Mentoring Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Mentorship
UK > Northern Ireland

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 27 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 -14 +1
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 139 16 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 8.33% 4.95% 8.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.85% 5.52% 11.08%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 13
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,650 -
25th Percentile £28,063 £43,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +21.05% -17.39%
75th Percentile £48,125 £79,629 £69,800
90th Percentile £58,375 £86,000 £77,340
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,082 290 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 64.87% 89.78% 78.86%
Number of salaries quoted 291 138 190
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £43,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £59,430
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -15.87% +18.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,750 £92,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Mentoring
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in Northern Ireland

Mentoring
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
County Antrim -1 80 £42,500 -38.75% 143
County Down - 35 - -
County Armagh - 17 - -
County Tyrone - 4 - -
County Londonderry -10 3 £42,500 +42.86% 3
Mentoring
UK

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 67 (48.20%) Azure
2 58 (41.73%) Entra ID
3 56 (40.29%) SaaS
4 7 (5.04%) AWS
5 4 (2.88%) GCP
6 3 (2.16%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.44%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.72%) dbt
8 1 (0.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.16%) Firewall
1 3 (2.16%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.44%) DNS
2 2 (1.44%) tcpdump
2 2 (1.44%) VPN
2 2 (1.44%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.72%) ATM
3 1 (0.72%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.44%) Db2
1 2 (1.44%) MySQL
1 2 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Fiddler
1 2 (1.44%) Git
1 2 (1.44%) Postman
General
1 128 (92.09%) Social Skills
2 111 (79.86%) Legal
3 51 (36.69%) Law
4 9 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.32%) Finance
6 5 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.16%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.16%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.44%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.44%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.44%) Marketing
8 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 119 (85.61%) Senior
2 111 (79.86%) Senior Manager
3 53 (38.13%) Testing Manager
4 11 (7.91%) Consultant
5 5 (3.60%) Analyst
6 4 (2.88%) Recruitment Consultant
7 3 (2.16%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 3 (2.16%) Security Consultant
7 3 (2.16%) Security Incident Consultant
7 3 (2.16%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (1.44%) Business Consultant
8 2 (1.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (1.44%) Escalation Engineer
8 2 (1.44%) Junior Security Analyst
8 2 (1.44%) Product Business Analyst
8 2 (1.44%) Public Sector Business Analyst
8 2 (1.44%) Security Analyst
8 2 (1.44%) SOC Consultant
8 2 (1.44%) Workday Consultant
8 2 (1.44%) Workday Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.88%) XML
2 2 (1.44%) Jakarta EE
2 2 (1.44%) JSON
2 2 (1.44%) Middleware
2 2 (1.44%) REST
2 2 (1.44%) Web Services
2 2 (1.44%) XSLT
3 1 (0.72%) Kafka
3 1 (0.72%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 53 (38.13%) Virtual Team
2 2 (1.44%) Clustering
2 2 (1.44%) Driving Licence
2 2 (1.44%) Low-Code
2 2 (1.44%) Management Information System
2 2 (1.44%) Replication
2 2 (1.44%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.32%) Linux
2 5 (3.60%) Windows
3 2 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (82.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 111 (79.86%) Performance Management
2 111 (79.86%) Programme Management
2 111 (79.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 111 (79.86%) Strategic Planning
3 65 (46.76%) Cybersecurity
4 60 (43.17%) Information Security
5 59 (42.45%) AI
5 59 (42.45%) Collaborative Working
6 58 (41.73%) Identity Access Management
6 58 (41.73%) ITIL
6 58 (41.73%) PRINCE2
6 58 (41.73%) Privileged Access Management
6 58 (41.73%) RBAC
6 58 (41.73%) TOGAF
7 57 (41.01%) Project Delivery
8 54 (38.85%) DevOps
8 54 (38.85%) Software Engineering
8 54 (38.85%) Software Testing
8 54 (38.85%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 57 (41.01%) Python
2 55 (39.57%) PowerShell
3 53 (38.13%) C#
3 53 (38.13%) JavaScript
3 53 (38.13%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.44%) Bash
4 2 (1.44%) Java
4 2 (1.44%) SQL
4 2 (1.44%) XPath
Qualifications
1 58 (41.73%) A+ Certification
1 58 (41.73%) CISM
1 58 (41.73%) CISSP
1 58 (41.73%) Network+ Certification
2 7 (5.04%) Degree
3 5 (3.60%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.60%) CompTIA CySA+
4 4 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.88%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.16%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.16%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (2.16%) GCFA
5 3 (2.16%) GCIA
5 3 (2.16%) GCIH
5 3 (2.16%) HND
6 1 (0.72%) ACCA
6 1 (0.72%) CIMA
6 1 (0.72%) ECIH
6 1 (0.72%) GIAC
6 1 (0.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (39.57%) QA
2 4 (2.88%) GDPR
3 2 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.44%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.44%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.72%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 61 (43.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.44%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (43.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.16%) QRadar
3 2 (1.44%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (1.44%) Kibana
4 1 (0.72%) Grafana
Vendors
1 64 (46.04%) Microsoft
2 58 (41.73%) CyberArk
3 8 (5.76%) Workday
4 5 (3.60%) Splunk
5 3 (2.16%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.44%) ForeScout
6 2 (1.44%) Oracle
6 2 (1.44%) Thales
6 2 (1.44%) VMware
7 1 (0.72%) Google