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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 38 56
Rank change year-on-year +20 +18 -7
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 22 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 7.53% 1.09% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.43% 1.42% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 8
10th Percentile £303 £150 £355
25th Percentile £305 £176 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £328 £405 £511
Median % change year-on-year -18.99% -20.69% -2.74%
75th Percentile £380 £715 £603
90th Percentile £459 £886 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 261 282 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 89.38% 76.84% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 189 408
10th Percentile £185 £160 £188
25th Percentile £289 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £491 £563 £581
90th Percentile £625 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 28 26
10th Percentile £15.40 £11.57 £14.63
25th Percentile £20.12 £13.71 £16.98
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.82 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +13.52% +9.26% -19.38%
75th Percentile £41.25 £51.75 £22.93
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.54 £49.38
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 16 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 16 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 +19 21 £331 -18.23% 68
North Wales - 1 £325 - 12
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%) 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%) IaaS
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
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 5 (22.73%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Welsh Language
3 3 (13.64%) Multimedia
3 3 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Automotive
5 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%) Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Lead Test Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Service Designer
8 1 (4.55%) Consultant
8 1 (4.55%) Java Software Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Lead Service Designer
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Software Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) CSS
2 5 (22.73%) Node.js
2 5 (22.73%) React
3 3 (13.64%) HTML
4 2 (9.09%) Blazor
4 2 (9.09%) GWT
4 2 (9.09%) Jest
4 2 (9.09%) Puppeteer
5 1 (4.55%) Kafka
5 1 (4.55%) React Native
5 1 (4.55%) Spring
5 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
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 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 6 (27.27%) User Experience
5 5 (22.73%) Interaction Design
5 5 (22.73%) TDD
6 4 (18.18%) Business Case
6 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
6 4 (18.18%) DevOps
7 3 (13.64%) Change Management
7 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (13.64%) Open Source
7 3 (13.64%) Product Management
7 3 (13.64%) Product Requirements
7 3 (13.64%) Scrum
7 3 (13.64%) Service Design
7 3 (13.64%) Test Scripting
7 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.64%) C#
3 2 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) Go
4 1 (4.55%) Python
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 2 (9.09%) Docker