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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 82 77
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 +13
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,314 917 1,218
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.34% 2.99% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 3.34% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 498 792
10th Percentile £358 £349 £380
25th Percentile £425 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £768
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% -9.43%
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% -19.30%

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 34,251 27,445 39,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.02% 89.42% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,718 16,700 25,680
10th Percentile £306 £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 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,071 843 2,128
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
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 £63.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.08% -11.20% +10.55%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +3 1,096 £537 -5.33% 1,634
UK excluding London -8 605 £525 +0.96% 1,362
London +1 526 £550 -9.73% 572
Work from Home +23 432 £537 +0.19% 855
North of England -12 226 £510 +16.57% 380
Midlands +12 126 £450 -20.00% 186
North West -20 106 £468 +18.20% 206
West Midlands +11 102 £508 -18.72% 108
Yorkshire -9 98 £525 -6.46% 129
South East -17 84 £530 -3.64% 425
Scotland +23 69 £538 +2.38% 70
South West +2 65 £550 +4.76% 162
East of England -4 33 £585 +58.64% 122
North East -3 25 £500 +17.65% 51
East Midlands -21 24 £420 -9.19% 79
Wales +1 16 £400 -25.58% 37
Northern Ireland -10 2 £385 +73.42% 12

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 (3.42%) Confluence
2 32 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 31 (2.36%) Apache
4 26 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.68%) JBoss
7 9 (0.68%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.46%) 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 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.84%) 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 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.076%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.076%) InDesign
6 1 (0.076%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.076%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.076%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.07%) SAP WM
2 13 (0.99%) SAP EWM
3 11 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.76%) SAP HCM
5 7 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.46%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
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%) Shopify
10 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 390 (29.68%) AWS
2 351 (26.71%) Azure
3 119 (9.06%) GCP
4 102 (7.76%) Serverless
5 98 (7.46%) GitHub
6 84 (6.39%) Power Platform
7 77 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
9 61 (4.64%) Amazon S3
10 53 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
11 50 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 47 (3.58%) SaaS
13 42 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
14 40 (3.04%) Entra ID
15 35 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (2.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 33 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 31 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
18 30 (2.28%) PaaS
19 28 (2.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 92 (7.00%) Firewall
2 54 (4.11%) DNS
3 34 (2.59%) VPN
4 31 (2.36%) Network Security
5 29 (2.21%) TCP/IP
5 29 (2.21%) WAN
6 23 (1.75%) LAN
7 20 (1.52%) DHCP
8 13 (0.99%) Wireless
9 12 (0.91%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.84%) SSL
11 10 (0.76%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.68%) BGP
12 9 (0.68%) OSPF
13 8 (0.61%) NetScaler
14 7 (0.53%) HTTP
14 7 (0.53%) Internet
14 7 (0.53%) VSAN
15 6 (0.46%) MPLS
15 6 (0.46%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (3.73%) Power BI
3 48 (3.65%) MongoDB
4 45 (3.42%) NoSQL
5 33 (2.51%) Data Lake
6 32 (2.44%) Relational Database
7 30 (2.28%) SQL Server
8 29 (2.21%) Big Data
8 29 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
9 25 (1.90%) DynamoDB
10 23 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (1.45%) MySQL
12 18 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (1.37%) Metadata
12 18 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
13 16 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
14 14 (1.07%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.07%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (0.84%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 135 (10.27%) Jenkins
2 99 (7.53%) Git
3 76 (5.78%) JIRA
4 67 (5.10%) GitLab
5 27 (2.05%) JUnit
6 23 (1.75%) Selenium
7 19 (1.45%) Maven
8 17 (1.29%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.99%) SonarQube
10 12 (0.91%) CircleCI
10 12 (0.91%) Mockito
11 10 (0.76%) Eclipse
11 10 (0.76%) Gradle
12 9 (0.68%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.68%) IntelliJ
12 9 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.61%) Jaeger
14 7 (0.53%) Postman
15 6 (0.46%) JMeter
15 6 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
General
1 499 (37.98%) Social Skills
2 242 (18.42%) Finance
3 204 (15.53%) Public Sector
4 161 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (5.40%) Banking
6 54 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
7 43 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (2.44%) Marketing
10 28 (2.13%) Retail
11 24 (1.83%) Military
12 23 (1.75%) Legal
13 19 (1.45%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.22%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.91%) Electronics
15 12 (0.91%) Law
15 12 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.84%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 276 (21.00%) Senior
2 258 (19.63%) Lead
3 214 (16.29%) Architect
4 175 (13.32%) Developer
5 93 (7.08%) Analyst
6 74 (5.63%) Consultant
7 69 (5.25%) Software Engineer
8 53 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
9 50 (3.81%) Java Developer
10 45 (3.42%) Senior Developer
11 43 (3.27%) Lead Developer
12 42 (3.20%) Data Engineer
13 39 (2.97%) Senior Analyst
14 37 (2.82%) Business Analyst
15 35 (2.66%) Technical Leader
16 30 (2.28%) DevOps Engineer
17 29 (2.21%) SAP Consultant
18 28 (2.13%) Technical Architect
19 27 (2.05%) Principal Engineer
20 25 (1.90%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (6.93%) Node.js
2 86 (6.54%) Kafka
3 80 (6.09%) REST
4 74 (5.63%) Spring
5 70 (5.33%) React
6 67 (5.10%) Spring Boot
7 63 (4.79%) .NET
8 55 (4.19%) RESTful
9 51 (3.88%) Playwright
10 45 (3.42%) GraphQL
11 40 (3.04%) HTML
11 40 (3.04%) Middleware
12 39 (2.97%) SOAP
13 37 (2.82%) YAML
14 34 (2.59%) OAuth
14 34 (2.59%) PySpark
15 31 (2.36%) Vitest
16 30 (2.28%) AngularJS
17 27 (2.05%) JSON
17 27 (2.05%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 132 (10.05%) Cloud Native
2 92 (7.00%) Product Ownership
3 53 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 30 (2.28%) Algorithms
5 30 (2.28%) Data Structures
6 29 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.05%) NHS
7 27 (2.05%) Virtual Team
8 25 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (1.75%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (1.45%) Equities
12 19 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (1.22%) Public Cloud
15 14 (1.07%) Derivative
16 13 (0.99%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (5.56%) Linux
2 67 (5.10%) Windows
3 34 (2.59%) Unix
4 31 (2.36%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.68%) VMS
8 8 (0.61%) Android
8 8 (0.61%) 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 (0.076%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (34.09%) Agile
2 386 (29.38%) Problem-Solving
3 382 (29.07%) CI/CD
4 352 (26.79%) DevOps
5 264 (20.09%) Technical Leadership
6 258 (19.63%) Coaching
7 233 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 191 (14.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 186 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 176 (13.39%) Software Engineering
11 175 (13.32%) Microservices
12 157 (11.95%) Roadmaps
13 153 (11.64%) AI
14 144 (10.96%) Containerisation
15 143 (10.88%) Analytics
16 136 (10.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 127 (9.67%) Test Automation
18 120 (9.13%) Data Modelling
19 107 (8.14%) Decision-Making
20 101 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 290 (22.07%) Python
2 203 (15.45%) Java
3 179 (13.62%) SQL
4 115 (8.75%) TypeScript
5 101 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 72 (5.48%) PowerShell
7 61 (4.64%) C#
8 54 (4.11%) Bash
9 30 (2.28%) C++
10 17 (1.29%) Kotlin
11 16 (1.22%) Apex Code
11 16 (1.22%) Bicep
12 15 (1.14%) Groovy
13 14 (1.07%) Scala
14 13 (0.99%) ABAP
15 12 (0.91%) Go
15 12 (0.91%) Rust
15 12 (0.91%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.68%) PHP
16 9 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 322 (24.51%) Security Cleared
2 250 (19.03%) SC Cleared
3 174 (13.24%) Degree
4 50 (3.81%) AWS Certification
5 45 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 42 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (3.12%) Azure Certification
8 40 (3.04%) DV Cleared
9 30 (2.28%) Master's Degree
10 29 (2.21%) CISSP
11 26 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (1.45%) CISM
14 18 (1.37%) CCNP
15 16 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 15 (1.14%) SAP Certification
17 11 (0.84%) PMI Certification
18 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 9 (0.68%) ACCA
19 9 (0.68%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (7.23%) QA
2 59 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 57 (4.34%) GDPR
4 52 (3.96%) Data Quality
5 40 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (2.51%) NIST
7 23 (1.75%) PCI DSS
8 21 (1.60%) NCSC
9 18 (1.37%) SLA
10 14 (1.07%) WCAG
11 12 (0.91%) PMO
12 11 (0.84%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.53%) GAAP
15 7 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.46%) IFRS
16 6 (0.46%) SOC 2
17 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 206 (15.68%) Docker
2 63 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.07%) vSphere
5 12 (0.91%) Firmware
6 11 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.53%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.46%) 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 (0.076%) HDFS
12 1 (0.076%) KVM
12 1 (0.076%) RHEV
12 1 (0.076%) zsh
Systems Management
1 201 (15.30%) Terraform
2 184 (14.00%) Kubernetes
3 81 (6.16%) Ansible
4 55 (4.19%) Grafana
5 47 (3.58%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (0.91%) Puppet
10 9 (0.68%) Argo
11 8 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.61%) Kiali
11 8 (0.61%) 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
1 198 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.49%) Oracle
3 57 (4.34%) SAP
4 55 (4.19%) Google
4 55 (4.19%) Splunk
5 51 (3.88%) Databricks
6 41 (3.12%) Salesforce
7 40 (3.04%) ServiceNow
8 35 (2.66%) Cisco
9 32 (2.44%) VMware
10 28 (2.13%) Palo Alto
11 25 (1.90%) F5
12 18 (1.37%) CheckPoint
13 16 (1.22%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.07%) Apple
14 14 (1.07%) Red Hat
15 13 (0.99%) AppDynamics
15 13 (0.99%) IBM
16 12 (0.91%) Dynatrace
17 10 (0.76%) MuleSoft