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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 79 76
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 +19
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,289 1,004 1,321
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.64% 2.78% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.06% 3.23% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 805 551 864
10th Percentile £363 £375 £380
25th Percentile £425 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £655
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £530 £535
% change year-on-year -4.34% -0.93% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 25 51
10th Percentile £19.96 £24.26 £25.00
25th Percentile £26.63 £35.00 £53.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £49.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -13.26% +36.12%
75th Percentile £77.50 £63.75 £76.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £69.50 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £49.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +14.80% -13.26% -0.89%

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 31,777 31,113 41,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.78% 86.30% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,898 18,698 27,863
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,100 1,096 1,595
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +25.71%
75th Percentile £44.77 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.93 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.30% -23.75% +53.45%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +5 1,087 £525 -8.70% 3,268
UK excluding London -2 598 £507 -4.34% 2,163
London +12 528 £550 -8.33% 1,399
Work from Home +20 426 £532 -5.76% 1,873
North of England -9 210 £505 +15.10% 558
Midlands -11 104 £447 -26.96% 307
North West -16 99 £468 +16.88% 347
South East +4 96 £519 -5.68% 652
Yorkshire -9 92 £525 -12.10% 163
South West +19 77 £550 -19.71% 227
West Midlands -13 74 £500 -20.00% 181
Scotland +18 72 £501 -4.39% 161
East of England -7 32 £535 +47.59% 195
East Midlands -5 30 £428 +6.88% 123
North East -1 22 £500 +15.61% 51
Wales +6 11 £478 -19.58% 66
Northern Ireland -18 3 £975 +77.27% 31

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 (3.18%) Confluence
2 29 (2.25%) Apache
3 23 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.55%) CMS
5 19 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (1.09%) WebLogic
7 13 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (1.01%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.85%) JBoss
9 8 (0.62%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.31%) Drupal
10 4 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.31%) SAS
11 3 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.23%) Oracle Service Bus
11 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.23%) WordPress
12 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.16%) Camunda
Applications
1 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.85%) Siemens NX
3 7 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.16%) Trello
5 1 (0.078%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.078%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.078%) DaVinci Resolve
5 1 (0.078%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 14 (1.09%) SAP WM
2 13 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.01%) SAP EWM
3 10 (0.78%) Teamcenter
4 9 (0.70%) SAP HCM
5 7 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.31%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.31%) Magento
6 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.23%) Kondor
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.23%) Primavera
8 2 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.16%) Shopify
8 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 375 (29.09%) AWS
2 338 (26.22%) Azure
3 111 (8.61%) GCP
4 103 (7.99%) Serverless
5 81 (6.28%) GitHub
6 77 (5.97%) Amazon S3
7 73 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
8 70 (5.43%) Power Platform
9 51 (3.96%) Entra ID
9 51 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
10 46 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 44 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
12 41 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 40 (3.10%) SaaS
14 36 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
16 31 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 27 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
18 26 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 68 (5.28%) Firewall
2 39 (3.03%) DNS
2 39 (3.03%) VPN
3 35 (2.72%) Network Security
4 21 (1.63%) WAN
5 19 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.24%) Wireless
7 15 (1.16%) DHCP
8 14 (1.09%) LAN
8 14 (1.09%) SD-WAN
8 14 (1.09%) SSL
9 11 (0.85%) BGP
9 11 (0.85%) OSPF
10 9 (0.70%) iSCSI
10 9 (0.70%) MPLS
10 9 (0.70%) VLAN
11 8 (0.62%) Internet
12 7 (0.54%) Fibre Channel
12 7 (0.54%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.47%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (4.58%) MongoDB
3 51 (3.96%) NoSQL
4 45 (3.49%) Power BI
5 41 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (3.03%) DynamoDB
7 34 (2.64%) SQL Server
8 32 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 25 (1.94%) MySQL
11 24 (1.86%) Big Data
12 23 (1.78%) Redis
13 22 (1.71%) BigQuery
13 22 (1.71%) Relational Database
14 20 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
15 15 (1.16%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
17 13 (1.01%) Oracle Database
17 13 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 12 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 151 (11.71%) Git
2 133 (10.32%) Jenkins
3 100 (7.76%) JIRA
4 66 (5.12%) GitLab
5 31 (2.40%) JUnit
6 27 (2.09%) Maven
7 23 (1.78%) Selenium
7 23 (1.78%) SonarQube
8 17 (1.32%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.09%) Gradle
9 14 (1.09%) Mockito
10 12 (0.93%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.78%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.78%) Postman
11 10 (0.78%) SoapUI
12 9 (0.70%) Eclipse
12 9 (0.70%) IntelliJ
12 9 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.62%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.54%) REST Assured
General
1 455 (35.30%) Social Skills
2 241 (18.70%) Finance
3 199 (15.44%) Public Sector
4 173 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.44%) Banking
6 50 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
6 50 (3.88%) Marketing
7 40 (3.10%) Manufacturing
8 39 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (1.86%) Legal
12 22 (1.71%) Military
13 21 (1.63%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.63%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.32%) Electronics
14 17 (1.32%) Retail
15 14 (1.09%) Law
16 12 (0.93%) Local Government
17 11 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 259 (20.09%) Lead
2 249 (19.32%) Senior
3 200 (15.52%) Architect
4 194 (15.05%) Developer
5 79 (6.13%) Consultant
6 73 (5.66%) Software Engineer
7 68 (5.28%) Analyst
8 57 (4.42%) Senior Developer
9 48 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
10 46 (3.57%) Technical Leader
11 41 (3.18%) Data Engineer
12 40 (3.10%) Technical Architect
13 39 (3.03%) Java Developer
13 39 (3.03%) Lead Developer
14 36 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (2.48%) AWS Engineer
16 26 (2.02%) Senior Software Engineer
17 25 (1.94%) SAP Consultant
18 21 (1.63%) Business Analyst
18 21 (1.63%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (6.67%) Node.js
2 85 (6.59%) Kafka
2 85 (6.59%) React
3 79 (6.13%) RESTful
4 76 (5.90%) .NET
5 75 (5.82%) REST
6 64 (4.97%) Spring
7 58 (4.50%) HTML
8 56 (4.34%) Spring Boot
9 53 (4.11%) SOAP
10 49 (3.80%) GraphQL
11 41 (3.18%) AngularJS
12 39 (3.03%) Playwright
13 38 (2.95%) OAuth
14 37 (2.87%) CSS
15 31 (2.40%) Web Services
16 30 (2.33%) XML
17 27 (2.09%) OAuth2
18 25 (1.94%) HTML5
18 25 (1.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.84%) Cloud Native
2 98 (7.60%) Product Ownership
3 33 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (2.40%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 28 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (2.09%) Mobile App
8 26 (2.02%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 23 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.71%) Algorithms
10 22 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 21 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 17 (1.32%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.32%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
14 16 (1.24%) NHS
15 13 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 72 (5.59%) Linux
2 67 (5.20%) Windows
3 39 (3.03%) Unix
4 29 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 26 (2.02%) Android
6 20 (1.55%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.85%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.47%) VMS
10 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.078%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.078%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (38.01%) Agile
2 373 (28.94%) Problem-Solving
3 342 (26.53%) CI/CD
4 314 (24.36%) DevOps
5 239 (18.54%) Coaching
6 229 (17.77%) Technical Leadership
7 195 (15.13%) Software Engineering
8 194 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 177 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
10 164 (12.72%) Microservices
11 159 (12.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 146 (11.33%) Containerisation
13 141 (10.94%) Roadmaps
13 141 (10.94%) Test Automation
14 117 (9.08%) Analytics
15 107 (8.30%) Scrum
16 105 (8.15%) AI
17 99 (7.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 97 (7.53%) Data Modelling
19 90 (6.98%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 239 (18.54%) Python
2 193 (14.97%) Java
3 171 (13.27%) SQL
4 122 (9.46%) JavaScript
5 104 (8.07%) TypeScript
6 65 (5.04%) C#
7 53 (4.11%) PowerShell
8 46 (3.57%) Bash
9 32 (2.48%) C++
10 26 (2.02%) Apex Code
11 25 (1.94%) Scala
12 21 (1.63%) Kotlin
13 19 (1.47%) Go
14 13 (1.01%) Groovy
15 12 (0.93%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.78%) Bicep
16 10 (0.78%) PHP
16 10 (0.78%) Swift
17 9 (0.70%) ABAP
18 7 (0.54%) C
Qualifications
1 284 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 204 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 147 (11.40%) Degree
4 62 (4.81%) AWS Certification
5 54 (4.19%) DV Cleared
6 52 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (3.03%) Azure Certification
8 31 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (2.33%) CISSP
10 29 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (2.02%) Master's Degree
12 25 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 21 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
14 14 (1.09%) CISM
14 14 (1.09%) PMI Certification
14 14 (1.09%) SAP Certification
15 13 (1.01%) CCNP
16 12 (0.93%) PMP
17 10 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 9 (0.70%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (6.59%) QA
2 80 (6.21%) GDPR
3 57 (4.42%) Accessibility
4 55 (4.27%) Data Quality
5 44 (3.41%) NIST
6 42 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.78%) PCI DSS
8 21 (1.63%) SLA
9 18 (1.40%) WCAG
10 16 (1.24%) PMO
11 15 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 15 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (1.09%) HIPAA
12 14 (1.09%) NCSC
13 8 (0.62%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
16 5 (0.39%) GRC
16 5 (0.39%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 201 (15.59%) Docker
2 68 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.16%) vSphere
5 10 (0.78%) Firmware
5 10 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.54%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.54%) NFS
7 7 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.39%) zsh
9 3 (0.23%) HDFS
10 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.078%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.078%) Varnish
11 1 (0.078%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 182 (14.12%) Terraform
2 167 (12.96%) Kubernetes
3 48 (3.72%) Ansible
4 24 (1.86%) Grafana
4 24 (1.86%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (1.32%) Puppet
7 13 (1.01%) Argo
8 10 (0.78%) SCCM
9 8 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.47%) Istio
12 4 (0.31%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.31%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.31%) VxRail
13 3 (0.23%) CloudHub
13 3 (0.23%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
13 3 (0.23%) Oozie
Vendors
1 188 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 53 (4.11%) Oracle
2 53 (4.11%) SAP
3 50 (3.88%) Salesforce
4 47 (3.65%) Google
5 46 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 44 (3.41%) Splunk
7 40 (3.10%) VMware
8 34 (2.64%) Cisco
8 34 (2.64%) Databricks
9 24 (1.86%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.71%) F5
11 15 (1.16%) IBM
12 13 (1.01%) Apple
12 13 (1.01%) CheckPoint
13 12 (0.93%) NetApp
13 12 (0.93%) Siemens
14 11 (0.85%) Fortinet
14 11 (0.85%) Veeam
15 10 (0.78%) Citrix