Mentoring Jobs

Mentorship
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 23 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 +11
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 4,292 7,747 12,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.23% 7.88% 12.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.82% 9.16% 12.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,127 5,054 4,284
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,329 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +11.25%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £96,539 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,965 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.82% -7.26% +8.70%

All Process and 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 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
England +2 3,848 £65,000 +4.00% 3,501
UK excluding London +6 3,060 £62,500 +7.82% 2,035
Work from Home -1 1,373 £67,500 +5.34% 2,031
London -4 1,069 £77,500 -0.99% 1,687
South East +11 816 £62,000 +7.83% 404
North of England -23 698 £62,779 +4.63% 648
Midlands +6 596 £60,853 +21.71% 318
North West -30 457 £62,500 +7.82% 396
East of England +32 371 £62,500 +13.28% 175
West Midlands -4 321 £62,500 +8.70% 184
East Midlands +11 273 £60,000 +36.36% 133
South West +7 265 £61,500 +11.47% 248
Scotland +25 237 £55,000 -15.38% 160
Yorkshire -21 183 £69,018 +12.76% 180
Wales +6 83 £65,000 +10.54% 80
North East -19 58 £55,000 -12.00% 75
Northern Ireland -8 10 £60,000 +26.32% 32
Channel Islands - 1 £97,500 -

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 91 (2.12%) SharePoint
2 64 (1.49%) Confluence
3 58 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (0.98%) Apache
5 41 (0.96%) CMS
6 25 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 25 (0.58%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.30%) OpenEdge
8 10 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 9 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 9 (0.21%) nginx
9 9 (0.21%) SAS
10 8 (0.19%) Camunda
11 6 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.12%) WordPress
13 4 (0.093%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.093%) Liferay
14 3 (0.070%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 161 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 93 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.33%) AutoCAD
6 13 (0.30%) Simulink
7 11 (0.26%) Maya
8 10 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 9 (0.21%) Sketch
9 9 (0.21%) Trello
10 8 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
11 6 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.070%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.047%) GNU Octave
13 2 (0.047%) Moqups
13 2 (0.047%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.023%) InDesign
14 1 (0.023%) InVision
Business Applications
1 39 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.56%) Ripple
2 24 (0.56%) Ripple XRP
3 22 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
4 19 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.093%) iTrent
9 4 (0.093%) Orchestrade
9 4 (0.093%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 4 (0.093%) Relativity
9 4 (0.093%) Ringtail
9 4 (0.093%) Veritas eDiscovery
10 3 (0.070%) CA PPM
10 3 (0.070%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.070%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.070%) Shopify
10 3 (0.070%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 816 (19.01%) Azure
2 626 (14.59%) AWS
3 232 (5.41%) Power Platform
4 204 (4.75%) GCP
5 186 (4.33%) SaaS
6 159 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 154 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
8 120 (2.80%) GitHub
9 112 (2.61%) Serverless
10 75 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
11 68 (1.58%) PaaS
12 67 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
12 67 (1.56%) Entra ID
13 60 (1.40%) PowerApps
14 58 (1.35%) Amazon S3
15 56 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
16 55 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
17 52 (1.21%) Power Automate
18 45 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
19 39 (0.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 450 (10.48%) Wi-Fi
2 443 (10.32%) Wireless
3 436 (10.16%) 5G
4 425 (9.90%) Bluetooth
5 422 (9.83%) GSM
6 420 (9.79%) LTE
6 420 (9.79%) UMTS
7 179 (4.17%) Network Security
8 132 (3.08%) VPN
9 130 (3.03%) Firewall
10 111 (2.59%) Internet
11 104 (2.42%) TCP/IP
12 102 (2.38%) WLAN
13 72 (1.68%) WAN
14 44 (1.03%) LAN
15 38 (0.89%) SD-WAN
16 34 (0.79%) DNS
17 21 (0.49%) VLAN
18 19 (0.44%) VoIP
19 16 (0.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (3.82%) Power BI
2 155 (3.61%) SQL Server
3 115 (2.68%) Tableau
4 109 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
5 101 (2.35%) NoSQL
6 90 (2.10%) MongoDB
7 87 (2.03%) Data Lake
8 86 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
9 82 (1.91%) Big Data
10 77 (1.79%) Relational Database
11 52 (1.21%) DynamoDB
12 48 (1.12%) MySQL
13 41 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 33 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
15 32 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
16 31 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
17 29 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 28 (0.65%) RDBMS
19 26 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
20 25 (0.58%) Looker
Development Applications
1 196 (4.57%) Git
2 177 (4.12%) Rational DOORS
3 163 (3.80%) JIRA
4 104 (2.42%) Jenkins
5 74 (1.72%) Cucumber
6 64 (1.49%) Robot Framework
7 57 (1.33%) GitLab
8 54 (1.26%) Selenium
9 34 (0.79%) SonarQube
10 29 (0.68%) Eclipse
11 27 (0.63%) Visual Studio
12 26 (0.61%) Eclipse RCP
13 23 (0.54%) Postman
14 22 (0.51%) Maven
15 18 (0.42%) Bitbucket
15 18 (0.42%) webpack
16 16 (0.37%) JUnit
17 13 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
18 12 (0.28%) Subversion
19 11 (0.26%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,289 (30.03%) Social Skills
2 928 (21.62%) Finance
3 586 (13.65%) Electronics
4 446 (10.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 418 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
6 251 (5.85%) Law
7 250 (5.82%) Banking
8 219 (5.10%) Retail
9 211 (4.92%) Telecoms
10 209 (4.87%) Manufacturing
11 185 (4.31%) Marketing
12 180 (4.19%) Games
13 171 (3.98%) Public Sector
14 134 (3.12%) Legal
15 116 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
16 83 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
17 73 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
18 60 (1.40%) Financial Institution
19 58 (1.35%) Advertising
20 36 (0.84%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,185 (27.61%) Senior
2 763 (17.78%) Lead
3 511 (11.91%) Test Engineer
4 423 (9.86%) Electronics Engineer
5 420 (9.79%) Electronics Test Engineer
6 342 (7.97%) Developer
7 331 (7.71%) Architect
8 283 (6.59%) Software Engineer
9 240 (5.59%) Systems Engineer
10 176 (4.10%) Analyst
11 159 (3.70%) Senior Manager
12 157 (3.66%) Support Engineer
13 155 (3.61%) IT Support
14 134 (3.12%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 125 (2.91%) Engineering Manager
16 124 (2.89%) Senior Developer
17 118 (2.75%) IT Engineer
18 112 (2.61%) Team Leader
19 106 (2.47%) IT Support Engineer
20 105 (2.45%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (6.71%) React
2 275 (6.41%) .NET
3 188 (4.38%) Node.js
4 162 (3.77%) CSS
5 158 (3.68%) HTML
6 143 (3.33%) AngularJS
7 100 (2.33%) Kafka
8 95 (2.21%) Spring
9 91 (2.12%) RESTful
10 87 (2.03%) REST
11 80 (1.86%) Spring Boot
12 73 (1.70%) Middleware
13 70 (1.63%) .NET Framework
14 64 (1.49%) Vue
15 60 (1.40%) .NET Core
16 51 (1.19%) GraphQL
17 38 (0.89%) Next.js
17 38 (0.89%) React Native
18 37 (0.86%) SailPoint
18 37 (0.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 573 (13.35%) Driving Licence
2 287 (6.69%) Management Information System
3 236 (5.50%) Algorithms
4 147 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 115 (2.68%) Blockchain
6 92 (2.14%) Cloud Native
7 77 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 75 (1.75%) Onboarding
9 73 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
10 67 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
11 63 (1.47%) Robotics
12 59 (1.37%) Public Cloud
13 57 (1.33%) e-Learning
13 57 (1.33%) IoT
14 56 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
14 56 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
14 56 (1.30%) Virtual Team
15 49 (1.14%) Mobile App
15 49 (1.14%) Security Posture
16 48 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 411 (9.58%) Windows
2 359 (8.36%) Linux
3 67 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 54 (1.26%) Apple iOS
5 42 (0.98%) Android
6 38 (0.89%) Unix
7 21 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 16 (0.37%) Windows 10
10 15 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 15 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (0.23%) Windows Vista
12 6 (0.14%) VMS
13 3 (0.070%) Debian
13 3 (0.070%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.070%) zOS
14 2 (0.047%) CentOS
14 2 (0.047%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.047%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,452 (33.83%) Coaching
2 1,156 (26.93%) Agile
3 1,005 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
4 691 (16.10%) DevOps
5 667 (15.54%) Software Engineering
6 530 (12.35%) Validation
7 521 (12.14%) Customer Requirements
8 507 (11.81%) Project Management
9 490 (11.42%) CI/CD
10 480 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 480 (11.18%) Technical Leadership
11 455 (10.60%) Test Strategy
12 454 (10.58%) Analytics
13 437 (10.18%) Computer Science
14 433 (10.09%) Verification and Validation
15 385 (8.97%) Roadmaps
16 337 (7.85%) Artificial Intelligence
17 320 (7.46%) Test Automation
18 305 (7.11%) Microservices
19 283 (6.59%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 589 (13.72%) Python
2 489 (11.39%) SQL
3 464 (10.81%) JavaScript
4 411 (9.58%) Java
5 338 (7.88%) C#
6 232 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 197 (4.59%) PowerShell
8 160 (3.73%) R
9 124 (2.89%) Bash
10 116 (2.70%) C++
11 76 (1.77%) C
12 70 (1.63%) PHP
13 43 (1.00%) Go
14 31 (0.72%) PL/SQL
14 31 (0.72%) Rust
15 30 (0.70%) Ruby
16 29 (0.68%) Ada
17 23 (0.54%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.54%) VB.NET
18 20 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,592 (37.09%) Degree
2 490 (11.42%) BPSS Clearance
3 433 (10.09%) HND
4 295 (6.87%) Security Cleared
5 271 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 156 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
7 150 (3.49%) Chartered Engineer
7 150 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 147 (3.42%) SC Cleared
9 144 (3.36%) CISSP
10 143 (3.33%) CCNA
11 118 (2.75%) CCNP
12 102 (2.38%) Master's Degree
13 101 (2.35%) MCSE
14 100 (2.33%) MCP
15 95 (2.21%) LPIC
16 78 (1.82%) DV Cleared
17 64 (1.49%) DBS Check
18 59 (1.37%) Azure Certification
18 59 (1.37%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 343 (7.99%) QA
2 175 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 135 (3.15%) Data Quality
4 107 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 93 (2.17%) GDPR
6 85 (1.98%) Accessibility
7 62 (1.44%) NIST
8 61 (1.42%) ITGC
9 38 (0.89%) PMO
10 34 (0.79%) NCSC
11 31 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
12 29 (0.68%) SOC 2
13 26 (0.61%) HIPAA
14 22 (0.51%) PCI DSS
15 21 (0.49%) IFRS
16 20 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 20 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 18 (0.42%) PMBOK
18 17 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 17 (0.40%) GAAP
System Software
1 312 (7.27%) Docker
2 137 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 46 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (0.93%) Firmware
5 27 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 15 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.33%) XenApp
8 6 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.12%) HDFS
9 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.070%) vSphere
12 1 (0.023%) KVM
12 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.023%) Snort
12 1 (0.023%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 335 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 208 (4.85%) Terraform
3 74 (1.72%) Ansible
4 48 (1.12%) Grafana
4 48 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 47 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 27 (0.63%) Progress Chef
7 19 (0.44%) SCCM
8 18 (0.42%) Puppet
9 11 (0.26%) QRadar
9 11 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.21%) Argo
11 8 (0.19%) CASB
12 7 (0.16%) CA Endevor
13 6 (0.14%) Proxmox
14 5 (0.12%) Kibana
14 5 (0.12%) Nagios
14 5 (0.12%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.093%) Graylog
15 4 (0.093%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 664 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 249 (5.80%) IBM
3 189 (4.40%) Cisco
4 126 (2.94%) Google
4 126 (2.94%) Oracle
5 87 (2.03%) Databricks
6 85 (1.98%) SAP
7 80 (1.86%) ServiceNow
8 70 (1.63%) BT
9 68 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 67 (1.56%) VMware
11 64 (1.49%) Salesforce
12 43 (1.00%) Adobe
13 27 (0.63%) Citrix
14 26 (0.61%) Okta
15 25 (0.58%) Meraki
16 24 (0.56%) Informatica
17 21 (0.49%) Palo Alto
18 20 (0.47%) CheckPoint
19 19 (0.44%) Workday