Mentoring Job Trends in the West Midlands

Mentorship
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 40 18
Rank change year-on-year +12 -22 +31
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 381 173 450
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 4.23% 5.29% 7.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.08% 6.08% 9.73%
Number of salaries quoted 225 103 151
10th Percentile £41,200 £26,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £28,250 £46,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,625 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £79,225
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.84% -4.62% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,268 2,845 4,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.58% 87.03% 81.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,563 1,742 2,230
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,009 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +8.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Mentoring
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in the West Midlands

Mentoring
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Birmingham +7 202 £63,076 +9.70% 129
Shropshire +10 34 £62,500 -3.85% 21
Warwickshire -11 31 £57,500 -9.80% 32
Worcestershire +3 30 £60,000 -5.14% 25
Coventry -5 28 £70,000 +159.26% 19
Staffordshire +16 23 £67,500 +54.29% 35
Solihull +13 13 £65,000 -13.33% 19
Herefordshire -13 6 £80,000 +10.34% 6
Wolverhampton - 5 - - 11
Walsall +8 4 £40,750 -43.79% 4
Mentoring
England

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 14 (3.67%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (1.84%) Confluence
4 4 (1.05%) PowerFactory
5 3 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.52%) ArchestrA
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Moodle
7 1 (0.26%) SAS
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (1.57%) AutoCAD
2 5 (1.31%) Revit
3 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.79%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.26%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 11 (2.89%) Cloudability
2 4 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.79%) Misys Midas
3 3 (0.79%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.52%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 148 (38.85%) Azure
2 88 (23.10%) AWS
3 34 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (8.14%) GCP
5 29 (7.61%) Entra ID
6 25 (6.56%) SaaS
7 21 (5.51%) Power Platform
8 16 (4.20%) Microsoft Purview
9 14 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.84%) Serverless
13 6 (1.57%) PaaS
13 6 (1.57%) Power Automate
14 5 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (1.31%) Azure Databricks
14 5 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (1.31%) dbt
15 4 (1.05%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.94%) Firewall
2 9 (2.36%) Internet
3 7 (1.84%) VoIP
3 7 (1.84%) VPN
4 5 (1.31%) DHCP
4 5 (1.31%) DNS
5 4 (1.05%) Wireless
6 3 (0.79%) Broadband
6 3 (0.79%) Network Security
6 3 (0.79%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.79%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.52%) HTTP
7 2 (0.52%) Intranet
7 2 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.26%) CTI
8 1 (0.26%) J1939
8 1 (0.26%) LoRaWAN
8 1 (0.26%) MQTT
8 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.94%) Power BI
2 14 (3.67%) MongoDB
3 10 (2.62%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.10%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.84%) Metadata
5 7 (1.84%) Metadata Repository
6 6 (1.57%) Big Data
7 5 (1.31%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.31%) Data Mining
7 5 (1.31%) Oracle BI EE
7 5 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.31%) QlikView
7 5 (1.31%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.31%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.31%) Star Schema
7 5 (1.31%) Tableau
8 4 (1.05%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (6.56%) Git
2 21 (5.51%) JUnit
3 20 (5.25%) GitLab
4 16 (4.20%) Cucumber
5 15 (3.94%) Selenium
6 14 (3.67%) Maven
6 14 (3.67%) Mockito
6 14 (3.67%) Postman
7 9 (2.36%) Gatling
7 9 (2.36%) Jenkins
7 9 (2.36%) JIRA
7 9 (2.36%) JMeter
8 5 (1.31%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.31%) SoapUI
8 5 (1.31%) Zephyr
9 4 (1.05%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.05%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.79%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.79%) HP UFT
10 3 (0.79%) REST Assured
General
1 114 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 68 (17.85%) Finance
2 68 (17.85%) Public Sector
3 36 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (9.45%) Legal
4 30 (7.87%) Marketing
5 24 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (3.41%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.15%) Banking
9 11 (2.89%) Retail
10 7 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.57%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.57%) Automotive
11 6 (1.57%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.57%) Law
12 5 (1.31%) General Ledger
12 5 (1.31%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.05%) Advertising
13 4 (1.05%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 112 (29.40%) Senior
2 60 (15.75%) Lead
3 43 (11.29%) Analyst
3 43 (11.29%) Developer
4 30 (7.87%) Senior Developer
5 26 (6.82%) Architect
5 26 (6.82%) IT Manager
6 20 (5.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 20 (5.25%) Junior
6 20 (5.25%) Junior Analyst
6 20 (5.25%) Junior Security Analyst
6 20 (5.25%) Security Analyst
7 18 (4.72%) Data Engineer
8 17 (4.46%) Sales Executive
9 16 (4.20%) Marketing Executive
9 16 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (3.94%) Java Developer
11 13 (3.41%) Lead Developer
12 12 (3.15%) Service Manager
13 11 (2.89%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.92%) React
2 33 (8.66%) REST
3 25 (6.56%) Playwright
3 25 (6.56%) Spring
4 16 (4.20%) Terraform
5 15 (3.94%) .NET
6 13 (3.41%) XML
7 11 (2.89%) Kafka
7 11 (2.89%) Spring Boot
8 10 (2.62%) JSON
8 10 (2.62%) RESTful
9 9 (2.36%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.57%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.57%) PySpark
10 6 (1.57%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.57%) SOAP
10 6 (1.57%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.31%) ADO
11 5 (1.31%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (1.31%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.99%) Onboarding
2 17 (4.46%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.20%) Driving Licence
4 13 (3.41%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.36%) Taxonomies
7 8 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.10%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.84%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.84%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.57%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.57%) SCADA
10 5 (1.31%) FMCG
10 5 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.31%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.05%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.05%) IoT
11 4 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.56%) Linux
2 19 (4.99%) Windows
3 10 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.57%) Unix
5 3 (0.79%) Android
5 3 (0.79%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.79%) VMS
6 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (31.76%) Coaching
2 114 (29.92%) Agile
3 94 (24.67%) AI
4 92 (24.15%) CI/CD
4 92 (24.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 82 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (18.37%) Technical Leadership
7 62 (16.27%) Cybersecurity
8 53 (13.91%) DevOps
9 47 (12.34%) Stakeholder Management
9 47 (12.34%) Test Automation
10 42 (11.02%) Analytics
11 38 (9.97%) Scrum
12 33 (8.66%) Microservices
13 32 (8.40%) Roadmaps
14 31 (8.14%) Decision-Making
15 30 (7.87%) Service Delivery
16 28 (7.35%) Sprint Planning
16 28 (7.35%) Technical Architecture
17 27 (7.09%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 54 (14.17%) Java
2 51 (13.39%) SQL
3 49 (12.86%) JavaScript
4 27 (7.09%) C#
5 23 (6.04%) TypeScript
6 18 (4.72%) PL/SQL
7 15 (3.94%) Python
8 13 (3.41%) Bash
9 7 (1.84%) C++
10 5 (1.31%) Go
10 5 (1.31%) R
10 5 (1.31%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.52%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.52%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.26%) Bicep
12 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.26%) Scala
12 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 62 (16.27%) SC Cleared
3 55 (14.44%) Degree
4 35 (9.19%) Azure Certification
5 20 (5.25%) CompTIA CySA+
5 20 (5.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (2.89%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (2.62%) ISTQB
8 9 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.36%) ISEB
9 8 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.10%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.57%) CISSP
12 5 (1.31%) ACCA
13 4 (1.05%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.05%) HND
14 3 (0.79%) CISA
14 3 (0.79%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.45%) Accessibility
2 28 (7.35%) QA
3 20 (5.25%) Data Quality
4 18 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (4.20%) WCAG
6 14 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (2.89%) SLA
8 5 (1.31%) GDPR
9 4 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.05%) NIST
9 4 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.79%) COBIT
10 3 (0.79%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 1 (0.26%) NCSC
12 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (8.40%) Docker
2 25 (6.56%) Active Directory
3 20 (5.25%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (8.66%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.79%) Ansible
4 3 (0.79%) Grafana
4 3 (0.79%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.52%) Bosun
6 1 (0.26%) Argo
6 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 99 (25.98%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.77%) Oracle
3 20 (5.25%) ForeScout
4 18 (4.72%) ServiceNow
5 14 (3.67%) Google
6 13 (3.41%) Apple
6 13 (3.41%) Databricks
7 12 (3.15%) Adobe
8 10 (2.62%) Pega
9 9 (2.36%) SAP
10 5 (1.31%) Cisco
10 5 (1.31%) VMware
11 4 (1.05%) DIgSILENT
11 4 (1.05%) SonicWALL
12 3 (0.79%) Talend
12 3 (0.79%) Ubiquiti
12 3 (0.79%) Veracode
13 2 (0.52%) HubSpot
13 2 (0.52%) JD Edwards
13 2 (0.52%) Proofpoint