Mentoring Jobs

Mentorship
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 22 14
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 +11
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 5,366 7,809 12,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 7.90% 12.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.59% 9.21% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,159 5,048 4,166
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,329 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +9.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £96,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,965 £62,706
% change year-on-year +7.82% -7.56% +9.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,654 84,747 98,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.80% 85.73% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,617 59,812 57,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mentoring.

Salary trend for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in the UK

Mentoring
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2025. 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
England +9 4,914 £65,000 +4.00% 4,780
UK excluding London +13 3,736 £62,500 +7.82% 3,046
Work from Home +3 2,089 £67,500 +5.47% 2,617
London +2 1,244 £77,500 -0.99% 2,424
South East +13 1,026 £62,000 +7.83% 955
North of England -15 851 £62,639 +4.40% 792
Midlands +6 706 £60,250 +20.50% 399
North West -19 602 £62,500 +7.82% 461
East of England +33 548 £62,500 +13.28% 283
East Midlands +13 365 £60,000 +35.01% 165
West Midlands -3 339 £62,500 +13.14% 213
South West +11 285 £60,750 +7.52% 326
Scotland +20 238 £55,000 -13.73% 218
Yorkshire -21 186 £70,000 +14.37% 245
Wales +7 89 £65,000 +10.54% 90
North East -19 63 £55,000 -12.00% 95
Northern Ireland -9 9 £60,000 +50.00% 52
Channel Islands - 1 £97,500 -

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 90 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 62 (1.16%) Confluence
3 59 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 44 (0.82%) CMS
5 41 (0.76%) Apache
6 27 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 25 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 12 (0.22%) OpenEdge
9 10 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 10 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 9 (0.17%) SAS
11 6 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.11%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.093%) WordPress
13 4 (0.075%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.075%) IIS
13 4 (0.075%) Liferay
14 3 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
14 3 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 164 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
2 92 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 12 (0.22%) Simulink
8 11 (0.20%) Maya
9 10 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 10 (0.19%) Sketch
10 9 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.17%) Trello
11 6 (0.11%) Chatbot
11 6 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.056%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.037%) GNU Octave
14 2 (0.037%) InDesign
14 2 (0.037%) Moqups
15 1 (0.019%) InVision
Business Applications
1 37 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.45%) Ripple
2 24 (0.45%) Ripple XRP
3 22 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
4 19 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 9 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.075%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.075%) iTrent
9 4 (0.075%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.075%) Orchestrade
9 4 (0.075%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 4 (0.075%) Relativity
9 4 (0.075%) Ringtail
9 4 (0.075%) Shopify
9 4 (0.075%) Veritas eDiscovery
10 3 (0.056%) CA PPM
10 3 (0.056%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 998 (18.60%) Azure
2 772 (14.39%) AWS
3 317 (5.91%) GCP
4 225 (4.19%) Power Platform
5 193 (3.60%) SaaS
6 170 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
7 161 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
8 120 (2.24%) GitHub
9 114 (2.12%) Serverless
10 77 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
11 76 (1.42%) PaaS
12 70 (1.30%) Entra ID
13 63 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
14 60 (1.12%) PowerApps
15 54 (1.01%) Amazon S3
15 54 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
16 51 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
17 50 (0.93%) Power Automate
18 43 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
19 40 (0.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 759 (14.14%) Wi-Fi
2 752 (14.01%) Wireless
3 747 (13.92%) 5G
4 735 (13.70%) Bluetooth
5 732 (13.64%) GSM
6 730 (13.60%) LTE
6 730 (13.60%) UMTS
7 560 (10.44%) Broadband
8 178 (3.32%) Network Security
9 139 (2.59%) Firewall
10 135 (2.52%) VPN
11 113 (2.11%) Internet
12 104 (1.94%) TCP/IP
13 102 (1.90%) WLAN
14 74 (1.38%) WAN
15 45 (0.84%) LAN
16 37 (0.69%) DNS
17 35 (0.65%) SD-WAN
18 21 (0.39%) VLAN
19 18 (0.34%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 164 (3.06%) Power BI
3 115 (2.14%) Tableau
4 110 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
5 101 (1.88%) NoSQL
6 88 (1.64%) Data Lake
7 83 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
7 83 (1.55%) MongoDB
8 81 (1.51%) Big Data
9 78 (1.45%) Relational Database
10 52 (0.97%) DynamoDB
11 48 (0.89%) MySQL
12 38 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 31 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
14 30 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
15 28 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
15 28 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
15 28 (0.52%) RDBMS
16 27 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 25 (0.47%) DB2
Development Applications
1 212 (3.95%) JIRA
2 180 (3.35%) Git
3 177 (3.30%) Rational DOORS
4 128 (2.39%) Cucumber
5 109 (2.03%) GitLab
6 106 (1.98%) Selenium
7 105 (1.96%) Jenkins
8 88 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 71 (1.32%) Bitbucket
10 64 (1.19%) Robot Framework
11 62 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
12 61 (1.14%) Maven
13 29 (0.54%) Eclipse
14 27 (0.50%) Visual Studio
15 26 (0.48%) Eclipse RCP
16 23 (0.43%) Postman
17 18 (0.34%) webpack
18 15 (0.28%) JUnit
19 13 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
20 12 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 1,851 (34.49%) Social Skills
2 997 (18.58%) Finance
3 897 (16.72%) Electronics
4 616 (11.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 409 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
6 308 (5.74%) Banking
7 274 (5.11%) Retail
8 253 (4.71%) Law
9 221 (4.12%) Manufacturing
10 211 (3.93%) Telecoms
11 192 (3.58%) Marketing
12 181 (3.37%) Games
13 156 (2.91%) Public Sector
14 137 (2.55%) Legal
15 114 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
16 86 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
17 83 (1.55%) Multimedia
18 77 (1.43%) Investment Banking
19 68 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
20 61 (1.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,283 (23.91%) Senior
2 999 (18.62%) Lead
3 821 (15.30%) Test Engineer
4 733 (13.66%) Electronics Engineer
5 730 (13.60%) Electronics Test Engineer
6 447 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 390 (7.27%) Systems Engineer
8 347 (6.47%) Architect
9 342 (6.37%) Developer
10 229 (4.27%) Engineering Manager
11 210 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
12 184 (3.43%) Team Leader
13 173 (3.22%) Analyst
14 164 (3.06%) Support Engineer
15 162 (3.02%) IT Support
15 162 (3.02%) Senior Manager
16 134 (2.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
17 122 (2.27%) Senior Developer
18 120 (2.24%) IT Engineer
19 108 (2.01%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 381 (7.10%) .NET
2 330 (6.15%) React
3 292 (5.44%) Node.js
4 215 (4.01%) CSS
5 211 (3.93%) HTML
6 152 (2.83%) Kafka
7 144 (2.68%) Spring
8 142 (2.65%) AngularJS
9 139 (2.59%) REST
10 137 (2.55%) RESTful
11 129 (2.40%) Spring Boot
12 87 (1.62%) Middleware
13 84 (1.57%) HTML5
14 77 (1.43%) CSS3
15 76 (1.42%) Jest
16 75 (1.40%) Redux
16 75 (1.40%) Sass
17 72 (1.34%) .NET Framework
18 62 (1.16%) Vue
19 59 (1.10%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 886 (16.51%) Driving Licence
2 288 (5.37%) Management Information System
3 232 (4.32%) Algorithms
4 199 (3.71%) Product Ownership
5 188 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
5 188 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
6 157 (2.93%) Cyberattack
7 103 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
8 100 (1.86%) Cloud Native
9 87 (1.62%) Blockchain
10 74 (1.38%) Onboarding
11 69 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
12 63 (1.17%) Robotics
13 60 (1.12%) e-Learning
13 60 (1.12%) Public Cloud
14 57 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 56 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
16 54 (1.01%) IoT
17 53 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
18 51 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 478 (8.91%) Linux
2 418 (7.79%) Windows
3 72 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 53 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 40 (0.75%) Android
6 38 (0.71%) Unix
7 22 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 17 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 15 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 14 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 10 (0.19%) Windows Vista
13 6 (0.11%) VMS
14 3 (0.056%) CentOS
14 3 (0.056%) Debian
14 3 (0.056%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.056%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.056%) zOS
15 2 (0.037%) CoreOS
15 2 (0.037%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,779 (33.15%) Coaching
2 1,553 (28.94%) Problem-Solving
3 1,340 (24.97%) Agile
4 1,001 (18.65%) Computer Science
5 931 (17.35%) Roadmaps
6 838 (15.62%) Validation
7 830 (15.47%) Customer Requirements
8 798 (14.87%) Software Engineering
9 760 (14.16%) Test Strategy
10 745 (13.88%) DevOps
11 743 (13.85%) Verification and Validation
12 627 (11.68%) High Availability
13 617 (11.50%) Product Management
14 557 (10.38%) Broadcast Engineering
15 537 (10.01%) CI/CD
16 516 (9.62%) Project Management
17 501 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
18 482 (8.98%) Technical Leadership
19 471 (8.78%) Microservices
20 452 (8.42%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 698 (13.01%) Python
2 618 (11.52%) JavaScript
3 550 (10.25%) Java
4 548 (10.21%) SQL
5 330 (6.15%) C#
6 283 (5.27%) TypeScript
7 231 (4.30%) C++
8 199 (3.71%) PowerShell
9 160 (2.98%) R
10 154 (2.87%) Go
11 146 (2.72%) Rust
12 123 (2.29%) Bash
13 75 (1.40%) C
14 69 (1.29%) PHP
15 29 (0.54%) Ada
15 29 (0.54%) PL/SQL
16 23 (0.43%) Ruby
17 21 (0.39%) Kotlin
17 21 (0.39%) VB.NET
18 20 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,489 (46.38%) Degree
2 841 (15.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 743 (13.85%) HND
4 518 (9.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 391 (7.29%) Security Cleared
6 195 (3.63%) DV Cleared
7 178 (3.32%) Chartered Engineer
8 167 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
9 166 (3.09%) AWS Certification
10 155 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 154 (2.87%) CCNA
12 150 (2.80%) SC Cleared
13 147 (2.74%) CISSP
14 137 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 122 (2.27%) CCNP
16 116 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
17 104 (1.94%) MCSE
18 103 (1.92%) Master's Degree
19 102 (1.90%) MCP
20 95 (1.77%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 398 (7.42%) QA
2 175 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 138 (2.57%) Data Quality
4 135 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 112 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 94 (1.75%) GDPR
7 65 (1.21%) NIST
8 63 (1.17%) ITGC
9 41 (0.76%) PMO
10 36 (0.67%) NCSC
11 31 (0.58%) SOC 2
12 30 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
13 28 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 27 (0.50%) HIPAA
15 23 (0.43%) IFRS
16 21 (0.39%) PCI DSS
16 21 (0.39%) SLA
17 20 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 20 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 19 (0.35%) GAAP
System Software
1 359 (6.69%) Docker
2 140 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 50 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (0.73%) Firmware
5 30 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
7 15 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.24%) XenApp
9 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.093%) HDFS
10 5 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.093%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.075%) vSphere
12 1 (0.019%) KVM
12 1 (0.019%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.019%) Snort
12 1 (0.019%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 381 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 205 (3.82%) Terraform
3 76 (1.42%) Ansible
4 49 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 48 (0.89%) Grafana
6 43 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 29 (0.54%) Progress Chef
8 21 (0.39%) SCCM
9 20 (0.37%) Puppet
10 12 (0.22%) QRadar
10 12 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.19%) CASB
12 9 (0.17%) Argo
13 7 (0.13%) CA Endevor
13 7 (0.13%) Proxmox
14 5 (0.093%) Kibana
14 5 (0.093%) Nagios
14 5 (0.093%) Opsgenie
14 5 (0.093%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.075%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 668 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 250 (4.66%) IBM
3 192 (3.58%) Cisco
4 127 (2.37%) Oracle
5 124 (2.31%) Google
6 85 (1.58%) SAP
7 84 (1.57%) Databricks
8 81 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 74 (1.38%) VMware
10 70 (1.30%) BT
11 67 (1.25%) Red Hat
12 61 (1.14%) Salesforce
13 57 (1.06%) Solace
14 44 (0.82%) Adobe
15 28 (0.52%) Citrix
16 26 (0.48%) Meraki
16 26 (0.48%) Okta
17 24 (0.45%) Informatica
18 22 (0.41%) Palo Alto
19 20 (0.37%) Workday