Mentoring Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Mentorship
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Mentoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 53 70
Rank change year-on-year -8 +17 -2
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 79 52 48
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.51% 3.13% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 3.65% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 35 36
10th Percentile £292 £419 £333
25th Percentile £393 £550 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £625 £488
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +28.21% -9.72%
75th Percentile £600 £685 £615
90th Percentile £706 £733 £794
England median daily rate £536 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
Median hourly rate £13.69 £40.55 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.24% +62.20% -
England median hourly rate £66.25 £47.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +39.47% -15.91% -13.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,965 1,425 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.26% 85.69% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 903 1,066
10th Percentile £263 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £584 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 46 49
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.12 £16.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £20.50 £23.89 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% +3.87% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.21 £34.69 £55.00
90th Percentile £40.19 £52.50 £67.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mentoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Mentoring job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Mentoring
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mentoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the West Midlands

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mentoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Shropshire -18 19 £429 - 6
Coventry -2 17 £475 +8.57% 10
Warwickshire -9 14 £538 -2.27% 7
Birmingham -13 12 £588 -9.62% 44
Staffordshire +8 6 £463 - 9
Walsall - 2 - - 4
Herefordshire -24 1 £575 -7.78%
Solihull - 1 £575 - 3
Worcestershire - 1 £550 - 4
Mentoring
England

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (10.13%) Apache
1 8 (10.13%) JBoss
1 8 (10.13%) WebLogic
2 5 (6.33%) Confluence
3 2 (2.53%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (5.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (43.04%) AWS
2 23 (29.11%) Azure
3 8 (10.13%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (10.13%) Datadog
4 7 (8.86%) GCP
4 7 (8.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (6.33%) Amazon S3
5 5 (6.33%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 4 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (5.06%) GitHub
6 4 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.80%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (3.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.80%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.80%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.66%) Firewall
2 9 (11.39%) DNS
3 8 (10.13%) VPN
4 5 (6.33%) DHCP
4 5 (6.33%) LAN
4 5 (6.33%) WAN
5 4 (5.06%) BGP
5 4 (5.06%) IPv4
5 4 (5.06%) IPv6
5 4 (5.06%) MPLS
5 4 (5.06%) Network Security
5 4 (5.06%) OSPF
5 4 (5.06%) SD-WAN
5 4 (5.06%) VSAN
5 4 (5.06%) VXLAN
5 4 (5.06%) WLAN
6 3 (3.80%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (3.80%) EIGRP
6 3 (3.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (3.80%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (16.46%) Git
2 9 (11.39%) JIRA
2 9 (11.39%) Selenium
3 8 (10.13%) Eclipse
3 8 (10.13%) IntelliJ
3 8 (10.13%) JUnit
4 7 (8.86%) Jenkins
5 6 (7.59%) GitLab
6 4 (5.06%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
General
1 39 (49.37%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.25%) Finance
3 15 (18.99%) Influencing Skills
4 12 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.59%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.59%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.06%) Legal
6 4 (5.06%) Marketing
7 2 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.27%) Military
8 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (21.52%) Architect
2 13 (16.46%) Lead
3 11 (13.92%) Senior
3 11 (13.92%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (11.39%) Analyst
5 6 (7.59%) Developer
6 5 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Lead Architect
6 5 (6.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.33%) Network Architect
6 5 (6.33%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (6.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.06%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Operations Analyst
7 4 (5.06%) SailPoint Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Security Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.25%) REST
2 15 (18.99%) SOAP
3 9 (11.39%) HTML
3 9 (11.39%) XML
4 8 (10.13%) EJB
4 8 (10.13%) Hibernate
4 8 (10.13%) HTML5
4 8 (10.13%) J2EE
4 8 (10.13%) J2SE
4 8 (10.13%) JSON
4 8 (10.13%) Play Framework
4 8 (10.13%) Spring
5 4 (5.06%) .NET
5 4 (5.06%) SailPoint
6 3 (3.80%) Middleware
7 2 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (2.53%) Kafka
7 2 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.27%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.27%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.86%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.59%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.33%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.06%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.06%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.80%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.53%) IoT
6 2 (2.53%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.53%) NHS
7 1 (1.27%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.27%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.13%) Unix
2 6 (7.59%) Linux
3 4 (5.06%) Windows
4 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (53.16%) Agile
2 36 (45.57%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (34.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (30.38%) DevOps
5 21 (26.58%) CI/CD
6 18 (22.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (18.99%) ITIL
7 15 (18.99%) Microservices
8 14 (17.72%) Coaching
8 14 (17.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (17.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (16.46%) Decision-Making
10 12 (15.19%) AI
10 12 (15.19%) Infrastructure Automation
10 12 (15.19%) Scrum
11 11 (13.92%) Continuous Delivery
11 11 (13.92%) Enterprise Architecture
11 11 (13.92%) Project Management
11 11 (13.92%) Root Cause Analysis
11 11 (13.92%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.72%) Python
2 13 (16.46%) Java
2 13 (16.46%) SQL
3 9 (11.39%) PowerShell
4 8 (10.13%) Bash
4 8 (10.13%) Scala
5 6 (7.59%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.06%) BeanShell
7 3 (3.80%) Go
8 2 (2.53%) C#
8 2 (2.53%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.27%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 15 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.19%) Degree
3 9 (11.39%) AWS Certification
3 9 (11.39%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.13%) CISSP
5 6 (7.59%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (5.06%) CCIE
6 4 (5.06%) CCNP
6 4 (5.06%) CCSP
6 4 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.06%) CISM
7 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.80%) CCIE Security
7 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.53%) JNCIE
8 2 (2.53%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.39%) QA
2 6 (7.59%) GDPR
3 5 (6.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (6.33%) NIST
3 5 (6.33%) PMO
4 4 (5.06%) Data Quality
4 4 (5.06%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.80%) ISO 19650
5 3 (3.80%) SLA
6 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.27%) NCSC
6 1 (1.27%) P3O
System Software
1 21 (26.58%) Docker
2 9 (11.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.59%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.06%) vSphere
5 3 (3.80%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (13.92%) Ansible
1 11 (13.92%) Terraform
2 10 (12.66%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.13%) Puppet
4 5 (6.33%) Grafana
5 4 (5.06%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.06%) vRealize
5 4 (5.06%) VxRail
6 2 (2.53%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (11.39%) ServiceNow
1 9 (11.39%) VMware
2 8 (10.13%) Cisco
2 8 (10.13%) Salesforce
2 8 (10.13%) webMethods
3 7 (8.86%) AppDynamics
3 7 (8.86%) F5
3 7 (8.86%) Palo Alto
3 7 (8.86%) SolarWinds
4 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.06%) Commvault
5 4 (5.06%) Dell
5 4 (5.06%) Fortinet
5 4 (5.06%) HP
5 4 (5.06%) IBM
5 4 (5.06%) Meraki
6 3 (3.80%) CheckPoint
6 3 (3.80%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.80%) Pega
6 3 (3.80%) Splunk