Mentoring Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Mentorship
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 76 95
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 -3
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 289 400 636
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.92% 2.64% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 3.00% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 278 422
10th Percentile £363 £415 £413
25th Percentile £432 £493 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £574
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% -4.14% +4.32%
75th Percentile £605 £663 £675
90th Percentile £736 £830 £774
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 7
10th Percentile - - £26.07
25th Percentile £22.00 £15.17 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £25.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +170.00% -70.59% +112.50%
75th Percentile £92.50 £29.00 -
90th Percentile - £35.00 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +18.75% -46.67% +74.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,024 13,319 22,924
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 87.90% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,199 8,917 16,193
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 575 527
10th Percentile £13.96 £15.17 £18.67
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £39.52 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.01% -22.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.75 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.15 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

Mentoring
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mentoring trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Mentoring
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Mentoring.

Mentoring daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Mentoring daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Mentoring.

Mentoring hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Mentoring hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (3.46%) Confluence
2 9 (3.11%) Apache
2 9 (3.11%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.77%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.69%) Camunda
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.69%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.35%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.35%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.35%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.35%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.35%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.35%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 97 (33.56%) AWS
2 80 (27.68%) Azure
3 35 (12.11%) GCP
4 34 (11.76%) Serverless
5 27 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (5.19%) GitHub
9 14 (4.84%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (3.81%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.46%) SaaS
12 9 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (2.77%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (2.77%) Entra ID
14 7 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (2.08%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (2.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.23%) HTTP
2 15 (5.19%) DNS
2 15 (5.19%) Network Security
3 14 (4.84%) TCP/IP
4 13 (4.50%) VPN
5 11 (3.81%) Firewall
6 10 (3.46%) LAN
7 8 (2.77%) WAN
8 7 (2.42%) DHCP
8 7 (2.42%) Wireless
9 6 (2.08%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.38%) 4G
10 4 (1.38%) SSL
11 3 (1.04%) BGP
11 3 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (1.04%) DWDM
11 3 (1.04%) SNMP
12 2 (0.69%) Cisco Firepower
12 2 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (0.69%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.42%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (9.34%) MongoDB
3 21 (7.27%) MySQL
4 19 (6.57%) Relational Database
5 14 (4.84%) DynamoDB
5 14 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.81%) Big Data
6 11 (3.81%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.46%) Redis
8 9 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.42%) Power BI
10 6 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.08%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.73%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.73%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.38%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.04%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (9.69%) Git
2 26 (9.00%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.92%) JIRA
4 16 (5.54%) GitLab
5 14 (4.84%) JUnit
6 10 (3.46%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.42%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.08%) Jasmine
8 6 (2.08%) Maven
8 6 (2.08%) Mockito
9 5 (1.73%) git-flow
9 5 (1.73%) Gradle
9 5 (1.73%) REST Assured
9 5 (1.73%) Selenium
10 4 (1.38%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.04%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.04%) MLflow
11 3 (1.04%) Postman
11 3 (1.04%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.04%) TestNG
General
1 91 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 64 (22.15%) Public Sector
3 43 (14.88%) Finance
4 42 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (5.19%) Banking
7 11 (3.81%) Manufacturing
7 11 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.46%) Law
9 8 (2.77%) Marketing
10 7 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.08%) Military
12 5 (1.73%) Retail
12 5 (1.73%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.73%) Welsh Language
13 3 (1.04%) Electronics
14 2 (0.69%) Automotive
14 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.69%) German Language
14 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (22.84%) Senior
2 61 (21.11%) Lead
3 59 (20.42%) Developer
4 33 (11.42%) Architect
5 24 (8.30%) Software Engineer
6 20 (6.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (6.57%) Senior Developer
8 15 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (5.19%) Java Developer
9 13 (4.50%) Lead Developer
10 11 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
10 11 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.46%) Consultant
11 10 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.11%) Analyst
13 8 (2.77%) Backend Developer
13 8 (2.77%) Data Engineer
14 7 (2.42%) C# Developer
14 7 (2.42%) Node.js Developer
14 7 (2.42%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.30%) Node.js
2 23 (7.96%) Kafka
2 23 (7.96%) Spring
2 23 (7.96%) Spring Boot
3 21 (7.27%) React
3 21 (7.27%) RESTful
4 17 (5.88%) HTML
5 15 (5.19%) JSON
6 14 (4.84%) AngularJS
6 14 (4.84%) Swagger
7 13 (4.50%) OAuth
7 13 (4.50%) Web Services
8 12 (4.15%) .NET
9 11 (3.81%) CSS
9 11 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (3.81%) GraphQL
9 11 (3.81%) OpenAPI
9 11 (3.81%) Redux
10 10 (3.46%) AWS CDK
10 10 (3.46%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.65%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.81%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.11%) Security Posture
5 8 (2.77%) Operational Technology
5 8 (2.77%) PKI
6 7 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.42%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.73%) CMDB
8 5 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.73%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.73%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.38%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.38%) NHS
9 4 (1.38%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.69%) Linux
2 15 (5.19%) Windows
3 7 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.08%) Unix
5 4 (1.38%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (1.38%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (31.49%) Agile
2 88 (30.45%) CI/CD
3 77 (26.64%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (25.26%) DevOps
5 66 (22.84%) Technical Leadership
6 63 (21.80%) Coaching
7 47 (16.26%) Software Engineering
8 44 (15.22%) Microservices
9 43 (14.88%) Containerisation
9 43 (14.88%) Test Automation
10 38 (13.15%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (10.73%) Scrum
12 30 (10.38%) Computer Science
13 29 (10.03%) Analytics
13 29 (10.03%) Continuous Integration
14 28 (9.69%) TDD
15 27 (9.34%) Migration
16 25 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (7.27%) High Availability
17 21 (7.27%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (23.53%) Python
2 58 (20.07%) Java
3 54 (18.69%) JavaScript
4 46 (15.92%) SQL
5 32 (11.07%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.61%) PowerShell
7 19 (6.57%) Bash
8 18 (6.23%) C#
9 8 (2.77%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.42%) C++
10 7 (2.42%) Go
11 4 (1.38%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.38%) Scala
11 4 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.04%) Bicep
12 3 (1.04%) Groovy
12 3 (1.04%) R
13 2 (0.69%) Ruby
14 1 (0.35%) BeanShell
14 1 (0.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 61 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.03%) SC Cleared
3 42 (14.53%) Degree
4 28 (9.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (5.19%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.15%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (4.15%) Master's Degree
7 9 (3.11%) CCNA
8 8 (2.77%) CCNP
9 6 (2.08%) CISM
10 5 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.73%) CISSP
10 5 (1.73%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.38%) CEH
11 4 (1.38%) PMP
12 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.69%) APMG
13 2 (0.69%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.81%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.46%) GDPR
2 10 (3.46%) NIST
2 10 (3.46%) QA
3 9 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.08%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.38%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.69%) PMO
8 1 (0.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.35%) GxP
8 1 (0.35%) IFRS
8 1 (0.35%) NCSC
8 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (19.03%) Docker
2 9 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.69%) HDFS
5 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.35%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.35%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.35%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 42 (14.53%) Terraform
3 20 (6.92%) Ansible
4 17 (5.88%) Grafana
5 15 (5.19%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.73%) Puppet
6 5 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.38%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.38%) Istio
8 3 (1.04%) Kibana
8 3 (1.04%) Kubeflow
8 3 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.04%) SCCM
9 2 (0.69%) Consul
9 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.35%) linkerd
10 1 (0.35%) Packer
10 1 (0.35%) PTC Integrity
10 1 (0.35%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 37 (12.80%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.23%) Oracle
3 13 (4.50%) Google
4 11 (3.81%) Cisco
5 8 (2.77%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.77%) SAP
5 8 (2.77%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.77%) VMware
6 5 (1.73%) ForgeRock
7 4 (1.38%) Arista
7 4 (1.38%) Ping Identity
7 4 (1.38%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.04%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.04%) Databricks
8 3 (1.04%) IBM
8 3 (1.04%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.04%) Splunk
9 2 (0.69%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.69%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.69%) Palo Alto