Mentoring Job Trends in England

Mentorship
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 19 27
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 -8
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 3,659 3,927 3,533
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.92% 8.16% 7.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.53% 8.98% 7.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,118 1,577 2,402
10th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £54,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% - -1.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -18.52% - -2.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,913 43,729 44,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.84% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25,804 21,413 34,236
10th Percentile £28,742 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in England

Mentoring
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in England

Mentoring
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
London -3 1,084 £75,000 -5.06% 520
North of England -7 932 £50,000 -16.67% 504
Midlands -5 634 £40,000 -35.13% 265
South East -4 512 £45,998 -29.23% 695
Yorkshire +14 415 £55,000 -2.65% 185
West Midlands -7 413 £44,543 -26.50% 103
North West -9 409 £52,500 -14.22% 249
South West +2 274 £45,000 -30.77% 278
East Midlands +8 221 £35,000 -44.00% 161
East of England -14 133 £45,000 -25.16% 297
North East +5 108 £47,372 -21.70% 72
Mentoring
UK

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 72 (1.97%) SharePoint
2 35 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 33 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (0.74%) Confluence
5 21 (0.57%) CMS
6 17 (0.46%) SAS
7 16 (0.44%) Apache
8 14 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
9 9 (0.25%) IIS
10 8 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 6 (0.16%) Moodle
12 5 (0.14%) nginx
13 4 (0.11%) WordPress
14 3 (0.082%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.082%) Oracle Coherence
15 2 (0.055%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.055%) Umbraco
16 1 (0.027%) Kentico
16 1 (0.027%) TPMS
16 1 (0.027%) WebLogic
Applications
1 112 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.71%) Maya
4 23 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.52%) Adobe XD
6 14 (0.38%) Photoshop
7 11 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
8 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
8 9 (0.25%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.19%) InVision
9 7 (0.19%) Sketch
10 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.11%) InDesign
12 3 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.082%) Stata
13 2 (0.055%) CINEMA 4D
13 2 (0.055%) Revit
13 2 (0.055%) Weka
Business Applications
1 21 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.44%) SAP ERP
3 10 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.16%) Endur
4 6 (0.16%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.14%) SAP MM
6 4 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.11%) Markit EDM
6 4 (0.11%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.082%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.082%) Shopify
8 2 (0.055%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.055%) Infor LN
8 2 (0.055%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 2 (0.055%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.055%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.055%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.055%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.055%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,182 (32.30%) Azure
2 761 (20.80%) AWS
3 304 (8.31%) GitHub
4 244 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 240 (6.56%) SaaS
6 185 (5.06%) Power Platform
7 170 (4.65%) GCP
8 165 (4.51%) Serverless
9 123 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
10 105 (2.87%) Entra ID
11 73 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
12 72 (1.97%) Amazon S3
13 57 (1.56%) PaaS
14 50 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
15 47 (1.28%) Power Automate
16 45 (1.23%) Figma
17 38 (1.04%) PowerApps
18 35 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
19 34 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
19 34 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 230 (6.29%) Internet
2 95 (2.60%) Firewall
3 74 (2.02%) DNS
4 65 (1.78%) Remote Desktop
5 57 (1.56%) VPN
6 54 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
7 51 (1.39%) Broadband
8 49 (1.34%) Network Security
9 43 (1.18%) DHCP
10 40 (1.09%) Wireless
11 39 (1.07%) Structured Cabling
12 34 (0.93%) WAN
13 33 (0.90%) TCP/IP
14 30 (0.82%) VSAT
15 28 (0.77%) LAN
16 26 (0.71%) SD-WAN
17 22 (0.60%) VLAN
18 19 (0.52%) VoIP
19 13 (0.36%) BGP
20 12 (0.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (3.22%) Power BI
2 113 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
3 96 (2.62%) SQL Server
4 56 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 53 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (1.37%) MySQL
7 46 (1.26%) Data Lake
8 43 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 39 (1.07%) NoSQL
10 30 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (0.71%) Tableau
12 25 (0.68%) Metadata
13 24 (0.66%) BigQuery
14 22 (0.60%) Big Data
15 20 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
16 18 (0.49%) DynamoDB
16 18 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (0.49%) Hadoop
17 17 (0.46%) Looker
17 17 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 343 (9.37%) Git
2 91 (2.49%) JIRA
3 65 (1.78%) Selenium
4 48 (1.31%) Jenkins
5 47 (1.28%) Postman
6 45 (1.23%) GitLab
7 31 (0.85%) SoapUI
8 27 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
9 25 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 25 (0.68%) WebDriver
10 20 (0.55%) Visual Studio
11 18 (0.49%) JMeter
12 14 (0.38%) Balsamiq
13 13 (0.36%) Cucumber
13 13 (0.36%) Jaeger
14 12 (0.33%) Axure RP
14 12 (0.33%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.33%) JUnit
15 10 (0.27%) Burp Suite
15 10 (0.27%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,300 (35.53%) Social Skills
2 852 (23.29%) Finance
3 387 (10.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 376 (10.28%) Multimedia
5 355 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
6 203 (5.55%) Public Sector
7 192 (5.25%) Marketing
8 179 (4.89%) Law
9 170 (4.65%) Retail
10 109 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
11 105 (2.87%) Legal
12 92 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
13 90 (2.46%) Banking
14 88 (2.41%) Manufacturing
15 85 (2.32%) Telecoms
16 61 (1.67%) Electronics
17 54 (1.48%) French Language
18 50 (1.37%) Financial Institution
18 50 (1.37%) Games
18 50 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 689 (18.83%) Senior
2 551 (15.06%) Lead
3 486 (13.28%) Analyst
4 416 (11.37%) Developer
5 387 (10.58%) Trainee
6 281 (7.68%) Junior
7 252 (6.89%) Security Analyst
8 244 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 239 (6.53%) Junior Analyst
10 235 (6.42%) Junior Security Analyst
11 225 (6.15%) Systems Engineer
12 197 (5.38%) Facilities Engineer
13 186 (5.08%) Software Engineer
14 175 (4.78%) Architect
15 166 (4.54%) IT Support
16 163 (4.45%) Consultant
17 161 (4.40%) Support Engineer
18 159 (4.35%) Software Developer
19 122 (3.33%) Senior Developer
20 113 (3.09%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 351 (9.59%) HTML
2 323 (8.83%) CSS
3 202 (5.52%) React
4 176 (4.81%) .NET
5 112 (3.06%) REST
6 111 (3.03%) Node.js
7 75 (2.05%) Spring
8 74 (2.02%) RESTful
9 68 (1.86%) SOAP
10 64 (1.75%) GraphQL
11 62 (1.69%) Spring Boot
12 48 (1.31%) Kafka
13 46 (1.26%) Vue
14 39 (1.07%) Middleware
15 38 (1.04%) AngularJS
15 38 (1.04%) Django
15 38 (1.04%) Flask
16 34 (0.93%) Next.js
17 33 (0.90%) .NET Core
17 33 (0.90%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 155 (4.24%) Driving Licence
2 149 (4.07%) Cloud Native
3 135 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 125 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 102 (2.79%) Cyber Threat
6 90 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
7 83 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 81 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
9 80 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
10 77 (2.10%) Management Information System
11 71 (1.94%) Operational Technology
12 65 (1.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 55 (1.50%) Mobile App
14 47 (1.28%) NHS
15 41 (1.12%) Data Structures
15 41 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
15 41 (1.12%) Public Cloud
16 39 (1.07%) Security Posture
17 38 (1.04%) Data Centre
18 34 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 236 (6.45%) Windows
2 123 (3.36%) Windows Server
3 104 (2.84%) Linux
4 41 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 38 (1.04%) Android
6 21 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 19 (0.52%) Unix
8 14 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.14%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.082%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.027%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.027%) VMS
13 1 (0.027%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.027%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (25.01%) Agile
2 805 (22.00%) Coaching
3 796 (21.75%) Cybersecurity
4 629 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
5 531 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 467 (12.76%) CI/CD
7 451 (12.33%) DevOps
8 394 (10.77%) Roadmaps
9 381 (10.41%) Software Engineering
10 337 (9.21%) AI
11 323 (8.83%) Analytics
12 287 (7.84%) Stakeholder Management
13 261 (7.13%) Technical Leadership
14 260 (7.11%) ITIL
15 237 (6.48%) Customer Service
16 230 (6.29%) Microservices
17 220 (6.01%) Business Strategy
18 208 (5.68%) Test Automation
19 206 (5.63%) Inventory Management
20 204 (5.58%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 641 (17.52%) Python
2 489 (13.36%) JavaScript
3 449 (12.27%) SQL
4 273 (7.46%) C#
5 258 (7.05%) Java
6 182 (4.97%) TypeScript
7 119 (3.25%) PowerShell
8 117 (3.20%) R
9 68 (1.86%) Bash
10 41 (1.12%) Go
11 35 (0.96%) Kotlin
12 32 (0.87%) Bicep
12 32 (0.87%) PHP
13 30 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 29 (0.79%) C++
15 21 (0.57%) C
15 21 (0.57%) Scala
16 18 (0.49%) Ruby
17 15 (0.41%) Swift
18 12 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 522 (14.27%) Azure Certification
2 461 (12.60%) Degree
3 376 (10.28%) CompTIA Security+
4 321 (8.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 303 (8.28%) AWS Certification
6 239 (6.53%) CompTIA CySA+
7 214 (5.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 204 (5.58%) Postgraduate
9 198 (5.41%) NVQ Level 3
10 197 (5.38%) City & Guilds
11 196 (5.36%) Security Cleared
12 147 (4.02%) A+ Certification
13 144 (3.94%) CEH
14 142 (3.88%) Network+ Certification
15 124 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
16 123 (3.36%) SC Cleared
17 97 (2.65%) Master's Degree
18 64 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
19 58 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
20 56 (1.53%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (6.23%) QA
2 197 (5.38%) COSHH
3 192 (5.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 145 (3.96%) NIST
5 108 (2.95%) Accessibility
6 73 (2.00%) Data Quality
7 68 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 55 (1.50%) SLA
9 48 (1.31%) GDPR
10 32 (0.87%) NCSC
11 28 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
12 24 (0.66%) WCAG
13 22 (0.60%) PCI DSS
13 22 (0.60%) PMO
14 17 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
15 15 (0.41%) GRC
16 14 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 12207
17 11 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 7 (0.19%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 188 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 170 (4.65%) Docker
3 71 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (1.80%) Hyper-V
5 33 (0.90%) Firmware
6 15 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.27%) HDFS
9 6 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.082%) Lustre
11 3 (0.082%) vSphere
12 2 (0.055%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.055%) Ceph
12 2 (0.055%) iptables
12 2 (0.055%) KVM
12 2 (0.055%) RHEV
12 2 (0.055%) Xen
13 1 (0.027%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 187 (5.11%) Terraform
2 180 (4.92%) Kubernetes
3 83 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 53 (1.45%) Ansible
5 33 (0.90%) Grafana
6 25 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.57%) SCCM
8 20 (0.55%) Argo
9 17 (0.46%) Autotask
10 13 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 12 (0.33%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.22%) CSIRT
12 8 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.19%) Nessus
14 6 (0.16%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.14%) Kibana
15 5 (0.14%) Nagios
15 5 (0.14%) SCOM
16 4 (0.11%) Control-M
16 4 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,069 (29.22%) Microsoft
2 235 (6.42%) ForeScout
3 122 (3.33%) Salesforce
4 121 (3.31%) Cisco
5 98 (2.68%) Google
6 93 (2.54%) Databricks
7 90 (2.46%) VMware
8 79 (2.16%) Oracle
9 72 (1.97%) SAP
10 55 (1.50%) ServiceNow
11 49 (1.34%) Adobe
11 49 (1.34%) Fortinet
12 39 (1.07%) Fujitsu
12 39 (1.07%) Virgin Media
13 19 (0.52%) Informatica
13 19 (0.52%) Sophos
14 16 (0.44%) Dell
14 16 (0.44%) Foundry
14 16 (0.44%) Guidewire
15 14 (0.38%) Palo Alto