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 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 16 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 4,524 4,072 7,536
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.47% 10.31% 8.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.49% 11.12% 9.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,674 1,638 4,527
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,447 £50,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £67,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +10.28% -12.56%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year -7.41% +10.28% -12.56%

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 60,371 36,609 77,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.97% 92.71% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 42,401 19,964 56,209
10th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £29,286
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,350 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 June 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 June 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 +1 1,329 £80,000 +3.23% 500
North of England +13 1,281 £57,500 -14.23% 311
Midlands -7 651 £60,000 +4.35% 147
South East -26 572 £57,500 -7.26% 315
North West +7 557 £58,446 -10.08% 174
Yorkshire +19 528 £62,500 -10.71% 87
West Midlands -2 389 £62,500 +4.17% 96
South West -11 363 £52,500 -8.70% 135
East Midlands -15 262 £44,472 -1.17% 48
East of England -30 233 £60,100 +5.44% 83
North East +12 196 £48,695 -6.36% 51
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 86 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 79 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 53 (1.17%) Confluence
4 43 (0.95%) CMS
5 35 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 34 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 22 (0.49%) Apache
7 22 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
8 12 (0.27%) SAS
9 8 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
9 8 (0.18%) WordPress
10 6 (0.13%) Drupal
11 5 (0.11%) Appian
11 5 (0.11%) CICS
11 5 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.088%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.088%) Moodle
12 4 (0.088%) Mule
12 4 (0.088%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 104 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 69 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.33%) AutoCAD
5 12 (0.27%) Adobe XD
5 12 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.15%) Sketch
8 7 (0.15%) Trello
9 4 (0.088%) InVision
9 4 (0.088%) Revit
10 3 (0.066%) SPSS
11 2 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.044%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.044%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.022%) InDesign
12 1 (0.022%) Maya
12 1 (0.022%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 24 (0.53%) Cloudability
2 19 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.27%) SAP ERP
4 11 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.088%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.066%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 3 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.066%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.066%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.066%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.066%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.066%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.044%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.044%) Primavera
8 2 (0.044%) SAP Retail
8 2 (0.044%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,780 (39.35%) Azure
2 921 (20.36%) AWS
3 356 (7.87%) GCP
4 237 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
5 196 (4.33%) Serverless
6 193 (4.27%) GitHub
7 190 (4.20%) Power Platform
8 180 (3.98%) SaaS
9 144 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
10 126 (2.79%) Entra ID
11 80 (1.77%) Amazon S3
11 80 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
12 79 (1.75%) Figma
13 68 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 57 (1.26%) Azure Service Bus
14 57 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
15 53 (1.17%) PowerApps
16 44 (0.97%) PaaS
17 41 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
17 41 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 170 (3.76%) Broadband
2 168 (3.71%) Firewall
3 93 (2.06%) DNS
4 71 (1.57%) Internet
4 71 (1.57%) VPN
5 67 (1.48%) WAN
6 65 (1.44%) DHCP
7 57 (1.26%) Network Security
8 54 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
9 52 (1.15%) LAN
10 50 (1.11%) TCP/IP
11 46 (1.02%) VLAN
12 43 (0.95%) Wireless
13 24 (0.53%) VXLAN
14 23 (0.51%) NGFW
15 22 (0.49%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.40%) Wireshark
17 16 (0.35%) Structured Cabling
18 15 (0.33%) HTTP
19 14 (0.31%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (2.63%) Power BI
2 106 (2.34%) SQL Server
3 104 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
4 97 (2.14%) NoSQL
5 69 (1.53%) MongoDB
6 68 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
7 66 (1.46%) BigQuery
8 55 (1.22%) MySQL
9 52 (1.15%) Relational Database
10 48 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 47 (1.04%) Metadata
12 41 (0.91%) Tableau
13 36 (0.80%) DynamoDB
14 32 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
15 28 (0.62%) Looker
15 28 (0.62%) RDBMS
16 26 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
17 25 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
18 23 (0.51%) Big Data
19 21 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 191 (4.22%) Git
2 96 (2.12%) GitLab
3 85 (1.88%) JIRA
4 69 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 34 (0.75%) Selenium
6 29 (0.64%) Cucumber
7 25 (0.55%) Postman
8 21 (0.46%) JUnit
8 21 (0.46%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.40%) Jaeger
10 17 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.33%) Maven
12 14 (0.31%) Mockito
13 13 (0.29%) Balsamiq
13 13 (0.29%) Burp Suite
14 12 (0.27%) JMeter
15 11 (0.24%) Bitbucket
15 11 (0.24%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
16 10 (0.22%) Gatling
General
1 1,833 (40.52%) Social Skills
2 746 (16.49%) Finance
3 583 (12.89%) Public Sector
4 446 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 305 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 196 (4.33%) Marketing
7 179 (3.96%) Law
8 178 (3.93%) Multimedia
9 174 (3.85%) Retail
10 161 (3.56%) Banking
11 130 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
12 129 (2.85%) Legal
13 102 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
14 76 (1.68%) Local Government
15 71 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
16 70 (1.55%) Manufacturing
17 67 (1.48%) Games
18 56 (1.24%) Advertising
19 52 (1.15%) Financial Institution
20 46 (1.02%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,048 (23.17%) Analyst
2 1,021 (22.57%) Senior
3 829 (18.32%) Junior
4 785 (17.35%) Security Analyst
5 771 (17.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 755 (16.69%) Junior Analyst
7 753 (16.64%) Junior Security Analyst
8 737 (16.29%) Lead
9 445 (9.84%) Developer
10 283 (6.26%) Software Engineer
11 208 (4.60%) Trainee
12 207 (4.58%) Architect
13 176 (3.89%) Senior Developer
14 161 (3.56%) Consultant
14 161 (3.56%) Senior Manager
15 125 (2.76%) Lead Developer
16 123 (2.72%) Data Engineer
17 119 (2.63%) IT Support
18 104 (2.30%) Senior Software Engineer
19 103 (2.28%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (6.43%) React
2 216 (4.77%) Node.js
3 212 (4.69%) .NET
4 166 (3.67%) HTML
5 165 (3.65%) CSS
6 139 (3.07%) REST
7 124 (2.74%) Spring
8 107 (2.37%) Spring Boot
9 99 (2.19%) RESTful
10 84 (1.86%) Kafka
11 73 (1.61%) AngularJS
12 58 (1.28%) OAuth
13 55 (1.22%) PyTorch
14 53 (1.17%) TensorFlow
15 50 (1.11%) Vue
16 47 (1.04%) Next.js
17 45 (0.99%) .NET Framework
18 43 (0.95%) PySpark
19 41 (0.91%) SOAP
20 39 (0.86%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 338 (7.47%) Cloud Native
2 187 (4.13%) Product Ownership
3 130 (2.87%) Onboarding
4 116 (2.56%) Driving Licence
5 111 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
6 109 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 92 (2.03%) Public Cloud
7 92 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 88 (1.95%) Security Posture
9 86 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
10 85 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
11 76 (1.68%) Management Information System
12 66 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
13 61 (1.35%) Data Centre
14 51 (1.13%) Algorithms
15 50 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
15 50 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
16 47 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
17 44 (0.97%) e-Learning
18 40 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 262 (5.79%) Windows
2 163 (3.60%) Linux
3 119 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 60 (1.33%) Android
5 55 (1.22%) Apple iOS
6 39 (0.86%) Unix
7 16 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.24%) Windows 10
11 9 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (0.15%) CentOS
13 5 (0.11%) zOS
14 4 (0.088%) Solaris
15 3 (0.066%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.066%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.066%) VME
15 3 (0.066%) VMS
16 2 (0.044%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,223 (27.03%) Cybersecurity
2 1,150 (25.42%) Agile
3 1,058 (23.39%) Coaching
4 755 (16.69%) CI/CD
5 741 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
6 714 (15.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 633 (13.99%) DevOps
8 595 (13.15%) AI
9 562 (12.42%) Software Engineering
10 541 (11.96%) Roadmaps
11 528 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
12 421 (9.31%) Decision-Making
13 395 (8.73%) Analytics
14 376 (8.31%) Test Automation
15 351 (7.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 343 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
17 334 (7.38%) Microservices
18 256 (5.66%) Full-Stack Development
19 251 (5.55%) Collaborative Culture
20 233 (5.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 741 (16.38%) Python
2 536 (11.85%) SQL
3 411 (9.08%) Java
4 410 (9.06%) JavaScript
5 283 (6.26%) C#
6 242 (5.35%) TypeScript
7 155 (3.43%) PowerShell
8 154 (3.40%) Bash
9 77 (1.70%) C++
10 54 (1.19%) Go
11 49 (1.08%) R
12 46 (1.02%) PHP
13 39 (0.86%) T-SQL
14 32 (0.71%) Bicep
15 31 (0.69%) C
16 29 (0.64%) VBA
17 27 (0.60%) Ruby
18 24 (0.53%) Scala
19 23 (0.51%) Kotlin
19 23 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 880 (19.45%) Azure Certification
2 853 (18.85%) CompTIA Security+
3 768 (16.98%) CompTIA CySA+
4 497 (10.99%) Degree
5 325 (7.18%) Security Cleared
6 253 (5.59%) SC Cleared
7 141 (3.12%) AWS Certification
8 137 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 106 (2.34%) CISSP
10 96 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 94 (2.08%) CEH
12 85 (1.88%) Master's Degree
13 81 (1.79%) A+ Certification
14 78 (1.72%) DV Cleared
15 70 (1.55%) CISM
16 67 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
17 63 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
18 60 (1.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 56 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 53 (1.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (4.62%) QA
2 185 (4.09%) Accessibility
3 161 (3.56%) Data Quality
4 135 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 113 (2.50%) NIST
6 82 (1.81%) GDPR
7 62 (1.37%) GRC
8 50 (1.11%) SLA
9 46 (1.02%) WCAG
10 34 (0.75%) NCSC
11 28 (0.62%) PMO
12 26 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
13 24 (0.53%) NIST 800
14 23 (0.51%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
16 14 (0.31%) EU AI Act
17 12 (0.27%) P3O
17 12 (0.27%) SOC 2
18 11 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 10 (0.22%) PERC
System Software
1 255 (5.64%) Docker
2 203 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (1.30%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.46%) Firmware
6 19 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.27%) vSphere
9 4 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.088%) iptables
9 4 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.088%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.044%) IAG
10 2 (0.044%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.044%) UAG
10 2 (0.044%) Xen
11 1 (0.022%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.022%) QEMU
11 1 (0.022%) RACF
11 1 (0.022%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 315 (6.96%) Terraform
2 294 (6.50%) Kubernetes
3 108 (2.39%) Ansible
4 71 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 63 (1.39%) Grafana
6 56 (1.24%) Prometheus
7 44 (0.97%) Argo
8 24 (0.53%) Kustomize
9 19 (0.42%) SCCM
9 19 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.22%) Packer
10 10 (0.22%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.20%) Kubeflow
11 9 (0.20%) Nessus
11 9 (0.20%) Puppet
12 7 (0.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 7 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.15%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.13%) HP Fortify
13 6 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,461 (32.29%) Microsoft
2 753 (16.64%) ForeScout
3 141 (3.12%) Google
4 110 (2.43%) Salesforce
5 91 (2.01%) VMware
6 90 (1.99%) Adobe
7 79 (1.75%) Cisco
8 78 (1.72%) Oracle
8 78 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 71 (1.57%) Databricks
10 64 (1.41%) Fortinet
11 52 (1.15%) SAP
12 45 (0.99%) Apple
13 39 (0.86%) Fujitsu
13 39 (0.86%) Virgin Media
14 34 (0.75%) Foundry
15 29 (0.64%) Aruba
15 29 (0.64%) Palo Alto
16 25 (0.55%) Palantir
17 24 (0.53%) Splunk