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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 67 86
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 +1
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,840 1,233 981
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.35% 3.73% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 4.11% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,190 799 588
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £652 £630 £685
90th Percentile £750 £703 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 34 25
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.67 £27.92
25th Percentile £42.45 £23.78 £37.50
Median hourly rate £67.86 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.25% - -7.06%
75th Percentile £78.75 £81.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £98.16 £83.80 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% -2.64%

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 46,382 29,970 32,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.48% 90.66% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,008 18,622 19,630
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £733 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,245 1,858 1,349
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.19 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.64 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.01% -48.10% +1.18%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1,557 £539 +2.62% 6,531
UK excluding London -5 936 £525 +5.00% 3,799
London -17 671 £575 +4.55% 3,193
Work from Home -12 539 £525 - 3,309
North of England -9 280 £513 +2.65% 1,078
Midlands +17 191 £460 -0.54% 537
South East +1 176 £500 - 778
West Midlands +31 164 £460 -12.38% 354
South West +3 136 £525 -3.67% 430
North West -19 132 £545 +14.74% 631
Yorkshire -24 90 £518 -1.35% 302
Scotland -23 84 £525 +10.53% 337
North East 0 62 £463 -15.91% 146
East of England +2 56 £563 +7.14% 324
Wales -8 28 £600 +88.38% 140
East Midlands -23 20 £522 +16.33% 183
Northern Ireland +10 7 £650 +58.54% 198

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 52 (2.83%) Confluence
2 48 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.68%) Apache
4 31 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.71%) CMS
7 10 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 8 (0.43%) SAS
9 6 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.33%) WebLogic Portal
10 3 (0.16%) OpenEdge
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) WordPress
12 1 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.054%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.054%) Appian
12 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 26 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.65%) Revit
4 11 (0.60%) AutoCAD
4 11 (0.60%) Navisworks
5 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.49%) ProjectWise
6 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.11%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.11%) EngageOne
8 2 (0.11%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.11%) NUKE
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.054%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
3 11 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.49%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 8 (0.43%) Primavera
6 7 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.16%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.16%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Payroll
10 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.11%) SAP FI-CA
10 2 (0.11%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 523 (28.42%) AWS
2 521 (28.32%) Azure
3 174 (9.46%) GCP
4 143 (7.77%) GitHub
4 143 (7.77%) Serverless
5 136 (7.39%) Power Platform
6 119 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
8 93 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
9 86 (4.67%) Entra ID
10 73 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
11 65 (3.53%) Amazon S3
12 49 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
13 48 (2.61%) SaaS
14 45 (2.45%) Snowflake
15 43 (2.34%) Power Automate
16 38 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
17 37 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
18 36 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
18 36 (1.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.40%) Firewall
2 48 (2.61%) WAN
3 47 (2.55%) DNS
4 38 (2.07%) Network Security
5 35 (1.90%) LAN
6 32 (1.74%) DHCP
7 27 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 27 (1.47%) VPN
8 26 (1.41%) BGP
9 19 (1.03%) VXLAN
10 18 (0.98%) OSPF
10 18 (0.98%) VLAN
10 18 (0.98%) VSAN
11 16 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
13 14 (0.76%) NX-OS
13 14 (0.76%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.49%) Broadband
14 9 (0.49%) Unified Communications
14 9 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (5.38%) Power BI
2 81 (4.40%) SQL Server
3 69 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
5 52 (2.83%) MongoDB
6 50 (2.72%) Metadata
7 49 (2.66%) Data Lake
7 49 (2.66%) NoSQL
8 38 (2.07%) Oracle Database
8 38 (2.07%) Relational Database
9 23 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
9 23 (1.25%) BigQuery
10 21 (1.14%) DynamoDB
11 19 (1.03%) MySQL
11 19 (1.03%) Tableau
12 17 (0.92%) Delta Lake
13 16 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (0.82%) Looker
14 15 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 148 (8.04%) Git
2 119 (6.47%) GitLab
3 102 (5.54%) JIRA
4 96 (5.22%) Jenkins
5 31 (1.68%) Cucumber
6 28 (1.52%) Selenium
7 27 (1.47%) Postman
8 23 (1.25%) JMeter
9 22 (1.20%) Claude Code
10 21 (1.14%) Cypress.io
11 19 (1.03%) JUnit
12 15 (0.82%) LoadRunner
13 14 (0.76%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.76%) Vite
14 11 (0.60%) Gatling
14 11 (0.60%) WebDriver
15 10 (0.54%) Maven
15 10 (0.54%) REST Assured
16 8 (0.43%) SoapUI
17 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 693 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 357 (19.40%) Finance
3 349 (18.97%) Public Sector
4 256 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
5 137 (7.45%) Banking
6 83 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 81 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
8 59 (3.21%) Retail
9 50 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (1.96%) Manufacturing
11 29 (1.58%) Legal
11 29 (1.58%) Marketing
11 29 (1.58%) Military
11 29 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
12 28 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 27 (1.47%) Aerospace
14 24 (1.30%) Law
15 21 (1.14%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 405 (22.01%) Lead
2 378 (20.54%) Senior
3 270 (14.67%) Architect
4 260 (14.13%) Developer
5 117 (6.36%) Analyst
6 104 (5.65%) Data Engineer
7 78 (4.24%) Consultant
8 75 (4.08%) Senior Developer
9 71 (3.86%) Technical Leader
10 62 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
11 60 (3.26%) Lead Developer
12 59 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
13 53 (2.88%) Java Developer
14 49 (2.66%) Software Engineer
15 43 (2.34%) Principal Engineer
16 40 (2.17%) Full-Stack Developer
17 38 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
18 37 (2.01%) Business Analyst
19 36 (1.96%) Data Architect
19 36 (1.96%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (13.91%) Terraform
2 154 (8.37%) REST
3 131 (7.12%) React
4 109 (5.92%) Kafka
5 94 (5.11%) .NET
6 85 (4.62%) RESTful
7 83 (4.51%) Node.js
8 81 (4.40%) Spring
9 75 (4.08%) Spring Boot
10 63 (3.42%) OAuth
11 56 (3.04%) CSS
11 56 (3.04%) HTML
12 48 (2.61%) OAuth2
13 45 (2.45%) PySpark
14 43 (2.34%) AngularJS
15 41 (2.23%) SOAP
16 39 (2.12%) OpenID
17 35 (1.90%) Playwright
18 34 (1.85%) Middleware
18 34 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 245 (13.32%) Cloud Native
2 157 (8.53%) Product Ownership
3 87 (4.73%) Onboarding
4 71 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
5 70 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
6 59 (3.21%) Management Information System
7 56 (3.04%) Data Centre
8 52 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
9 45 (2.45%) AI Agents
10 39 (2.12%) PKI
11 31 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
11 31 (1.68%) Virtual Team
12 28 (1.52%) CMDB
13 23 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (1.20%) Mobile App
14 22 (1.20%) Security Posture
15 19 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.03%) Operational Technology
16 18 (0.98%) Public Cloud
17 17 (0.92%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 143 (7.77%) Windows
2 121 (6.58%) Linux
3 48 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 38 (2.07%) Unix
5 20 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 14 (0.76%) Android
7 12 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.38%) VMS
10 6 (0.33%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.16%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.11%) Solaris
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.054%) Rocky
14 1 (0.054%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.054%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 668 (36.30%) Agile
2 627 (34.08%) CI/CD
3 577 (31.36%) Technical Leadership
4 482 (26.20%) Stakeholder Management
5 475 (25.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 470 (25.54%) DevOps
7 379 (20.60%) Coaching
8 374 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
9 291 (15.82%) AI
10 273 (14.84%) Infrastructure as Code
11 259 (14.08%) Roadmaps
12 254 (13.80%) Decision-Making
13 244 (13.26%) Test Automation
14 242 (13.15%) Analytics
15 236 (12.83%) Software Engineering
16 221 (12.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 195 (10.60%) Data Modelling
18 192 (10.43%) Microservices
19 186 (10.11%) Observability
20 175 (9.51%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 381 (20.71%) Python
2 268 (14.57%) SQL
3 237 (12.88%) Java
4 176 (9.57%) JavaScript
5 113 (6.14%) PowerShell
5 113 (6.14%) TypeScript
6 93 (5.05%) C#
7 70 (3.80%) Bash
8 21 (1.14%) Bicep
9 19 (1.03%) Apex Code
9 19 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 18 (0.98%) Shell Script
11 15 (0.82%) Go
11 15 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 11 (0.60%) Groovy
13 11 (0.60%) Scala
14 8 (0.43%) PHP
14 8 (0.43%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 544 (29.57%) Security Cleared
2 424 (23.04%) SC Cleared
3 147 (7.99%) Degree
4 112 (6.09%) DV Cleared
5 106 (5.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 53 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 48 (2.61%) AWS Certification
8 45 (2.45%) Azure Certification
9 33 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.36%) CISSP
12 23 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 21 (1.14%) CCNP
14 19 (1.03%) ISTQB
15 16 (0.87%) CISM
16 13 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 12 (0.65%) DBS Check
17 12 (0.65%) VCAP
18 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 11 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (9.08%) QA
2 113 (6.14%) Accessibility
3 88 (4.78%) Data Quality
4 64 (3.48%) GDPR
5 57 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (2.66%) NIST
6 49 (2.66%) WCAG
7 25 (1.36%) SLA
8 24 (1.30%) PMO
9 14 (0.76%) NCSC
10 12 (0.65%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.54%) GRC
12 9 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
13 6 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.33%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.33%) PSD2
14 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.22%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 196 (10.65%) Docker
2 98 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 48 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.25%) vSphere
5 22 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 22 (1.20%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.22%) FreeRADIUS
9 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.11%) Firmware
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.11%) Varnish
11 1 (0.054%) KVM
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.054%) UAG
Systems Management
1 277 (15.05%) Kubernetes
2 88 (4.78%) Ansible
3 48 (2.61%) Grafana
4 38 (2.07%) Prometheus
5 37 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (0.98%) SCCM
7 16 (0.87%) Kibana
8 12 (0.65%) VxRail
9 11 (0.60%) Control-M
9 11 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (0.49%) Argo
12 8 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.38%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.38%) Istio
14 5 (0.27%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.22%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 345 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 135 (7.34%) Oracle
3 91 (4.95%) Databricks
4 81 (4.40%) Google
5 70 (3.80%) ServiceNow
6 59 (3.21%) VMware
7 54 (2.93%) Splunk
8 52 (2.83%) Cisco
9 50 (2.72%) SAP
10 44 (2.39%) Salesforce
11 33 (1.79%) CyberArk
12 24 (1.30%) OpenAI
13 22 (1.20%) Talend
14 21 (1.14%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.03%) Palo Alto
16 18 (0.98%) F5
17 15 (0.82%) Informatica
17 15 (0.82%) Okta
17 15 (0.82%) Workday
18 14 (0.76%) IBM