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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 65 87
Rank change year-on-year -12 +22 -5
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,877 1,243 992
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.39% 3.74% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 4.13% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 790 574
10th Percentile £368 £360 £375
25th Percentile £455 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £663 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £713 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 36 27
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.56 £25.19
25th Percentile £42.50 £25.09 £36.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - -7.06%
75th Percentile £78.00 £78.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £92.53 £81.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% -7.06%

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 46,911 30,121 32,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.54% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,189 18,721 19,488
10th Percentile £325 £296 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,476 1,911 1,239
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.75 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.07% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.79 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £66.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 £22.27 £40.00
% change year-on-year +67.26% -44.34% -8.88%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 1,577 £544 +3.62% 870
UK excluding London -5 955 £523 +4.50% 730
London -21 679 £575 +4.55% 282
Work from Home -13 558 £525 - 585
North of England -6 294 £510 +2.00% 220
Midlands +22 199 £463 +2.78% 117
South East -7 176 £500 - 167
West Midlands +29 173 £460 -12.38% 86
North West -12 147 £545 +21.11% 128
South West +4 138 £550 +2.33% 115
Yorkshire -24 91 £513 -2.24% 51
Scotland -24 85 £525 +9.95% 46
North East -4 60 £463 -16.85% 42
East of England -5 53 £613 +12.39% 48
Wales +6 29 £600 +25.65% 23
East Midlands -13 19 £522 +16.72% 31
Northern Ireland +8 7 £650 -33.33% 11

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 50 (2.66%) Confluence
2 47 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (1.76%) Apache
5 32 (1.70%) Apache Spark
6 19 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (0.80%) CMS
8 10 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 8 (0.43%) SAS
10 6 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.32%) WebLogic Portal
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) IIS
11 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) OpenEdge
11 2 (0.11%) WordPress
12 1 (0.053%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.053%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 24 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.69%) Revit
4 12 (0.64%) AutoCAD
4 12 (0.64%) Navisworks
5 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.48%) ProjectWise
7 8 (0.43%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.11%) DaVinci Resolve
10 2 (0.11%) EngageOne
10 2 (0.11%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.11%) NUKE
11 1 (0.053%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
2 11 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.48%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 8 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.43%) Primavera
5 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
5 6 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.32%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.21%) SAP HCM
8 3 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
8 3 (0.16%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
8 3 (0.16%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.16%) SAP FI-CA
8 3 (0.16%) SAP PSCD
9 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 539 (28.72%) Azure
2 533 (28.40%) AWS
3 173 (9.22%) GCP
4 158 (8.42%) GitHub
5 144 (7.67%) Serverless
6 135 (7.19%) Power Platform
7 124 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
8 111 (5.91%) GitHub Actions
9 96 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
10 91 (4.85%) Entra ID
11 74 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
12 66 (3.52%) Amazon S3
13 53 (2.82%) SaaS
14 47 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
15 45 (2.40%) Snowflake
16 42 (2.24%) Power Automate
17 39 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
18 38 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
19 37 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
20 35 (1.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.32%) Firewall
2 48 (2.56%) DNS
2 48 (2.56%) WAN
3 43 (2.29%) Network Security
4 38 (2.02%) LAN
5 31 (1.65%) DHCP
6 28 (1.49%) VPN
7 26 (1.39%) TCP/IP
8 20 (1.07%) BGP
9 18 (0.96%) VSAN
10 15 (0.80%) VXLAN
10 15 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.75%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.75%) VLAN
12 13 (0.69%) OSPF
13 12 (0.64%) Wireless
14 10 (0.53%) Broadband
14 10 (0.53%) NX-OS
15 9 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
16 8 (0.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (5.22%) Power BI
2 83 (4.42%) SQL Server
3 68 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
4 67 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (3.09%) MongoDB
6 56 (2.98%) Metadata
7 49 (2.61%) Data Lake
8 45 (2.40%) NoSQL
9 40 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 37 (1.97%) Oracle Database
11 25 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (1.33%) BigQuery
12 22 (1.17%) DynamoDB
13 21 (1.12%) MySQL
14 20 (1.07%) Delta Lake
15 17 (0.91%) Tableau
16 16 (0.85%) Looker
17 15 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (0.80%) Pentaho
18 14 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 156 (8.31%) Git
2 132 (7.03%) GitLab
3 108 (5.75%) Jenkins
4 101 (5.38%) JIRA
5 33 (1.76%) Cucumber
6 29 (1.55%) Selenium
7 27 (1.44%) Postman
8 25 (1.33%) JMeter
9 24 (1.28%) Claude Code
10 22 (1.17%) JUnit
11 21 (1.12%) Cypress.io
12 17 (0.91%) LoadRunner
13 14 (0.75%) Vite
14 13 (0.69%) Gatling
14 13 (0.69%) SonarQube
15 12 (0.64%) Maven
16 11 (0.59%) WebDriver
17 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
18 8 (0.43%) Bitbucket
18 8 (0.43%) SoapUI
General
1 719 (38.31%) Social Skills
2 356 (18.97%) Public Sector
3 351 (18.70%) Finance
4 273 (14.54%) Analytical Skills
5 135 (7.19%) Banking
6 90 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 83 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
8 58 (3.09%) Retail
9 48 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 40 (2.13%) Manufacturing
11 33 (1.76%) Legal
12 32 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (1.65%) Aerospace
14 30 (1.60%) Marketing
14 30 (1.60%) Military
14 30 (1.60%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
16 24 (1.28%) Law
17 21 (1.12%) Investment Banking
18 19 (1.01%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 418 (22.27%) Lead
2 398 (21.20%) Senior
3 273 (14.54%) Architect
4 249 (13.27%) Developer
5 121 (6.45%) Analyst
6 107 (5.70%) Data Engineer
7 79 (4.21%) Consultant
8 76 (4.05%) Technical Leader
9 74 (3.94%) Senior Developer
10 61 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
10 61 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
11 55 (2.93%) Lead Developer
12 52 (2.77%) Java Developer
13 49 (2.61%) Software Engineer
14 47 (2.50%) Principal Engineer
15 39 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
16 38 (2.02%) Business Analyst
16 38 (2.02%) Full-Stack Developer
17 37 (1.97%) Azure Engineer
18 35 (1.86%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (13.85%) Terraform
2 167 (8.90%) REST
3 144 (7.67%) React
4 115 (6.13%) Kafka
5 100 (5.33%) .NET
6 89 (4.74%) Node.js
7 88 (4.69%) RESTful
8 86 (4.58%) Spring
9 78 (4.16%) Spring Boot
10 68 (3.62%) OAuth
11 57 (3.04%) CSS
11 57 (3.04%) HTML
12 49 (2.61%) OAuth2
13 46 (2.45%) AngularJS
14 44 (2.34%) PySpark
15 43 (2.29%) OpenID
16 42 (2.24%) Playwright
17 39 (2.08%) SOAP
18 36 (1.92%) Middleware
19 33 (1.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 254 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 161 (8.58%) Product Ownership
3 94 (5.01%) Onboarding
4 79 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
5 74 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
6 61 (3.25%) Management Information System
7 54 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
8 51 (2.72%) AI Agents
9 49 (2.61%) Data Centre
10 44 (2.34%) PKI
11 34 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
12 30 (1.60%) Virtual Team
13 28 (1.49%) CMDB
14 25 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 24 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
16 23 (1.23%) Mobile App
17 22 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
18 21 (1.12%) Public Cloud
19 18 (0.96%) Low-Code
19 18 (0.96%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 146 (7.78%) Windows
2 121 (6.45%) Linux
3 47 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 39 (2.08%) Unix
5 22 (1.17%) macOS
6 14 (0.75%) Android
7 13 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.37%) VMS
9 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.053%) CentOS
13 1 (0.053%) Rocky
13 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.053%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (36.71%) Agile
2 654 (34.84%) CI/CD
3 596 (31.75%) Technical Leadership
4 509 (27.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 486 (25.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 475 (25.31%) DevOps
7 400 (21.31%) Coaching
8 394 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
9 307 (16.36%) AI
10 285 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 271 (14.44%) Roadmaps
12 269 (14.33%) Test Automation
13 255 (13.59%) Decision-Making
14 249 (13.27%) Analytics
15 247 (13.16%) Software Engineering
16 224 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 209 (11.13%) Observability
18 207 (11.03%) Microservices
19 197 (10.50%) Data Modelling
20 182 (9.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 387 (20.62%) Python
2 273 (14.54%) SQL
3 244 (13.00%) Java
4 181 (9.64%) JavaScript
5 125 (6.66%) TypeScript
6 122 (6.50%) PowerShell
7 100 (5.33%) C#
8 76 (4.05%) Bash
9 23 (1.23%) Bicep
10 19 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.85%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.69%) Go
12 13 (0.69%) Groovy
12 13 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.64%) Kotlin
14 11 (0.59%) Scala
15 8 (0.43%) C++
16 7 (0.37%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 553 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 434 (23.12%) SC Cleared
3 150 (7.99%) Degree
4 114 (6.07%) DV Cleared
5 111 (5.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 54 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (2.61%) AWS Certification
8 48 (2.56%) Azure Certification
9 37 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 27 (1.44%) CISSP
12 23 (1.23%) Master's Degree
13 21 (1.12%) ISTQB
14 18 (0.96%) CCNP
14 18 (0.96%) CISM
15 14 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 12 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (0.64%) DBS Check
16 12 (0.64%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (8.68%) QA
2 109 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 99 (5.27%) Data Quality
4 67 (3.57%) GDPR
5 63 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (2.66%) WCAG
7 48 (2.56%) NIST
8 24 (1.28%) PMO
9 20 (1.07%) NCSC
10 19 (1.01%) SLA
11 13 (0.69%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.64%) ISO 19650
13 11 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
14 8 (0.43%) GRC
15 7 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.32%) PSD2
17 4 (0.21%) ISO 9001
17 4 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 209 (11.13%) Docker
2 100 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 47 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.28%) vSphere
5 21 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 20 (1.07%) VMware NSX
7 16 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.21%) FreeRADIUS
10 4 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.11%) Firmware
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.053%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.053%) KVM
12 1 (0.053%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 290 (15.45%) Kubernetes
2 85 (4.53%) Ansible
3 53 (2.82%) Grafana
4 44 (2.34%) Prometheus
5 40 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (0.96%) Kibana
6 18 (0.96%) SCCM
7 13 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.69%) VxRail
8 11 (0.59%) Control-M
9 8 (0.43%) Argo
9 8 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.27%) Puppet
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (0.21%) Packer
Vendors
1 358 (19.07%) Microsoft
2 143 (7.62%) Oracle
3 98 (5.22%) Databricks
4 80 (4.26%) Google
5 70 (3.73%) ServiceNow
6 58 (3.09%) VMware
7 57 (3.04%) Splunk
8 56 (2.98%) SAP
9 48 (2.56%) Cisco
10 43 (2.29%) Salesforce
11 35 (1.86%) CyberArk
12 25 (1.33%) OpenAI
12 25 (1.33%) Talend
13 20 (1.07%) Fortinet
14 19 (1.01%) Informatica
15 17 (0.91%) Dynatrace
15 17 (0.91%) Palo Alto
16 14 (0.75%) F5
16 14 (0.75%) IBM
16 14 (0.75%) MuleSoft