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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 89 87
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,050 1,477 2,532
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.44% 2.63% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 2.94% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 978 1,770
10th Percentile £375 £400 £409
25th Percentile £456 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £587 £558
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +5.15% +6.24%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £675
90th Percentile £825 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -6.59% +7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 25 64
10th Percentile £15.17 £32.32 £11.18
25th Percentile £25.47 £51.83 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +66.67% +4.65%
75th Percentile £57.33 £83.31 £62.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £84.36 £73.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.24 £75.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -39.68% +114.29% -22.22%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +4 932 £550 -8.33% 2,160
UK excluding London +17 504 £514 -6.59% 1,518
London +1 466 £600 -7.69% 785
Work from Home +16 381 £550 -6.26% 1,151
North of England +47 181 £500 -9.09% 404
North West +34 102 £493 -10.36% 244
South East -1 101 £540 -6.57% 317
South West +14 96 £600 +1.78% 217
Yorkshire +49 78 £550 -1.35% 113
Midlands -8 60 £523 +8.85% 264
Scotland -6 45 £469 -9.86% 147
West Midlands -7 37 £550 +12.24% 169
East of England -11 25 £500 - 113
East Midlands -3 23 £411 -9.56% 95
Northern Ireland +16 19 £600 +50.00% 40
Wales +13 4 £405 -22.30% 42
Isle of Man - 2 - -
North East +9 1 - - 48

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 26 (2.48%) Confluence
2 18 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.95%) Apache
4 10 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.48%) SAS
7 4 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.38%) govService
7 4 (0.38%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.29%) CMS
8 3 (0.29%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.19%) Drupal
9 2 (0.19%) IIS
9 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.19%) Mendix
10 1 (0.095%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.095%) Appian
10 1 (0.095%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.19%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.19%) InVision
5 2 (0.19%) Lectora
5 2 (0.19%) Sketch
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.095%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.095%) Elementor
6 1 (0.095%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.095%) Revit
6 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.095%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.38%) Endur
3 4 (0.38%) Shopify
4 3 (0.29%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.29%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.19%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.19%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.095%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 179 (17.05%) Azure
2 154 (14.67%) AWS
3 54 (5.14%) Power Platform
4 52 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (4.67%) Serverless
6 40 (3.81%) GCP
7 39 (3.71%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (3.24%) SaaS
9 31 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
10 29 (2.76%) GitHub
11 28 (2.67%) PaaS
12 25 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (2.00%) IaaS
14 20 (1.90%) Amazon S3
14 20 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (1.81%) Azure API Management
16 17 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (1.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.81%) Firewall
2 29 (2.76%) Network Security
3 24 (2.29%) DNS
4 19 (1.81%) Internet
5 18 (1.71%) DHCP
5 18 (1.71%) VPN
6 17 (1.62%) WAN
7 16 (1.52%) LAN
8 15 (1.43%) TCP/IP
9 11 (1.05%) BGP
10 10 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
10 10 (0.95%) Wireless
10 10 (0.95%) WLAN
11 9 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (0.86%) VoIP
12 8 (0.76%) Cisco Firepower
12 8 (0.76%) OSPF
12 8 (0.76%) VLAN
13 7 (0.67%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.57%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (4.38%) Relational Database
2 46 (4.38%) SQL Server
3 39 (3.71%) Power BI
4 22 (2.10%) NoSQL
5 21 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.62%) Big Data
8 14 (1.33%) Tableau
9 13 (1.24%) MySQL
9 13 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
10 12 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.86%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.76%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.67%) Hadoop
15 6 (0.57%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 62 (5.90%) Git
2 50 (4.76%) JIRA
3 31 (2.95%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.38%) JUnit
5 19 (1.81%) GitLab
6 12 (1.14%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.95%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.67%) Maven
8 7 (0.67%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.57%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.48%) RStudio
10 5 (0.48%) Selenium
11 4 (0.38%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.38%) Gradle
11 4 (0.38%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.38%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.38%) Pylint
12 3 (0.29%) fastlane
12 3 (0.29%) XCUITest
General
1 375 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 261 (24.86%) Finance
3 150 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (13.24%) Public Sector
5 69 (6.57%) Banking
6 47 (4.48%) Front Office
7 43 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
8 40 (3.81%) Telecoms
9 34 (3.24%) Back Office
10 32 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (2.67%) Law
11 28 (2.67%) Retail
12 26 (2.48%) Legal
13 25 (2.38%) Military
14 21 (2.00%) Marketing
15 16 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.33%) Manufacturing
17 12 (1.14%) Games
17 12 (1.14%) Local Government
18 11 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 176 (16.76%) Senior
2 164 (15.62%) Developer
3 151 (14.38%) Lead
4 110 (10.48%) Analyst
5 103 (9.81%) Architect
6 55 (5.24%) Java Developer
7 45 (4.29%) Consultant
8 42 (4.00%) Software Engineer
9 37 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
10 33 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
11 32 (3.05%) Project Manager
11 32 (3.05%) Senior Developer
12 28 (2.67%) Business Analyst
13 26 (2.48%) Lead Developer
14 25 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
15 22 (2.10%) Designer
16 21 (2.00%) Network Engineer
17 20 (1.90%) Financial Analyst
17 20 (1.90%) Senior Manager
17 20 (1.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.38%) React
2 55 (5.24%) REST
3 49 (4.67%) Spring
4 43 (4.10%) Spring Boot
5 40 (3.81%) HTML
6 39 (3.71%) CSS
7 38 (3.62%) .NET
8 36 (3.43%) XML
9 26 (2.48%) JPA
9 26 (2.48%) Kafka
10 25 (2.38%) Hibernate
11 24 (2.29%) Web Services
12 23 (2.19%) Node.js
13 22 (2.10%) AngularJS
14 20 (1.90%) RESTful
15 19 (1.81%) JSON
16 13 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
17 12 (1.14%) jQuery
17 12 (1.14%) Redux
18 11 (1.05%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 97 (9.24%) Management Information System
2 75 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
3 68 (6.48%) Cyber Defence
4 56 (5.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 43 (4.10%) Derivative
6 39 (3.71%) Hedge funds
7 35 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 34 (3.24%) Data Centre
9 30 (2.86%) Virtual Team
10 18 (1.71%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.33%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.33%) CMDB
13 14 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.33%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.33%) Fixed Income
13 14 (1.33%) Onboarding
14 13 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 52 (4.95%) Windows
2 42 (4.00%) Linux
3 21 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.43%) Android
5 14 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.76%) Unix
7 5 (0.48%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.29%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.095%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (29.81%) Agile
2 236 (22.48%) Coaching
2 236 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
3 154 (14.67%) DevOps
4 128 (12.19%) Cybersecurity
5 122 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 109 (10.38%) Software Engineering
7 106 (10.10%) Scrum
8 101 (9.62%) CI/CD
9 99 (9.43%) Analytics
10 95 (9.05%) Project Management
10 95 (9.05%) Technical Leadership
11 93 (8.86%) Roadmaps
12 88 (8.38%) Decision-Making
13 82 (7.81%) SIEM
14 78 (7.43%) Computer Science
15 77 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
16 75 (7.14%) Incident Response
17 74 (7.05%) Incident Management
17 74 (7.05%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 140 (13.33%) Python
2 126 (12.00%) Java
3 114 (10.86%) SQL
4 96 (9.14%) C#
5 82 (7.81%) JavaScript
6 73 (6.95%) TypeScript
7 29 (2.76%) PowerShell
8 19 (1.81%) Bash
8 19 (1.81%) Scala
9 16 (1.52%) Ruby
10 14 (1.33%) C++
11 13 (1.24%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.14%) C
13 10 (0.95%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.86%) Swift
15 8 (0.76%) Perl
15 8 (0.76%) PHP
16 7 (0.67%) Go
17 6 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 266 (25.33%) Security Cleared
2 182 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 154 (14.67%) Degree
4 93 (8.86%) DV Cleared
5 55 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (2.48%) CISSP
8 23 (2.19%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.52%) CISM
10 14 (1.33%) CCIE
11 13 (1.24%) PMP
12 11 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.05%) PMI Certification
12 11 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.57%) CCIE Data Center
13 6 (0.57%) CCNA
13 6 (0.57%) CEH
13 6 (0.57%) MCTS
13 6 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (7.14%) QA
2 60 (5.71%) NIST
3 49 (4.67%) NIST 800
4 41 (3.90%) Accessibility
5 33 (3.14%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.33%) NCSC
7 12 (1.14%) SLA
8 8 (0.76%) GRC
8 8 (0.76%) PMO
9 7 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.57%) GDPR
10 6 (0.57%) WCAG
11 5 (0.48%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.19%) HAZOP
13 2 (0.19%) P3O
14 1 (0.095%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.095%) JTAG
System Software
1 62 (5.90%) Docker
2 30 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.57%) vSphere
5 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.38%) vCloud
6 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.29%) Firmware
7 3 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.29%) XenApp
7 3 (0.29%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.095%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.095%) iptables
9 1 (0.095%) NFS
9 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.095%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 75 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 60 (5.71%) Terraform
3 41 (3.90%) Ansible
4 16 (1.52%) Grafana
5 14 (1.33%) Kibana
6 11 (1.05%) logstash
7 7 (0.67%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.48%) WSUS
9 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) Nessus
9 4 (0.38%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.38%) Puppet
9 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.38%) VxRail
9 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.29%) Istio
10 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.29%) SCCM
11 2 (0.19%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 165 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 40 (3.81%) Oracle
3 31 (2.95%) Cisco
4 25 (2.38%) SAP
5 24 (2.29%) Google
5 24 (2.29%) ServiceNow
6 19 (1.81%) Palo Alto
7 17 (1.62%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.62%) VMware
8 16 (1.52%) Databricks
9 14 (1.33%) Adobe
10 13 (1.24%) Juniper
11 11 (1.05%) Tanium
12 9 (0.86%) SolarWinds
13 8 (0.76%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.76%) Dell
13 8 (0.76%) Informatica
14 7 (0.67%) CA
14 7 (0.67%) IBM
14 7 (0.67%) Red Hat