Mentoring Job Trends in Durham

Mentorship
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 25 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 -12 +7
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 13 12 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 5.68% 5.91% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.56% 7.19% 7.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 6
10th Percentile £59,575 £42,625 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,750 £47,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £51,500 £56,145
Median % change year-on-year +39.32% -8.27% +18.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,600 £61,445
90th Percentile £91,875 £80,470 £65,098
North East median annual salary £46,434 £58,465 £61,206
% change year-on-year -20.58% -4.48% +10.28%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 172 167 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 75.11% 82.27% 93.89%
Number of salaries quoted 64 57 99
10th Percentile £25,087 £33,081 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,313 £36,250 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £61,000 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £79,600 £68,960
North East median annual salary £47,436 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -5.13% +2.04% -2.00%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in Durham

Mentoring
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in Durham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Durham over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in Durham

Mentoring
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Durham region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Billingham - 1 - -
Peterlee - 1 £68,500 -
Mentoring
North East

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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 (84.62%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) ATM
1 1 (7.69%) DHCP
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JUnit
1 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
2 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Analyst
1 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 5 (38.46%) Junior
1 5 (38.46%) Junior Analyst
1 5 (38.46%) Junior Security Analyst
1 5 (38.46%) Security Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Software Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Software Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Development Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Product Delivery Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) .NET Framework
3 2 (15.38%) Blazor
3 2 (15.38%) WebAssembly
3 2 (15.38%) YAML
4 1 (7.69%) Django
4 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.69%) Flask
4 1 (7.69%) pytest
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) FMCG
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
2 3 (23.08%) TDD
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
3 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
3 2 (15.38%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Microservices
3 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) SOLID
3 2 (15.38%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (15.38%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) Bicep
2 2 (15.38%) C#
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Delphi
3 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Azure Certification
1 5 (38.46%) CompTIA CySA+
1 5 (38.46%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) NEBOSH
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) ForeScout
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Dell
2 1 (7.69%) Dell Compellent
2 1 (7.69%) HP
2 1 (7.69%) Nimble Storage
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) VMware