Mentoring Job Trends in Kent

Mentorship
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 36 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 -13 -6
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 63 36 77
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 3.87% 4.74% 6.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.64% 6.46% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 29 28 59
10th Percentile £26,200 £29,000 £12,480
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £37,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -13.79% +8.75%
75th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £65,250 £69,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,118 557 972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 68.63% 73.29% 77.27%
Number of salaries quoted 778 362 621
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £29,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,875 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in Kent

Mentoring
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Kent over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in Kent

Mentoring
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Kent region over the 6 months to 19 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
Chatham - 14 - -
Canterbury - 12 £75,000 -
Ramsgate - 7 £31,500 -
Rochester -10 4 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Tunbridge Wells -9 3 £32,500 -13.33%
Whitstable - 3 £42,500 -
Tonbridge - 2 £62,500 -
Sandwich - 2 £27,000 -
Sittingbourne - 2 - - 3
Snodland - 1 - -
Folkestone - 1 £27,500 -
Maidstone - 1 £27,000 - 4
Sheerness - 1 £75,000 -
Mentoring
South East

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.59%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 37 (58.73%) Azure
2 15 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (9.52%) AWS
4 4 (6.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.76%) GCP
6 2 (3.17%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.05%) LAN
1 12 (19.05%) WAN
2 10 (15.87%) DHCP
2 10 (15.87%) DNS
2 10 (15.87%) VPN
3 8 (12.70%) Firewall
4 5 (7.94%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.76%) VLAN
6 2 (3.17%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.59%) Modbus
7 1 (1.59%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Rational Rhapsody
2 3 (4.76%) JUnit
2 3 (4.76%) Mockito
3 1 (1.59%) NUnit
3 1 (1.59%) Rational DOORS
General
1 36 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.22%) Finance
3 7 (11.11%) Aerospace
3 7 (11.11%) Electronics
4 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.35%) Military
5 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Legal
6 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (42.86%) Analyst
2 22 (34.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 22 (34.92%) Junior
2 22 (34.92%) Junior Analyst
2 22 (34.92%) Junior Security Analyst
2 22 (34.92%) Security Analyst
3 11 (17.46%) Senior
4 8 (12.70%) Principal Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) IT Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) IT Support
5 7 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Support Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Support Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Lead
7 4 (6.35%) Principal Software Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Graduate
9 2 (3.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.52%) .NET
2 3 (4.76%) Hibernate
2 3 (4.76%) JPA
2 3 (4.76%) RESTful
2 3 (4.76%) Spring
2 3 (4.76%) Spring Boot
2 3 (4.76%) Web Services
2 3 (4.76%) WireMock
3 2 (3.17%) Hugging Face
3 2 (3.17%) LangChain
3 2 (3.17%) Ray
3 2 (3.17%) vLLM
3 2 (3.17%) YAML
4 1 (1.59%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.59%) CSS
4 1 (1.59%) jQuery
4 1 (1.59%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (1.59%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.94%) Driving Licence
2 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.17%) Analogue Electronics
3 2 (3.17%) CCTV
3 2 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.17%) Social Media
4 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.59%) SCADA
4 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.87%) Windows
1 10 (15.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.68%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
3 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (14.29%) Agile
4 9 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 9 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (14.29%) ITIL
5 7 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 7 (11.11%) Process Improvement
5 7 (11.11%) Service Management
6 6 (9.52%) AI
6 6 (9.52%) CI/CD
6 6 (9.52%) Coaching
6 6 (9.52%) Validation
7 5 (7.94%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (7.94%) Customer Service
7 5 (7.94%) Physics
8 4 (6.35%) DevOps
8 4 (6.35%) Microservices
8 4 (6.35%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.11%) C#
1 7 (11.11%) Java
2 5 (7.94%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.35%) C
3 4 (6.35%) C++
4 3 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.76%) Python
5 2 (3.17%) Bash
5 2 (3.17%) SQL
6 1 (1.59%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (34.92%) Azure Certification
1 22 (34.92%) CompTIA CySA+
1 22 (34.92%) CompTIA Security+
2 10 (15.87%) Degree
3 6 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) DO-178B
2 2 (3.17%) GDPR
2 2 (3.17%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.17%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) SLA
2 2 (3.17%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.59%) HAZOP
System Software
1 10 (15.87%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 7 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.17%) Ansible
3 2 (3.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (63.49%) Microsoft
2 22 (34.92%) ForeScout
3 7 (11.11%) VMware
4 3 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.76%) WatchGuard
5 2 (3.17%) Dell
5 2 (3.17%) Dell Compellent
5 2 (3.17%) HP
5 2 (3.17%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (1.59%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.59%) Siemens