Mentoring Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Mentorship
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 17 29
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +2
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 1,362 3,632 3,573
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.11% 10.73% 8.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.78% 11.71% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 926 2,739 2,367
10th Percentile £40,988 £40,988 £43,097
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,644 £55,485
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,080 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.34% -8.46% +9.16%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £87,460
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,650 £106,275
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Mentoring
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mentoring trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Mentoring
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Mentoring.

Mentoring salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Mentoring
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Mentoring salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 45 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (2.42%) Confluence
3 27 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 25 (1.84%) Jupyter
5 15 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.95%) OpenEdge
7 8 (0.59%) CMS
8 6 (0.44%) Apache
9 5 (0.37%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.22%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.15%) ThingWorx
12 1 (0.073%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.073%) Mendix
12 1 (0.073%) SAS
Applications
1 45 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.29%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.29%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.22%) Sketch
7 2 (0.15%) Moqups
7 2 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.073%) InDesign
8 1 (0.073%) InVision
8 1 (0.073%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.073%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.51%) Oracle Applications
5 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.29%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 3 (0.22%) CA PPM
7 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.15%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.15%) Shopify
9 1 (0.073%) BASE24
9 1 (0.073%) Magento
9 1 (0.073%) Maximo
9 1 (0.073%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 345 (25.33%) Azure
2 248 (18.21%) AWS
3 116 (8.52%) Power Platform
4 101 (7.42%) GCP
5 89 (6.53%) SaaS
6 76 (5.58%) GitHub
7 72 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
9 61 (4.48%) Serverless
10 46 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
11 35 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
12 31 (2.28%) Amazon S3
13 28 (2.06%) Entra ID
13 28 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (1.98%) PowerApps
15 19 (1.40%) PaaS
16 18 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
17 16 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (1.17%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.89%) Firewall
2 39 (2.86%) WAN
3 28 (2.06%) Network Security
4 26 (1.91%) LAN
5 20 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (1.32%) SD-WAN
6 18 (1.32%) VPN
7 15 (1.10%) DNS
8 13 (0.95%) DHCP
9 12 (0.88%) HTTP
10 11 (0.81%) Wireless
11 10 (0.73%) VLAN
12 9 (0.66%) SAN
13 8 (0.59%) 5G
13 8 (0.59%) NAS
14 7 (0.51%) TCP/IP
15 6 (0.44%) Internet
15 6 (0.44%) IPsec
16 5 (0.37%) SSH
16 5 (0.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.53%) SQL Server
2 65 (4.77%) Power BI
3 56 (4.11%) Tableau
4 53 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (3.16%) Big Data
7 40 (2.94%) Data Lake
8 37 (2.72%) NoSQL
9 33 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 30 (2.20%) Relational Database
11 27 (1.98%) MongoDB
12 22 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 21 (1.54%) MySQL
14 19 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (1.40%) BigQuery
15 17 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
15 17 (1.25%) DB2
16 16 (1.17%) Looker
17 14 (1.03%) DynamoDB
18 13 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 102 (7.49%) Git
2 70 (5.14%) Jenkins
3 55 (4.04%) JIRA
4 30 (2.20%) SonarQube
5 29 (2.13%) GitLab
6 23 (1.69%) Visual Studio
7 17 (1.25%) Selenium
8 15 (1.10%) Postman
9 13 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
10 9 (0.66%) IBM UrbanCode
10 9 (0.66%) JUnit
10 9 (0.66%) webpack
11 8 (0.59%) Gradle
11 8 (0.59%) Subversion
12 7 (0.51%) SoapUI
12 7 (0.51%) Xcode
13 6 (0.44%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.44%) Moq
13 6 (0.44%) SpecFlow
14 5 (0.37%) NUnit
General
1 500 (36.71%) Social Skills
2 325 (23.86%) Finance
3 141 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
3 141 (10.35%) Banking
4 131 (9.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 92 (6.75%) Law
6 85 (6.24%) Public Sector
7 84 (6.17%) Marketing
8 55 (4.04%) Retail
9 49 (3.60%) Legal
10 44 (3.23%) Advertising
10 44 (3.23%) Games
11 38 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
13 27 (1.98%) Tech for Good
14 24 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.76%) Local Government
15 23 (1.69%) German Language
16 22 (1.62%) Electronics
17 20 (1.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 397 (29.15%) Senior
2 308 (22.61%) Lead
3 147 (10.79%) Developer
4 137 (10.06%) Software Engineer
5 89 (6.53%) Architect
6 85 (6.24%) Analyst
7 60 (4.41%) Senior Developer
8 59 (4.33%) Team Leader
9 56 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 55 (4.04%) Data Engineer
11 41 (3.01%) Lead Developer
11 41 (3.01%) Support Engineer
12 38 (2.79%) Data Scientist
13 37 (2.72%) Account Manager
13 37 (2.72%) Consultant
13 37 (2.72%) IT Manager
14 34 (2.50%) Senior Data Engineer
14 34 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
14 34 (2.50%) Strategic Account Manager
15 33 (2.42%) Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (10.94%) .NET
2 108 (7.93%) React
3 74 (5.43%) Node.js
4 66 (4.85%) Kafka
5 50 (3.67%) AngularJS
5 50 (3.67%) CSS
6 48 (3.52%) Spring
7 45 (3.30%) RESTful
8 44 (3.23%) HTML
9 40 (2.94%) REST
10 36 (2.64%) .NET Framework
10 36 (2.64%) SailPoint
11 30 (2.20%) Spring Boot
12 28 (2.06%) Vue
13 26 (1.91%) .NET Core
14 17 (1.25%) Laravel
15 15 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (1.10%) GraphQL
15 15 (1.10%) Middleware
16 14 (1.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 106 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 85 (6.24%) Management Information System
3 56 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 51 (3.74%) Algorithms
5 45 (3.30%) Virtual Team
6 42 (3.08%) Driving Licence
7 37 (2.72%) Digital Media
7 37 (2.72%) Marketing Technology
8 35 (2.57%) NHS
9 33 (2.42%) Public Cloud
10 29 (2.13%) Cloud Native
11 25 (1.84%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.76%) Data Centre
12 24 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (1.69%) Cyberattack
13 23 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.54%) IoT
14 21 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
15 20 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 93 (6.83%) Windows
2 82 (6.02%) Linux
3 38 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.28%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.84%) Android
6 16 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (0.73%) Unix
8 6 (0.44%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.15%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.15%) zOS
10 1 (0.073%) Debian
10 1 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (34.65%) Agile
2 361 (26.51%) Software Engineering
3 339 (24.89%) Coaching
4 332 (24.38%) DevOps
5 306 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
6 218 (16.01%) CI/CD
7 210 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 179 (13.14%) Microservices
9 176 (12.92%) Project Management
10 167 (12.26%) Technical Leadership
11 158 (11.60%) Analytics
12 151 (11.09%) Roadmaps
13 116 (8.52%) Computer Science
14 104 (7.64%) Decision-Making
15 103 (7.56%) Test Automation
16 99 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
16 99 (7.27%) Collaborative Working
16 99 (7.27%) TDD
17 95 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence
18 91 (6.68%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 257 (18.87%) SQL
2 239 (17.55%) Python
3 202 (14.83%) Java
4 179 (13.14%) JavaScript
5 167 (12.26%) C#
6 99 (7.27%) TypeScript
7 75 (5.51%) PowerShell
8 44 (3.23%) PHP
9 37 (2.72%) C++
10 33 (2.42%) C
11 29 (2.13%) Bash
12 27 (1.98%) PL/SQL
13 22 (1.62%) Go
14 20 (1.47%) VB.NET
15 19 (1.40%) Ruby
15 19 (1.40%) T-SQL
16 18 (1.32%) R
17 14 (1.03%) Swift
18 13 (0.95%) Kotlin
19 12 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 270 (19.82%) Degree
2 130 (9.54%) Security Cleared
3 78 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 74 (5.43%) SC Cleared
5 42 (3.08%) Chartered Engineer
5 42 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 40 (2.94%) DBS Check
7 32 (2.35%) DV Cleared
8 30 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.76%) CISSP
10 23 (1.69%) AWS Certification
11 22 (1.62%) Azure Certification
12 18 (1.32%) PMI Certification
13 17 (1.25%) ACCA
13 17 (1.25%) CISA
14 16 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 13 (0.95%) CCNP
15 13 (0.95%) HND
16 12 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (7.86%) QA
2 49 (3.60%) Accessibility
3 41 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 35 (2.57%) GDPR
5 30 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.47%) PMO
7 17 (1.25%) GAAP
7 17 (1.25%) IFRS
8 16 (1.17%) HIPAA
8 16 (1.17%) ITGC
8 16 (1.17%) NIST
9 12 (0.88%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.59%) NCSC
11 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.51%) SLA
12 6 (0.44%) CDISC
13 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.29%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.22%) P3O
14 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 167 (12.26%) Docker
2 75 (5.51%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.03%) XenApp
5 7 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.44%) Firmware
7 5 (0.37%) HDFS
7 5 (0.37%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 174 (12.78%) Kubernetes
2 88 (6.46%) Terraform
3 39 (2.86%) Ansible
4 21 (1.54%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.40%) Grafana
6 18 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.73%) Progress Chef
7 10 (0.73%) QRadar
8 7 (0.51%) CA Endevor
8 7 (0.51%) SCCM
9 5 (0.37%) Puppet
10 4 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.15%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.15%) SCOM
11 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.073%) Marathon
12 1 (0.073%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 213 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 56 (4.11%) Google
3 50 (3.67%) Oracle
4 37 (2.72%) Cisco
5 36 (2.64%) Salesforce
6 35 (2.57%) Databricks
7 34 (2.50%) VMware
8 25 (1.84%) Okta
9 22 (1.62%) Adobe
10 21 (1.54%) Meraki
10 21 (1.54%) SAP
10 21 (1.54%) ServiceNow
11 18 (1.32%) CheckPoint
12 16 (1.17%) Citrix
13 14 (1.03%) SonicWALL
14 11 (0.81%) Facebook
15 10 (0.73%) Palo Alto
16 9 (0.66%) PeopleSoft
16 9 (0.66%) YouTube
17 8 (0.59%) OpenAI