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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 77 75
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +20
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,245 931 1,186
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.34% 2.98% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.35% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 515 759
10th Percentile £363 £350 £386
25th Percentile £438 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +4.09% -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £523 £535
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.34% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 19 53
10th Percentile £24.96 £21.57 £17.88
25th Percentile £39.74 £23.54 £38.75
Median hourly rate £58.75 £27.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +113.64% -51.32% +31.37%
75th Percentile £74.69 £52.38 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.30 £69.20 £78.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £26.93 £56.49
% change year-on-year +132.13% -52.34% -13.76%

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 32,673 27,807 37,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.64% 88.90% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,708 16,856 25,065
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £720 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,982 890 1,770
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £17.16
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -14.47% +16.92%
75th Percentile £57.25 £62.50 £63.29
90th Percentile £69.25 £75.00 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.41 £30.88 £40.13
% change year-on-year -20.96% -23.05% +54.33%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 20 January 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 1,058 £550 -4.35% 2,558
UK excluding London -9 569 £525 +0.48% 2,378
London +1 507 £550 -10.93% 617
Work from Home +22 408 £536 -2.55% 1,306
North of England -14 223 £522 +19.32% 489
Midlands +6 116 £450 -25.00% 275
North West -22 102 £458 +14.38% 237
Yorkshire -9 99 £537 -6.20% 183
West Midlands +9 88 £514 -17.76% 104
South East -30 77 £525 -4.55% 756
South West +7 63 £550 +6.28% 309
Scotland +18 60 £525 +0.48% 117
East of England -8 30 £585 +58.64% 344
East Midlands -16 28 £423 +5.63% 167
North East -5 25 £500 +17.65% 72
Wales -3 10 £400 -30.43% 112
Northern Ireland -10 2 £385 +30.95% 40

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 40 (3.21%) Confluence
2 26 (2.09%) Apache
3 25 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.80%) JBoss
6 10 (0.80%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.64%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.48%) CMS
9 5 (0.40%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.24%) Drupal
11 3 (0.24%) SAS
12 2 (0.16%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.16%) MS Project Server
12 2 (0.16%) nginx
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.56%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.24%) LaTeX
6 3 (0.24%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.080%) InDesign
8 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (1.12%) SAP WM
2 13 (1.04%) SAP EWM
3 12 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.88%) SAP HCM
5 6 (0.48%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.24%) Kondor
8 3 (0.24%) Maximo
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 370 (29.72%) AWS
2 330 (26.51%) Azure
3 117 (9.40%) GCP
4 100 (8.03%) GitHub
5 98 (7.87%) Serverless
6 75 (6.02%) Power Platform
7 69 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (5.46%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
10 51 (4.10%) Amazon S3
10 51 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 48 (3.86%) SaaS
12 42 (3.37%) Entra ID
12 42 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
13 37 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (2.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 34 (2.73%) Datadog
16 33 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
17 30 (2.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (7.39%) Firewall
2 51 (4.10%) DNS
3 35 (2.81%) VPN
4 30 (2.41%) Network Security
5 29 (2.33%) TCP/IP
6 27 (2.17%) WAN
7 18 (1.45%) DHCP
7 18 (1.45%) LAN
8 14 (1.12%) SD-WAN
9 13 (1.04%) Wireless
10 12 (0.96%) SSL
11 10 (0.80%) BGP
11 10 (0.80%) OSPF
11 10 (0.80%) VXLAN
12 8 (0.64%) MPLS
12 8 (0.64%) VLAN
13 7 (0.56%) Internet
13 7 (0.56%) VSAN
14 6 (0.48%) NetScaler
14 6 (0.48%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (4.18%) NoSQL
3 50 (4.02%) MongoDB
4 44 (3.53%) Power BI
5 29 (2.33%) DynamoDB
6 28 (2.25%) Data Lake
7 26 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (2.09%) Relational Database
8 25 (2.01%) Big Data
8 25 (2.01%) SQL Server
9 18 (1.45%) BigQuery
9 18 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
10 17 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (1.29%) MySQL
12 14 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.12%) Metadata
13 13 (1.04%) Redis
14 12 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 141 (11.33%) Jenkins
2 109 (8.76%) Git
3 76 (6.10%) JIRA
4 65 (5.22%) GitLab
5 25 (2.01%) Selenium
6 24 (1.93%) JUnit
7 22 (1.77%) Maven
8 17 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.29%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.20%) Gradle
11 12 (0.96%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.80%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.80%) Mockito
13 9 (0.72%) Eclipse
13 9 (0.72%) IntelliJ
14 8 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.56%) Jaeger
16 6 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
16 6 (0.48%) Postman
17 5 (0.40%) SpecFlow
General
1 474 (38.07%) Social Skills
2 231 (18.55%) Finance
3 196 (15.74%) Public Sector
4 157 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (6.10%) Banking
6 53 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
8 37 (2.97%) Marketing
9 29 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (1.85%) Military
12 22 (1.77%) Legal
12 22 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.77%) Retail
13 14 (1.12%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.12%) Telecoms
14 12 (0.96%) Aerospace
14 12 (0.96%) Electronics
15 10 (0.80%) Law
15 10 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 261 (20.96%) Senior
2 236 (18.96%) Lead
3 221 (17.75%) Architect
4 158 (12.69%) Developer
5 87 (6.99%) Analyst
6 72 (5.78%) Consultant
7 67 (5.38%) Software Engineer
8 54 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
9 42 (3.37%) Java Developer
10 38 (3.05%) Data Engineer
10 38 (3.05%) Senior Developer
11 37 (2.97%) Lead Developer
11 37 (2.97%) Technical Architect
12 35 (2.81%) Business Analyst
12 35 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
13 33 (2.65%) Technical Leader
14 32 (2.57%) DevOps Engineer
15 28 (2.25%) SAP Consultant
16 25 (2.01%) Lead Architect
16 25 (2.01%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.51%) Kafka
1 81 (6.51%) Node.js
2 68 (5.46%) REST
3 66 (5.30%) Spring
4 64 (5.14%) .NET
5 62 (4.98%) Spring Boot
6 61 (4.90%) React
7 59 (4.74%) RESTful
8 51 (4.10%) GraphQL
8 51 (4.10%) Playwright
9 38 (3.05%) HTML
10 37 (2.97%) YAML
11 36 (2.89%) Middleware
12 35 (2.81%) SOAP
13 34 (2.73%) OAuth
14 31 (2.49%) Vitest
15 30 (2.41%) PySpark
16 28 (2.25%) JSON
17 27 (2.17%) OAuth2
17 27 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 125 (10.04%) Cloud Native
2 98 (7.87%) Product Ownership
3 47 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 31 (2.49%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.33%) Algorithms
7 27 (2.17%) Data Structures
8 26 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 26 (2.09%) Virtual Team
9 25 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (1.93%) NHS
10 24 (1.93%) Public Cloud
11 23 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
12 21 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.61%) Mobile App
14 15 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (1.12%) Security Posture
15 14 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 70 (5.62%) Linux
2 64 (5.14%) Windows
3 34 (2.73%) Unix
4 31 (2.49%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.72%) VMS
7 8 (0.64%) Android
8 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.080%) CentOS
12 1 (0.080%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (35.82%) Agile
2 368 (29.56%) Problem-Solving
3 364 (29.24%) CI/CD
4 329 (26.43%) DevOps
5 245 (19.68%) Coaching
6 235 (18.88%) Technical Leadership
7 214 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 181 (14.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 177 (14.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 173 (13.90%) Software Engineering
11 164 (13.17%) Microservices
12 154 (12.37%) Roadmaps
13 144 (11.57%) Containerisation
14 139 (11.16%) AI
15 130 (10.44%) Test Automation
16 121 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 116 (9.32%) Analytics
18 101 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
19 100 (8.03%) Data Modelling
20 95 (7.63%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 266 (21.37%) Python
2 190 (15.26%) Java
3 155 (12.45%) SQL
4 101 (8.11%) TypeScript
5 92 (7.39%) JavaScript
6 64 (5.14%) PowerShell
7 56 (4.50%) C#
8 54 (4.34%) Bash
9 32 (2.57%) C++
10 16 (1.29%) Bicep
10 16 (1.29%) Scala
11 14 (1.12%) Apex Code
11 14 (1.12%) Go
11 14 (1.12%) Groovy
12 13 (1.04%) Kotlin
13 12 (0.96%) ABAP
14 11 (0.88%) Rust
15 10 (0.80%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.64%) Ruby
17 7 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 296 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 220 (17.67%) SC Cleared
3 158 (12.69%) Degree
4 51 (4.10%) AWS Certification
5 45 (3.61%) DV Cleared
6 41 (3.29%) Azure Certification
6 41 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (2.57%) CISSP
9 26 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (1.61%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.53%) CISM
13 16 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (1.29%) CCNP
14 15 (1.20%) SAP Certification
15 13 (1.04%) PMI Certification
16 12 (0.96%) MCP
17 10 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (0.80%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.15%) QA
2 63 (5.06%) GDPR
3 49 (3.94%) Accessibility
4 47 (3.78%) Data Quality
5 42 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (3.13%) NIST
7 26 (2.09%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.45%) NCSC
9 17 (1.37%) SLA
10 14 (1.12%) WCAG
11 13 (1.04%) PMO
12 11 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 11 (0.88%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.48%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
16 5 (0.40%) GAAP
16 5 (0.40%) IFRS
System Software
1 209 (16.79%) Docker
2 64 (5.14%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.04%) vSphere
6 12 (0.96%) Firmware
7 8 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.56%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.24%) HDFS
10 3 (0.24%) NFS
10 3 (0.24%) Xen
11 2 (0.16%) Varnish
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.16%) zsh
12 1 (0.080%) KVM
12 1 (0.080%) Postfix
12 1 (0.080%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 192 (15.42%) Terraform
2 179 (14.38%) Kubernetes
3 81 (6.51%) Ansible
4 48 (3.86%) Grafana
5 44 (3.53%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.96%) Puppet
9 9 (0.72%) Argo
10 7 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.56%) Kiali
11 6 (0.48%) SCCM
12 5 (0.40%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.40%) VxRail
13 4 (0.32%) vRealize
14 3 (0.24%) CloudHub
14 3 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
14 3 (0.24%) Oozie
14 3 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 184 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.34%) SAP
3 52 (4.18%) Splunk
4 48 (3.86%) Oracle
5 46 (3.69%) Google
6 43 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.29%) Salesforce
8 40 (3.21%) Databricks
9 37 (2.97%) Cisco
10 32 (2.57%) VMware
11 27 (2.17%) Palo Alto
12 22 (1.77%) F5
13 17 (1.37%) CheckPoint
14 15 (1.20%) Fortinet
15 14 (1.12%) AppDynamics
16 13 (1.04%) Apple
17 12 (0.96%) Dynatrace
17 12 (0.96%) IBM
18 11 (0.88%) Red Hat
19 10 (0.80%) SolarWinds