Mentoring Job Trends in Cardiff

Mentorship
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 23 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -16 +20
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 18 28 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 5.04% 7.59% 14.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.00% 9.43% 15.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7 23 46
10th Percentile £42,050 £41,594 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £43,449 £50,034
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +5.88% +2.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £109,500 £95,000 £75,250
South Wales median annual salary £49,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -26.67% +12.50% -2.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Mentoring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 257 297 318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 71.99% 80.49% 92.17%
Number of salaries quoted 176 189 284
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,800 £33,128
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,551 £77,920 £73,750
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +0.22%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Mentoring relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Mentoring job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Mentoring
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Cardiff over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in Cardiff

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Internet
1 2 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) VoIP
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) JMeter
1 1 (5.56%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Multimedia
3 1 (5.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
1 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 5 (27.78%) Junior
1 5 (27.78%) Junior Analyst
1 5 (27.78%) Junior Security Analyst
1 5 (27.78%) Security Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Technology
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) SEO Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) React
2 1 (5.56%) CSS
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) Jest
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) Laravel
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) Playwright
2 1 (5.56%) PySpark
2 1 (5.56%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 3 (16.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 3 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 3 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 5 (27.78%) ITIL
3 4 (22.22%) Business Strategy
3 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (22.22%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (16.67%) Change Advisory Board
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Coaching
4 3 (16.67%) Cyber Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 3 (16.67%) SABSA
4 3 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 3 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 3 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (11.11%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 2 (11.11%) Python
1 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) PHP
2 1 (5.56%) R
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 5 (27.78%) CompTIA CySA+
2 5 (27.78%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 3 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) ForeScout
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.56%) Zscaler