Mentoring Job Trends in Wales

Mentorship
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 -10
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 121 50 130
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 7.70% 9.42% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.30% 10.80% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 45 40 105
10th Percentile £31,100 £52,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £60,932 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £68,500 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year -34.31% +16.50% +29.24%
75th Percentile £60,000 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,050 - £76,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -10.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,071 463 1,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 68.17% 87.19% 77.94%
Number of salaries quoted 671 275 1,057
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,733 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +12.22% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in Wales

Mentoring
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Wales over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in Wales

Mentoring
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Wales region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
South Wales +3 72 £45,000 -28.85% 33
West Wales +7 39 £64,479 +1.04% 3
Mid Wales - 3 £65,000 -
North Wales -10 2 £45,000 +67.11% 1
Dyfed - 2 £40,000 -
Mentoring
UK

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (63.64%) Azure
2 11 (9.09%) AWS
3 7 (5.79%) GitHub
3 7 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (4.96%) Serverless
5 5 (4.13%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.48%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.65%) Azure API Management
8 2 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.65%) Figma
8 2 (1.65%) GCP
8 2 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.83%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.61%) Firewall
2 4 (3.31%) Internet
3 1 (0.83%) VoIP
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.65%) GIS
1 2 (1.65%) Power BI
1 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Git
2 3 (2.48%) JIRA
3 2 (1.65%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.65%) git-flow
3 2 (1.65%) GitLab
3 2 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.65%) JMeter
3 2 (1.65%) Selenium
4 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.83%) JUnit
4 1 (0.83%) Moq
4 1 (0.83%) MSTest
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.83%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.83%) Storybook
4 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.83%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.92%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.31%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.31%) Multimedia
6 3 (2.48%) Finance
6 3 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.48%) Legal
6 3 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Marketing
7 2 (1.65%) Welsh Language
8 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Electronics
8 1 (0.83%) Law
8 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Police
Job Titles
1 63 (52.07%) Analyst
2 60 (49.59%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 60 (49.59%) Junior
2 60 (49.59%) Junior Analyst
2 60 (49.59%) Junior Security Analyst
2 60 (49.59%) Security Analyst
3 16 (13.22%) Lead
4 15 (12.40%) Senior
5 9 (7.44%) Developer
6 8 (6.61%) Lead Programmer
6 8 (6.61%) Programmer
7 7 (5.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) 3rd Line Support
7 7 (5.79%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) IT Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) IT Support
7 7 (5.79%) IT Support Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Software Developer
7 7 (5.79%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.96%) CSS
1 6 (4.96%) Node.js
2 5 (4.13%) HTML
3 4 (3.31%) .NET
3 4 (3.31%) Web Services
4 3 (2.48%) RESTful
5 2 (1.65%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.65%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.65%) Next.js
5 2 (1.65%) React
6 1 (0.83%) Bootstrap
6 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.83%) FHIR
6 1 (0.83%) Flutter
6 1 (0.83%) Kafka
6 1 (0.83%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.83%) React Native
6 1 (0.83%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.83%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (0.83%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (3.31%) Operational Technology
2 3 (2.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (2.48%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.48%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.83%) Blog
4 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.83%) e-Learning
4 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.83%) Replication
4 1 (0.83%) Robotics
4 1 (0.83%) SCADA
4 1 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.44%) Windows
2 7 (5.79%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.48%) Linux
4 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (53.72%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (14.05%) Agile
3 14 (11.57%) DevOps
4 13 (10.74%) Coaching
5 12 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (9.09%) ITIL
6 11 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (7.44%) CI/CD
8 8 (6.61%) Problem Management
8 8 (6.61%) Roadmaps
8 8 (6.61%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (6.61%) Test Automation
9 7 (5.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (5.79%) Kalman Filter
9 7 (5.79%) Scrum
9 7 (5.79%) Security Management
9 7 (5.79%) Web Filtering
10 6 (4.96%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (4.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (4.96%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.44%) Python
2 8 (6.61%) SQL
3 7 (5.79%) C#
3 7 (5.79%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.48%) Java
4 3 (2.48%) R
5 2 (1.65%) C
5 2 (1.65%) C++
5 2 (1.65%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.65%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.83%) Bash
6 1 (0.83%) Dart
6 1 (0.83%) Delphi
6 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (52.89%) Azure Certification
2 61 (50.41%) CompTIA Security+
3 60 (49.59%) CompTIA CySA+
4 13 (10.74%) SC Cleared
4 13 (10.74%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.79%) Degree
6 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.48%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (2.48%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.83%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.83%) CEH
8 1 (0.83%) CIPD
8 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.83%) MCSE
8 1 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.31%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 3 (2.48%) NIST
3 2 (1.65%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.83%) GAAP
4 1 (0.83%) HL7
4 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.61%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.79%) Hyper-V
2 7 (5.79%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.79%) Proxmox
1 7 (5.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 7 (5.79%) Terraform
2 4 (3.31%) Argo
3 2 (1.65%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.83%) Grafana
Vendors
1 79 (65.29%) Microsoft
2 60 (49.59%) ForeScout
3 7 (5.79%) VMware
4 4 (3.31%) PagerDuty
5 3 (2.48%) Oracle
6 2 (1.65%) ESRI
7 1 (0.83%) Adobe
7 1 (0.83%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.83%) Sage