Mentoring Job Trends in Leicestershire

Mentorship
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 21 28
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -20
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 36 40 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 6.34% 9.20% 7.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.79% 10.03% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 32
10th Percentile £30,350 - £28,502
25th Percentile £32,188 £52,500 £47,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £68,438 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,795 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £35,000 £61,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -42.86% +11.36% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 399 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 81.34% 91.72% 87.45%
Number of salaries quoted 326 157 314
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,575
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -14.98% +5.24%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Mentoring
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in Leicestershire

Mentoring
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Leicester +12 22 £65,000 - 22
Loughborough - 5 - -
Lutterworth +4 3 £35,000 -
Melton Mowbray - 1 £37,500 -
Mentoring
East Midlands

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.78%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 16 (44.44%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.78%) dbt
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub
3 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.78%) SaaS
3 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) Structured Cabling
1 5 (13.89%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (8.33%) VPN
3 1 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.78%) Wireless
3 1 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
1 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.56%) JUnit
1 2 (5.56%) Selenium
2 1 (2.78%) Appium
2 1 (2.78%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) JMeter
2 1 (2.78%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (2.78%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
2 1 (2.78%) TestNG
General
1 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Legal
3 4 (11.11%) Aerospace
3 4 (11.11%) Electronics
3 4 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Multimedia
6 1 (2.78%) Finance
6 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Analyst
1 10 (27.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 10 (27.78%) Junior
1 10 (27.78%) Junior Analyst
1 10 (27.78%) Junior Security Analyst
1 10 (27.78%) Security Analyst
2 7 (19.44%) Lead
3 5 (13.89%) Cabling Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) IT Director
5 3 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Technical Support
5 3 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Trainee
7 1 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 1 (2.78%) Java Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) .NET
1 1 (2.78%) Django
1 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.78%) Flask
1 1 (2.78%) pytest
1 1 (2.78%) React
1 1 (2.78%) REST
1 1 (2.78%) SOAP
1 1 (2.78%) Spring
1 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
1 1 (2.78%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 5 (13.89%) Onboarding
3 4 (11.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (11.11%) Operational Technology
3 4 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Linux
3 3 (8.33%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.78%) Android
4 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (27.78%) Business Strategy
3 9 (25.00%) Coaching
4 7 (19.44%) ITIL
5 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (13.89%) Decision-Making
6 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.89%) Technology Strategy
7 4 (11.11%) Agile
7 4 (11.11%) Budget Management
7 4 (11.11%) Change Advisory Board
7 4 (11.11%) Cyber Intelligence
7 4 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.11%) SABSA
7 4 (11.11%) Security Operations
7 4 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
7 4 (11.11%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 4 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
7 4 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
2 1 (2.78%) C#
2 1 (2.78%) Delphi
2 1 (2.78%) Groovy
2 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 10 (27.78%) Azure Certification
2 10 (27.78%) CompTIA CySA+
3 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.33%) Degree
4 3 (8.33%) MCP
4 3 (8.33%) MCSA
4 3 (8.33%) MCSE
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.56%) A+ Certification
5 2 (5.56%) CEH
5 2 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.78%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (2.78%) CREST Certified
6 1 (2.78%) GPEN
6 1 (2.78%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 4 (11.11%) NIST
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) GRC
3 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Grafana
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.78%) Nessus
1 1 (2.78%) Nmap
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) ForeScout
3 4 (11.11%) SAP
4 3 (8.33%) VMware
5 1 (2.78%) Conga
5 1 (2.78%) Jitterbit
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) Pardot
5 1 (2.78%) Qualys
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce