Mentoring Job Trends in the North West

Mentorship
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 16 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 468 446 678
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.47% 9.55% 10.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.24% 10.29% 12.07%
Number of salaries quoted 311 186 556
10th Percentile - £37,716 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £63,889 £57,395
Median % change year-on-year -24.17% +11.31% -0.18%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £71,546
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £84,361
England median annual salary £56,488 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -16.31% +3.85% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,677 4,336 5,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 78.44% 92.85% 85.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,926 2,143 4,582
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,486 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £66,438
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in the North West

Mentoring
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the North West over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in the North West

Mentoring
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester -12 229 £41,250 -38.89% 130
Lancashire -5 77 £63,076 +17.35% 61
Merseyside +4 72 £30,500 -23.75% 16
Cumbria +23 48 £65,500 -6.43% 8
Cheshire -6 39 £60,000 +9.09% 28
Mentoring
England

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 15 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.85%) nginx
3 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.43%) WordPress
4 1 (0.21%) Apache
4 1 (0.21%) Confluence
4 1 (0.21%) IIS
4 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.43%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.43%) Revit
4 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 2 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
1 2 (0.43%) Infor LN
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 159 (33.97%) Azure
2 106 (22.65%) AWS
3 54 (11.54%) GitHub
4 49 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (4.91%) SaaS
6 18 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 12 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.56%) GCP
9 9 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (1.71%) Entra ID
10 8 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.28%) Mimecast
11 6 (1.28%) OCI
11 6 (1.28%) Serverless
12 4 (0.85%) PaaS
12 4 (0.85%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.85%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.64%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 42 (8.97%) Internet
2 17 (3.63%) VPN
3 15 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (2.14%) Structured Cabling
5 7 (1.50%) Firewall
6 5 (1.07%) DNS
7 4 (0.85%) NGFW
7 4 (0.85%) VXLAN
7 4 (0.85%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.64%) DHCP
8 3 (0.64%) SAN
8 3 (0.64%) WAN
9 2 (0.43%) LAN
9 2 (0.43%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.43%) Wireless
10 1 (0.21%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.21%) VLAN
10 1 (0.21%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (1.71%) Data Lake
2 8 (1.71%) Power BI
2 8 (1.71%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.50%) MySQL
4 5 (1.07%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.64%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.64%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.64%) Tableau
6 2 (0.43%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.43%) Metadata
6 2 (0.43%) PostHog
6 2 (0.43%) Redis
7 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.21%) Big Data
7 1 (0.21%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.21%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 57 (12.18%) Git
2 4 (0.85%) GitLab
3 3 (0.64%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.64%) JIRA
3 3 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.43%) Selenium
5 1 (0.21%) git-flow
5 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.21%) Vagrant
General
1 131 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 78 (16.67%) Multimedia
3 54 (11.54%) Finance
4 43 (9.19%) Public Sector
5 31 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (5.34%) Marketing
8 24 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.71%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.50%) Legal
11 6 (1.28%) Retail
11 6 (1.28%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.07%) Electronics
12 5 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.07%) Law
13 4 (0.85%) Games
13 4 (0.85%) Local Government
14 3 (0.64%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.64%) French Language
Job Titles
1 93 (19.87%) Senior
2 78 (16.67%) Analyst
2 78 (16.67%) Trainee
3 71 (15.17%) Developer
4 57 (12.18%) Lead
5 42 (8.97%) Junior
6 38 (8.12%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 38 (8.12%) Security Analyst
7 37 (7.91%) Junior Analyst
7 37 (7.91%) Junior Security Analyst
8 33 (7.05%) IT Support
9 27 (5.77%) Software Developer
10 22 (4.70%) Trainee Developer
10 22 (4.70%) Trainee Software Developer
11 21 (4.49%) Senior Developer
12 20 (4.27%) Software Engineer
13 19 (4.06%) Support Engineer
14 18 (3.85%) Project Manager
15 15 (3.21%) Business Analyst
15 15 (3.21%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (12.82%) CSS
1 60 (12.82%) HTML
2 42 (8.97%) .NET
3 27 (5.77%) React
4 14 (2.99%) Node.js
5 9 (1.92%) Spring
5 9 (1.92%) Vue
6 8 (1.71%) AngularJS
6 8 (1.71%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.50%) RESTful
8 6 (1.28%) .NET Framework
8 6 (1.28%) Kafka
8 6 (1.28%) Web Services
9 4 (0.85%) Laravel
9 4 (0.85%) OAuth
10 3 (0.64%) Next.js
10 3 (0.64%) OAuth2
10 3 (0.64%) PySpark
10 3 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.43%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.76%) Driving Licence
2 17 (3.63%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.42%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.42%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (2.14%) EPoS
6 9 (1.92%) Operational Technology
6 9 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (1.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 7 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.28%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.07%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.07%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.07%) PKI
11 4 (0.85%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.33%) Windows
2 16 (3.42%) Windows 10
3 9 (1.92%) Linux
4 7 (1.50%) Android
4 7 (1.50%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.21%) CentOS
6 1 (0.21%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.21%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (32.26%) Coaching
2 118 (25.21%) Cybersecurity
3 91 (19.44%) Agile
4 86 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 62 (13.25%) Software Engineering
7 53 (11.32%) CI/CD
8 44 (9.40%) Analytics
8 44 (9.40%) ITIL
9 43 (9.19%) Customer Service
10 40 (8.55%) Line Management
11 37 (7.91%) DevOps
11 37 (7.91%) Technical Leadership
11 37 (7.91%) Test Automation
12 31 (6.62%) Ethical Hacking
13 27 (5.77%) Decision-Making
13 27 (5.77%) Microservices
13 27 (5.77%) Process Improvement
14 24 (5.13%) Full-Stack Development
15 23 (4.91%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 69 (14.74%) JavaScript
2 65 (13.89%) Python
3 32 (6.84%) C#
3 32 (6.84%) SQL
4 25 (5.34%) Java
5 21 (4.49%) R
6 15 (3.21%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.28%) Bash
8 6 (1.28%) PHP
9 5 (1.07%) Go
10 4 (0.85%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.64%) Bicep
12 2 (0.43%) VBA
13 1 (0.21%) C++
13 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.21%) Scala
13 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (18.59%) Azure Certification
2 68 (14.53%) CompTIA Security+
3 45 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 42 (8.97%) AWS Certification
4 42 (8.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 40 (8.55%) CompTIA CySA+
6 39 (8.33%) Degree
7 31 (6.62%) CEH
8 30 (6.41%) A+ Certification
9 28 (5.98%) Network+ Certification
10 24 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (3.85%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.92%) Security Cleared
13 7 (1.50%) SC Cleared
14 6 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (1.07%) Chartered Engineer
15 5 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.85%) HND
16 4 (0.85%) RIBA
17 3 (0.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.48%) QA
2 13 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 8 (1.71%) NIST
5 7 (1.50%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.85%) SLA
7 3 (0.64%) P3O
8 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.21%) GDPR
9 1 (0.21%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 22 (4.70%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.78%) Docker
3 2 (0.43%) Firmware
3 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.21%) HDFS
4 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (3.63%) Terraform
2 13 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (2.14%) SCCM
4 7 (1.50%) Ansible
5 5 (1.07%) Grafana
6 3 (0.64%) cPanel
6 3 (0.64%) Plesk
6 3 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.43%) Argo
7 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.21%) Autotask
8 1 (0.21%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.21%) Nagios
8 1 (0.21%) Packer
8 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.21%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 180 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 41 (8.76%) Salesforce
3 37 (7.91%) ForeScout
4 26 (5.56%) Cisco
5 12 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.14%) Databricks
7 8 (1.71%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.28%) Sophos
8 6 (1.28%) TOWER Software
9 5 (1.07%) Fujitsu
9 5 (1.07%) SAP
9 5 (1.07%) Virgin Media
10 4 (0.85%) Arista
10 4 (0.85%) Aruba
10 4 (0.85%) Google
10 4 (0.85%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.85%) Mitel
10 4 (0.85%) NetScout
10 4 (0.85%) Samsung
10 4 (0.85%) Siemens