Mentoring Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Mentorship
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 11 26
Rank change year-on-year -26 +15 -5
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 224 468 424
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.64% 12.91% 6.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.09% 14.22% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 156 77 217
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £39,104
25th Percentile £40,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -26.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +7.83% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,403 3,291 5,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.48% 90.81% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,055 1,394 3,666
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Mentoring
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in the Thames Valley

Mentoring
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Berkshire -3 100 £55,000 -4.35% 62
Buckinghamshire -27 81 £72,500 +38.10% 31
Oxfordshire -27 43 £60,000 +2.13% 26
Mentoring
South East

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (1.79%) CICS
1 4 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.34%) Artix
2 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.45%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (35.71%) Azure
2 46 (20.54%) AWS
3 29 (12.95%) SaaS
4 14 (6.25%) GCP
4 14 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (4.46%) Serverless
6 8 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.23%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.79%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.79%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (1.79%) Cloud Run
8 4 (1.79%) Firebase
8 4 (1.79%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.34%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.34%) GitHub
9 3 (1.34%) Sumo Logic
10 2 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.91%) DNS
2 10 (4.46%) Firewall
3 7 (3.13%) DHCP
3 7 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.13%) VLAN
3 7 (3.13%) VPN
4 6 (2.68%) LAN
4 6 (2.68%) WAN
5 5 (2.23%) Network Security
5 5 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.79%) Internet
6 4 (1.79%) Wireless
7 3 (1.34%) HTTP
8 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.45%) VoIP
8 1 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.79%) Db2
2 4 (1.79%) Pinecone
3 3 (1.34%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.89%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.57%) Yeoman
2 4 (1.79%) ChangeMan
2 4 (1.79%) GitLab
2 4 (1.79%) Postman
2 4 (1.79%) SpecFlow
3 3 (1.34%) Git
4 2 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.89%) JMeter
4 2 (0.89%) JUnit
4 2 (0.89%) Mockito
5 1 (0.45%) JIRA
5 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 108 (48.21%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.16%) Finance
3 23 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.59%) Marketing
5 15 (6.70%) Manufacturing
5 15 (6.70%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (3.57%) Electronics
6 8 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.57%) Local Government
6 8 (3.57%) Retail
7 7 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.23%) Banking
10 3 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Law
11 2 (0.89%) Military
11 2 (0.89%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.45%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 58 (25.89%) Analyst
2 52 (23.21%) Senior
3 50 (22.32%) Junior
3 50 (22.32%) Security Analyst
4 48 (21.43%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 48 (21.43%) Junior Analyst
4 48 (21.43%) Junior Security Analyst
5 39 (17.41%) Software Engineer
6 29 (12.95%) Lead
7 24 (10.71%) Developer
8 20 (8.93%) Senior Software Engineer
9 19 (8.48%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.91%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (4.46%) C++ Developer
11 10 (4.46%) Senior C++ Developer
12 9 (4.02%) Graduate
13 8 (3.57%) IT Support
14 7 (3.13%) Architect
14 7 (3.13%) Senior Software Developer
14 7 (3.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.04%) .NET
2 17 (7.59%) React
3 12 (5.36%) Node.js
4 8 (3.57%) RESTful
5 7 (3.13%) AngularJS
6 6 (2.68%) MFC
6 6 (2.68%) WPF
7 5 (2.23%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.79%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.79%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (1.79%) Loki
8 4 (1.79%) pgvector
8 4 (1.79%) REST
9 3 (1.34%) HTML
10 2 (0.89%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (0.89%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.89%) JPA
10 2 (0.89%) jQuery
10 2 (0.89%) Spring
10 2 (0.89%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.82%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.48%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (4.02%) Driving Licence
3 9 (4.02%) Security Posture
4 8 (3.57%) NHS
5 6 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.79%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.79%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.79%) FPGA
7 4 (1.79%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (1.79%) VSAM
8 3 (1.34%) Arduino
8 3 (1.34%) Clustering
8 3 (1.34%) MicroBlaze
8 3 (1.34%) PCIe
8 3 (1.34%) Raspberry Pi
8 3 (1.34%) VHDL
9 2 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.48%) Windows
2 11 (4.91%) Linux
3 7 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.79%) zOS
5 3 (1.34%) Debian
5 3 (1.34%) Gentoo
6 1 (0.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (31.70%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (26.79%) Agile
3 50 (22.32%) Software Engineering
4 41 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (12.95%) Decision-Making
6 27 (12.05%) Coaching
7 26 (11.61%) AI
8 24 (10.71%) CI/CD
9 20 (8.93%) Event-Driven
10 19 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (6.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 15 (6.70%) Migration
12 15 (6.70%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 15 (6.70%) Test Automation
13 14 (6.25%) Containerisation
14 13 (5.80%) Analytics
14 13 (5.80%) Data Analysis
14 13 (5.80%) DevOps
14 13 (5.80%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 39 (17.41%) C#
2 22 (9.82%) Python
2 22 (9.82%) SQL
3 11 (4.91%) C++
4 7 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 7 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 6 (2.68%) Bash
6 5 (2.23%) Java
7 4 (1.79%) C
7 4 (1.79%) COBOL
7 4 (1.79%) JCL
7 4 (1.79%) Ladder Logic
8 3 (1.34%) Pascal
8 3 (1.34%) Ruby
9 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.45%) ABAP
10 1 (0.45%) PHP
10 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (22.77%) CompTIA Security+
2 49 (21.88%) CompTIA CySA+
3 48 (21.43%) Azure Certification
4 34 (15.18%) Degree
5 21 (9.38%) Security Cleared
6 15 (6.70%) SC Cleared
7 10 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (3.57%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.57%) HNC
9 7 (3.13%) CCNA
10 6 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.79%) CCNP
11 4 (1.79%) HND
11 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.34%) CCSP
12 3 (1.34%) CISM
12 3 (1.34%) CISSP
12 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.89%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.57%) QA
2 6 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.79%) GDPR
4 4 (1.79%) NIST
5 2 (0.89%) IFRS
5 2 (0.89%) NCSC
6 1 (0.45%) MISRA
6 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (5.80%) Docker
2 11 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (2.68%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.79%) Argo
2 4 (1.79%) CA Endevor
2 4 (1.79%) Grafana
2 4 (1.79%) Kustomize
2 4 (1.79%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.34%) Ansible
3 3 (1.34%) Istio
3 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.34%) Podman
4 2 (0.89%) Kibana
4 2 (0.89%) Terraform
5 1 (0.45%) Netcool
5 1 (0.45%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (0.45%) QRadar
Vendors
1 86 (38.39%) Microsoft
2 48 (21.43%) ForeScout
3 7 (3.13%) Oracle
4 6 (2.68%) Google
5 5 (2.23%) Aruba
6 4 (1.79%) Cisco
6 4 (1.79%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.79%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.79%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.79%) VMware
7 3 (1.34%) Motorola
7 3 (1.34%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.34%) Splunk
7 3 (1.34%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.89%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.89%) EMC
8 2 (0.89%) Xero
9 1 (0.45%) IBM
9 1 (0.45%) SAP