Mentoring Contracts in Wales

Mentorship
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Mentoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mentoring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 38 49
Rank change year-on-year +17 +11 +6
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 22 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 7.51% 1.52% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.63% 1.93% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 11
10th Percentile £303 £156 £400
25th Percentile £305 £190 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £200 £521
Median % change year-on-year +65.59% -61.63% -5.23%
75th Percentile £403 £620 £581
90th Percentile £551 £848 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.68 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +18.75% -46.67% +114.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 311 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.03% 78.73% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 212 421
10th Percentile £185 £168 £183
25th Percentile £285 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in Wales

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in Wales

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in Wales

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in Wales

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South Wales +21 22 £331 +65.59% 83
Mentoring
UK

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) IaaS
1 2 (9.09%) SaaS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) dbt
2 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.55%) GCP
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (4.55%) PaaS
2 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
2 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
1 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Selenium
1 3 (13.64%) SpecFlow
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 7 (31.82%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (22.73%) Welsh Language
4 4 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Multimedia
5 3 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (9.09%) Finance
7 1 (4.55%) Automotive
7 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Lead
2 7 (31.82%) Designer
3 6 (27.27%) Lead Designer
4 5 (22.73%) Interaction Designer
4 5 (22.73%) Senior
5 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Test Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (9.09%) Lead Test Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Service Designer
8 1 (4.55%) Architect
8 1 (4.55%) Consultant
8 1 (4.55%) Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Lead Service Designer
8 1 (4.55%) Programme Manager
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) CSS
2 5 (22.73%) Node.js
3 4 (18.18%) React
4 3 (13.64%) HTML
5 2 (9.09%) Blazor
5 2 (9.09%) GWT
5 2 (9.09%) Jest
5 2 (9.09%) Puppeteer
6 1 (4.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) NHS
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (4.55%) IoT
2 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Agile
2 12 (54.55%) Coaching
3 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
4 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (27.27%) User Experience
6 5 (22.73%) Interaction Design
6 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
6 5 (22.73%) TDD
7 4 (18.18%) Business Case
7 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 4 (18.18%) DevOps
8 3 (13.64%) Change Management
8 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (13.64%) Open Source
8 3 (13.64%) Product Management
8 3 (13.64%) Product Requirements
8 3 (13.64%) Service Design
8 3 (13.64%) Test Scripting
8 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
9 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.64%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) Go
3 1 (4.55%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Degree
2 10 (45.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) CREST Certified
3 1 (4.55%) OSCE
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) SAP