Mentoring Jobs in the Thames Valley

Mentorship
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Mentoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mentoring over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 17 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +15
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 439 554 691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.09% 8.25% 11.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.94% 9.72% 12.16%
Number of salaries quoted 68 226 214
10th Percentile £38,700 £39,035 £34,041
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £50,613
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,060 £87,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £62,000 £57,500 £67,750
% change year-on-year +7.83% -15.13% +12.92%

All Process and 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 3,149 5,697 5,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.92% 84.80% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,236 3,925 3,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,375 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in the Thames Valley

Mentoring
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Mentoring in the Thames Valley

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

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 9 May 2025. 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
Buckinghamshire +2 268 £66,634 +48.08% 51
Berkshire +10 91 £57,500 +4.55% 116
Oxfordshire +19 80 £57,500 +12.75% 61
Mentoring
South East

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.91%) CMS
3 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.23%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.23%) Strapi
3 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (0.46%) InDesign
3 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.46%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 56 (12.76%) Azure
2 30 (6.83%) Power Platform
3 26 (5.92%) Power Automate
3 26 (5.92%) PowerApps
4 11 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (2.05%) AWS
6 7 (1.59%) SaaS
7 6 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.68%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.68%) GCP
9 3 (0.68%) GitHub
10 2 (0.46%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.46%) iPaaS
10 2 (0.46%) PaaS
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.23%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.23%) Figma
11 1 (0.23%) Firebase
11 1 (0.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 204 (46.47%) Wi-Fi
1 204 (46.47%) Wireless
2 203 (46.24%) 5G
2 203 (46.24%) Bluetooth
2 203 (46.24%) GSM
2 203 (46.24%) LTE
2 203 (46.24%) UMTS
3 38 (8.66%) VPN
4 34 (7.74%) TCP/IP
5 19 (4.33%) Broadband
6 7 (1.59%) VLAN
7 4 (0.91%) VoIP
8 3 (0.68%) BGP
8 3 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.68%) Firewall
8 3 (0.68%) HSRP
8 3 (0.68%) IPsec
8 3 (0.68%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.83%) Power BI
1 30 (6.83%) Tableau
2 26 (5.92%) Big Data
2 26 (5.92%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.91%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.68%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.23%) DTS
7 1 (0.23%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.23%) GIS
7 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.23%) MySQL
7 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (7.74%) Cucumber
1 34 (7.74%) Robot Framework
2 8 (1.82%) Git
3 2 (0.46%) GitLab
4 1 (0.23%) CMake
4 1 (0.23%) JIRA
4 1 (0.23%) Moq
4 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 213 (48.52%) Electronics
2 99 (22.55%) Social Skills
3 80 (18.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 49 (11.16%) Manufacturing
5 36 (8.20%) Telecoms
6 35 (7.97%) Law
7 33 (7.52%) Finance
8 16 (3.64%) Legal
9 10 (2.28%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (2.28%) Marketing
10 8 (1.82%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.59%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.59%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.37%) Retail
13 4 (0.91%) Games
13 4 (0.91%) Multimedia
14 3 (0.68%) Automotive
15 2 (0.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 251 (57.18%) Test Engineer
2 204 (46.47%) Electronics Engineer
3 203 (46.24%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 75 (17.08%) Senior
5 40 (9.11%) Lead
6 34 (7.74%) Test Automation Engineer
7 12 (2.73%) Electrical Engineer
7 12 (2.73%) Safety Engineer
7 12 (2.73%) Senior Electrical Engineer
7 12 (2.73%) Senior Safety Engineer
7 12 (2.73%) Senior Test Engineer
8 11 (2.51%) Architect
8 11 (2.51%) Senior Manager
9 8 (1.82%) Service Manager
9 8 (1.82%) Software Engineer
10 7 (1.59%) Senior Service Manager
11 5 (1.14%) IT Manager
11 5 (1.14%) IT Services Manager
11 5 (1.14%) Project Manager
11 5 (1.14%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.37%) .NET
2 5 (1.14%) REST
3 3 (0.68%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.68%) React
4 2 (0.46%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.46%) Hugging Face
4 2 (0.46%) Kafka
4 2 (0.46%) Vue
5 1 (0.23%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.23%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.23%) Blazor
5 1 (0.23%) CSS3
5 1 (0.23%) FHIR
5 1 (0.23%) Flask
5 1 (0.23%) HTML5
5 1 (0.23%) Next.js
5 1 (0.23%) OAuth
5 1 (0.23%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.23%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 204 (46.47%) Driving Licence
2 38 (8.66%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (1.59%) Algorithms
4 6 (1.37%) Management Information System
4 6 (1.37%) Social Media
5 5 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.14%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.14%) Virtual Team
6 4 (0.91%) CCTV
7 3 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.68%) Learning Management System
7 3 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.46%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.46%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.46%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.46%) Online Games
8 2 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 47 (10.71%) Windows
2 41 (9.34%) Linux
3 6 (1.37%) Mac OS
4 5 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.68%) Android
6 2 (0.46%) VMS
7 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.23%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (64.46%) Coaching
2 206 (46.92%) Validation
3 204 (46.47%) Customer Requirements
4 203 (46.24%) Test Strategy
4 203 (46.24%) Verification and Validation
5 72 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (11.85%) Computer Science
7 50 (11.39%) Analytics
8 49 (11.16%) Project Management
9 48 (10.93%) DevOps
10 46 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 43 (9.79%) Test Automation
12 36 (8.20%) Test Management
13 34 (7.74%) System Testing
14 33 (7.52%) Data Governance
15 32 (7.29%) Data Science
15 32 (7.29%) Design for Manufacturing
16 31 (7.06%) CAD
16 31 (7.06%) Data Management
17 30 (6.83%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 51 (11.62%) Python
2 36 (8.20%) JavaScript
3 34 (7.74%) Bash
3 34 (7.74%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.28%) C
4 10 (2.28%) C++
4 10 (2.28%) SQL
5 8 (1.82%) C#
6 5 (1.14%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.68%) Java
8 1 (0.23%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.23%) Perl
8 1 (0.23%) Rust
8 1 (0.23%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.23%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 361 (82.23%) Degree
2 203 (46.24%) HND
3 22 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.42%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.28%) Security Cleared
6 8 (1.82%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.37%) PMP
8 4 (0.91%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.68%) CCNP
9 3 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.23%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CCNA
11 1 (0.23%) CISM
11 1 (0.23%) CISSP
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (15.49%) QA
2 32 (7.29%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.91%) GDPR
5 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.46%) PMO
7 1 (0.23%) CDISC
7 1 (0.23%) COBIT
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.82%) Docker
3 3 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.91%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.68%) Terraform
3 2 (0.46%) Ansible
3 2 (0.46%) Grafana
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.23%) SCCM
4 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.92%) ServiceNow
3 5 (1.14%) F5
3 5 (1.14%) Oracle
3 5 (1.14%) PeopleSoft
4 4 (0.91%) Cisco
5 3 (0.68%) Juniper
6 2 (0.46%) Adobe
6 2 (0.46%) Facebook
6 2 (0.46%) Google
6 2 (0.46%) Instagram
6 2 (0.46%) Pinterest
6 2 (0.46%) TikTok
6 2 (0.46%) VMware
7 1 (0.23%) Aruba
7 1 (0.23%) Mellanox
7 1 (0.23%) Meraki
7 1 (0.23%) NETGEAR
7 1 (0.23%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.23%) Synopsys