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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 83 78
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 +10
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,331 924 1,200
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.34% 2.98% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 3.33% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 506 779
10th Percentile £358 £349 £380
25th Percentile £425 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £533
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.44% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 56
10th Percentile £27.50 £21.57 £17.89
25th Percentile £41.94 £23.54 £24.75
Median hourly rate £64.00 £27.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year +132.73% -50.63% -14.96%
75th Percentile £76.25 £52.38 £72.44
90th Percentile £81.00 £69.20 £78.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £26.93 £56.49
% change year-on-year +137.70% -52.34% -22.01%

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 34,652 27,713 38,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.01% 89.46% 87.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,939 16,970 25,283
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £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 £478 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.06% -0.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,087 853 2,111
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.28
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.18% -9.97% +9.38%

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 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 12 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 12 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 +2 1,110 £537 -6.00% 1,572
UK excluding London 0 609 £525 +0.96% 1,325
London +4 537 £550 -9.73% 547
Work from Home +25 435 £536 -0.83% 822
North of England -17 227 £510 +16.24% 366
Midlands +11 127 £450 -20.00% 181
North West -21 107 £468 +16.88% 204
West Midlands +12 103 £504 -19.36% 107
Yorkshire -15 98 £525 -6.46% 121
South East -25 85 £535 -2.73% 421
Scotland +26 69 £538 +2.38% 74
South West -4 65 £550 +4.76% 152
East of England -11 33 £585 +58.64% 107
North East -6 25 £500 +17.65% 45
East Midlands -13 24 £420 -9.19% 75
Wales +7 17 £400 -25.58% 39
Northern Ireland -11 2 £385 +73.42% 13

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 45 (3.38%) Confluence
2 32 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 31 (2.33%) Apache
4 25 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.90%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.68%) JBoss
7 9 (0.68%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.45%) CMS
9 5 (0.38%) Drupal
9 5 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.30%) nginx
10 4 (0.30%) WordPress
11 3 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.23%) MS Project Server
12 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.15%) SAS
12 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.23%) LaTeX
5 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.075%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.075%) InDesign
6 1 (0.075%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.075%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.075%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.05%) SAP WM
2 13 (0.98%) SAP EWM
3 11 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.75%) SAP HCM
5 7 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.45%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.23%) Kondor
9 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.15%) Maximo
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 395 (29.68%) AWS
2 357 (26.82%) Azure
3 124 (9.32%) GCP
4 102 (7.66%) GitHub
4 102 (7.66%) Serverless
5 84 (6.31%) Power Platform
6 78 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
7 69 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
8 60 (4.51%) Amazon S3
9 52 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
10 51 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 47 (3.53%) SaaS
12 43 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
13 41 (3.08%) Entra ID
14 34 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 33 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 31 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
17 30 (2.25%) Azure AKS
17 30 (2.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (6.91%) Firewall
2 54 (4.06%) DNS
3 34 (2.55%) VPN
4 31 (2.33%) Network Security
5 29 (2.18%) TCP/IP
5 29 (2.18%) WAN
6 23 (1.73%) LAN
7 20 (1.50%) DHCP
8 13 (0.98%) Wireless
9 12 (0.90%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.83%) SSL
11 10 (0.75%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.68%) BGP
12 9 (0.68%) OSPF
13 8 (0.60%) NetScaler
14 7 (0.53%) HTTP
14 7 (0.53%) Internet
14 7 (0.53%) VSAN
15 6 (0.45%) VLAN
15 6 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (3.68%) MongoDB
2 49 (3.68%) Power BI
3 45 (3.38%) NoSQL
4 33 (2.48%) Relational Database
5 32 (2.40%) Data Lake
6 30 (2.25%) SQL Server
7 29 (2.18%) Big Data
8 28 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
9 24 (1.80%) DynamoDB
10 22 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (1.43%) MySQL
12 18 (1.35%) Metadata
12 18 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
13 17 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (1.05%) BigQuery
15 14 (1.05%) Hadoop
16 11 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
16 11 (0.83%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 137 (10.29%) Jenkins
2 103 (7.74%) Git
3 76 (5.71%) JIRA
4 68 (5.11%) GitLab
5 27 (2.03%) JUnit
6 23 (1.73%) Selenium
7 19 (1.43%) Maven
8 17 (1.28%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.05%) SonarQube
10 12 (0.90%) CircleCI
10 12 (0.90%) Mockito
11 10 (0.75%) Eclipse
11 10 (0.75%) Gradle
12 9 (0.68%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.68%) IntelliJ
12 9 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.60%) Jaeger
14 7 (0.53%) Postman
15 6 (0.45%) JMeter
15 6 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 506 (38.02%) Social Skills
2 246 (18.48%) Finance
3 209 (15.70%) Public Sector
4 165 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (5.48%) Banking
6 55 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
7 43 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (2.40%) Marketing
11 28 (2.10%) Retail
12 24 (1.80%) Military
13 23 (1.73%) Legal
14 20 (1.50%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.20%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.90%) Electronics
16 12 (0.90%) Law
16 12 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (0.83%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 281 (21.11%) Senior
2 260 (19.53%) Lead
3 212 (15.93%) Architect
4 179 (13.45%) Developer
5 95 (7.14%) Analyst
6 74 (5.56%) Consultant
7 73 (5.48%) Software Engineer
8 53 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
9 50 (3.76%) Java Developer
10 46 (3.46%) Senior Developer
11 43 (3.23%) Lead Developer
12 42 (3.16%) Data Engineer
13 39 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
14 37 (2.78%) Business Analyst
15 35 (2.63%) Technical Leader
16 31 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
17 29 (2.18%) SAP Consultant
17 29 (2.18%) Technical Architect
18 27 (2.03%) Principal Engineer
19 26 (1.95%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (7.06%) Node.js
2 86 (6.46%) Kafka
3 82 (6.16%) REST
4 76 (5.71%) Spring
5 72 (5.41%) React
6 69 (5.18%) Spring Boot
7 67 (5.03%) .NET
8 56 (4.21%) RESTful
9 51 (3.83%) Playwright
10 45 (3.38%) GraphQL
11 42 (3.16%) HTML
12 40 (3.01%) Middleware
13 39 (2.93%) SOAP
14 37 (2.78%) YAML
15 35 (2.63%) OAuth
16 34 (2.55%) PySpark
17 31 (2.33%) Vitest
18 30 (2.25%) AngularJS
19 28 (2.10%) OAuth2
20 27 (2.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 132 (9.92%) Cloud Native
2 92 (6.91%) Product Ownership
3 53 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 30 (2.25%) Algorithms
5 30 (2.25%) Data Structures
5 30 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.03%) NHS
6 27 (2.03%) Virtual Team
7 25 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (1.80%) Mobile App
9 22 (1.65%) Data Centre
10 20 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.43%) Equities
12 17 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
13 16 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 14 (1.05%) Derivative
15 13 (0.98%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (5.48%) Linux
2 68 (5.11%) Windows
3 34 (2.55%) Unix
4 31 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.83%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.68%) VMS
8 8 (0.60%) Android
8 8 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.23%) Solaris
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.075%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (34.18%) Agile
2 392 (29.45%) CI/CD
2 392 (29.45%) Problem-Solving
3 355 (26.67%) DevOps
4 266 (19.98%) Technical Leadership
5 263 (19.76%) Coaching
6 234 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 192 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 191 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 183 (13.75%) Software Engineering
10 180 (13.52%) Microservices
11 157 (11.80%) AI
12 156 (11.72%) Roadmaps
13 147 (11.04%) Containerisation
14 144 (10.82%) Analytics
15 136 (10.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 133 (9.99%) Test Automation
17 119 (8.94%) Data Modelling
18 109 (8.19%) Decision-Making
19 100 (7.51%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 295 (22.16%) Python
2 208 (15.63%) Java
3 180 (13.52%) SQL
4 116 (8.72%) TypeScript
5 104 (7.81%) JavaScript
6 71 (5.33%) PowerShell
7 62 (4.66%) C#
8 53 (3.98%) Bash
9 30 (2.25%) C++
10 19 (1.43%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.28%) Bicep
12 16 (1.20%) Apex Code
13 15 (1.13%) Groovy
14 14 (1.05%) Scala
15 13 (0.98%) ABAP
15 13 (0.98%) Go
16 12 (0.90%) Rust
16 12 (0.90%) Shell Script
17 10 (0.75%) PHP
18 9 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 327 (24.57%) Security Cleared
2 253 (19.01%) SC Cleared
3 177 (13.30%) Degree
4 49 (3.68%) AWS Certification
5 46 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 44 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 41 (3.08%) Azure Certification
9 31 (2.33%) Master's Degree
10 29 (2.18%) CISSP
11 26 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (1.43%) CISM
14 18 (1.35%) CCNP
15 15 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (1.13%) SAP Certification
16 11 (0.83%) PMI Certification
17 10 (0.75%) ACCA
17 10 (0.75%) CIMA
17 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (7.36%) QA
2 62 (4.66%) Accessibility
3 57 (4.28%) GDPR
4 52 (3.91%) Data Quality
5 40 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (2.48%) NIST
7 23 (1.73%) PCI DSS
8 22 (1.65%) NCSC
9 18 (1.35%) SLA
10 14 (1.05%) WCAG
11 13 (0.98%) PMO
12 10 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.68%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.60%) GAAP
15 7 (0.53%) IFRS
15 7 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
16 5 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 209 (15.70%) Docker
2 64 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.05%) vSphere
5 12 (0.90%) Firmware
6 11 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.53%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.23%) Postfix
10 3 (0.23%) Xen
11 2 (0.15%) NFS
11 2 (0.15%) Varnish
12 1 (0.075%) HDFS
12 1 (0.075%) KVM
12 1 (0.075%) RHEV
12 1 (0.075%) zsh
Systems Management
1 205 (15.40%) Terraform
2 187 (14.05%) Kubernetes
3 81 (6.09%) Ansible
4 57 (4.28%) Grafana
5 47 (3.53%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (0.90%) Puppet
10 9 (0.68%) Argo
11 8 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.60%) Kiali
11 8 (0.60%) SCCM
12 5 (0.38%) VxRail
13 4 (0.30%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.30%) vRealize
14 3 (0.23%) CloudHub
14 3 (0.23%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.15%) Istio
Vendors
1 200 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.43%) Oracle
3 58 (4.36%) Google
3 58 (4.36%) SAP
4 56 (4.21%) Splunk
5 52 (3.91%) Databricks
6 40 (3.01%) Salesforce
6 40 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 35 (2.63%) Cisco
8 32 (2.40%) VMware
9 28 (2.10%) Palo Alto
10 25 (1.88%) F5
11 18 (1.35%) CheckPoint
12 16 (1.20%) Fortinet
13 14 (1.05%) Apple
13 14 (1.05%) Red Hat
14 13 (0.98%) AppDynamics
14 13 (0.98%) IBM
15 12 (0.90%) Dynatrace
16 10 (0.75%) MuleSoft