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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 76 76
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +18
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,249 944 1,202
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.25% 3.02% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 3.39% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 521 776
10th Percentile £360 £350 £395
25th Percentile £429 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +0.91% -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £661
90th Percentile £738 £756 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £534
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.62% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 19 54
10th Percentile £25.23 £21.57 £17.93
25th Percentile £40.47 £23.54 £35.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £27.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +127.27% -51.32% +36.12%
75th Percentile £74.38 £52.38 £73.31
90th Percentile £80.20 £69.20 £78.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.25 £26.93 £56.49
% change year-on-year +134.91% -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 33,541 27,883 38,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.38% 89.07% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,255 16,908 25,386
10th Percentile £305 £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 £643
90th Percentile £722 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,020 876 1,970
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.98
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.67% +12.44%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.49
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% +44.23%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -5 1,054 £550 -4.35% 2,372
UK excluding London -14 574 £525 +0.96% 2,201
London 0 501 £550 -10.20% 609
Work from Home +12 404 £540 +2.92% 1,202
North of England -13 224 £522 +18.64% 459
Midlands +12 119 £450 -20.00% 273
Yorkshire -13 101 £537 -2.36% 165
North West -27 101 £475 +18.75% 234
West Midlands +14 93 £508 -17.87% 112
South East -26 76 £513 -6.82% 718
South West -7 63 £550 +4.76% 280
Scotland +16 62 £530 +1.19% 113
East of England -3 30 £585 +58.64% 294
East Midlands -22 26 £425 +3.00% 156
North East -7 25 £500 +17.65% 62
Wales -2 10 £400 -30.43% 97
Northern Ireland -13 2 £385 +30.95% 32

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 (3.20%) Confluence
2 25 (2.00%) Apache
2 25 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 20 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.80%) JBoss
5 10 (0.80%) WebLogic
6 9 (0.72%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.48%) CMS
8 5 (0.40%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.32%) 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%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.16%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.72%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.24%) LaTeX
6 2 (0.16%) Siemens NX
6 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.080%) InDesign
7 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (1.12%) SAP WM
2 13 (1.04%) SAP EWM
3 12 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.88%) SAP HCM
5 6 (0.48%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.32%) 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 FAH
9 2 (0.16%) Shopify
9 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 366 (29.30%) AWS
2 322 (25.78%) Azure
3 114 (9.13%) GCP
4 101 (8.09%) Serverless
5 98 (7.85%) GitHub
6 75 (6.00%) Power Platform
7 70 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
9 56 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
10 55 (4.40%) Amazon S3
11 52 (4.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 48 (3.84%) SaaS
13 40 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
14 37 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 37 (2.96%) Entra ID
15 36 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 34 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
17 33 (2.64%) Datadog
18 32 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
18 32 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (7.21%) Firewall
2 53 (4.24%) DNS
3 35 (2.80%) VPN
4 30 (2.40%) TCP/IP
5 28 (2.24%) Network Security
6 25 (2.00%) WAN
7 19 (1.52%) LAN
8 18 (1.44%) DHCP
9 13 (1.04%) Wireless
10 12 (0.96%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.96%) SSL
11 8 (0.64%) BGP
11 8 (0.64%) OSPF
11 8 (0.64%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.56%) Internet
12 7 (0.56%) NetScaler
12 7 (0.56%) VLAN
12 7 (0.56%) VSAN
13 6 (0.48%) MPLS
13 6 (0.48%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (3.92%) MongoDB
2 49 (3.92%) NoSQL
3 45 (3.60%) Power BI
4 29 (2.32%) DynamoDB
5 28 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
6 27 (2.16%) Data Lake
6 27 (2.16%) Relational Database
7 25 (2.00%) SQL Server
8 24 (1.92%) Big Data
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
13 13 (1.04%) Redis
14 12 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.96%) Metadata
15 11 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 141 (11.29%) Jenkins
2 102 (8.17%) Git
3 72 (5.76%) JIRA
4 65 (5.20%) GitLab
5 24 (1.92%) Selenium
6 23 (1.84%) JUnit
7 22 (1.76%) Maven
8 17 (1.36%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.28%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.12%) Gradle
11 12 (0.96%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.80%) Eclipse
13 9 (0.72%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.72%) IntelliJ
13 9 (0.72%) Mockito
13 9 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.64%) Jaeger
15 6 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
15 6 (0.48%) Postman
16 5 (0.40%) JMeter
General
1 482 (38.59%) Social Skills
2 230 (18.41%) Finance
3 195 (15.61%) Public Sector
4 146 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (5.92%) Banking
6 52 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
7 41 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
8 35 (2.80%) Marketing
9 32 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.92%) Retail
12 23 (1.84%) Military
13 22 (1.76%) Legal
14 21 (1.68%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.12%) Telecoms
17 12 (0.96%) Electronics
18 11 (0.88%) Aerospace
18 11 (0.88%) Law
19 10 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 261 (20.90%) Senior
2 236 (18.90%) Lead
3 217 (17.37%) Architect
4 159 (12.73%) Developer
5 83 (6.65%) Analyst
6 71 (5.68%) Consultant
7 66 (5.28%) Software Engineer
8 53 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
9 43 (3.44%) Java Developer
10 41 (3.28%) Senior Developer
11 39 (3.12%) Data Engineer
12 37 (2.96%) Lead Developer
12 37 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (2.80%) Technical Architect
14 33 (2.64%) Business Analyst
15 32 (2.56%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (2.56%) Technical Leader
16 28 (2.24%) SAP Consultant
17 25 (2.00%) Principal Engineer
18 23 (1.84%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.49%) Kafka
1 81 (6.49%) Node.js
2 70 (5.60%) REST
3 65 (5.20%) Spring
4 64 (5.12%) .NET
5 63 (5.04%) React
6 62 (4.96%) Spring Boot
7 60 (4.80%) RESTful
8 50 (4.00%) GraphQL
9 49 (3.92%) Playwright
10 42 (3.36%) Middleware
11 37 (2.96%) HTML
11 37 (2.96%) SOAP
11 37 (2.96%) YAML
12 33 (2.64%) OAuth
13 31 (2.48%) Vitest
14 29 (2.32%) PySpark
15 28 (2.24%) JSON
15 28 (2.24%) XML
16 27 (2.16%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 127 (10.17%) Cloud Native
2 99 (7.93%) Product Ownership
3 48 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.32%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.16%) Algorithms
6 27 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
6 27 (2.16%) Virtual Team
7 25 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 24 (1.92%) NHS
9 21 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (1.60%) Data Centre
11 19 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.44%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.36%) Public Cloud
14 16 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
16 13 (1.04%) Equities
16 13 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (5.60%) Linux
2 62 (4.96%) Windows
3 35 (2.80%) Unix
4 30 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.72%) VMS
7 6 (0.48%) Android
7 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.32%) 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 (0.080%) CentOS
11 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (34.99%) Agile
2 370 (29.62%) Problem-Solving
3 361 (28.90%) CI/CD
4 335 (26.82%) DevOps
5 248 (19.86%) Technical Leadership
6 244 (19.54%) Coaching
7 221 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 182 (14.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 171 (13.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 171 (13.69%) Software Engineering
10 167 (13.37%) Microservices
11 151 (12.09%) Roadmaps
12 143 (11.45%) Containerisation
13 142 (11.37%) AI
14 126 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 124 (9.93%) Test Automation
16 115 (9.21%) Analytics
17 107 (8.57%) Data Modelling
18 100 (8.01%) Cybersecurity
19 98 (7.85%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 270 (21.62%) Python
2 196 (15.69%) Java
3 160 (12.81%) SQL
4 102 (8.17%) TypeScript
5 92 (7.37%) JavaScript
6 66 (5.28%) PowerShell
7 58 (4.64%) C#
8 54 (4.32%) Bash
9 32 (2.56%) C++
10 19 (1.52%) Apex Code
11 16 (1.28%) Bicep
12 14 (1.12%) Groovy
12 14 (1.12%) Scala
13 13 (1.04%) ABAP
13 13 (1.04%) Go
14 12 (0.96%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.96%) Rust
15 11 (0.88%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.64%) Ruby
17 7 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 298 (23.86%) Security Cleared
2 225 (18.01%) SC Cleared
3 164 (13.13%) Degree
4 48 (3.84%) AWS Certification
5 42 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (3.04%) DV Cleared
8 35 (2.80%) Azure Certification
9 29 (2.32%) CISSP
10 25 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (1.76%) Master's Degree
12 20 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (1.52%) CISM
14 16 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 16 (1.28%) CCNP
15 15 (1.20%) SAP Certification
16 13 (1.04%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.96%) MCP
18 9 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
19 8 (0.64%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (7.53%) QA
2 58 (4.64%) GDPR
3 50 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 44 (3.52%) Data Quality
5 39 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (2.80%) NIST
7 23 (1.84%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.60%) NCSC
9 18 (1.44%) SLA
10 14 (1.12%) PMO
11 13 (1.04%) WCAG
12 11 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 11 (0.88%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.48%) GAAP
14 6 (0.48%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
15 5 (0.40%) IFRS
System Software
1 207 (16.57%) Docker
2 62 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.04%) vSphere
6 12 (0.96%) Firmware
7 9 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.56%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.32%) 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 (0.080%) HDFS
13 1 (0.080%) KVM
13 1 (0.080%) Postfix
13 1 (0.080%) RHEV
13 1 (0.080%) zsh
Systems Management
1 196 (15.69%) Terraform
2 177 (14.17%) Kubernetes
3 81 (6.49%) Ansible
4 48 (3.84%) Grafana
5 46 (3.68%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 13 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.96%) Puppet
9 9 (0.72%) Argo
10 8 (0.64%) Kiali
11 7 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.56%) SCCM
12 5 (0.40%) VxRail
13 4 (0.32%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.32%) vRealize
14 3 (0.24%) CloudHub
14 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
14 3 (0.24%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 186 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.72%) SAP
3 53 (4.24%) Oracle
4 52 (4.16%) Splunk
5 48 (3.84%) Google
6 43 (3.44%) Salesforce
7 42 (3.36%) ServiceNow
8 40 (3.20%) Databricks
9 34 (2.72%) Cisco
10 31 (2.48%) VMware
11 27 (2.16%) Palo Alto
12 25 (2.00%) F5
13 18 (1.44%) CheckPoint
14 15 (1.20%) Fortinet
15 14 (1.12%) AppDynamics
15 14 (1.12%) Apple
16 13 (1.04%) IBM
16 13 (1.04%) Red Hat
17 12 (0.96%) Dynatrace
18 10 (0.80%) MuleSoft