Mentoring Job Trends in the South West

Mentorship
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 20 31
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 -22
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 371 224 580
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.05% 8.43% 6.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.31% 9.38% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 193 129 373
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £51,250 £43,381
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +17.81% -3.21%
75th Percentile £57,500 £79,000 £72,761
90th Percentile £77,500 £99,261 £92,159
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -10.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,077 2,387 7,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.16% 89.84% 84.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,376 1,526 5,556
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,813 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,600 £50,969
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +3.20% -2.92%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in the South West

Mentoring
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the South West over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in the South West

Mentoring
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Bristol -2 136 £45,000 -37.49% 55
Devon +8 76 £45,000 -27.42% 12
Gloucestershire -17 50 £31,875 -44.57% 35
Somerset +10 45 £30,000 -55.56% 12
Dorset +11 29 £64,500 +40.98% 8
Wiltshire -21 16 £75,000 +16.05% 7
Cornwall -12 7 £47,000 +49.21% 5
Mentoring
England

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 9 (2.43%) CMS
2 8 (2.16%) Confluence
3 5 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.54%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) Drupal
6 1 (0.27%) IIS
6 1 (0.27%) nginx
6 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.54%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.27%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 180 (48.52%) Azure
2 52 (14.02%) AWS
3 24 (6.47%) GitHub
4 14 (3.77%) Serverless
5 13 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 10 (2.70%) GCP
8 9 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (2.43%) Figma
9 8 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.35%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.35%) CloudFront
12 5 (1.35%) Contentsquare
12 5 (1.35%) IaaS
12 5 (1.35%) SaaS
12 5 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.58%) Internet
2 13 (3.50%) Broadband
3 9 (2.43%) Network Security
4 7 (1.89%) Firewall
5 6 (1.62%) WAN
6 5 (1.35%) LAN
6 5 (1.35%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.81%) DNS
7 3 (0.81%) NGFW
7 3 (0.81%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.81%) VPN
7 3 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.54%) BGP
8 2 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.54%) MPLS
8 2 (0.54%) OSPF
8 2 (0.54%) SAN
8 2 (0.54%) VLAN
9 1 (0.27%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.62%) MySQL
3 5 (1.35%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.08%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.54%) DTS
6 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.27%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.27%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.27%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.27%) Redis
7 1 (0.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 27 (7.28%) Git
2 12 (3.23%) JIRA
3 9 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.35%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.81%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.81%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.54%) GitLab
6 2 (0.54%) Subversion
7 1 (0.27%) Gatling
7 1 (0.27%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.27%) JMeter
7 1 (0.27%) JUnit
7 1 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 219 (59.03%) Social Skills
2 37 (9.97%) Multimedia
3 22 (5.93%) Finance
4 17 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (2.96%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.16%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.89%) Legal
9 6 (1.62%) Electronics
9 6 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.35%) Games
10 5 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.35%) Marketing
11 4 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.81%) Aviation
12 3 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.81%) Retail
13 2 (0.54%) Humanities
13 2 (0.54%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 143 (38.54%) Analyst
2 137 (36.93%) Junior
3 135 (36.39%) Security Analyst
4 133 (35.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 133 (35.85%) Junior Analyst
4 133 (35.85%) Junior Security Analyst
5 63 (16.98%) Senior
6 41 (11.05%) Trainee
7 40 (10.78%) Consultant
8 37 (9.97%) Lead
9 33 (8.89%) Senior Consultant
10 20 (5.39%) Software Engineer
11 14 (3.77%) Developer
12 12 (3.23%) Team Leader
13 11 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
14 9 (2.43%) Graduate
15 7 (1.89%) Business Development Manager
15 7 (1.89%) Development Manager
15 7 (1.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (1.89%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.20%) HTML
2 19 (5.12%) React
3 17 (4.58%) CSS
4 12 (3.23%) Node.js
5 8 (2.16%) .NET
6 5 (1.35%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.35%) Next.js
6 5 (1.35%) OAuth
6 5 (1.35%) RESTful
7 4 (1.08%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.08%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.08%) OpenID
7 4 (1.08%) REST
7 4 (1.08%) SAML
7 4 (1.08%) Spring
7 4 (1.08%) Vue
8 3 (0.81%) LDAP
8 3 (0.81%) SOAP
9 2 (0.54%) Blazor
9 2 (0.54%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.63%) Acoustics
2 10 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (2.16%) Mobile App
3 8 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.62%) Cyberattack
6 5 (1.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (1.35%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.35%) IoT
6 5 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.08%) NHS
8 3 (0.81%) Driving Licence
8 3 (0.81%) EPoS
8 3 (0.81%) Insider Threat
8 3 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.81%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.81%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.81%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.81%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.93%) Linux
2 17 (4.58%) Windows
3 5 (1.35%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.81%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.54%) CentOS
5 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (49.33%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (12.94%) DevOps
3 45 (12.13%) Software Engineering
4 42 (11.32%) CI/CD
5 40 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (10.24%) Coaching
7 36 (9.70%) Agile
8 34 (9.16%) Commercial Awareness
9 32 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (6.47%) Decision-Making
11 21 (5.66%) Line Management
12 20 (5.39%) Containerisation
12 20 (5.39%) Roadmaps
12 20 (5.39%) Test Automation
13 18 (4.85%) Ethical Hacking
14 17 (4.58%) Full-Stack Development
15 15 (4.04%) Computer Science
16 14 (3.77%) AI
16 14 (3.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 14 (3.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (12.67%) Python
2 29 (7.82%) JavaScript
3 21 (5.66%) TypeScript
4 17 (4.58%) Bash
5 14 (3.77%) C#
6 12 (3.23%) Java
7 11 (2.96%) R
7 11 (2.96%) SQL
8 10 (2.70%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.43%) C++
10 7 (1.89%) PHP
11 5 (1.35%) C
12 3 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.54%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.54%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.54%) Go
14 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.27%) Bicep
14 1 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 151 (40.70%) Azure Certification
1 151 (40.70%) CompTIA Security+
2 134 (36.12%) CompTIA CySA+
3 32 (8.63%) RIBA
4 23 (6.20%) AWS Certification
5 18 (4.85%) CEH
5 18 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (4.58%) A+ Certification
6 17 (4.58%) Degree
6 17 (4.58%) Network+ Certification
7 16 (4.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 11 (2.96%) Security Cleared
9 6 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.35%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.08%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.08%) PhD
12 3 (0.81%) CCNP
12 3 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (3.50%) QA
3 9 (2.43%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.43%) NIST
4 5 (1.35%) ISO 9001
4 5 (1.35%) WCAG
5 4 (1.08%) NCSC
6 3 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.81%) GDPR
6 3 (0.81%) GRC
6 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 3 (0.81%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.81%) PMO
7 2 (0.54%) DO-254
7 2 (0.54%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.27%) ARP4761
8 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.27%) DO-160
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (4.85%) Docker
2 11 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.62%) Firmware
4 5 (1.35%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.08%) iptables
6 2 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.27%) Ceph
7 1 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.27%) KVM
7 1 (0.27%) Lustre
7 1 (0.27%) QEMU
7 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (5.39%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.12%) Terraform
3 11 (2.96%) Ansible
4 6 (1.62%) Puppet
5 5 (1.35%) Progress Chef
5 5 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.08%) Grafana
6 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.81%) Nmap
8 2 (0.54%) Packer
9 1 (0.27%) Argo
9 1 (0.27%) Consul
9 1 (0.27%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.27%) Kibana
9 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.27%) Nessus
9 1 (0.27%) SCCM
9 1 (0.27%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 169 (45.55%) Microsoft
2 133 (35.85%) ForeScout
3 9 (2.43%) Adobe
4 8 (2.16%) Fortinet
5 6 (1.62%) Apple
5 6 (1.62%) Google
6 5 (1.35%) VMware
7 4 (1.08%) Cisco
7 4 (1.08%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.81%) Fujitsu
8 3 (0.81%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.81%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.81%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.54%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle
9 2 (0.54%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.27%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.27%) Juniper
10 1 (0.27%) SAP
10 1 (0.27%) SolarWinds