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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 78 76
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +18
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,252 938 1,183
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.39% 2.97% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 3.34% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 779 521 762
10th Percentile £363 £350 £380
25th Percentile £441 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +4.09% -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £761
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 21 50
10th Percentile £26.80 £22.00 £20.36
25th Percentile £41.94 £23.60 £41.69
Median hourly rate £62.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -38.04% +36.12%
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 £75.63
90th Percentile £80.40 £68.75 £79.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £27.43 £56.49
% change year-on-year +132.45% -51.45% -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 32,475 28,042 37,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.84% 88.72% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,506 17,042 24,746
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £744 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,987 893 1,582
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.62 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.50 £18.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.39 £74.97 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £43.83
% change year-on-year -21.76% -30.52% +51.12%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +2 1,062 £550 -4.35% 2,507
UK excluding London -8 569 £525 - 2,320
London +6 514 £550 -10.93% 613
Work from Home +22 416 £530 -1.40% 1,298
North of England -12 227 £525 +18.64% 485
Midlands +6 114 £447 -26.96% 261
North West -11 109 £458 +14.38% 239
Yorkshire -11 97 £537 -13.67% 180
West Midlands +7 85 £505 -19.20% 102
South East -31 76 £525 -4.55% 738
Scotland +13 62 £514 -1.91% 117
South West -10 61 £550 +4.76% 296
East Midlands -11 29 £423 +5.63% 158
East of England -9 28 £585 +58.64% 329
North East -8 24 £519 +17.90% 68
Wales 0 12 £438 -23.91% 111
Northern Ireland -14 1 - - 37

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 37 (2.96%) Confluence
2 26 (2.08%) Apache
3 25 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.80%) JBoss
5 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.80%) WebLogic
6 8 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.56%) CMS
8 5 (0.40%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.24%) Drupal
10 3 (0.24%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) CICS
11 2 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.16%) MS Project Server
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.72%) Siemens NX
4 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.56%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.24%) LaTeX
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%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.04%) SAP EWM
3 11 (0.88%) SAP HCM
4 8 (0.64%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.40%) Fidessa
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%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.16%) Magento
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 368 (29.39%) AWS
2 325 (25.96%) Azure
3 114 (9.11%) GCP
4 101 (8.07%) GitHub
5 97 (7.75%) Serverless
6 75 (5.99%) Power Platform
7 70 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
8 66 (5.27%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (3.99%) Amazon S3
11 49 (3.91%) SaaS
12 47 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 42 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
14 40 (3.19%) Entra ID
15 35 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 34 (2.72%) Datadog
17 32 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 31 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
19 30 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
20 29 (2.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (7.11%) Firewall
2 49 (3.91%) DNS
3 34 (2.72%) VPN
4 29 (2.32%) Network Security
5 28 (2.24%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.92%) WAN
7 18 (1.44%) DHCP
8 16 (1.28%) LAN
9 12 (0.96%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.96%) SSL
9 12 (0.96%) Wireless
10 10 (0.80%) BGP
10 10 (0.80%) OSPF
10 10 (0.80%) VXLAN
11 8 (0.64%) VLAN
12 7 (0.56%) MPLS
12 7 (0.56%) VSAN
13 6 (0.48%) Internet
13 6 (0.48%) NetScaler
13 6 (0.48%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (4.15%) MongoDB
2 52 (4.15%) NoSQL
3 44 (3.51%) Power BI
4 29 (2.32%) DynamoDB
5 28 (2.24%) Data Lake
6 27 (2.16%) SQL Server
7 26 (2.08%) Big Data
7 26 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (2.00%) Relational Database
9 19 (1.52%) BigQuery
10 18 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
11 17 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (1.36%) MySQL
12 15 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (1.20%) Redis
13 13 (1.04%) Metadata
14 12 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 139 (11.10%) Jenkins
2 118 (9.42%) Git
3 76 (6.07%) JIRA
4 64 (5.11%) GitLab
5 25 (2.00%) JUnit
6 23 (1.84%) Selenium
7 22 (1.76%) Maven
8 17 (1.36%) SonarQube
9 16 (1.28%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.20%) Gradle
11 13 (1.04%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.04%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.88%) Mockito
13 9 (0.72%) Eclipse
13 9 (0.72%) IntelliJ
14 6 (0.48%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.48%) Jaeger
14 6 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
14 6 (0.48%) Postman
14 6 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 461 (36.82%) Social Skills
2 233 (18.61%) Finance
3 198 (15.81%) Public Sector
4 160 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (6.23%) Banking
6 50 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
7 42 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
8 41 (3.27%) Marketing
9 29 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
9 29 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.32%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.00%) Military
11 23 (1.84%) Legal
12 21 (1.68%) Retail
13 18 (1.44%) Aerospace
14 15 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.04%) Financial Institution
16 12 (0.96%) Electronics
17 11 (0.88%) Law
18 10 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 261 (20.85%) Senior
2 238 (19.01%) Lead
3 226 (18.05%) Architect
4 162 (12.94%) Developer
5 86 (6.87%) Analyst
6 74 (5.91%) Consultant
7 70 (5.59%) Software Engineer
8 51 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
9 40 (3.19%) Java Developer
9 40 (3.19%) Senior Developer
10 38 (3.04%) Technical Architect
11 37 (2.96%) Data Engineer
12 35 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (2.72%) Business Analyst
13 34 (2.72%) Lead Developer
14 33 (2.64%) Technical Leader
15 32 (2.56%) DevOps Engineer
16 29 (2.32%) SAP Consultant
17 26 (2.08%) Senior Software Engineer
18 25 (2.00%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (6.87%) Node.js
2 84 (6.71%) Kafka
3 72 (5.75%) REST
4 69 (5.51%) .NET
5 65 (5.19%) React
5 65 (5.19%) Spring
6 61 (4.87%) Spring Boot
7 60 (4.79%) RESTful
8 53 (4.23%) GraphQL
9 50 (3.99%) Playwright
10 42 (3.35%) HTML
11 39 (3.12%) Middleware
11 39 (3.12%) SOAP
12 35 (2.80%) YAML
13 34 (2.72%) OAuth
14 31 (2.48%) Vitest
15 30 (2.40%) PySpark
16 28 (2.24%) XML
17 27 (2.16%) JSON
17 27 (2.16%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 122 (9.74%) Cloud Native
2 97 (7.75%) Product Ownership
3 45 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (2.80%) Management Information System
5 32 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.32%) Algorithms
7 27 (2.16%) Data Structures
8 26 (2.08%) Data Centre
9 25 (2.00%) Virtual Team
10 24 (1.92%) NHS
10 24 (1.92%) Public Cloud
11 23 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.84%) Mobile App
12 22 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
13 21 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
14 16 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (1.12%) Security Posture
17 13 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (5.59%) Linux
2 64 (5.11%) Windows
3 34 (2.72%) Unix
4 31 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.80%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.72%) Android
7 9 (0.72%) VMS
8 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.080%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (36.58%) Agile
2 368 (29.39%) Problem-Solving
3 355 (28.35%) CI/CD
4 325 (25.96%) DevOps
5 248 (19.81%) Coaching
6 230 (18.37%) Technical Leadership
7 211 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 182 (14.54%) Software Engineering
9 178 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 175 (13.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 162 (12.94%) Microservices
12 153 (12.22%) Roadmaps
13 139 (11.10%) Containerisation
14 134 (10.70%) AI
15 127 (10.14%) Test Automation
16 115 (9.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 113 (9.03%) Analytics
18 102 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
19 101 (8.07%) Data Modelling
20 93 (7.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 259 (20.69%) Python
2 189 (15.10%) Java
3 157 (12.54%) SQL
4 107 (8.55%) TypeScript
5 101 (8.07%) JavaScript
6 63 (5.03%) PowerShell
7 58 (4.63%) C#
8 56 (4.47%) Bash
9 33 (2.64%) C++
10 19 (1.52%) Apex Code
11 16 (1.28%) Scala
12 15 (1.20%) Go
12 15 (1.20%) Groovy
13 14 (1.12%) Bicep
14 13 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.96%) ABAP
16 10 (0.80%) Rust
17 8 (0.64%) PHP
17 8 (0.64%) Ruby
17 8 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 300 (23.96%) Security Cleared
2 227 (18.13%) SC Cleared
3 158 (12.62%) Degree
4 48 (3.83%) AWS Certification
4 48 (3.83%) DV Cleared
5 43 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.12%) Azure Certification
7 38 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (2.48%) CISSP
9 25 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.76%) Master's Degree
11 21 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.52%) CISM
13 15 (1.20%) SAP Certification
14 14 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 14 (1.12%) CCNP
15 13 (1.04%) PMI Certification
16 11 (0.88%) MCP
17 10 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 9 (0.72%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.11%) QA
2 68 (5.43%) GDPR
3 52 (4.15%) Accessibility
4 50 (3.99%) Data Quality
5 41 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (3.04%) NIST
7 25 (2.00%) PCI DSS
8 21 (1.68%) SLA
9 18 (1.44%) NCSC
10 15 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 15 (1.20%) WCAG
11 13 (1.04%) PMO
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%) GRC
System Software
1 207 (16.53%) Docker
2 63 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.00%) 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
10 3 (0.24%) zsh
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.080%) KVM
12 1 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.080%) RHEV
12 1 (0.080%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 188 (15.02%) Terraform
2 177 (14.14%) Kubernetes
3 77 (6.15%) Ansible
4 48 (3.83%) Grafana
5 40 (3.19%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.68%) 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
11 6 (0.48%) 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
1 185 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.31%) SAP
3 53 (4.23%) Splunk
4 50 (3.99%) Oracle
5 47 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 45 (3.59%) Google
7 43 (3.43%) ServiceNow
8 40 (3.19%) Databricks
9 35 (2.80%) Cisco
10 32 (2.56%) VMware
11 27 (2.16%) Palo Alto
12 22 (1.76%) F5
13 17 (1.36%) CheckPoint
14 14 (1.12%) AppDynamics
14 14 (1.12%) Fortinet
15 13 (1.04%) Apple
15 13 (1.04%) Dynatrace
16 12 (0.96%) Siemens
17 11 (0.88%) IBM
18 10 (0.80%) Red Hat