Mentoring Contracts

Mentorship
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Mentoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mentoring over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 87 92
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,118 1,621 2,485
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.58% 2.71% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 3.01% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 741 1,062 1,715
10th Percentile £393 £400 £402
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.36% +5.96%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £825 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £507
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.43% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 32 67
10th Percentile £15.17 £28.23 £10.77
25th Percentile £22.01 £59.06 £18.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +114.29% +2.94%
75th Percentile £49.22 £83.31 £55.84
90th Percentile £57.33 £85.00 £68.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.00 £75.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -58.67% +114.29% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mentoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mentoring.

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mentoring.

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Top 18 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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 +12 984 £550 -6.14% 1,824
UK excluding London +11 522 £525 -4.55% 1,319
London +11 490 £588 -9.62% 637
Work from Home +17 400 £550 -4.35% 842
North of England +44 183 £500 -9.09% 368
North West +27 110 £493 -10.36% 214
South East -5 108 £533 -7.39% 273
South West +22 100 £600 +1.95% 185
Yorkshire +47 71 £525 -2.33% 113
Midlands -15 60 £550 +15.79% 216
Scotland -6 57 £506 -3.39% 102
West Midlands +2 43 £570 +18.75% 141
East of England -12 18 £550 +5.77% 131
East Midlands -4 17 £489 +8.67% 74
Northern Ireland +21 16 £600 +50.00% 36
Wales +10 6 £200 -61.63% 50
North East +13 2 £550 -4.35% 45
Isle of Man - 2 - - 1

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (2.24%) Confluence
2 18 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.07%) Apache
4 11 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.54%) IIS
6 6 (0.54%) SAS
7 5 (0.45%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.36%) govService
8 4 (0.36%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.27%) CMS
10 2 (0.18%) Drupal
10 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.18%) Mendix
10 2 (0.18%) nginx
11 1 (0.089%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.089%) JBoss
11 1 (0.089%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 17 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.45%) Sketch
5 4 (0.36%) InVision
6 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (0.18%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.18%) Lectora
7 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.089%) Revit
7 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.089%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 10 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.36%) Endur
4 3 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.27%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.27%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.18%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.18%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.18%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.089%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 212 (18.96%) Azure
2 180 (16.10%) AWS
3 63 (5.64%) Power Platform
4 56 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (5.01%) Serverless
5 41 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
6 38 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
6 38 (3.40%) GCP
7 34 (3.04%) GitHub
8 33 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
9 32 (2.86%) SaaS
10 30 (2.68%) PaaS
11 25 (2.24%) Amazon S3
12 24 (2.15%) IaaS
13 21 (1.88%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (1.43%) Azure API Management
16 15 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (1.25%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.28%) Firewall
2 40 (3.58%) Network Security
3 34 (3.04%) DNS
4 27 (2.42%) VPN
5 26 (2.33%) WAN
6 22 (1.97%) LAN
7 19 (1.70%) Internet
8 18 (1.61%) DHCP
9 16 (1.43%) Wireless
10 15 (1.34%) TCP/IP
11 14 (1.25%) SAN
12 13 (1.16%) BGP
13 12 (1.07%) WLAN
14 11 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
14 11 (0.98%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
15 10 (0.89%) OSPF
16 9 (0.81%) Cisco Firepower
16 9 (0.81%) VoIP
17 8 (0.72%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (4.92%) SQL Server
3 49 (4.38%) Power BI
3 49 (4.38%) Relational Database
4 28 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 27 (2.42%) MongoDB
6 22 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (1.61%) Big Data
8 17 (1.52%) MySQL
8 17 (1.52%) Tableau
9 15 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 15 (1.34%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (1.25%) RDBMS
11 11 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (0.98%) Data Lake
12 10 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.63%) Hadoop
14 6 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 61 (5.46%) Git
2 56 (5.01%) JIRA
3 32 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.24%) JUnit
5 22 (1.97%) GitLab
6 19 (1.70%) Cypress.io
7 12 (1.07%) Maven
8 11 (0.98%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.72%) Gradle
10 7 (0.63%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.63%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
11 6 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.54%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.36%) Axure RP
12 4 (0.36%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.36%) Pylint
12 4 (0.36%) RStudio
12 4 (0.36%) Selenium
13 3 (0.27%) Appium
General
1 385 (34.44%) Social Skills
2 287 (25.67%) Finance
3 164 (14.67%) Public Sector
4 162 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (6.26%) Banking
6 50 (4.47%) Front Office
7 43 (3.85%) Telecoms
8 39 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
9 37 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 36 (3.22%) Back Office
11 28 (2.50%) Law
11 28 (2.50%) Marketing
12 24 (2.15%) Retail
13 22 (1.97%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.97%) Military
14 20 (1.79%) Legal
15 18 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.25%) Local Government
17 13 (1.16%) Games
18 11 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 187 (16.73%) Senior
2 177 (15.83%) Lead
3 168 (15.03%) Developer
4 118 (10.55%) Analyst
5 112 (10.02%) Architect
6 50 (4.47%) Java Developer
7 44 (3.94%) Consultant
8 42 (3.76%) Software Engineer
9 39 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (3.22%) Senior Analyst
11 33 (2.95%) Lead Developer
12 31 (2.77%) DevOps Engineer
12 31 (2.77%) Project Manager
13 30 (2.68%) Senior Developer
14 29 (2.59%) Network Engineer
15 27 (2.42%) Business Analyst
16 26 (2.33%) Technical Leader
17 22 (1.97%) Financial Analyst
18 21 (1.88%) Designer
19 20 (1.79%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (6.89%) React
2 57 (5.10%) REST
3 49 (4.38%) .NET
4 48 (4.29%) Spring
5 42 (3.76%) XML
6 41 (3.67%) Spring Boot
7 39 (3.49%) CSS
8 37 (3.31%) HTML
9 33 (2.95%) Kafka
10 27 (2.42%) JPA
11 26 (2.33%) Hibernate
12 24 (2.15%) JSON
12 24 (2.15%) Node.js
13 23 (2.06%) AngularJS
13 23 (2.06%) Web Services
14 16 (1.43%) RESTful
15 14 (1.25%) AWS CDK
16 12 (1.07%) ARM Templates
17 11 (0.98%) Next.js
17 11 (0.98%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 89 (7.96%) Management Information System
2 56 (5.01%) Cyber Threat
3 53 (4.74%) Cyber Defence
4 46 (4.11%) Derivative
5 43 (3.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 43 (3.85%) Hedge funds
6 42 (3.76%) Data Centre
7 36 (3.22%) Product Ownership
8 28 (2.50%) Virtual Team
9 22 (1.97%) Public Cloud
10 19 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.52%) CMDB
11 17 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.43%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.16%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.16%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.16%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 61 (5.46%) Windows
2 48 (4.29%) Linux
3 22 (1.97%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.07%) Android
5 11 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.63%) Unix
8 5 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.18%) CentOS
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.089%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.089%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (30.77%) Agile
2 250 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
3 234 (20.93%) Coaching
4 183 (16.37%) DevOps
5 120 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 117 (10.47%) Software Engineering
7 116 (10.38%) CI/CD
7 116 (10.38%) Cybersecurity
8 115 (10.29%) Scrum
9 101 (9.03%) Roadmaps
9 101 (9.03%) Technical Leadership
10 94 (8.41%) Analytics
11 84 (7.51%) Decision-Making
11 84 (7.51%) Project Management
12 79 (7.07%) Computer Science
12 79 (7.07%) ITIL
13 78 (6.98%) Microservices
14 76 (6.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 73 (6.53%) Business Intelligence
16 68 (6.08%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 172 (15.38%) Python
2 132 (11.81%) Java
3 129 (11.54%) SQL
4 108 (9.66%) C#
5 92 (8.23%) JavaScript
6 77 (6.89%) TypeScript
7 33 (2.95%) PowerShell
8 23 (2.06%) Bash
9 20 (1.79%) Scala
10 17 (1.52%) C++
11 16 (1.43%) Ruby
12 13 (1.16%) C
12 13 (1.16%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.07%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.81%) Go
14 9 (0.81%) Perl
14 9 (0.81%) PHP
15 7 (0.63%) R
16 6 (0.54%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 277 (24.78%) Security Cleared
2 204 (18.25%) SC Cleared
3 158 (14.13%) Degree
4 85 (7.60%) DV Cleared
5 56 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (2.24%) CISSP
8 24 (2.15%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.43%) CCIE
9 16 (1.43%) CCNP
10 15 (1.34%) CCNA
10 15 (1.34%) CISM
11 11 (0.98%) PMP
11 11 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.81%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.72%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.54%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.35%) QA
2 54 (4.83%) NIST
3 41 (3.67%) Accessibility
4 40 (3.58%) NIST 800
5 33 (2.95%) Data Quality
6 15 (1.34%) NCSC
7 13 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.98%) SLA
9 10 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.81%) GRC
11 8 (0.72%) GDPR
11 8 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.72%) PMO
12 6 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.45%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.36%) WCAG
15 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 1 (0.089%) Government Security Classifications
16 1 (0.089%) IASME
16 1 (0.089%) IFRS
System Software
1 69 (6.17%) Docker
2 31 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.54%) vSphere
6 4 (0.36%) vCloud
7 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.18%) NFS
9 1 (0.089%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.089%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (0.089%) Firmware
9 1 (0.089%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.089%) iptables
9 1 (0.089%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.089%) XenApp
9 1 (0.089%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 79 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 71 (6.35%) Terraform
3 41 (3.67%) Ansible
4 19 (1.70%) Grafana
5 8 (0.72%) SCCM
5 8 (0.72%) vCenter Server
6 7 (0.63%) CA Service Virtualization
6 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.54%) Kibana
8 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.45%) Nessus
8 5 (0.45%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.45%) Puppet
8 5 (0.45%) WSUS
9 4 (0.36%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.36%) VxRail
9 4 (0.36%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.27%) logstash
10 3 (0.27%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 167 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 49 (4.38%) Oracle
3 44 (3.94%) Cisco
4 32 (2.86%) SAP
5 31 (2.77%) VMware
6 28 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 21 (1.88%) Google
7 21 (1.88%) Palo Alto
8 16 (1.43%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.34%) Databricks
9 15 (1.34%) Juniper
9 15 (1.34%) Salesforce
10 14 (1.25%) Fortinet
11 13 (1.16%) CA
12 12 (1.07%) Adobe
13 10 (0.89%) F5
14 9 (0.81%) SolarWinds
15 8 (0.72%) CheckPoint
15 8 (0.72%) Dell
15 8 (0.72%) Informatica