Mentorship
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Mentoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mentoring over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 14 25
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +18
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 7,718 13,088 14,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.87% 12.51% 9.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.15% 13.08% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,034 4,340 6,218
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,057 £38,500
25th Percentile £43,329 £51,833 £49,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,904
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +11.28% +0.65%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,539 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.26% +8.70% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mentoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England -9 6,767 £62,500 -10.71% 1,807
UK excluding London -16 5,529 £57,965 -7.26% 1,306
Work from Home +11 3,611 £64,080 -8.46% 840
North of England -4 1,968 £60,000 -4.00% 368
London +8 1,877 £78,205 -2.42% 633
South East -5 1,167 £57,500 -14.81% 266
North West -6 1,044 £57,965 -3.39% 216
Midlands -15 822 £50,000 -13.04% 211
Yorkshire +5 641 £61,206 -5.84% 111
South West -20 586 £56,500 -1.74% 182
West Midlands -10 512 £57,500 - 141
Scotland -41 506 £65,000 -6.40% 103
East Midlands -16 296 £44,000 -23.48% 69
North East +6 288 £62,500 +19.05% 45
East of England -35 283 £55,173 -8.05% 130
Wales -19 137 £58,800 +29.24% 49
Northern Ireland -5 63 £48,750 -7.14% 38
Isle of Man - 2 £36,000 - 1

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 144 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 139 (1.80%) Confluence
3 124 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 94 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 59 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 45 (0.58%) CMS
7 40 (0.52%) nginx
8 37 (0.48%) Tuxedo
9 36 (0.47%) Camunda
10 35 (0.45%) IIS
11 31 (0.40%) JBoss
12 30 (0.39%) Apache
13 29 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
14 27 (0.35%) WordPress
15 19 (0.25%) SAS
16 17 (0.22%) OpenStack
17 13 (0.17%) Tomcat
18 11 (0.14%) Umbraco
19 10 (0.13%) Drupal
20 8 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 642 (8.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 177 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (0.49%) UserZoom
5 24 (0.31%) Sketch
6 23 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 22 (0.29%) Simulink
8 21 (0.27%) Photoshop
9 20 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
10 17 (0.22%) MS Visio
11 15 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
12 12 (0.16%) Revit
13 8 (0.10%) Adobe XD
13 8 (0.10%) InVision
14 6 (0.078%) SOLIDWORKS
15 5 (0.065%) OrCAD
16 4 (0.052%) Blender
16 4 (0.052%) EPLAN
16 4 (0.052%) Maya
16 4 (0.052%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 42 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 31 (0.40%) Primavera
4 19 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 15 (0.19%) Shopify
6 14 (0.18%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
7 13 (0.17%) SAP CO
7 13 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
8 8 (0.10%) Elite 3E
8 8 (0.10%) NetSuite
8 8 (0.10%) SAP CX
9 7 (0.091%) SAP CRM
9 7 (0.091%) SAP SD
10 6 (0.078%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.078%) NEC Housing
11 5 (0.065%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.065%) SAP MM
11 5 (0.065%) SAP WM
11 5 (0.065%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,516 (19.64%) Azure
2 1,366 (17.70%) AWS
3 606 (7.85%) GCP
4 402 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
5 328 (4.25%) SaaS
6 300 (3.89%) Power Platform
7 209 (2.71%) IBM Cloud
8 182 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
9 140 (1.81%) Serverless
10 127 (1.65%) Entra ID
11 122 (1.58%) Amazon S3
12 113 (1.46%) IaaS
13 106 (1.37%) GitHub
14 87 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
14 87 (1.13%) PaaS
15 82 (1.06%) dbt
16 74 (0.96%) OpenShift
17 73 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
17 73 (0.95%) OCI
18 65 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 486 (6.30%) Broadband
2 277 (3.59%) Firewall
3 151 (1.96%) WAN
4 113 (1.46%) DNS
5 103 (1.33%) LAN
6 100 (1.30%) VPN
7 79 (1.02%) TCP/IP
8 77 (1.00%) Network Security
9 65 (0.84%) SAN
10 62 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
11 59 (0.76%) DHCP
11 59 (0.76%) SD-WAN
12 56 (0.73%) Internet
12 56 (0.73%) VLAN
12 56 (0.73%) Wireless
13 42 (0.54%) MPLS
13 42 (0.54%) OSPF
14 40 (0.52%) BGP
15 38 (0.49%) 5G
16 27 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 371 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 370 (4.79%) BigQuery
3 346 (4.48%) NoSQL
4 290 (3.76%) Looker
5 258 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
6 253 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
7 252 (3.27%) MongoDB
8 225 (2.92%) MySQL
8 225 (2.92%) Power BI
9 160 (2.07%) Big Data
10 147 (1.90%) Relational Database
11 139 (1.80%) DB2
12 108 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
13 90 (1.17%) Tableau
14 75 (0.97%) Data Lake
14 75 (0.97%) Oracle Database
15 47 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
16 46 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 45 (0.58%) DynamoDB
18 42 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 340 (4.41%) Git
2 258 (3.34%) JIRA
3 233 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 170 (2.20%) GitLab
5 78 (1.01%) Selenium
6 47 (0.61%) Visual Studio
7 39 (0.51%) IntelliJ
7 39 (0.51%) Maven
8 37 (0.48%) Cypress.io
9 36 (0.47%) CircleCI
10 35 (0.45%) JUnit
11 34 (0.44%) IBM UrbanCode
12 32 (0.41%) Bitbucket
13 30 (0.39%) Cucumber
13 30 (0.39%) TeamCity
14 28 (0.36%) NUnit
14 28 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
15 25 (0.32%) Subversion
16 24 (0.31%) Gradle
17 23 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 2,503 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 2,191 (28.39%) Finance
3 1,338 (17.34%) Analytical Skills
4 1,220 (15.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 965 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 729 (9.45%) Influencing Skills
7 485 (6.28%) Law
8 467 (6.05%) Marketing
9 281 (3.64%) Retail
10 279 (3.61%) Banking
11 251 (3.25%) Legal
12 184 (2.38%) Manufacturing
13 177 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
14 134 (1.74%) Telecoms
15 114 (1.48%) Games
16 105 (1.36%) Automotive
17 103 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
18 92 (1.19%) Electronics
19 88 (1.14%) Financial Institution
20 82 (1.06%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,973 (25.56%) Senior
2 1,560 (20.21%) Lead
3 935 (12.11%) Developer
4 824 (10.68%) Analyst
5 595 (7.71%) Architect
6 475 (6.15%) Software Engineer
7 364 (4.72%) Data Engineer
8 356 (4.61%) Senior Developer
9 310 (4.02%) Senior Manager
10 302 (3.91%) Senior Analyst
11 258 (3.34%) Lead Developer
12 237 (3.07%) Consultant
13 233 (3.02%) Technical Leader
14 218 (2.82%) Principal Engineer
15 214 (2.77%) Project Manager
16 205 (2.66%) Delivery Manager
17 202 (2.62%) Team Leader
18 187 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
19 176 (2.28%) Service Manager
20 175 (2.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 624 (8.08%) .NET
2 577 (7.48%) React
3 456 (5.91%) HTML
4 415 (5.38%) CSS
5 339 (4.39%) AngularJS
6 304 (3.94%) Web Services
7 298 (3.86%) REST
8 249 (3.23%) RESTful
9 220 (2.85%) ASP.NET
10 205 (2.66%) Spring
11 194 (2.51%) Vue
12 175 (2.27%) Node.js
13 157 (2.03%) jQuery
14 155 (2.01%) XML
15 140 (1.81%) .NET Core
16 127 (1.65%) Spring Boot
17 126 (1.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 124 (1.61%) ASP.NET Core
19 120 (1.55%) JSON
20 117 (1.52%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 521 (6.75%) Self-Motivation
2 358 (4.64%) Product Ownership
3 328 (4.25%) Algorithms
4 321 (4.16%) Management Information System
5 272 (3.52%) Public Cloud
6 258 (3.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 237 (3.07%) e-Learning
8 218 (2.82%) Blockchain
8 218 (2.82%) Data Centre
9 191 (2.47%) Data Structures
10 175 (2.27%) Cloud Native
11 120 (1.55%) IoT
12 111 (1.44%) Onboarding
13 109 (1.41%) Mobile App
14 91 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
15 89 (1.15%) Client/Server
16 84 (1.09%) Derivative
17 82 (1.06%) PMI
18 79 (1.02%) Driving Licence
19 76 (0.98%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 717 (9.29%) Windows
2 561 (7.27%) Linux
3 218 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 204 (2.64%) Apple iOS
5 191 (2.47%) Android
6 103 (1.33%) Unix
7 69 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
8 63 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
9 55 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
10 53 (0.69%) Windows 10
11 41 (0.53%) CentOS
12 32 (0.41%) Mac OS
13 19 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 17 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 14 (0.18%) SUSE
16 12 (0.16%) AIX
17 10 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
17 10 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
18 8 (0.10%) Solaris
19 7 (0.091%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,253 (42.15%) Agile
2 2,885 (37.38%) Coaching
3 1,694 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
4 1,137 (14.73%) Decision-Making
5 1,088 (14.10%) DevOps
6 987 (12.79%) Software Engineering
7 842 (10.91%) Project Management
8 831 (10.77%) Roadmaps
9 717 (9.29%) Actionable Insight
10 603 (7.81%) CI/CD
11 598 (7.75%) Analytics
12 591 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 570 (7.39%) Computer Science
14 556 (7.20%) Cybersecurity
15 498 (6.45%) Business Case
16 494 (6.40%) Budgeting
17 491 (6.36%) Project Delivery
18 472 (6.12%) Data Science
19 469 (6.08%) Test Automation
20 462 (5.99%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 1,137 (14.73%) SQL
2 818 (10.60%) Java
3 766 (9.92%) Python
4 739 (9.58%) C#
5 726 (9.41%) JavaScript
6 245 (3.17%) TypeScript
7 215 (2.79%) PowerShell
8 161 (2.09%) C++
9 146 (1.89%) PHP
10 134 (1.74%) C
11 110 (1.43%) Scala
12 102 (1.32%) Bash
13 95 (1.23%) T-SQL
14 79 (1.02%) Ruby
15 71 (0.92%) Kotlin
16 68 (0.88%) COBOL
16 68 (0.88%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 66 (0.86%) Go
18 43 (0.56%) Swift
19 40 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 1,263 (16.36%) Degree
2 581 (7.53%) Security Cleared
3 451 (5.84%) ACCA
3 451 (5.84%) CIMA
4 311 (4.03%) SC Cleared
5 272 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 145 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 127 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 123 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
9 110 (1.43%) PMI Certification
10 101 (1.31%) DBS Check
11 83 (1.08%) CISSP
12 82 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 80 (1.04%) CCNA
14 76 (0.98%) Azure Certification
15 73 (0.95%) AWS Certification
16 67 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
17 63 (0.82%) APMP
18 53 (0.69%) PMP
19 45 (0.58%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 489 (6.34%) QA
2 362 (4.69%) GDPR
3 254 (3.29%) Data Quality
4 179 (2.32%) SLA
5 150 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 94 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 93 (1.20%) PMO
8 77 (1.00%) NIST
9 71 (0.92%) WCAG
10 58 (0.75%) NCSC
11 52 (0.67%) GMP
12 42 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
13 40 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
14 27 (0.35%) NIST 800
15 26 (0.34%) PCI DSS
16 20 (0.26%) JSP 440
17 18 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 14 (0.18%) GRC
19 13 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
20 12 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 393 (5.09%) Docker
2 318 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 145 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 57 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 52 (0.67%) Firmware
7 28 (0.36%) vSphere
8 27 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
9 25 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 16 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 14 (0.18%) vCloud
12 13 (0.17%) IAG
12 13 (0.17%) VMware NSX
13 9 (0.12%) Forefront TMG
13 9 (0.12%) HDFS
13 9 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
14 8 (0.10%) KVM
15 4 (0.052%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.039%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.026%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 431 (5.58%) Kubernetes
2 376 (4.87%) Terraform
3 185 (2.40%) Ansible
4 96 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 92 (1.19%) Prometheus
6 52 (0.67%) Progress Chef
7 44 (0.57%) SCCM
8 38 (0.49%) Puppet
9 35 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (0.45%) ZABBIX
10 33 (0.43%) vCenter Server
11 31 (0.40%) Grafana
12 25 (0.32%) Functional Safety
13 21 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 20 (0.26%) FortiGate
14 20 (0.26%) WSUS
15 18 (0.23%) SCOM
16 16 (0.21%) Nagios
17 14 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
18 13 (0.17%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,577 (20.43%) Microsoft
2 542 (7.02%) Google
3 306 (3.96%) Oracle
4 272 (3.52%) ServiceNow
5 265 (3.43%) IBM
6 253 (3.28%) Red Hat
7 249 (3.23%) VMware
8 129 (1.67%) Cisco
9 124 (1.61%) Dell
10 104 (1.35%) SAP
11 96 (1.24%) Dynatrace
12 81 (1.05%) YouTube
13 73 (0.95%) Salesforce
14 72 (0.93%) Splunk
15 71 (0.92%) Juniper
16 68 (0.88%) Atlassian
16 68 (0.88%) Micro Focus
17 67 (0.87%) Veeam
18 60 (0.78%) Adobe
19 49 (0.63%) Databricks