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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 14 25
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +18
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 7,738 13,140 14,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.88% 12.54% 9.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.16% 13.11% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,047 4,354 6,231
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,085 £38,500
25th Percentile £43,329 £51,833 £49,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,920
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +11.25% +0.67%
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 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
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 26 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 26 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 -10 6,786 £62,500 -10.71% 1,824
UK excluding London -16 5,535 £57,965 -7.26% 1,306
Work from Home +12 3,619 £64,080 -8.46% 814
North of England -4 1,971 £60,000 -4.00% 382
London +8 1,890 £78,273 -2.52% 646
South East -4 1,168 £57,500 -14.81% 259
North West -6 1,046 £57,965 -3.39% 222
Midlands -16 822 £50,000 -13.04% 217
Yorkshire +6 641 £61,206 -5.84% 119
South West -21 588 £57,500 +0.44% 183
West Midlands -11 512 £57,500 - 139
Scotland -41 506 £65,000 -6.40% 100
East Midlands -15 296 £44,000 -23.48% 77
North East +7 289 £62,500 +19.05% 44
East of England -31 283 £55,173 -8.05% 125
Wales -18 137 £58,800 +29.24% 47
Northern Ireland -6 63 £48,750 -7.14% 35
Isle of Man - 2 £36,000 - 2

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
1 145 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 139 (1.80%) Confluence
3 124 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 93 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 60 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 45 (0.58%) CMS
7 40 (0.52%) nginx
8 37 (0.48%) Tuxedo
9 36 (0.47%) Camunda
9 36 (0.47%) IIS
10 31 (0.40%) JBoss
11 30 (0.39%) Apache
12 29 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
13 27 (0.35%) WordPress
14 19 (0.25%) SAS
15 17 (0.22%) OpenStack
16 14 (0.18%) Tomcat
17 11 (0.14%) Umbraco
18 10 (0.13%) Drupal
19 8 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 642 (8.30%) 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 (0.28%) 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 (0.090%) SAP CRM
9 7 (0.090%) 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 1,524 (19.70%) Azure
2 1,372 (17.73%) AWS
3 607 (7.84%) GCP
4 407 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 328 (4.24%) SaaS
6 301 (3.89%) Power Platform
7 208 (2.69%) IBM Cloud
8 184 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
9 141 (1.82%) Serverless
10 128 (1.65%) Entra ID
11 122 (1.58%) Amazon S3
12 113 (1.46%) IaaS
13 107 (1.38%) GitHub
14 87 (1.12%) PaaS
15 86 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
16 82 (1.06%) dbt
17 73 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
17 73 (0.94%) OpenShift
18 72 (0.93%) OCI
19 66 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 486 (6.28%) Broadband
2 278 (3.59%) Firewall
3 152 (1.96%) WAN
4 113 (1.46%) DNS
5 104 (1.34%) LAN
6 100 (1.29%) VPN
7 80 (1.03%) 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 58 (0.75%) Internet
13 57 (0.74%) Wireless
14 56 (0.72%) VLAN
15 42 (0.54%) MPLS
15 42 (0.54%) OSPF
16 40 (0.52%) BGP
17 38 (0.49%) 5G
18 27 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 370 (4.78%) BigQuery
3 347 (4.48%) NoSQL
4 290 (3.75%) Looker
5 258 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 255 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
7 251 (3.24%) MongoDB
8 226 (2.92%) MySQL
9 225 (2.91%) Power BI
10 159 (2.05%) Big Data
11 146 (1.89%) Relational Database
12 138 (1.78%) DB2
13 109 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
14 90 (1.16%) Tableau
15 76 (0.98%) Data Lake
16 75 (0.97%) Oracle Database
17 48 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
18 46 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 45 (0.58%) DynamoDB
20 42 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 342 (4.42%) Git
2 258 (3.33%) JIRA
3 234 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 171 (2.21%) GitLab
5 80 (1.03%) Selenium
6 47 (0.61%) Visual Studio
7 40 (0.52%) Maven
8 39 (0.50%) IntelliJ
9 37 (0.48%) Cypress.io
10 36 (0.47%) CircleCI
11 35 (0.45%) JUnit
12 34 (0.44%) IBM UrbanCode
13 32 (0.41%) Bitbucket
14 30 (0.39%) Cucumber
14 30 (0.39%) TeamCity
15 28 (0.36%) NUnit
15 28 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
16 25 (0.32%) Gradle
16 25 (0.32%) Subversion
17 23 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 2,511 (32.45%) Social Skills
2 2,196 (28.38%) Finance
3 1,340 (17.32%) Analytical Skills
4 1,218 (15.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 964 (12.46%) Public Sector
6 729 (9.42%) Influencing Skills
7 484 (6.25%) Law
8 468 (6.05%) Marketing
9 281 (3.63%) Retail
10 279 (3.61%) Banking
11 252 (3.26%) Legal
12 184 (2.38%) Manufacturing
13 177 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
14 134 (1.73%) Telecoms
15 114 (1.47%) Games
16 105 (1.36%) Automotive
17 104 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
18 93 (1.20%) Electronics
19 88 (1.14%) Financial Institution
20 82 (1.06%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,979 (25.58%) Senior
2 1,561 (20.17%) Lead
3 938 (12.12%) Developer
4 826 (10.67%) Analyst
5 599 (7.74%) Architect
6 474 (6.13%) Software Engineer
7 363 (4.69%) Data Engineer
8 357 (4.61%) Senior Developer
9 310 (4.01%) Senior Manager
10 302 (3.90%) Senior Analyst
11 259 (3.35%) Lead Developer
12 238 (3.08%) Consultant
13 233 (3.01%) Technical Leader
14 218 (2.82%) Principal Engineer
15 215 (2.78%) Project Manager
16 205 (2.65%) Delivery Manager
17 202 (2.61%) Team Leader
18 190 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
19 178 (2.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 176 (2.27%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 625 (8.08%) .NET
2 578 (7.47%) React
3 457 (5.91%) HTML
4 416 (5.38%) CSS
5 339 (4.38%) AngularJS
6 304 (3.93%) Web Services
7 301 (3.89%) REST
8 250 (3.23%) RESTful
9 220 (2.84%) ASP.NET
10 205 (2.65%) Spring
11 194 (2.51%) Vue
12 175 (2.26%) Node.js
13 157 (2.03%) jQuery
14 155 (2.00%) XML
15 140 (1.81%) .NET Core
16 127 (1.64%) Spring Boot
17 126 (1.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 124 (1.60%) ASP.NET Core
19 122 (1.58%) JSON
20 119 (1.54%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 522 (6.75%) Self-Motivation
2 358 (4.63%) Product Ownership
3 328 (4.24%) Algorithms
4 321 (4.15%) Management Information System
5 272 (3.52%) Public Cloud
6 257 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 236 (3.05%) e-Learning
8 218 (2.82%) Data Centre
9 217 (2.80%) Blockchain
10 191 (2.47%) Data Structures
11 175 (2.26%) Cloud Native
12 121 (1.56%) IoT
13 111 (1.43%) Onboarding
14 110 (1.42%) Mobile App
15 91 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
16 89 (1.15%) Client/Server
17 84 (1.09%) Derivative
18 82 (1.06%) PMI
19 79 (1.02%) Driving Licence
20 76 (0.98%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 723 (9.34%) Windows
2 563 (7.28%) Linux
3 222 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 204 (2.64%) Apple iOS
5 191 (2.47%) Android
6 103 (1.33%) Unix
7 70 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 64 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
9 55 (0.71%) Windows 10
9 55 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
10 42 (0.54%) CentOS
11 32 (0.41%) Mac OS
12 19 (0.25%) Ubuntu
13 17 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 14 (0.18%) SUSE
15 12 (0.16%) AIX
16 10 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
16 10 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
17 8 (0.10%) Solaris
18 7 (0.090%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,261 (42.14%) Agile
2 2,884 (37.27%) Coaching
3 1,696 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
4 1,137 (14.69%) Decision-Making
5 1,092 (14.11%) DevOps
6 988 (12.77%) Software Engineering
7 846 (10.93%) Project Management
8 834 (10.78%) Roadmaps
9 717 (9.27%) Actionable Insight
10 603 (7.79%) Analytics
10 603 (7.79%) CI/CD
11 593 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 573 (7.41%) Computer Science
13 557 (7.20%) Cybersecurity
14 498 (6.44%) Business Case
15 495 (6.40%) Budgeting
16 492 (6.36%) Project Delivery
17 472 (6.10%) Data Science
17 472 (6.10%) Test Automation
18 462 (5.97%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 1,139 (14.72%) SQL
2 820 (10.60%) Java
3 766 (9.90%) Python
4 742 (9.59%) C#
5 727 (9.40%) JavaScript
6 246 (3.18%) TypeScript
7 217 (2.80%) PowerShell
8 162 (2.09%) C++
9 149 (1.93%) PHP
10 134 (1.73%) C
11 110 (1.42%) Scala
12 104 (1.34%) Bash
13 95 (1.23%) T-SQL
14 80 (1.03%) Ruby
15 72 (0.93%) Kotlin
16 68 (0.88%) COBOL
16 68 (0.88%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 67 (0.87%) Go
18 43 (0.56%) Swift
19 40 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 1,275 (16.48%) Degree
2 581 (7.51%) Security Cleared
3 451 (5.83%) ACCA
3 451 (5.83%) CIMA
4 311 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 275 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 145 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 127 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 123 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
9 110 (1.42%) PMI Certification
10 101 (1.31%) DBS Check
11 83 (1.07%) CISSP
12 82 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 80 (1.03%) CCNA
14 76 (0.98%) Azure Certification
15 73 (0.94%) AWS Certification
16 67 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
17 63 (0.81%) APMP
18 53 (0.68%) PMP
19 45 (0.58%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 492 (6.36%) QA
2 362 (4.68%) GDPR
3 254 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 179 (2.31%) SLA
5 150 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 94 (1.21%) 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 43 (0.56%) 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
1 395 (5.10%) Docker
2 323 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 146 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 57 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 53 (0.68%) Firmware
7 29 (0.37%) vSphere
8 28 (0.36%) 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 5 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.039%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.026%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 433 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 376 (4.86%) Terraform
3 186 (2.40%) Ansible
4 96 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 91 (1.18%) Prometheus
6 52 (0.67%) Progress Chef
7 45 (0.58%) 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 1,585 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 543 (7.02%) Google
3 306 (3.95%) Oracle
4 272 (3.52%) ServiceNow
5 264 (3.41%) IBM
6 252 (3.26%) Red Hat
7 250 (3.23%) VMware
8 129 (1.67%) Cisco
9 126 (1.63%) Dell
10 104 (1.34%) SAP
11 95 (1.23%) Dynatrace
12 81 (1.05%) YouTube
13 73 (0.94%) 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