12 (0.97%) Electronics
17 11 (0.89%) Law
18 10 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 259 (21.02%) Senior
2 235 (19.07%) Lead
3 221 (17.94%) Architect
4 159 (12.91%) Developer
5 86 (6.98%) Analyst
6 73 (5.93%) Consultant
7 69 (5.60%) Software Engineer
8 49 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
9 39 (3.17%) Java Developer
9 39 (3.17%) Senior Developer
10 37 (3.00%) Data Engineer
10 37 (3.00%) Technical Architect
11 35 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
12 34 (2.76%) Business Analyst
13 33 (2.68%) Lead Developer
13 33 (2.68%) Technical Leader
14 31 (2.52%) DevOps Engineer
15 29 (2.35%) SAP Consultant
16 26 (2.11%) Senior Software Engineer
17 25 (2.03%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (6.98%) Node.js
2 84 (6.82%) Kafka
3 70 (5.68%) REST
4 68 (5.52%) .NET
5 63 (5.11%) React
6 62 (5.03%) Spring
7 59 (4.79%) Spring Boot
8 58 (4.71%) RESTful
9 52 (4.22%) GraphQL
10 50 (4.06%) Playwright
11 42 (3.41%) HTML
12 39 (3.17%) Middleware
12 39 (3.17%) SOAP
13 35 (2.84%) YAML
14 33 (2.68%) OAuth
15 31 (2.52%) Vitest
16 30 (2.44%) PySpark
17 28 (2.27%) XML
18 27 (2.19%) JSON
19 26 (2.11%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 120 (9.74%) Cloud Native
2 94 (7.63%) Product Ownership
3 45 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (2.68%) Management Information System
5 32 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.27%) Algorithms
7 27 (2.19%) Data Structures
8 26 (2.11%) Data Centre
9 25 (2.03%) Virtual Team
10 24 (1.95%) NHS
10 24 (1.95%) Public Cloud
11 23 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
11 23 (1.87%) Mobile App
12 21 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (1.14%) Security Posture
16 13 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 67 (5.44%) Linux
2 62 (5.03%) Windows
3 34 (2.76%) Unix
4 30 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.73%) Android
7 9 (0.73%) VMS
8 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.081%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.081%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (36.93%) Agile
2 362 (29.38%) Problem-Solving
3 347 (28.17%) CI/CD
4 315 (25.57%) DevOps
5 246 (19.97%) Coaching
6 223 (18.10%) Technical Leadership
7 205 (16.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 179 (14.53%) Software Engineering
9 176 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 170 (13.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 157 (12.74%) Microservices
12 148 (12.01%) Roadmaps
13 138 (11.20%) Containerisation
14 128 (10.39%) AI
15 125 (10.15%) Test Automation
16 111 (9.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 110 (8.93%) Analytics
18 102 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
19 100 (8.12%) Data Modelling
20 93 (7.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 253 (20.54%) Python
2 184 (14.94%) Java
3 153 (12.42%) SQL
4 105 (8.52%) TypeScript
5 98 (7.95%) JavaScript
6 61 (4.95%) PowerShell
7 56 (4.55%) Bash
8 55 (4.46%) C#
9 33 (2.68%) C++
10 19 (1.54%) Apex Code
11 16 (1.30%) Scala
12 15 (1.22%) Go
12 15 (1.22%) Groovy
13 13 (1.06%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.97%) ABAP
14 12 (0.97%) Bicep
15 9 (0.73%) Rust
16 8 (0.65%) PHP
16 8 (0.65%) Ruby
16 8 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 296 (24.03%) Security Cleared
2 224 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 156 (12.66%) Degree
4 47 (3.81%) DV Cleared
5 46 (3.73%) AWS Certification
6 41 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (3.17%) Azure Certification
8 38 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (2.52%) CISSP
10 23 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (1.70%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.54%) CISM
13 15 (1.22%) SAP Certification
14 14 (1.14%) CCNP
15 13 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 13 (1.06%) PMI Certification
16 11 (0.89%) MCP
17 10 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 9 (0.73%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (7.06%) QA
2 69 (5.60%) GDPR
3 52 (4.22%) Accessibility
4 50 (4.06%) Data Quality
5 40 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (3.17%) NIST
7 24 (1.95%) PCI DSS
8 21 (1.70%) SLA
9 18 (1.46%) NCSC
10 15 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 15 (1.22%) WCAG
11 13 (1.06%) PMO
12 10 (0.81%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.49%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
16 5 (0.41%) GAAP
16 5 (0.41%) GRC
16 5 (0.41%) IFRS
System Software
1 203 (16.48%) Docker
2 61 (4.95%) 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
10 3 (0.24%) zsh
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.081%) KVM
12 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.081%) RHEV
12 1 (0.081%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 182 (14.77%) Terraform
2 174 (14.12%) Kubernetes
3 76 (6.17%) Ansible
4 48 (3.90%) Grafana
5 39 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.89%) Puppet
9 9 (0.73%) Argo
10 7 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.49%) Kiali
11 6 (0.49%) SCCM
12 5 (0.41%) VxRail
13 4 (0.32%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.32%) vRealize
14 3 (0.24%) CloudHub
14 3 (0.24%) Control-M
14 3 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
14 3 (0.24%) Oozie
Vendors
1 178 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.38%) SAP
3 53 (4.30%) Splunk
4 50 (4.06%) Oracle
5 47 (3.81%) Salesforce
6 45 (3.65%) Google
7 43 (3.49%) ServiceNow
8 39 (3.17%) Databricks
9 35 (2.84%) 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
15 13 (1.06%) Dynatrace
16 12 (0.97%) Siemens
17 11 (0.89%) IBM
18 10 (0.81%) Red Hat