Mentoring Job Trends in the East of England

Mentorship
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 9 46
Rank change year-on-year -23 +37 -43
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 275 480 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.74% 13.84% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.31% 15.78% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 179 93 82
10th Percentile £29,470 £27,925 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £39,878 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -16.92%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,250 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,576 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.89% +4.00% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,175 3,042 3,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.35% 87.72% 73.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,704 1,632 2,203
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,395
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in the East of England

Mentoring
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in the East of England

Mentoring
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Cambridgeshire +5 77 £60,100 +0.17% 22
Hertfordshire -24 73 £60,000 -14.29% 33
Essex -14 43 £36,997 +13.84% 23
Bedfordshire -22 37 £65,000 +48.57% 4
Norfolk -9 27 £42,500 -37.04% 8
Suffolk +16 17 £74,250 +30.26% 5
Mentoring
England

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 15 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.09%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.73%) Luigi
5 1 (0.36%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.73%) Primavera
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 114 (41.45%) Azure
2 42 (15.27%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (10.55%) AWS
4 19 (6.91%) Entra ID
5 18 (6.55%) Power Platform
6 13 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (2.91%) GCP
9 7 (2.55%) SaaS
10 6 (2.18%) Dataform
10 6 (2.18%) dbt
11 5 (1.82%) GitHub
12 4 (1.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.45%) Azure Storage
12 4 (1.45%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.09%) Google Analytics
14 2 (0.73%) Apigee
14 2 (0.73%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.36%) Firewall
2 10 (3.64%) DHCP
2 10 (3.64%) DNS
2 10 (3.64%) MQTT
2 10 (3.64%) VPN
3 9 (3.27%) Broadband
4 8 (2.91%) VLAN
5 7 (2.55%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.09%) SMS
8 2 (0.73%) Intranet
8 2 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.73%) Wireless
9 1 (0.36%) Internet
9 1 (0.36%) LAN
9 1 (0.36%) NAS
9 1 (0.36%) SAN
9 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.45%) Power BI
2 9 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.55%) Tableau
4 6 (2.18%) Looker
4 6 (2.18%) Metabase
5 4 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.09%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.09%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (0.73%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.73%) Metadata
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.36%) MySQL
8 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.18%) Git
2 5 (1.82%) JIRA
2 5 (1.82%) Selenium
3 4 (1.45%) Cypress.io
3 4 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.36%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.36%) Poetry
5 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 114 (41.45%) Social Skills
2 35 (12.73%) Finance
3 30 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (5.45%) Aerospace
5 15 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (5.09%) Electronics
7 13 (4.73%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.36%) Marketing
9 9 (3.27%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.18%) Advertising
10 6 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.82%) Automotive
12 4 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.45%) Legal
13 3 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.73%) Local Government
14 2 (0.73%) Military
14 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (19.27%) Analyst
1 53 (19.27%) Senior
2 49 (17.82%) Junior
2 49 (17.82%) Lead
3 45 (16.36%) Security Analyst
4 44 (16.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 44 (16.00%) Junior Analyst
4 44 (16.00%) Junior Security Analyst
5 29 (10.55%) Developer
6 22 (8.00%) Team Leader
7 16 (5.82%) Software Engineer
8 12 (4.36%) Network Engineer
9 11 (4.00%) IT Manager
10 10 (3.64%) Consultant
10 10 (3.64%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.64%) Senior Network Engineer
11 9 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.27%) IT Support
11 9 (3.27%) Python Developer
12 8 (2.91%) Platform Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.73%) CSS
2 12 (4.36%) FastAPI
2 12 (4.36%) RESTful
3 10 (3.64%) Kafka
3 10 (3.64%) OpenAPI
3 10 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (3.64%) Swagger
4 9 (3.27%) HTML
4 9 (3.27%) Node.js
5 7 (2.55%) REST
6 6 (2.18%) React
7 5 (1.82%) .NET
7 5 (1.82%) jQuery
7 5 (1.82%) Playwright
8 4 (1.45%) Django
8 4 (1.45%) Flask
8 4 (1.45%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.09%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.73%) Flash
10 2 (0.73%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.55%) Driving Licence
3 17 (6.18%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.82%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.36%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.91%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.91%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.91%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (2.18%) PMI
8 5 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.82%) iPhone
9 4 (1.45%) Fat Client
9 4 (1.45%) Thin Client
9 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.09%) IoT
10 3 (1.09%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.27%) Windows
2 24 (8.73%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.82%) Android
4 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.09%) Linux
4 3 (1.09%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.73%) VxWorks
5 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
2 56 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (18.91%) Agile
3 52 (18.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 42 (15.27%) AI
5 37 (13.45%) Coaching
6 35 (12.73%) CI/CD
6 35 (12.73%) Roadmaps
6 35 (12.73%) Software Engineering
7 28 (10.18%) Technical Leadership
8 25 (9.09%) DevOps
8 25 (9.09%) Project Delivery
8 25 (9.09%) Service Delivery
9 24 (8.73%) Machine Learning
9 24 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (8.36%) Validation
11 22 (8.00%) Computer Science
12 21 (7.64%) Data Engineering
13 20 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (7.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 44 (16.00%) Python
2 26 (9.45%) SQL
3 15 (5.45%) JavaScript
4 10 (3.64%) C#
4 10 (3.64%) PowerShell
5 8 (2.91%) R
6 7 (2.55%) C++
7 6 (2.18%) Julia
8 5 (1.82%) Bicep
8 5 (1.82%) Java
9 4 (1.45%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.45%) PHP
10 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.73%) Ada
11 2 (0.73%) C
11 2 (0.73%) RPG
11 2 (0.73%) Scala
11 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.36%) Clojure
12 1 (0.36%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 65 (23.64%) Degree
2 51 (18.55%) Azure Certification
3 45 (16.36%) CompTIA Security+
4 44 (16.00%) CompTIA CySA+
5 28 (10.18%) DBS Check
6 19 (6.91%) Security Cleared
7 14 (5.09%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (3.64%) SC Cleared
10 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.91%) City & Guilds
12 7 (2.55%) NVQ Level 4
13 6 (2.18%) PMI Certification
14 5 (1.82%) APMP
14 5 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (1.45%) CISSP
16 3 (1.09%) CCSK
16 3 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.27%) SLA
2 13 (4.73%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.73%) QA
3 11 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.82%) GDPR
4 5 (1.82%) GRC
5 4 (1.45%) NIST
6 3 (1.09%) NCSC
6 3 (1.09%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.09%) PERC
7 1 (0.36%) Automotive SPICE
7 1 (0.36%) COSHH
7 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.36%) IFRS
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) MISRA
7 1 (0.36%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (9.82%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.18%) Hyper-V
3 11 (4.00%) Docker
3 11 (4.00%) Firmware
3 11 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (5.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.55%) Terraform
4 3 (1.09%) Autotask
4 3 (1.09%) SCCM
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 103 (37.45%) Microsoft
2 44 (16.00%) ForeScout
3 12 (4.36%) VMware
4 10 (3.64%) Oracle
5 8 (2.91%) Google
6 7 (2.55%) Apple
7 6 (2.18%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.82%) Cisco
8 5 (1.82%) Meraki
8 5 (1.82%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (1.45%) EMC
9 4 (1.45%) Veeam
10 3 (1.09%) ConnectWise
10 3 (1.09%) Databricks
10 3 (1.09%) dotdigital
10 3 (1.09%) Facebook
10 3 (1.09%) Informatica
10 3 (1.09%) Instagram
10 3 (1.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.73%) MikroTik