Mentoring Contracts

Mentorship
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Mentoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mentoring over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 88 90
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,124 1,606 2,496
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.59% 2.71% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 3.02% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 749 1,055 1,729
10th Percentile £389 £403 £406
25th Percentile £463 £478 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £825 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £507
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.48% +1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 32 67
10th Percentile £15.17 £28.23 £10.91
25th Percentile £23.34 £59.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +114.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.49 £83.31 £56.67
90th Percentile £60.62 £85.00 £68.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -53.33% +114.29% +2.94%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mentoring.

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mentoring.

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +14 993 £550 -6.30% 1,922
UK excluding London +16 533 £525 -4.55% 1,387
London +4 487 £590 -9.23% 655
Work from Home +17 402 £550 -4.35% 894
North of England +47 183 £500 -9.09% 395
South East -3 111 £533 -7.39% 277
North West +28 109 £493 -10.36% 213
South West +21 102 £600 +1.95% 180
Yorkshire +47 72 £550 - 138
Midlands -2 65 £538 +13.26% 238
Scotland -10 54 £503 -4.19% 99
West Midlands -1 43 £570 +18.75% 147
East Midlands +3 22 £406 -10.33% 90
East of England -7 22 £483 -7.21% 154
Northern Ireland +22 16 £600 +50.00% 38
Wales +14 6 £200 -61.63% 47
North East +13 2 £550 -1.12% 48
Isle of Man - 2 - - 1

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 27 (2.40%) Confluence
2 17 (1.51%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.07%) Apache
4 11 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.53%) IIS
8 5 (0.44%) SAS
8 5 (0.44%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.36%) govService
9 4 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) Drupal
11 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.18%) Mendix
11 2 (0.18%) nginx
12 1 (0.089%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.089%) Appian
12 1 (0.089%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 17 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.36%) InVision
4 4 (0.36%) Sketch
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.18%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.18%) Lectora
6 1 (0.089%) Revit
6 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.089%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 10 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.36%) Endur
4 3 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.27%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.27%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.18%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.18%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.18%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.089%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 205 (18.24%) Azure
2 179 (15.93%) AWS
3 60 (5.34%) Power Platform
4 58 (5.16%) Serverless
5 55 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
6 39 (3.47%) GCP
7 38 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
8 34 (3.02%) GitHub
9 31 (2.76%) SaaS
10 30 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
10 30 (2.67%) PaaS
11 25 (2.22%) Amazon S3
12 24 (2.14%) IaaS
13 19 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (1.60%) Azure API Management
15 16 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (1.25%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.25%) Firewall
2 39 (3.47%) Network Security
3 33 (2.94%) DNS
4 27 (2.40%) VPN
4 27 (2.40%) WAN
5 22 (1.96%) LAN
6 18 (1.60%) DHCP
6 18 (1.60%) Internet
7 16 (1.42%) Wireless
8 15 (1.33%) TCP/IP
9 13 (1.16%) BGP
9 13 (1.16%) SAN
10 12 (1.07%) WLAN
11 11 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
11 11 (0.98%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
12 10 (0.89%) OSPF
13 9 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
13 9 (0.80%) VoIP
14 8 (0.71%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (5.07%) SQL Server
3 48 (4.27%) Relational Database
4 47 (4.18%) Power BI
5 27 (2.40%) NoSQL
6 26 (2.31%) MongoDB
7 21 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (1.60%) Big Data
9 17 (1.51%) MySQL
10 16 (1.42%) Tableau
11 15 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
13 13 (1.16%) RDBMS
14 11 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (0.89%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (0.62%) Hadoop
17 6 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 62 (5.52%) Git
2 60 (5.34%) JIRA
3 34 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.22%) JUnit
5 22 (1.96%) GitLab
6 19 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 12 (1.07%) Maven
8 11 (0.98%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.71%) Gradle
10 7 (0.62%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
11 6 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.53%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.53%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.44%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.44%) Selenium
13 4 (0.36%) Axure RP
13 4 (0.36%) Pylint
13 4 (0.36%) RStudio
14 3 (0.27%) Appium
General
1 393 (34.96%) Social Skills
2 285 (25.36%) Finance
3 163 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (14.41%) Public Sector
5 73 (6.49%) Banking
6 49 (4.36%) Front Office
7 44 (3.91%) Telecoms
8 41 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
9 37 (3.29%) Back Office
9 37 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.58%) Law
10 29 (2.58%) Marketing
11 23 (2.05%) Retail
12 22 (1.96%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.96%) Military
13 21 (1.87%) Legal
14 19 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (1.25%) Games
16 13 (1.16%) Local Government
17 11 (0.98%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 185 (16.46%) Senior
2 175 (15.57%) Lead
3 168 (14.95%) Developer
4 118 (10.50%) Analyst
5 111 (9.88%) Architect
6 51 (4.54%) Java Developer
7 46 (4.09%) Consultant
8 42 (3.74%) Software Engineer
9 37 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (3.20%) Senior Analyst
11 32 (2.85%) Lead Developer
12 30 (2.67%) DevOps Engineer
12 30 (2.67%) Senior Developer
13 29 (2.58%) Network Engineer
13 29 (2.58%) Project Manager
14 28 (2.49%) Business Analyst
15 26 (2.31%) Designer
15 26 (2.31%) Technical Leader
16 22 (1.96%) Financial Analyst
17 21 (1.87%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (6.85%) React
2 58 (5.16%) REST
3 48 (4.27%) Spring
4 46 (4.09%) .NET
5 41 (3.65%) Spring Boot
5 41 (3.65%) XML
6 38 (3.38%) CSS
6 38 (3.38%) HTML
7 31 (2.76%) Kafka
8 27 (2.40%) JPA
9 26 (2.31%) Hibernate
10 25 (2.22%) AngularJS
10 25 (2.22%) Web Services
11 24 (2.14%) Node.js
12 23 (2.05%) JSON
13 18 (1.60%) RESTful
14 14 (1.25%) AWS CDK
15 12 (1.07%) ARM Templates
16 11 (0.98%) Next.js
16 11 (0.98%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 89 (7.92%) Management Information System
2 61 (5.43%) Cyber Threat
3 57 (5.07%) Cyber Defence
4 47 (4.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 46 (4.09%) Derivative
6 43 (3.83%) Hedge funds
7 41 (3.65%) Data Centre
8 38 (3.38%) Product Ownership
9 28 (2.49%) Virtual Team
10 22 (1.96%) Public Cloud
11 19 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.51%) CMDB
14 16 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (1.42%) Onboarding
15 14 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.16%) Algorithms
16 13 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
16 13 (1.16%) Data Structures
16 13 (1.16%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 66 (5.87%) Windows
2 48 (4.27%) Linux
3 26 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.07%) Android
5 10 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.71%) Unix
7 7 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.36%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.089%) CentOS
13 1 (0.089%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (30.78%) Agile
2 254 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
3 237 (21.09%) Coaching
4 179 (15.93%) DevOps
5 123 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 122 (10.85%) Cybersecurity
7 117 (10.41%) Scrum
8 116 (10.32%) CI/CD
9 115 (10.23%) Software Engineering
10 101 (8.99%) Roadmaps
11 97 (8.63%) Technical Leadership
12 95 (8.45%) Analytics
13 85 (7.56%) Project Management
14 84 (7.47%) Decision-Making
15 79 (7.03%) Computer Science
15 79 (7.03%) ITIL
16 77 (6.85%) Microservices
17 75 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
18 72 (6.41%) SIEM
18 72 (6.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 172 (15.30%) Python
2 133 (11.83%) Java
3 126 (11.21%) SQL
4 106 (9.43%) C#
5 91 (8.10%) JavaScript
6 76 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 33 (2.94%) PowerShell
8 24 (2.14%) Bash
9 20 (1.78%) Scala
10 16 (1.42%) C++
11 15 (1.33%) Ruby
12 13 (1.16%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.07%) C
13 12 (1.07%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.80%) Go
15 8 (0.71%) Perl
15 8 (0.71%) PHP
16 7 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.53%) Groovy
17 6 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 281 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 204 (18.15%) SC Cleared
3 164 (14.59%) Degree
4 89 (7.92%) DV Cleared
5 57 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (2.31%) CISSP
8 24 (2.14%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.42%) CCNA
9 16 (1.42%) CCNP
10 15 (1.33%) CCIE
10 15 (1.33%) CISM
11 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (1.07%) PMP
12 11 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.89%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.53%) CCIE Data Center
14 6 (0.53%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.32%) QA
2 54 (4.80%) NIST
3 43 (3.83%) Accessibility
4 40 (3.56%) NIST 800
5 34 (3.02%) Data Quality
6 15 (1.33%) NCSC
7 13 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.98%) SLA
9 10 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.80%) GRC
11 8 (0.71%) PMO
12 7 (0.62%) GDPR
12 7 (0.62%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.44%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.36%) WCAG
15 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 1 (0.089%) Government Security Classifications
16 1 (0.089%) IASME
16 1 (0.089%) IFRS
System Software
1 68 (6.05%) Docker
2 34 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.53%) vSphere
6 4 (0.36%) vCloud
7 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.18%) Firmware
8 2 (0.18%) NFS
9 1 (0.089%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.089%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (0.089%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.089%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.089%) iptables
9 1 (0.089%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.089%) XenApp
9 1 (0.089%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 79 (7.03%) Kubernetes
2 71 (6.32%) Terraform
3 42 (3.74%) Ansible
4 19 (1.69%) Grafana
5 8 (0.71%) SCCM
6 7 (0.62%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.53%) Kibana
7 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.44%) CA Service Virtualization
8 5 (0.44%) Nessus
8 5 (0.44%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.44%) Puppet
8 5 (0.44%) WSUS
9 4 (0.36%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.36%) VxRail
9 4 (0.36%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.27%) Istio
10 3 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 170 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 46 (4.09%) Oracle
3 44 (3.91%) Cisco
4 32 (2.85%) SAP
5 30 (2.67%) ServiceNow
5 30 (2.67%) VMware
6 22 (1.96%) Google
7 21 (1.87%) Palo Alto
8 17 (1.51%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.42%) Databricks
10 15 (1.33%) Juniper
11 14 (1.25%) Fortinet
11 14 (1.25%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.07%) Adobe
13 11 (0.98%) CA
14 10 (0.89%) F5
15 9 (0.80%) SolarWinds
16 8 (0.71%) CheckPoint
16 8 (0.71%) Dell
16 8 (0.71%) Informatica