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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 78 79
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,229 944 1,196
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.26% 3.02% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 3.39% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 760 522 771
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £429 £439 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +0.68% -5.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £658
90th Percentile £738 £756 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £534
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.62% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 19 54
10th Percentile £24.96 £21.57 £17.93
25th Percentile £39.74 £23.54 £35.94
Median hourly rate £58.75 £27.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +113.64% -51.32% +36.12%
75th Percentile £74.69 £52.38 £73.31
90th Percentile £80.30 £69.20 £78.63
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 32,948 27,851 38,703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.34% 89.03% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,870 16,883 25,489
10th Percentile £305 £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 £643
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,006 881 1,954
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.78% +12.89%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.47
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -18.80% +41.24%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -4 1,039 £550 -4.14% 2,643
UK excluding London -14 562 £525 +0.96% 2,460
London +2 493 £550 -10.20% 634
Work from Home +14 401 £538 +2.38% 1,415
North of England -11 221 £522 +18.64% 512
Midlands +9 116 £450 -20.00% 299
North West -20 100 £468 +16.88% 253
Yorkshire -8 99 £537 -2.36% 188
West Midlands +12 90 £508 -17.87% 116
South East -38 75 £525 -4.55% 789
South West -4 63 £550 +4.76% 320
Scotland +17 58 £535 +2.15% 125
East of England -4 30 £585 +58.64% 337
East Midlands -17 26 £425 +3.00% 176
North East -6 25 £500 +17.65% 73
Wales -3 9 £400 -30.43% 111
Northern Ireland -13 2 £385 +30.95% 38

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 (3.25%) Confluence
2 23 (1.87%) Apache
2 23 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.81%) JBoss
5 10 (0.81%) WebLogic
6 8 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.49%) CMS
8 5 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.33%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.24%) Drupal
10 3 (0.24%) MS Project Server
10 3 (0.24%) nginx
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.16%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.98%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.57%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.24%) LaTeX
7 2 (0.16%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.081%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.081%) InDesign
8 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (1.14%) SAP WM
2 13 (1.06%) SAP EWM
3 12 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.90%) SAP HCM
5 6 (0.49%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.24%) Kondor
8 3 (0.24%) Maximo
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.16%) Shopify
9 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 362 (29.45%) AWS
2 317 (25.79%) Azure
3 112 (9.11%) GCP
4 99 (8.06%) Serverless
5 98 (7.97%) GitHub
6 72 (5.86%) Power Platform
7 70 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
10 53 (4.31%) Amazon S3
11 50 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 48 (3.91%) SaaS
13 39 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
14 37 (3.01%) Entra ID
15 36 (2.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 35 (2.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 33 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
17 33 (2.69%) Datadog
18 31 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
18 31 (2.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 88 (7.16%) Firewall
2 53 (4.31%) DNS
3 35 (2.85%) VPN
4 29 (2.36%) TCP/IP
5 27 (2.20%) Network Security
6 25 (2.03%) WAN
7 18 (1.46%) DHCP
7 18 (1.46%) LAN
8 12 (0.98%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.98%) SSL
8 12 (0.98%) Wireless
9 8 (0.65%) BGP
9 8 (0.65%) OSPF
9 8 (0.65%) VXLAN
10 7 (0.57%) Internet
10 7 (0.57%) NetScaler
10 7 (0.57%) VLAN
10 7 (0.57%) VSAN
11 6 (0.49%) MPLS
11 6 (0.49%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (3.99%) MongoDB
2 49 (3.99%) NoSQL
3 44 (3.58%) Power BI
4 29 (2.36%) DynamoDB
5 27 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 26 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
7 25 (2.03%) Data Lake
8 24 (1.95%) SQL Server
9 23 (1.87%) Big Data
10 18 (1.46%) BigQuery
10 18 (1.46%) Oracle Reports
11 17 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.30%) MySQL
13 14 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.06%) Redis
15 12 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (0.90%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 140 (11.39%) Jenkins
2 102 (8.30%) Git
3 72 (5.86%) JIRA
4 65 (5.29%) GitLab
5 24 (1.95%) Selenium
6 23 (1.87%) JUnit
7 22 (1.79%) Maven
8 17 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.30%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.14%) Gradle
11 12 (0.98%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.81%) Eclipse
13 9 (0.73%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.73%) IntelliJ
13 9 (0.73%) Mockito
13 9 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.57%) Jaeger
15 6 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
15 6 (0.49%) Postman
16 4 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 475 (38.65%) Social Skills
2 226 (18.39%) Finance
3 193 (15.70%) Public Sector
4 146 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (5.94%) Banking
6 52 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
7 41 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (2.77%) Marketing
9 32 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.87%) Military
11 23 (1.87%) Retail
12 22 (1.79%) Legal
13 21 (1.71%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.14%) Financial Institution
14 14 (1.14%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.98%) Electronics
16 11 (0.90%) Aerospace
16 11 (0.90%) Law
17 10 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 259 (21.07%) Senior
2 234 (19.04%) Lead
3 214 (17.41%) Architect
4 155 (12.61%) Developer
5 81 (6.59%) Analyst
6 71 (5.78%) Consultant
7 65 (5.29%) Software Engineer
8 52 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
9 42 (3.42%) Java Developer
10 40 (3.25%) Senior Developer
11 39 (3.17%) Data Engineer
12 37 (3.01%) Lead Developer
13 36 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
14 35 (2.85%) Technical Architect
15 32 (2.60%) Business Analyst
15 32 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (2.60%) Technical Leader
16 28 (2.28%) SAP Consultant
17 23 (1.87%) Lead Architect
17 23 (1.87%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.59%) Node.js
2 77 (6.27%) Kafka
3 69 (5.61%) REST
4 65 (5.29%) Spring
5 63 (5.13%) .NET
6 62 (5.04%) React
7 61 (4.96%) Spring Boot
8 59 (4.80%) RESTful
9 50 (4.07%) GraphQL
10 49 (3.99%) Playwright
11 40 (3.25%) Middleware
12 37 (3.01%) HTML
12 37 (3.01%) SOAP
12 37 (3.01%) YAML
13 33 (2.69%) OAuth
14 31 (2.52%) Vitest
15 29 (2.36%) PySpark
16 28 (2.28%) JSON
17 27 (2.20%) OAuth2
18 26 (2.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 124 (10.09%) Cloud Native
2 98 (7.97%) Product Ownership
3 46 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (2.36%) Management Information System
5 28 (2.28%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.20%) Algorithms
6 27 (2.20%) Virtual Team
7 26 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (2.03%) Data Structures
9 24 (1.95%) NHS
10 21 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (1.63%) Data Centre
12 19 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.46%) Mobile App
14 17 (1.38%) Public Cloud
15 15 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
17 13 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
17 13 (1.06%) Equities
17 13 (1.06%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 69 (5.61%) Linux
2 62 (5.04%) Windows
3 35 (2.85%) Unix
4 30 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.73%) VMS
7 6 (0.49%) Android
7 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.16%) Solaris
11 1 (0.081%) CentOS
11 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (35.15%) Agile
2 366 (29.78%) Problem-Solving
3 358 (29.13%) CI/CD
4 331 (26.93%) DevOps
5 242 (19.69%) Coaching
5 242 (19.69%) Technical Leadership
6 219 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 180 (14.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 168 (13.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 168 (13.67%) Software Engineering
9 162 (13.18%) Microservices
10 149 (12.12%) Roadmaps
11 141 (11.47%) Containerisation
12 136 (11.07%) AI
13 124 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 123 (10.01%) Test Automation
15 113 (9.19%) Analytics
16 104 (8.46%) Data Modelling
17 100 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
18 97 (7.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 264 (21.48%) Python
2 192 (15.62%) Java
3 156 (12.69%) SQL
4 100 (8.14%) TypeScript
5 91 (7.40%) JavaScript
6 66 (5.37%) PowerShell
7 56 (4.56%) C#
8 54 (4.39%) Bash
9 31 (2.52%) C++
10 19 (1.55%) Apex Code
11 16 (1.30%) Bicep
12 14 (1.14%) Groovy
12 14 (1.14%) Scala
13 13 (1.06%) ABAP
13 13 (1.06%) Go
14 12 (0.98%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.90%) Rust
15 11 (0.90%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.65%) Ruby
17 7 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 293 (23.84%) Security Cleared
2 221 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 160 (13.02%) Degree
4 48 (3.91%) AWS Certification
5 42 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (3.09%) DV Cleared
8 34 (2.77%) Azure Certification
9 29 (2.36%) CISSP
10 25 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (1.63%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.55%) CISM
13 16 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (1.30%) CCNP
14 15 (1.22%) SAP Certification
15 13 (1.06%) PMI Certification
16 12 (0.98%) MCP
17 9 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
18 7 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (7.49%) QA
2 57 (4.64%) GDPR
3 49 (3.99%) Accessibility
4 42 (3.42%) Data Quality
5 39 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (2.85%) NIST
7 23 (1.87%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.63%) NCSC
9 18 (1.46%) SLA
10 14 (1.14%) PMO
11 13 (1.06%) WCAG
12 11 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 11 (0.90%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.49%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
15 5 (0.41%) GAAP
15 5 (0.41%) GRC
System Software
1 205 (16.68%) Docker
2 62 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.06%) vSphere
6 12 (0.98%) Firmware
7 9 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.57%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.33%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.24%) Xen
12 2 (0.16%) NFS
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.16%) Varnish
13 1 (0.081%) HDFS
13 1 (0.081%) KVM
13 1 (0.081%) Postfix
13 1 (0.081%) RHEV
13 1 (0.081%) zsh
Systems Management
1 192 (15.62%) Terraform
2 174 (14.16%) Kubernetes
3 80 (6.51%) Ansible
4 47 (3.82%) Grafana
5 44 (3.58%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 13 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.98%) Puppet
9 9 (0.73%) Argo
10 7 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.57%) Kiali
10 7 (0.57%) SCCM
11 5 (0.41%) VxRail
12 4 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.33%) vRealize
13 3 (0.24%) CloudHub
13 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.24%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 184 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.80%) SAP
3 51 (4.15%) Oracle
3 51 (4.15%) Splunk
4 46 (3.74%) Google
5 43 (3.50%) Salesforce
6 42 (3.42%) ServiceNow
7 39 (3.17%) Databricks
8 34 (2.77%) Cisco
9 31 (2.52%) VMware
10 26 (2.12%) Palo Alto
11 24 (1.95%) F5
12 17 (1.38%) CheckPoint
13 15 (1.22%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.14%) AppDynamics
15 13 (1.06%) Apple
15 13 (1.06%) IBM
15 13 (1.06%) Red Hat
16 12 (0.98%) Dynatrace
17 10 (0.81%) MuleSoft