Mentoring Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Mentorship
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 15 18
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 3,738 3,105 4,170
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.49% 8.99% 7.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.41% 10.38% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,317 1,252 1,650
10th Percentile £30,300 £28,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £44,447 £33,750 £41,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £91,269 £85,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year - +2.36% -5.93%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58,297 29,918 43,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.06% 86.62% 78.29%
Number of salaries quoted 41,329 16,199 24,135
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Mentoring relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Mentoring job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
North of England +8 1,251 £63,076 +0.92% 645
South East -26 661 £62,500 +8.70% 607
Midlands -9 622 £60,000 +14.29% 372
North West +7 617 £64,038 +6.73% 378
South West -18 425 £57,500 +35.29% 335
Yorkshire +13 388 £65,576 -2.85% 173
West Midlands +10 380 £61,750 +7.39% 235
East of England -24 277 £56,156 +2.10% 235
North East +17 246 £57,500 +19.79% 96
East Midlands -23 242 £44,472 +21.84% 136
Wales -3 198 £63,500 +5.83% 77
Scotland +5 170 £55,000 -18.52% 255
Northern Ireland +7 150 £27,500 -52.17% 140
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2
Mentoring
UK

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 96 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 74 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 45 (1.20%) Confluence
4 32 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 19 (0.51%) Apache
7 15 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
8 14 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 12 (0.32%) WordPress
10 9 (0.24%) CMS
10 9 (0.24%) Moodle
11 8 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
13 6 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.16%) IIS
14 5 (0.13%) OpenStack
15 4 (0.11%) CICS
15 4 (0.11%) PowerFactory
16 3 (0.080%) Artix
17 2 (0.054%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 75 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
2 74 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.78%) AutoCAD
4 16 (0.43%) Revit
5 14 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.21%) InDesign
6 8 (0.21%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 7 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.19%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.13%) Navisworks
8 5 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.080%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.080%) Simulink
9 3 (0.080%) Trello
10 2 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.054%) Weka
Business Applications
1 30 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.64%) Cloudability
3 15 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 13 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
5 12 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.29%) Workday HCM
7 10 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.16%) Primavera
8 6 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.13%) Visualfiles
10 4 (0.11%) NEC Housing
11 3 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
11 3 (0.080%) Misys Midas
11 3 (0.080%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.080%) Oracle General Ledger
12 2 (0.054%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,302 (34.83%) Azure
2 718 (19.21%) AWS
3 293 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
4 234 (6.26%) SaaS
5 218 (5.83%) GCP
6 189 (5.06%) Entra ID
7 139 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
7 139 (3.72%) Serverless
8 124 (3.32%) Power Platform
9 96 (2.57%) GitHub
10 91 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
11 61 (1.63%) Amazon S3
12 56 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 50 (1.34%) Azure Service Bus
14 46 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
15 43 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
16 42 (1.12%) dbt
17 39 (1.04%) Stripe
18 38 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
19 36 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 178 (4.76%) Firewall
2 110 (2.94%) DNS
3 93 (2.49%) VPN
4 81 (2.17%) DHCP
5 69 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 65 (1.74%) VLAN
7 60 (1.61%) LAN
7 60 (1.61%) WAN
8 54 (1.44%) Network Security
9 45 (1.20%) Wireless
10 39 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
11 33 (0.88%) Broadband
12 23 (0.62%) VoIP
13 22 (0.59%) MQTT
14 17 (0.45%) WLAN
15 15 (0.40%) Internet
15 15 (0.40%) SD-WAN
15 15 (0.40%) Unified Communications
16 14 (0.37%) HTTP
17 13 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 90 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (2.17%) Power BI
4 71 (1.90%) Tableau
5 70 (1.87%) MongoDB
6 56 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
7 54 (1.44%) MySQL
8 43 (1.15%) Metabase
9 42 (1.12%) NoSQL
10 37 (0.99%) Data Lake
11 36 (0.96%) Metadata
11 36 (0.96%) Relational Database
12 34 (0.91%) DynamoDB
13 30 (0.80%) BigQuery
14 27 (0.72%) Data Mining
15 24 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
16 23 (0.62%) Big Data
16 23 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
17 22 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
18 21 (0.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 180 (4.82%) Git
2 99 (2.65%) JIRA
3 90 (2.41%) GitLab
4 48 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.86%) Selenium
6 26 (0.70%) JUnit
7 22 (0.59%) Cucumber
7 22 (0.59%) Maven
8 20 (0.54%) Postman
9 17 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 16 (0.43%) JMeter
10 16 (0.43%) Mockito
11 12 (0.32%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.29%) Burp Suite
12 11 (0.29%) Claude Code
12 11 (0.29%) Gatling
13 9 (0.24%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.24%) Yeoman
14 7 (0.19%) Metasploit
14 7 (0.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,576 (42.16%) Social Skills
2 554 (14.82%) Public Sector
3 533 (14.26%) Finance
4 355 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
5 283 (7.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 278 (7.44%) Legal
7 160 (4.28%) Marketing
8 139 (3.72%) Retail
9 132 (3.53%) Law
9 132 (3.53%) Manufacturing
10 123 (3.29%) Aerospace
11 105 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
12 91 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
13 70 (1.87%) Electronics
14 59 (1.58%) Banking
15 51 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
16 50 (1.34%) Telecoms
17 49 (1.31%) Local Government
18 30 (0.80%) Aviation
18 30 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 968 (25.90%) Senior
2 681 (18.22%) Lead
3 633 (16.93%) Analyst
4 497 (13.30%) Junior
5 453 (12.12%) Security Analyst
6 443 (11.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 435 (11.64%) Junior Analyst
8 432 (11.56%) Junior Security Analyst
9 374 (10.01%) Developer
10 247 (6.61%) Software Engineer
11 177 (4.74%) Architect
12 167 (4.47%) Senior Developer
13 157 (4.20%) Senior Manager
14 130 (3.48%) Consultant
15 119 (3.18%) Data Engineer
16 99 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
17 94 (2.51%) Lead Developer
17 94 (2.51%) Senior Software Engineer
18 93 (2.49%) IT Support
19 92 (2.46%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (6.85%) Terraform
2 207 (5.54%) React
3 181 (4.84%) .NET
4 147 (3.93%) Node.js
5 112 (3.00%) REST
6 93 (2.49%) CSS
7 82 (2.19%) HTML
7 82 (2.19%) Spring
8 78 (2.09%) RESTful
9 70 (1.87%) AngularJS
10 66 (1.77%) Kafka
10 66 (1.77%) PySpark
11 64 (1.71%) Spring Boot
12 52 (1.39%) ASP.NET
13 46 (1.23%) Next.js
14 42 (1.12%) Vue
15 40 (1.07%) .NET Core
15 40 (1.07%) Playwright
15 40 (1.07%) PyTorch
16 39 (1.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 268 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 195 (5.22%) Onboarding
3 133 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
4 113 (3.02%) Driving Licence
4 113 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 93 (2.49%) Virtual Team
6 92 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
6 92 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
7 69 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 58 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 49 (1.31%) Data Centre
9 49 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
10 46 (1.23%) Algorithms
11 40 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 40 (1.07%) Public Cloud
12 39 (1.04%) Security Posture
13 36 (0.96%) AI Agents
13 36 (0.96%) Mobile App
14 31 (0.83%) NHS
15 29 (0.78%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 280 (7.49%) Windows
2 174 (4.65%) Linux
3 114 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 57 (1.52%) Unix
5 21 (0.56%) Android
6 17 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.35%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.29%) VMS
10 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (0.24%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.21%) Debian
13 5 (0.13%) Solaris
14 4 (0.11%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.11%) zOS
15 3 (0.080%) Gentoo
15 3 (0.080%) VME
16 2 (0.054%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 980 (26.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 936 (25.04%) Agile
3 865 (23.14%) Coaching
4 751 (20.09%) Cybersecurity
5 736 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
6 711 (19.02%) CI/CD
7 616 (16.48%) Technical Leadership
8 579 (15.49%) Software Engineering
9 578 (15.46%) DevOps
10 541 (14.47%) AI
11 471 (12.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 459 (12.28%) Decision-Making
13 362 (9.68%) Roadmaps
14 352 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 352 (9.42%) Test Automation
15 320 (8.56%) Analytics
16 296 (7.92%) Infrastructure as Code
17 295 (7.89%) Project Delivery
18 262 (7.01%) Microservices
19 245 (6.55%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 561 (15.01%) Python
2 499 (13.35%) SQL
3 344 (9.20%) C#
4 341 (9.12%) JavaScript
5 282 (7.54%) Java
6 268 (7.17%) TypeScript
7 160 (4.28%) PowerShell
8 106 (2.84%) C++
9 68 (1.82%) Bash
10 36 (0.96%) Ruby
11 35 (0.94%) Bicep
11 35 (0.94%) C
12 34 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 30 (0.80%) PHP
14 28 (0.75%) Go
15 19 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
16 15 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 15 (0.40%) R
17 14 (0.37%) Scala
18 12 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 510 (13.64%) Azure Certification
2 470 (12.57%) Degree
3 441 (11.80%) CompTIA CySA+
4 438 (11.72%) CompTIA Security+
5 416 (11.13%) Security Cleared
6 304 (8.13%) SC Cleared
7 120 (3.21%) DV Cleared
8 110 (2.94%) CISSP
9 98 (2.62%) CISM
10 84 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
11 78 (2.09%) A+ Certification
12 75 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 68 (1.82%) DBS Check
14 67 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 61 (1.63%) Network+ Certification
16 53 (1.42%) AWS Certification
17 52 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
18 48 (1.28%) HNC
19 34 (0.91%) Master's Degree
20 33 (0.88%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (7.54%) QA
2 207 (5.54%) Accessibility
3 142 (3.80%) Data Quality
4 97 (2.59%) GDPR
5 83 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 73 (1.95%) SLA
7 65 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 54 (1.44%) PCI DSS
9 44 (1.18%) WCAG
10 41 (1.10%) NIST
11 33 (0.88%) NCSC
12 31 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
13 26 (0.70%) GRC
14 19 (0.51%) PMO
15 17 (0.45%) ISO 9001
16 12 (0.32%) GMP
17 9 (0.24%) NIST 800
18 6 (0.16%) DO-254
18 6 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 6 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 265 (7.09%) Active Directory
2 226 (6.05%) Docker
3 96 (2.57%) Hyper-V
4 75 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 58 (1.55%) Firmware
6 30 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
8 17 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.32%) vSphere
10 4 (0.11%) KVM
10 4 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.054%) UAG
12 1 (0.027%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.027%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.027%) QEMU
12 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.027%) Xen
Systems Management
1 219 (5.86%) Kubernetes
2 148 (3.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 70 (1.87%) Ansible
4 38 (1.02%) Grafana
5 30 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.62%) Argo
6 23 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.29%) SCCM
8 9 (0.24%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.24%) Puppet
9 8 (0.21%) Proxmox
9 8 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 8 (0.21%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.19%) Autotask
10 7 (0.19%) Nmap
11 6 (0.16%) Kibana
11 6 (0.16%) Podman
12 5 (0.13%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.13%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,084 (29.00%) Microsoft
2 432 (11.56%) ForeScout
3 98 (2.62%) Google
4 91 (2.43%) VMware
5 79 (2.11%) Cisco
6 72 (1.93%) Oracle
7 67 (1.79%) CyberArk
8 61 (1.63%) Databricks
9 60 (1.61%) Adobe
10 50 (1.34%) ServiceNow
11 49 (1.31%) SAP
12 45 (1.20%) Salesforce
13 33 (0.88%) Apple
14 29 (0.78%) Fortinet
15 28 (0.75%) Splunk
16 25 (0.67%) YouTube
17 22 (0.59%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.59%) Workday
18 20 (0.54%) Aruba
19 18 (0.48%) Pega