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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 81 77
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 +19
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,280 1,005 1,326
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.65% 2.77% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.06% 3.21% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 551 866
10th Percentile £363 £375 £380
25th Percentile £427 £463 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £655
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £528 £535
% change year-on-year -3.89% -1.40% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 25 51
10th Percentile £19.96 £24.26 £25.00
25th Percentile £26.63 £35.00 £53.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £49.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -13.26% +36.12%
75th Percentile £77.50 £63.75 £76.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £69.50 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £49.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +14.80% -13.26% -0.89%

All Process and 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 31,532 31,312 41,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.80% 86.28% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,731 18,831 28,017
10th Percentile £299 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,089 1,101 1,605
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +25.24%
75th Percentile £44.77 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.05 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.93 £43.95
% change year-on-year -33.30% -22.80% +48.98%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 +6 1,078 £525 -8.70% 3,373
UK excluding London -4 595 £507 -3.89% 2,269
London +11 522 £550 -8.33% 1,436
Work from Home +20 421 £527 -6.56% 1,808
North of England -6 209 £506 +15.66% 594
Midlands -10 102 £447 -26.96% 319
North West -16 99 £468 +16.88% 364
South East -1 96 £519 -5.68% 665
Yorkshire -6 92 £525 -8.30% 174
South West +24 77 £550 -19.71% 221
West Midlands -11 73 £488 -22.00% 186
Scotland +13 72 £501 -4.39% 192
East of England -5 32 £535 +47.59% 205
East Midlands -3 29 £428 +6.88% 130
North East -3 21 £525 +21.39% 59
Wales +5 11 £478 -19.58% 75
Northern Ireland -16 3 £975 +77.27% 33

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 41 (3.20%) Confluence
2 29 (2.27%) Apache
3 23 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.56%) CMS
5 19 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (1.09%) WebLogic
7 13 (1.02%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.86%) JBoss
8 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.63%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.31%) Drupal
10 4 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.31%) SAS
11 3 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.23%) Oracle Service Bus
11 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.23%) WordPress
12 2 (0.16%) Camunda
12 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.86%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.86%) Siemens NX
3 7 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.16%) Trello
6 1 (0.078%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.078%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.078%) DaVinci Resolve
6 1 (0.078%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 14 (1.09%) SAP WM
2 13 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.02%) SAP EWM
3 10 (0.78%) Teamcenter
4 9 (0.70%) SAP HCM
5 7 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.31%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.31%) Magento
6 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.23%) Kondor
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.23%) Primavera
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.16%) Shopify
8 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 375 (29.30%) AWS
2 336 (26.25%) Azure
3 111 (8.67%) GCP
4 103 (8.05%) Serverless
5 80 (6.25%) GitHub
6 77 (6.02%) Amazon S3
7 73 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
9 69 (5.39%) Power Platform
10 50 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (3.83%) Entra ID
12 46 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 42 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
14 41 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (3.13%) SaaS
16 36 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
17 35 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
18 31 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 27 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
20 26 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 66 (5.16%) Firewall
2 37 (2.89%) DNS
2 37 (2.89%) VPN
3 35 (2.73%) Network Security
4 21 (1.64%) WAN
5 19 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.25%) Wireless
7 14 (1.09%) LAN
7 14 (1.09%) SD-WAN
7 14 (1.09%) SSL
8 13 (1.02%) DHCP
9 11 (0.86%) BGP
9 11 (0.86%) OSPF
10 9 (0.70%) iSCSI
10 9 (0.70%) MPLS
10 9 (0.70%) VLAN
11 8 (0.63%) Internet
12 7 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
12 7 (0.55%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.47%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (4.61%) MongoDB
3 51 (3.98%) NoSQL
4 44 (3.44%) Power BI
5 41 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (3.05%) DynamoDB
7 34 (2.66%) SQL Server
8 32 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 25 (1.95%) MySQL
11 24 (1.88%) Big Data
12 23 (1.80%) Redis
13 22 (1.72%) BigQuery
13 22 (1.72%) Relational Database
14 20 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
15 15 (1.17%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
17 13 (1.02%) Oracle Database
17 13 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 12 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 151 (11.80%) Git
2 132 (10.31%) Jenkins
3 99 (7.73%) JIRA
4 65 (5.08%) GitLab
5 31 (2.42%) JUnit
6 27 (2.11%) Maven
7 23 (1.80%) Selenium
7 23 (1.80%) SonarQube
8 17 (1.33%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.09%) Gradle
9 14 (1.09%) Mockito
10 12 (0.94%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.78%) Postman
11 10 (0.78%) SoapUI
12 9 (0.70%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.70%) Eclipse
12 9 (0.70%) IntelliJ
12 9 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.63%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.55%) REST Assured
General
1 448 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 239 (18.67%) Finance
3 198 (15.47%) Public Sector
4 172 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (6.41%) Banking
6 49 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
6 49 (3.83%) Marketing
7 40 (3.13%) Manufacturing
8 38 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (1.88%) Legal
12 22 (1.72%) Military
13 21 (1.64%) Aerospace
14 20 (1.56%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.33%) Electronics
16 16 (1.25%) Retail
17 14 (1.09%) Law
18 12 (0.94%) Local Government
19 11 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 258 (20.16%) Lead
2 246 (19.22%) Senior
3 199 (15.55%) Architect
4 194 (15.16%) Developer
5 79 (6.17%) Consultant
6 73 (5.70%) Software Engineer
7 66 (5.16%) Analyst
8 57 (4.45%) Senior Developer
9 48 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
10 46 (3.59%) Technical Leader
11 41 (3.20%) Data Engineer
12 40 (3.13%) Technical Architect
13 39 (3.05%) Java Developer
13 39 (3.05%) Lead Developer
14 36 (2.81%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
16 26 (2.03%) Senior Software Engineer
17 25 (1.95%) SAP Consultant
18 21 (1.64%) Principal Engineer
18 21 (1.64%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (6.72%) Node.js
2 85 (6.64%) React
3 84 (6.56%) Kafka
4 79 (6.17%) RESTful
5 76 (5.94%) .NET
6 75 (5.86%) REST
7 64 (5.00%) Spring
8 58 (4.53%) HTML
9 56 (4.38%) Spring Boot
10 53 (4.14%) SOAP
11 49 (3.83%) GraphQL
12 41 (3.20%) AngularJS
13 39 (3.05%) Playwright
14 38 (2.97%) OAuth
15 37 (2.89%) CSS
16 31 (2.42%) Web Services
17 30 (2.34%) XML
18 27 (2.11%) OAuth2
19 25 (1.95%) HTML5
19 25 (1.95%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 96 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 33 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.34%) Public Cloud
6 28 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (2.11%) Mobile App
8 25 (1.95%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 23 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.72%) Algorithms
11 21 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 21 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 17 (1.33%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
14 16 (1.25%) NHS
15 13 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 71 (5.55%) Linux
2 66 (5.16%) Windows
3 39 (3.05%) Unix
4 29 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 26 (2.03%) Android
6 20 (1.56%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.86%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.47%) VMS
10 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.078%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.078%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (37.97%) Agile
2 371 (28.98%) Problem-Solving
3 340 (26.56%) CI/CD
4 312 (24.38%) DevOps
5 236 (18.44%) Coaching
6 227 (17.73%) Technical Leadership
7 194 (15.16%) Software Engineering
8 193 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 177 (13.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 163 (12.73%) Microservices
11 157 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
12 145 (11.33%) Containerisation
13 141 (11.02%) Roadmaps
13 141 (11.02%) Test Automation
14 117 (9.14%) Analytics
15 105 (8.20%) Scrum
16 103 (8.05%) AI
17 97 (7.58%) Data Modelling
18 95 (7.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 90 (7.03%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 237 (18.52%) Python
2 192 (15.00%) Java
3 170 (13.28%) SQL
4 121 (9.45%) JavaScript
5 104 (8.13%) TypeScript
6 64 (5.00%) C#
7 51 (3.98%) PowerShell
8 46 (3.59%) Bash
9 31 (2.42%) C++
10 26 (2.03%) Apex Code
11 25 (1.95%) Scala
12 21 (1.64%) Kotlin
13 18 (1.41%) Go
14 13 (1.02%) Groovy
15 12 (0.94%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.78%) Bicep
16 10 (0.78%) PHP
16 10 (0.78%) Swift
17 9 (0.70%) ABAP
18 7 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 284 (22.19%) Security Cleared
2 204 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 146 (11.41%) Degree
4 62 (4.84%) AWS Certification
5 54 (4.22%) DV Cleared
6 51 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (3.05%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (2.34%) CISSP
9 29 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (2.03%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 21 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.09%) CISM
13 14 (1.09%) SAP Certification
14 13 (1.02%) CCNP
14 13 (1.02%) PMI Certification
15 11 (0.86%) PMP
16 10 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (0.70%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.56%) QA
2 78 (6.09%) GDPR
3 57 (4.45%) Accessibility
4 55 (4.30%) Data Quality
5 44 (3.44%) NIST
6 40 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.80%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.56%) SLA
9 18 (1.41%) WCAG
10 15 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 15 (1.17%) PMO
10 15 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (1.09%) HIPAA
11 14 (1.09%) NCSC
12 8 (0.63%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.39%) GRC
14 5 (0.39%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 200 (15.63%) Docker
2 66 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.17%) vSphere
5 10 (0.78%) Firmware
5 10 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.55%) NFS
7 7 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.39%) zsh
9 3 (0.23%) HDFS
9 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.078%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.078%) Varnish
11 1 (0.078%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 181 (14.14%) Terraform
2 166 (12.97%) Kubernetes
3 47 (3.67%) Ansible
4 24 (1.88%) Prometheus
5 23 (1.80%) Grafana
6 18 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.33%) Puppet
8 15 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (0.94%) Argo
10 10 (0.78%) SCCM
11 8 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.47%) Istio
14 4 (0.31%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.31%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.31%) VxRail
15 3 (0.23%) CloudHub
15 3 (0.23%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
15 3 (0.23%) Oozie
Vendors
1 186 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 52 (4.06%) Oracle
2 52 (4.06%) SAP
3 49 (3.83%) Salesforce
4 46 (3.59%) Google
4 46 (3.59%) ServiceNow
5 44 (3.44%) Splunk
6 40 (3.13%) VMware
7 34 (2.66%) Cisco
7 34 (2.66%) Databricks
8 24 (1.88%) Palo Alto
9 22 (1.72%) F5
10 15 (1.17%) IBM
11 13 (1.02%) Apple
11 13 (1.02%) CheckPoint
12 12 (0.94%) NetApp
12 12 (0.94%) Siemens
13 11 (0.86%) Fortinet
13 11 (0.86%) Veeam
14 10 (0.78%) Citrix