Mentoring Job Trends in Manchester

Mentorship
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 236 308 418
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.86% 12.20% 11.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.99% 12.85% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 172 121 326
10th Percentile £27,000 £42,500 £26,375
25th Percentile £28,250 £53,750 £42,556
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £67,500 £58,982
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +14.44% -9.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £79,750 £97,528 £84,964
North West median annual salary £48,445 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -22.83% +9.18% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,626 2,397 3,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.38% 94.93% 89.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,655 1,179 2,694
10th Percentile £28,500 £34,400 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,800 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in Manchester

Mentoring
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in Manchester

Mentoring
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
Rochdale -2 15 £29,000 -35.56%
Heywood - 5 £35,000 -
Altrincham -9 2 £67,500 +35.00% 3
Wigan 0 1 - - 1
Cheadle - 1 £55,000 -
Oldham - 1 £50,000 - 2
Mentoring
North West

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 6 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.85%) WordPress
4 1 (0.42%) Apache
4 1 (0.42%) Confluence
4 1 (0.42%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (7.63%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (30.08%) AWS
2 66 (27.97%) Azure
3 28 (11.86%) GitHub
3 28 (11.86%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (7.63%) SaaS
5 9 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.39%) GCP
7 6 (2.54%) Serverless
8 4 (1.69%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.27%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.27%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.85%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (0.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.85%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.42%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.42%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.90%) Internet
2 16 (6.78%) VPN
3 11 (4.66%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (4.24%) Structured Cabling
5 4 (1.69%) Firewall
6 3 (1.27%) DNS
6 3 (1.27%) SAN
6 3 (1.27%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.27%) WAN
7 2 (0.85%) DHCP
7 2 (0.85%) LAN
7 2 (0.85%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.42%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.42%) DAB
8 1 (0.42%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.42%) Network Security
8 1 (0.42%) SNMP
8 1 (0.42%) VLAN
8 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.54%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.12%) MySQL
4 4 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.85%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.85%) Power BI
6 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.42%) Big Data
6 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.42%) QlikView
6 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (12.71%) Git
2 3 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.85%) JIRA
3 2 (0.85%) Selenium
3 2 (0.85%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
General
1 72 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.10%) Multimedia
3 29 (12.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (11.02%) Finance
5 18 (7.63%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.24%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.97%) Marketing
9 6 (2.54%) Retail
10 4 (1.69%) Games
10 4 (1.69%) Law
10 4 (1.69%) Spanish Language
10 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.27%) Electronics
11 3 (1.27%) French Language
11 3 (1.27%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.27%) Portuguese Language
12 2 (0.85%) Billing
Job Titles
1 38 (16.10%) Trainee
2 37 (15.68%) Developer
2 37 (15.68%) Senior
3 35 (14.83%) Analyst
4 32 (13.56%) Lead
5 29 (12.29%) IT Support
6 20 (8.47%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.78%) Software Developer
8 14 (5.93%) Desktop Support
8 14 (5.93%) Junior
8 14 (5.93%) Project Manager
8 14 (5.93%) Support Specialist
9 13 (5.51%) 1st/2nd Line Desktop Support
9 13 (5.51%) 1st/2nd Line Help Desk Support
9 13 (5.51%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 13 (5.51%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 13 (5.51%) 2nd Line Support
9 13 (5.51%) Help Desk Support
10 12 (5.08%) Business Analyst
10 12 (5.08%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.68%) CSS
1 37 (15.68%) HTML
2 31 (13.14%) .NET
3 24 (10.17%) React
4 10 (4.24%) Spring
5 9 (3.81%) Spring Boot
6 8 (3.39%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.54%) Kafka
8 5 (2.12%) Node.js
8 5 (2.12%) OAuth
9 4 (1.69%) .NET Framework
9 4 (1.69%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.69%) RESTful
9 4 (1.69%) Web Services
10 3 (1.27%) Laravel
10 3 (1.27%) PySpark
11 2 (0.85%) Vue
12 1 (0.42%) LEMP Stack
12 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
12 1 (0.42%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.44%) Driving Licence
2 13 (5.51%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.66%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.24%) EPoS
6 6 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.12%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.12%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (1.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.27%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.27%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.85%) NHS
10 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.75%) Windows
2 7 (2.97%) Windows 10
3 6 (2.54%) Linux
4 3 (1.27%) Android
4 3 (1.27%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.42%) CentOS
6 1 (0.42%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (34.32%) Coaching
2 56 (23.73%) Software Engineering
3 53 (22.46%) Agile
4 52 (22.03%) Cybersecurity
5 46 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (14.83%) Analytics
8 30 (12.71%) CI/CD
9 25 (10.59%) Customer Service
9 25 (10.59%) Technical Leadership
10 23 (9.75%) Microservices
11 22 (9.32%) Full-Stack Development
11 22 (9.32%) Line Management
11 22 (9.32%) SDLC
11 22 (9.32%) TDD
12 21 (8.90%) Decision-Making
13 20 (8.47%) DevOps
13 20 (8.47%) ITIL
13 20 (8.47%) Test Automation
14 17 (7.20%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 45 (19.07%) JavaScript
2 38 (16.10%) Python
3 28 (11.86%) SQL
4 27 (11.44%) C#
5 26 (11.02%) Java
6 14 (5.93%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.24%) R
8 7 (2.97%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.12%) Go
9 5 (2.12%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.12%) PHP
10 3 (1.27%) Bicep
11 2 (0.85%) Bash
12 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (14.41%) Azure Certification
2 24 (10.17%) CompTIA Security+
2 24 (10.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (8.90%) AWS Certification
3 21 (8.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 16 (6.78%) A+ Certification
5 15 (6.36%) CEH
6 14 (5.93%) Network+ Certification
7 10 (4.24%) CompTIA CySA+
8 8 (3.39%) Degree
9 7 (2.97%) Security Cleared
10 5 (2.12%) SC Cleared
11 3 (1.27%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.42%) CCNP
13 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.42%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 4 (1.69%) NIST
2 4 (1.69%) QA
3 3 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.85%) SLA
5 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.42%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) ITGC
System Software
1 11 (4.66%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.81%) Docker
3 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) HDFS
4 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (4.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.39%) Terraform
3 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.69%) SCCM
5 3 (1.27%) cPanel
5 3 (1.27%) Plesk
6 2 (0.85%) Ansible
6 2 (0.85%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.85%) Packer
6 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.42%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.42%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 98 (41.53%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.44%) Salesforce
3 26 (11.02%) Cisco
4 9 (3.81%) Databricks
4 9 (3.81%) ForeScout
5 4 (1.69%) Fortinet
5 4 (1.69%) Guidewire
6 3 (1.27%) SAP
6 3 (1.27%) VMware
7 2 (0.85%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.85%) Fujitsu
7 2 (0.85%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.42%) Adobe
8 1 (0.42%) F5
8 1 (0.42%) HP
8 1 (0.42%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.42%) iManage
8 1 (0.42%) McAfee
8 1 (0.42%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow