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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 81 77
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,362 901 1,192
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.32% 2.98% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 3.32% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 494 771
10th Percentile £363 £348 £378
25th Percentile £431 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £668 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £534
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.28% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 21 51
10th Percentile £27.50 £22.00 £17.78
25th Percentile £41.94 £23.60 £24.50
Median hourly rate £64.00 £27.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.73% -50.00% -16.03%
75th Percentile £77.50 £53.75 £57.41
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £27.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year +134.00% -51.58% -24.54%

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 35,552 27,150 38,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.77% 89.86% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,564 16,816 25,267
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 854 2,192
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £33.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.91% -2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £60.90 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.43 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 24 February 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 1,134 £538 -2.27% 1,503
UK excluding London +3 624 £525 +5.00% 1,255
London +9 549 £550 -8.33% 536
Work from Home +21 445 £537 +2.29% 714
North of England -16 231 £510 +15.25% 374
Midlands +14 132 £450 -14.08% 149
North West -20 113 £475 +16.14% 202
West Midlands +13 107 £475 -20.83% 90
Yorkshire -7 94 £526 +0.21% 122
South East -21 84 £550 - 398
Scotland +22 73 £542 +3.15% 66
South West -3 64 £550 +4.76% 154
East of England -6 33 £585 +33.71% 91
North East -3 29 £500 +15.61% 54
East Midlands -19 25 £416 -9.31% 59
Wales +3 19 £400 -25.58% 32
Northern Ireland -8 2 £385 +156.67% 14

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 48 (3.52%) Confluence
2 32 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 30 (2.20%) Apache
4 22 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.66%) JBoss
7 9 (0.66%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.44%) CMS
9 5 (0.37%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.29%) Drupal
10 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.29%) nginx
11 3 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.22%) MS Project Server
11 3 (0.22%) WordPress
12 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.22%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.073%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.073%) InDesign
7 1 (0.073%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.073%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.073%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 11 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.73%) SAP HCM
3 9 (0.66%) SAP EWM
3 9 (0.66%) SAP WM
4 8 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.44%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.15%) Kondor
8 2 (0.15%) Maximo
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.15%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 407 (29.88%) AWS
2 368 (27.02%) Azure
3 133 (9.77%) GCP
4 106 (7.78%) GitHub
5 105 (7.71%) Serverless
6 89 (6.53%) Power Platform
7 79 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (5.14%) GitHub Actions
9 60 (4.41%) Amazon S3
10 53 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 51 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (3.52%) SaaS
13 45 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
14 41 (3.01%) Entra ID
15 33 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
16 32 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 31 (2.28%) Azure AKS
18 28 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
18 28 (2.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 97 (7.12%) Firewall
2 54 (3.96%) DNS
3 33 (2.42%) Network Security
3 33 (2.42%) VPN
4 29 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 28 (2.06%) WAN
6 23 (1.69%) LAN
7 19 (1.40%) DHCP
8 13 (0.95%) Wireless
9 11 (0.81%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.81%) SSL
10 10 (0.73%) VXLAN
11 9 (0.66%) BGP
11 9 (0.66%) NetScaler
11 9 (0.66%) OSPF
12 8 (0.59%) HTTP
13 7 (0.51%) Internet
13 7 (0.51%) MPLS
13 7 (0.51%) VSAN
14 6 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (3.89%) Power BI
3 47 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 41 (3.01%) NoSQL
5 32 (2.35%) Relational Database
6 31 (2.28%) Data Lake
6 31 (2.28%) SQL Server
7 30 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (2.06%) Big Data
9 24 (1.76%) DynamoDB
10 21 (1.54%) Metadata
11 20 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (1.32%) MySQL
12 18 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
13 15 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
15 13 (0.95%) BigQuery
15 13 (0.95%) Delta Lake
15 13 (0.95%) Hadoop
16 10 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 134 (9.84%) Jenkins
2 107 (7.86%) Git
3 81 (5.95%) JIRA
4 69 (5.07%) GitLab
5 30 (2.20%) JUnit
6 27 (1.98%) Selenium
7 22 (1.62%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.25%) Maven
9 13 (0.95%) CircleCI
10 11 (0.81%) JMeter
10 11 (0.81%) Mockito
11 10 (0.73%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.73%) Eclipse
12 9 (0.66%) Gradle
12 9 (0.66%) IntelliJ
12 9 (0.66%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.59%) Jaeger
14 6 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
14 6 (0.44%) Postman
General
1 504 (37.00%) Social Skills
2 257 (18.87%) Finance
3 222 (16.30%) Public Sector
4 167 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (5.21%) Banking
6 64 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
7 38 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
8 35 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.13%) Marketing
11 28 (2.06%) Legal
11 28 (2.06%) Retail
12 23 (1.69%) Military
13 19 (1.40%) Front Office
13 19 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.17%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.17%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.17%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.88%) Law
16 11 (0.81%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 291 (21.37%) Senior
2 268 (19.68%) Lead
3 215 (15.79%) Architect
4 183 (13.44%) Developer
5 101 (7.42%) Analyst
6 82 (6.02%) Software Engineer
7 71 (5.21%) Consultant
8 55 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
9 48 (3.52%) Java Developer
9 48 (3.52%) Lead Developer
9 48 (3.52%) Senior Developer
10 44 (3.23%) Data Engineer
11 41 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
12 38 (2.79%) Business Analyst
13 36 (2.64%) Technical Leader
14 34 (2.50%) Designer
15 33 (2.42%) DevOps Engineer
16 30 (2.20%) Technical Architect
17 26 (1.91%) Lead Software Engineer
18 24 (1.76%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (7.49%) Node.js
2 85 (6.24%) React
3 84 (6.17%) Kafka
3 84 (6.17%) REST
4 77 (5.65%) Spring
5 70 (5.14%) .NET
6 64 (4.70%) Spring Boot
7 56 (4.11%) RESTful
8 52 (3.82%) Playwright
9 45 (3.30%) GraphQL
10 40 (2.94%) Middleware
11 38 (2.79%) HTML
11 38 (2.79%) SOAP
12 37 (2.72%) OAuth
13 36 (2.64%) PySpark
14 35 (2.57%) YAML
15 30 (2.20%) AngularJS
15 30 (2.20%) OAuth2
16 29 (2.13%) Vitest
17 27 (1.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 134 (9.84%) Cloud Native
2 95 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 56 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (2.72%) Management Information System
5 32 (2.35%) Data Structures
6 28 (2.06%) Equities
6 28 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (1.98%) Algorithms
7 27 (1.98%) NHS
7 27 (1.98%) Virtual Team
8 25 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (1.84%) Onboarding
9 24 (1.76%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.62%) Derivative
11 20 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (1.40%) Data Centre
12 19 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (1.25%) Fixed Income
15 14 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 72 (5.29%) Linux
2 68 (4.99%) Windows
3 32 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.28%) Unix
5 12 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.66%) VMS
8 8 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.51%) Android
10 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.29%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.22%) Solaris
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.073%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (34.58%) Agile
2 408 (29.96%) CI/CD
3 383 (28.12%) Problem-Solving
4 361 (26.51%) DevOps
5 269 (19.75%) Coaching
5 269 (19.75%) Technical Leadership
6 240 (17.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 203 (14.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 196 (14.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 188 (13.80%) Microservices
10 184 (13.51%) Software Engineering
11 167 (12.26%) Roadmaps
12 165 (12.11%) AI
13 147 (10.79%) Analytics
14 146 (10.72%) Containerisation
15 141 (10.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 140 (10.28%) Test Automation
17 123 (9.03%) Data Modelling
18 121 (8.88%) Decision-Making
19 112 (8.22%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 303 (22.25%) Python
2 205 (15.05%) Java
3 179 (13.14%) SQL
4 124 (9.10%) TypeScript
5 109 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 69 (5.07%) PowerShell
7 67 (4.92%) C#
8 53 (3.89%) Bash
9 28 (2.06%) C++
10 20 (1.47%) Kotlin
11 16 (1.17%) Apex Code
11 16 (1.17%) Bicep
12 15 (1.10%) Scala
13 14 (1.03%) Go
13 14 (1.03%) Groovy
14 13 (0.95%) ABAP
14 13 (0.95%) Rust
15 10 (0.73%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.66%) PHP
16 9 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 340 (24.96%) Security Cleared
2 265 (19.46%) SC Cleared
3 166 (12.19%) Degree
4 51 (3.74%) AWS Certification
5 47 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 46 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 42 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (3.01%) Azure Certification
9 30 (2.20%) Master's Degree
10 28 (2.06%) CISSP
11 25 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (1.40%) CCNP
14 18 (1.32%) CISM
15 16 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.88%) PMI Certification
17 10 (0.73%) ACCA
17 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 10 (0.73%) SAP Certification
18 9 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (7.20%) QA
2 69 (5.07%) Accessibility
3 56 (4.11%) GDPR
4 53 (3.89%) Data Quality
5 41 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (2.50%) NIST
7 24 (1.76%) PCI DSS
8 22 (1.62%) SLA
9 21 (1.54%) NCSC
10 15 (1.10%) PMO
11 13 (0.95%) WCAG
12 9 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.59%) GAAP
14 7 (0.51%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.51%) IFRS
14 7 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
16 4 (0.29%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 206 (15.12%) Docker
2 61 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.03%) vSphere
5 12 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.81%) Firmware
7 7 (0.51%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.22%) Postfix
10 3 (0.22%) Xen
11 2 (0.15%) NFS
11 2 (0.15%) Varnish
12 1 (0.073%) HDFS
12 1 (0.073%) KVM
12 1 (0.073%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 209 (15.35%) Terraform
2 183 (13.44%) Kubernetes
3 81 (5.95%) Ansible
4 63 (4.63%) Grafana
5 52 (3.82%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (0.88%) Puppet
10 9 (0.66%) Argo
11 8 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.59%) Kiali
11 8 (0.59%) SCCM
12 5 (0.37%) VxRail
13 4 (0.29%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.29%) vRealize
14 3 (0.22%) CloudHub
14 3 (0.22%) HP ALM
14 3 (0.22%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.15%) Istio
Vendors
1 201 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 60 (4.41%) Oracle
3 59 (4.33%) Google
4 55 (4.04%) Splunk
5 54 (3.96%) SAP
6 51 (3.74%) Databricks
7 42 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 41 (3.01%) Salesforce
9 37 (2.72%) Cisco
10 30 (2.20%) Palo Alto
11 29 (2.13%) VMware
12 26 (1.91%) F5
13 19 (1.40%) CheckPoint
14 16 (1.17%) Fortinet
15 14 (1.03%) Red Hat
16 13 (0.95%) AppDynamics
16 13 (0.95%) Apple
16 13 (0.95%) Dynatrace
16 13 (0.95%) Foundry
16 13 (0.95%) IBM