Mentoring Job Trends in Lancashire

Mentorship
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 37 2
Rank change year-on-year +31 -35 +3
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 135 104 249
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 8.92% 9.12% 20.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.42% 9.95% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 95 13 139
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,028 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £48,688 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £52,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +20.14% -14.22% +6.45%
75th Percentile £74,985 £62,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £88,148 - £84,964
North West median annual salary £63,076 £62,500 £59,750
% change year-on-year +0.92% +4.60% -8.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 936 1,045 928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 61.86% 91.67% 77.08%
Number of salaries quoted 714 306 667
10th Percentile £29,750 £24,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,683 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% -3.23% -1.45%
75th Percentile £60,914 £54,793 £62,375
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £75,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,084
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.00% -5.30%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Mentoring
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Lancashire over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in Lancashire

Mentoring
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 10 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
Blackpool - 69 £63,076 - 3
Blackburn +5 27 £42,500 -29.17% 1
Preston - 24 £65,000 - 11
Chorley - 9 £60,000 -
Skelmersdale - 5 - -
Lytham St Annes - 1 £62,498 -
Mentoring
North West

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 5 (3.70%) Appian
2 3 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.22%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.48%) SAS
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 48 (35.56%) Azure
2 17 (12.59%) AWS
3 7 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (4.44%) GCP
5 5 (3.70%) Figma
6 4 (2.96%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.48%) dbt
8 2 (1.48%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.48%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.48%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.48%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.48%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.74%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.96%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.48%) LAN
2 2 (1.48%) Network Security
2 2 (1.48%) VLAN
2 2 (1.48%) WAN
2 2 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.48%) Wireless
2 2 (1.48%) WLAN
3 1 (0.74%) BGP
3 1 (0.74%) CTI
3 1 (0.74%) DNS
3 1 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.74%) Firewall
3 1 (0.74%) Internet
3 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.74%) NGFW
3 1 (0.74%) OSPF
3 1 (0.74%) VoIP
3 1 (0.74%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (5.19%) MongoDB
1 7 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.96%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.96%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.96%) MySQL
3 3 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.48%) Metadata
4 2 (1.48%) Power BI
5 1 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.74%) Big Data
5 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (11.85%) Git
2 4 (2.96%) GitLab
3 2 (1.48%) JIRA
General
1 63 (46.67%) Public Sector
2 52 (38.52%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.85%) Marketing
4 9 (6.67%) Advertising
4 9 (6.67%) Finance
5 8 (5.93%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.70%) Retail
7 4 (2.96%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.22%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.22%) Multimedia
8 3 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 35 (25.93%) Senior
2 29 (21.48%) Analyst
3 26 (19.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 26 (19.26%) Junior
3 26 (19.26%) Junior Analyst
3 26 (19.26%) Junior Security Analyst
3 26 (19.26%) Security Analyst
4 21 (15.56%) Developer
4 21 (15.56%) Lead
5 15 (11.11%) Architect
6 11 (8.15%) Service Manager
7 10 (7.41%) IT Manager
7 10 (7.41%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.67%) IT Services Manager
8 9 (6.67%) Senior Manager
9 7 (5.19%) Trainee
10 6 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.44%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.70%) Appian Developer
11 5 (3.70%) Trainee Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.15%) React
2 5 (3.70%) Node.js
3 3 (2.22%) .NET
3 3 (2.22%) Middleware
3 3 (2.22%) RESTful
4 1 (0.74%) CSS
4 1 (0.74%) HTML
4 1 (0.74%) Kafka
4 1 (0.74%) OAuth
4 1 (0.74%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.74%) OpenID
4 1 (0.74%) PySpark
4 1 (0.74%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.63%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (2.96%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.96%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.48%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.48%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.74%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.74%) IVR
7 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.74%) PKI
7 1 (0.74%) PMI
7 1 (0.74%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.44%) Windows
2 4 (2.96%) Linux
3 3 (2.22%) Unix
4 1 (0.74%) Android
4 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.74%) VME
4 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (51.11%) Coaching
2 42 (31.11%) Cybersecurity
3 36 (26.67%) Agile
4 29 (21.48%) CI/CD
5 27 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (14.07%) ITIL
7 15 (11.11%) DevOps
7 15 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 13 (9.63%) Software Engineering
8 13 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (9.63%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (8.89%) Collaborative Working
9 12 (8.89%) Decision-Making
9 12 (8.89%) User Experience
10 11 (8.15%) Microservices
10 11 (8.15%) Performance Optimisation
10 11 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (8.15%) Service Design
10 11 (8.15%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.07%) JavaScript
2 14 (10.37%) SQL
3 13 (9.63%) Java
4 11 (8.15%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.70%) Python
6 3 (2.22%) C#
6 3 (2.22%) C++
7 2 (1.48%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.74%) Bash
8 1 (0.74%) COBOL
8 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 27 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 26 (19.26%) CompTIA CySA+
3 7 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.19%) Degree
4 4 (2.96%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.96%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.48%) CCNP
6 2 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.48%) CISM
6 2 (1.48%) CISSP
6 2 (1.48%) HND
6 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.74%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.74%) PgMP
7 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.96%) QA
3 3 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.48%) SLA
5 1 (0.74%) COBIT
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.22%) Docker
2 2 (1.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (5.19%) Terraform
2 3 (2.22%) Argo
2 3 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.74%) Ansible
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.74%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (23.70%) Microsoft
2 26 (19.26%) ForeScout
3 4 (2.96%) Mitel
4 3 (2.22%) BiZZdesign
4 3 (2.22%) Cisco
4 3 (2.22%) Cognos
4 3 (2.22%) Google
4 3 (2.22%) IBM
5 2 (1.48%) Aruba
6 1 (0.74%) Apple
6 1 (0.74%) Arista
6 1 (0.74%) Avaya
6 1 (0.74%) Citrix
6 1 (0.74%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.74%) F5
6 1 (0.74%) Genesys
6 1 (0.74%) Informatica
6 1 (0.74%) Samsung
6 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.74%) Splunk