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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 86 78
Rank change year-on-year +17 -8 +19
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,273 978 1,290
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.68% 2.68% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 3.11% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 538 837
10th Percentile £360 £371 £373
25th Percentile £428 £461 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £561 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% -0.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £712 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.52% -2.37% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 25 49
10th Percentile £19.34 £24.66 £45.79
25th Percentile £27.06 £37.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £49.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -13.26% +36.12%
75th Percentile £77.81 £63.75 £76.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £50.75 £56.49
% change year-on-year +23.15% -10.16% +2.71%

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 31,196 31,430 41,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.11% 86.05% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,528 18,901 27,760
10th Percentile £296 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,021 1,108 1,576
10th Percentile £14.41 £15.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £20.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +26.43%
75th Percentile £43.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.58 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -35.50% -20.90% +50.00%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +11 1,071 £525 -8.70% 4,926
UK excluding London +3 598 £501 -4.52% 4,051
London +15 521 £550 -8.33% 2,188
Work from Home +22 417 £525 -4.55% 2,551
North of England 0 204 £505 +18.82% 854
South East +4 99 £500 -9.09% 1,857
North West -13 96 £460 +26.90% 493
Midlands -9 95 £447 -26.96% 356
Yorkshire -1 91 £525 -3.67% 244
South West +34 84 £550 -19.71% 272
Scotland +24 79 £500 +1.21% 306
West Midlands -12 69 £445 -28.80% 186
East of England -6 31 £535 +25.88% 276
East Midlands -11 26 £447 +8.36% 154
North East -7 20 £550 +27.17% 121
Wales +4 11 £478 -19.58% 103
Northern Ireland -13 3 £975 +77.27% 84

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 (3.22%) Confluence
2 27 (2.12%) Apache
3 21 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.41%) CMS
6 14 (1.10%) WebLogic
7 13 (1.02%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.86%) JBoss
10 7 (0.55%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.31%) SAS
12 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.24%) Drupal
12 3 (0.24%) Oracle Service Bus
12 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.24%) WordPress
13 2 (0.16%) Camunda
13 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.79%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.79%) Siemens NX
3 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.55%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.16%) Trello
6 1 (0.079%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.079%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.079%) DaVinci Resolve
6 1 (0.079%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 14 (1.10%) SAP WM
2 13 (1.02%) SAP EWM
3 11 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.79%) Teamcenter
5 8 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.63%) SAP HCM
6 5 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.31%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.31%) Magento
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.31%) Primavera
7 4 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.24%) Kondor
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.16%) Actimize
9 2 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 363 (28.52%) AWS
2 334 (26.24%) Azure
3 107 (8.41%) GCP
4 100 (7.86%) Serverless
5 77 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
6 75 (5.89%) GitHub
7 73 (5.73%) Amazon S3
8 69 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
9 65 (5.11%) Power Platform
10 51 (4.01%) Entra ID
11 45 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
12 41 (3.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 40 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 38 (2.99%) SaaS
15 36 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
16 35 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
17 29 (2.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 27 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
19 26 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.95%) Firewall
2 35 (2.75%) Network Security
2 35 (2.75%) VPN
3 34 (2.67%) DNS
4 20 (1.57%) WAN
5 18 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.18%) Wireless
7 14 (1.10%) LAN
7 14 (1.10%) SSL
8 13 (1.02%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.94%) DHCP
10 10 (0.79%) BGP
10 10 (0.79%) OSPF
11 9 (0.71%) Internet
11 9 (0.71%) iSCSI
11 9 (0.71%) MPLS
12 8 (0.63%) VLAN
13 7 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
13 7 (0.55%) VXLAN
14 5 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (4.71%) MongoDB
3 51 (4.01%) NoSQL
4 43 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (3.38%) Power BI
5 39 (3.06%) DynamoDB
6 35 (2.75%) SQL Server
7 33 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (2.12%) MySQL
9 25 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (1.89%) Big Data
11 22 (1.73%) BigQuery
11 22 (1.73%) Redis
12 21 (1.65%) Relational Database
13 18 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
14 14 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
14 14 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (1.10%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.10%) Oracle Database
15 11 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 149 (11.70%) Git
2 132 (10.37%) Jenkins
3 101 (7.93%) JIRA
4 63 (4.95%) GitLab
5 32 (2.51%) JUnit
6 29 (2.28%) Maven
7 24 (1.89%) Selenium
7 24 (1.89%) SonarQube
8 19 (1.49%) Cypress.io
9 15 (1.18%) Mockito
10 14 (1.10%) Gradle
11 13 (1.02%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.02%) Postman
12 12 (0.94%) SoapUI
13 10 (0.79%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.79%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.79%) IntelliJ
14 9 (0.71%) Eclipse
14 9 (0.71%) REST Assured
14 9 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 439 (34.49%) Social Skills
2 233 (18.30%) Finance
3 198 (15.55%) Public Sector
4 174 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.52%) Banking
6 51 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
6 51 (4.01%) Marketing
7 42 (3.30%) Manufacturing
8 35 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (1.89%) Legal
11 24 (1.89%) Military
12 23 (1.81%) Telecoms
13 20 (1.57%) Aerospace
14 19 (1.49%) Electronics
15 16 (1.26%) Retail
16 12 (0.94%) Law
16 12 (0.94%) Local Government
17 11 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 255 (20.03%) Senior
2 253 (19.87%) Lead
3 195 (15.32%) Developer
4 193 (15.16%) Architect
5 75 (5.89%) Consultant
6 73 (5.73%) Software Engineer
7 68 (5.34%) Analyst
8 61 (4.79%) Senior Developer
9 48 (3.77%) Technical Leader
10 43 (3.38%) Data Engineer
11 42 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
12 41 (3.22%) Lead Developer
12 41 (3.22%) Technical Architect
13 40 (3.14%) Java Developer
14 37 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
16 27 (2.12%) Senior Software Engineer
17 24 (1.89%) SAP Consultant
18 21 (1.65%) Principal Engineer
18 21 (1.65%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (6.83%) React
2 83 (6.52%) Node.js
3 81 (6.36%) RESTful
4 80 (6.28%) Kafka
5 78 (6.13%) .NET
6 71 (5.58%) REST
7 67 (5.26%) Spring
8 59 (4.63%) Spring Boot
9 57 (4.48%) HTML
10 52 (4.08%) SOAP
11 46 (3.61%) GraphQL
12 42 (3.30%) AngularJS
13 37 (2.91%) Playwright
14 36 (2.83%) CSS
15 33 (2.59%) OAuth
16 31 (2.44%) Web Services
17 30 (2.36%) XML
18 26 (2.04%) HTML5
19 25 (1.96%) JSON
20 24 (1.89%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 111 (8.72%) Cloud Native
2 90 (7.07%) Product Ownership
3 31 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.36%) Public Cloud
5 29 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
5 29 (2.28%) Mobile App
6 28 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 24 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 22 (1.73%) Data Structures
9 21 (1.65%) Algorithms
10 19 (1.49%) Virtual Team
11 17 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 17 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (1.34%) Security Posture
12 16 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.26%) NHS
13 14 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 69 (5.42%) Linux
2 63 (4.95%) Windows
3 40 (3.14%) Unix
4 29 (2.28%) Windows Server
5 27 (2.12%) Android
6 20 (1.57%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.47%) VMS
9 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.079%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.079%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (37.94%) Agile
2 372 (29.22%) Problem-Solving
3 331 (26.00%) CI/CD
4 312 (24.51%) DevOps
5 235 (18.46%) Coaching
6 226 (17.75%) Technical Leadership
7 194 (15.24%) Software Engineering
8 193 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 168 (13.20%) Infrastructure as Code
10 164 (12.88%) Microservices
11 152 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 148 (11.63%) Containerisation
13 140 (11.00%) Test Automation
14 136 (10.68%) Roadmaps
15 117 (9.19%) Analytics
16 106 (8.33%) Scrum
17 100 (7.86%) AI
18 93 (7.31%) Data Modelling
19 90 (7.07%) Cybersecurity
19 90 (7.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 230 (18.07%) Python
2 190 (14.93%) Java
3 177 (13.90%) SQL
4 122 (9.58%) JavaScript
5 101 (7.93%) TypeScript
6 66 (5.18%) C#
7 49 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 45 (3.53%) Bash
9 30 (2.36%) C++
10 24 (1.89%) Apex Code
10 24 (1.89%) Scala
11 21 (1.65%) Kotlin
12 19 (1.49%) Go
13 13 (1.02%) Groovy
13 13 (1.02%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.86%) Bicep
15 10 (0.79%) Swift
16 9 (0.71%) PHP
17 8 (0.63%) ABAP
18 7 (0.55%) C
Qualifications
1 281 (22.07%) Security Cleared
2 199 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 142 (11.15%) Degree
4 58 (4.56%) AWS Certification
5 56 (4.40%) DV Cleared
6 48 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (3.14%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.36%) CISSP
9 28 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 24 (1.89%) Master's Degree
13 21 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
14 14 (1.10%) SAP Certification
15 13 (1.02%) CCNP
15 13 (1.02%) CISM
16 12 (0.94%) PMI Certification
17 10 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (0.79%) PMP
18 9 (0.71%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.36%) QA
2 77 (6.05%) GDPR
3 60 (4.71%) Accessibility
4 52 (4.08%) Data Quality
5 45 (3.53%) NIST
6 40 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.81%) PCI DSS
8 21 (1.65%) WCAG
9 20 (1.57%) SLA
10 15 (1.18%) PMO
11 14 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 13 (1.02%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.86%) NCSC
14 8 (0.63%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
16 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.47%) GRC
17 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.39%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 202 (15.87%) Docker
2 67 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 27 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.02%) vSphere
5 10 (0.79%) Firmware
5 10 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.55%) NFS
8 6 (0.47%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.39%) zsh
10 3 (0.24%) HDFS
10 3 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.079%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.079%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 179 (14.06%) Terraform
2 166 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 44 (3.46%) Ansible
4 24 (1.89%) Prometheus
5 23 (1.81%) Grafana
6 20 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.34%) Puppet
8 13 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (0.94%) Argo
10 8 (0.63%) SCCM
11 7 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.47%) Istio
13 5 (0.39%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.31%) vCenter Server
15 3 (0.24%) CloudHub
15 3 (0.24%) Control-M
15 3 (0.24%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
15 3 (0.24%) Oozie
Vendors
1 185 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.24%) SAP
3 52 (4.08%) Oracle
4 48 (3.77%) Salesforce
5 47 (3.69%) Splunk
6 45 (3.53%) Google
6 45 (3.53%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.91%) VMware
8 31 (2.44%) Cisco
8 31 (2.44%) Databricks
9 24 (1.89%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.73%) F5
11 13 (1.02%) Apple
11 13 (1.02%) CheckPoint
11 13 (1.02%) IBM
12 12 (0.94%) NetApp
13 11 (0.86%) Fortinet
13 11 (0.86%) Siemens
13 11 (0.86%) Veeam
14 10 (0.79%) MuleSoft