Mentorship
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 15 20
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 0
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 5,762 4,512 5,780
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.05% 9.14% 7.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.92% 10.30% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,441 2,012 2,398
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,275 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,125 £63,762
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -1.00% -5.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £81,188
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in the UK

Mentoring
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

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 16 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
England -13 4,919 £65,576 +4.92% 8,547
UK excluding London -14 3,741 £60,000 +9.09% 4,845
Work from Home +6 2,180 £66,720 +2.65% 4,297
London -3 1,544 £80,000 +3.23% 4,565
North of England +8 1,261 £63,076 +5.13% 1,302
South East -28 662 £62,500 +8.70% 971
North West +6 627 £65,000 +8.33% 796
Midlands -11 619 £60,000 +20.00% 681
South West -18 429 £58,125 +36.76% 558
Yorkshire +13 386 £65,576 -2.85% 334
West Midlands +9 383 £62,500 +8.70% 453
East of England -25 276 £56,000 +3.70% 402
North East +15 248 £57,500 +10.58% 177
East Midlands -27 236 £44,472 +25.27% 228
Wales -4 198 £63,500 +5.83% 116
Scotland +10 167 £55,000 -18.52% 517
Northern Ireland +4 144 £27,500 -52.17% 324
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 4

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 135 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 134 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 79 (1.37%) Confluence
4 73 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 53 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 36 (0.62%) CMS
7 28 (0.49%) Apache
8 26 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
9 20 (0.35%) WordPress
10 16 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 15 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 15 (0.26%) SAS
12 14 (0.24%) Anypoint
12 14 (0.24%) Mule
13 10 (0.17%) Camunda
13 10 (0.17%) IIS
13 10 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 9 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 8 (0.14%) Moodle
15 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 119 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 114 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.54%) AutoCAD
4 27 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 20 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.24%) Revit
7 11 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 9 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 9 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
9 9 (0.16%) InDesign
9 9 (0.16%) MS Visio
10 8 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
10 8 (0.14%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.12%) Navisworks
11 7 (0.12%) Trello
12 6 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
13 4 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
13 4 (0.069%) Simulink
14 3 (0.052%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 36 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 25 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (0.42%) Cloudability
5 22 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 18 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
7 15 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 11 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.19%) Workday HCM
9 8 (0.14%) Sage X3
10 7 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
11 6 (0.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 6 (0.10%) Primavera
12 5 (0.087%) Dynamics AX
12 5 (0.087%) Oracle Applications
12 5 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
12 5 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
12 5 (0.087%) SAP FI
12 5 (0.087%) Visualfiles
13 4 (0.069%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 1,807 (31.36%) Azure
2 1,414 (24.54%) AWS
3 513 (8.90%) GCP
4 377 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
5 359 (6.23%) SaaS
6 282 (4.89%) Serverless
7 255 (4.43%) Entra ID
8 236 (4.10%) Power Platform
9 227 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
10 223 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
11 214 (3.71%) GitHub
12 147 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
13 141 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 121 (2.10%) Amazon S3
15 96 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
16 83 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
17 77 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
18 74 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
19 66 (1.15%) PaaS
20 64 (1.11%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 241 (4.18%) Firewall
2 134 (2.33%) DNS
3 120 (2.08%) VPN
4 108 (1.87%) Network Security
5 94 (1.63%) VLAN
6 89 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 87 (1.51%) DHCP
8 81 (1.41%) WAN
9 74 (1.28%) Internet
10 70 (1.21%) LAN
11 67 (1.16%) Broadband
12 64 (1.11%) Wireless
13 54 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
14 32 (0.56%) VoIP
15 26 (0.45%) BGP
15 26 (0.45%) HTTP
16 24 (0.42%) MQTT
16 24 (0.42%) SSL
17 23 (0.40%) OSPF
18 21 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (2.81%) SQL Server
2 154 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
3 148 (2.57%) Power BI
4 115 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 101 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 97 (1.68%) Data Lake
7 96 (1.67%) Tableau
8 93 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
9 79 (1.37%) BigQuery
10 78 (1.35%) MySQL
11 75 (1.30%) Metadata
12 64 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 64 (1.11%) Relational Database
13 56 (0.97%) Big Data
14 51 (0.89%) DynamoDB
15 49 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
16 44 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
16 44 (0.76%) Metabase
17 43 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
18 38 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 260 (4.51%) Git
2 152 (2.64%) JIRA
3 142 (2.46%) GitLab
4 101 (1.75%) Jenkins
5 54 (0.94%) Selenium
6 51 (0.89%) TeamCity
7 48 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 39 (0.68%) JUnit
9 30 (0.52%) Maven
10 29 (0.50%) Cypress.io
10 29 (0.50%) Postman
11 28 (0.49%) Claude Code
12 26 (0.45%) Mockito
13 21 (0.36%) JMeter
14 17 (0.30%) Gatling
15 16 (0.28%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.23%) Bitbucket
17 12 (0.21%) Burp Suite
18 11 (0.19%) MLflow
18 11 (0.19%) NUnit
General
1 2,276 (39.50%) Social Skills
2 1,171 (20.32%) Finance
3 806 (13.99%) Public Sector
4 588 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 560 (9.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 351 (6.09%) Legal
7 327 (5.68%) Marketing
8 303 (5.26%) Law
9 300 (5.21%) Retail
10 237 (4.11%) Banking
11 176 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
12 168 (2.92%) Manufacturing
13 144 (2.50%) Aerospace
14 143 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
15 135 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
16 91 (1.58%) Financial Institution
16 91 (1.58%) Local Government
17 76 (1.32%) Back Office
18 75 (1.30%) Electronics
19 74 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,558 (27.04%) Senior
2 1,094 (18.99%) Lead
3 665 (11.54%) Analyst
4 526 (9.13%) Developer
5 475 (8.24%) Junior
6 414 (7.19%) Security Analyst
7 406 (7.05%) Software Engineer
8 400 (6.94%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 394 (6.84%) Junior Analyst
10 385 (6.68%) Junior Security Analyst
11 383 (6.65%) Architect
12 303 (5.26%) Consultant
13 224 (3.89%) Senior Developer
14 219 (3.80%) Senior Manager
15 198 (3.44%) Data Engineer
16 181 (3.14%) Senior Software Engineer
17 157 (2.72%) Technical Leader
18 152 (2.64%) Principal Engineer
19 144 (2.50%) Team Leader
20 129 (2.24%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 473 (8.21%) Terraform
2 323 (5.61%) React
3 302 (5.24%) .NET
4 248 (4.30%) Node.js
5 199 (3.45%) REST
6 176 (3.05%) Spring
7 164 (2.85%) Kafka
8 153 (2.66%) RESTful
9 148 (2.57%) CSS
9 148 (2.57%) Spring Boot
10 131 (2.27%) HTML
11 100 (1.74%) AngularJS
12 92 (1.60%) PySpark
13 76 (1.32%) PyTorch
14 69 (1.20%) TensorFlow
15 67 (1.16%) OAuth
16 64 (1.11%) ASP.NET
16 64 (1.11%) Playwright
17 63 (1.09%) Next.js
18 56 (0.97%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 585 (10.15%) Cloud Native
2 447 (7.76%) Onboarding
3 240 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 239 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
5 189 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
6 172 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 149 (2.59%) Data Centre
8 145 (2.52%) Driving Licence
8 145 (2.52%) Management Information System
9 123 (2.13%) Virtual Team
10 110 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
11 97 (1.68%) Public Cloud
12 94 (1.63%) Security Posture
13 90 (1.56%) AI Agents
14 89 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
15 68 (1.18%) Blog
15 68 (1.18%) e-Learning
16 62 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
17 60 (1.04%) Algorithms
18 58 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 378 (6.56%) Windows
2 241 (4.18%) Linux
3 140 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 79 (1.37%) Unix
5 33 (0.57%) Android
6 26 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.35%) Mac OS
7 20 (0.35%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.19%) VMS
10 10 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.14%) Debian
11 8 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.087%) CentOS
13 5 (0.087%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.087%) Solaris
14 4 (0.069%) zOS
15 3 (0.052%) Gentoo
15 3 (0.052%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,491 (25.88%) Agile
2 1,401 (24.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,353 (23.48%) Coaching
4 1,262 (21.90%) CI/CD
5 1,106 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
6 1,052 (18.26%) AI
7 1,045 (18.14%) DevOps
8 1,004 (17.42%) Technical Leadership
9 925 (16.05%) Software Engineering
10 885 (15.36%) Cybersecurity
11 773 (13.42%) Roadmaps
12 753 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
13 744 (12.91%) Decision-Making
14 626 (10.86%) Analytics
15 616 (10.69%) Test Automation
16 548 (9.51%) Microservices
17 534 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
18 476 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 461 (8.00%) Project Delivery
20 411 (7.13%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 1,024 (17.77%) Python
2 833 (14.46%) SQL
3 572 (9.93%) Java
4 502 (8.71%) JavaScript
5 481 (8.35%) C#
6 387 (6.72%) TypeScript
7 231 (4.01%) PowerShell
8 141 (2.45%) C++
9 115 (2.00%) Bash
10 77 (1.34%) Go
11 53 (0.92%) Ruby
12 50 (0.87%) Bicep
13 43 (0.75%) PHP
13 43 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 41 (0.71%) C
15 29 (0.50%) R
16 27 (0.47%) Apex Code
17 26 (0.45%) Kotlin
17 26 (0.45%) Scala
18 25 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 858 (14.89%) Degree
2 739 (12.83%) Security Cleared
3 517 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 495 (8.59%) Azure Certification
5 400 (6.94%) CompTIA Security+
6 394 (6.84%) CompTIA CySA+
7 177 (3.07%) CISSP
8 176 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 166 (2.88%) AWS Certification
10 155 (2.69%) DV Cleared
11 138 (2.40%) CISM
12 127 (2.20%) Master's Degree
13 99 (1.72%) DBS Check
14 96 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 95 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
16 82 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
17 79 (1.37%) A+ Certification
17 79 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 64 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
19 53 (0.92%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 408 (7.08%) QA
2 302 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 273 (4.74%) Data Quality
4 168 (2.92%) GDPR
5 134 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 107 (1.86%) SLA
7 106 (1.84%) NIST
8 77 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 77 (1.34%) WCAG
9 66 (1.15%) PCI DSS
10 65 (1.13%) GRC
11 43 (0.75%) NCSC
12 36 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 35 (0.61%) PMO
14 27 (0.47%) NIST 800
15 18 (0.31%) ISO 9001
15 18 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.30%) HIPAA
17 12 (0.21%) GMP
18 11 (0.19%) IFRS
System Software
1 351 (6.09%) Docker
2 319 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 99 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 98 (1.70%) Hyper-V
5 61 (1.06%) Firmware
6 33 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 32 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
8 25 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.31%) vSphere
10 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.087%) KVM
13 4 (0.069%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.052%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.035%) IAG
15 2 (0.035%) ProxySG
15 2 (0.035%) UAG
15 2 (0.035%) Xen
16 1 (0.017%) Apache Flume
16 1 (0.017%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 434 (7.53%) Kubernetes
2 175 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 104 (1.80%) Grafana
4 102 (1.77%) Ansible
5 51 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 31 (0.54%) Puppet
6 31 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (0.50%) Argo
8 23 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.28%) SCCM
10 14 (0.24%) CloudHub
11 12 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 10 (0.17%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 9 (0.16%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.14%) Kibana
14 8 (0.14%) Nmap
14 8 (0.14%) Packer
15 7 (0.12%) HP Fortify
15 7 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 1,380 (23.95%) Microsoft
2 385 (6.68%) ForeScout
3 180 (3.12%) Google
4 148 (2.57%) Oracle
5 119 (2.07%) VMware
6 117 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 114 (1.98%) SAP
7 114 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 111 (1.93%) Databricks
9 105 (1.82%) Cisco
10 91 (1.58%) Adobe
11 74 (1.28%) CyberArk
12 50 (0.87%) Fortinet
13 45 (0.78%) Splunk
14 44 (0.76%) Palo Alto
15 43 (0.75%) Apple
16 40 (0.69%) Workday
17 38 (0.66%) OpenAI
18 35 (0.61%) YouTube
19 29 (0.50%) IBM