Mentorship
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 14 25
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 +17
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 7,829 12,728 14,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.93% 12.31% 9.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.23% 12.87% 9.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,068 4,207 6,215
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £38,947
25th Percentile £43,329 £51,833 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +11.11% +0.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,419 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.26% +8.70% +4.55%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -7 6,873 £62,500 -10.71% 2,037
UK excluding London -16 5,648 £57,965 -7.26% 1,456
Work from Home +12 3,624 £64,040 -8.51% 916
North of England -3 1,982 £60,000 -4.00% 412
London +8 1,862 £78,273 -2.52% 698
South East -2 1,233 £57,500 -14.81% 292
North West -6 1,051 £57,965 -3.39% 225
Midlands -13 847 £50,000 -13.04% 256
Yorkshire +6 647 £61,206 -5.84% 147
South West -19 595 £56,500 +2.73% 188
West Midlands -10 525 £55,242 -7.93% 163
Scotland -40 507 £65,000 -6.40% 102
East Midlands -16 308 £44,000 -23.48% 92
North East +6 289 £62,500 +19.05% 44
East of England -33 289 £55,173 -8.05% 160
Wales -18 135 £58,800 +30.67% 43
Northern Ireland -6 64 £45,000 -14.29% 43
Isle of Man - 2 £36,000 - 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
1 145 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 137 (1.75%) Confluence
3 123 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 94 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 60 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 45 (0.57%) CMS
7 40 (0.51%) nginx
8 37 (0.47%) Tuxedo
9 36 (0.46%) Camunda
10 34 (0.43%) IIS
11 31 (0.40%) JBoss
12 30 (0.38%) Apache
13 29 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
14 27 (0.34%) WordPress
15 20 (0.26%) SAS
16 17 (0.22%) OpenStack
17 11 (0.14%) Tomcat
17 11 (0.14%) Umbraco
18 10 (0.13%) Drupal
19 8 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 645 (8.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 180 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (0.49%) UserZoom
5 25 (0.32%) AutoCAD
6 24 (0.31%) Sketch
7 22 (0.28%) Simulink
8 21 (0.27%) Photoshop
9 20 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
10 17 (0.22%) MS Visio
11 15 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
12 12 (0.15%) Revit
13 8 (0.10%) Adobe XD
13 8 (0.10%) InVision
14 6 (0.077%) SOLIDWORKS
15 5 (0.064%) OrCAD
16 4 (0.051%) Blender
16 4 (0.051%) EPLAN
16 4 (0.051%) Maya
16 4 (0.051%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 44 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 31 (0.40%) Primavera
4 19 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 15 (0.19%) SAP FI
5 15 (0.19%) Shopify
6 14 (0.18%) SAP CO
6 14 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
6 14 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
7 8 (0.10%) Elite 3E
7 8 (0.10%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.089%) SAP CX
9 6 (0.077%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.077%) NEC Housing
9 6 (0.077%) SAP CRM
9 6 (0.077%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.064%) SAP FSCM
10 5 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.064%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.051%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,534 (19.59%) Azure
2 1,368 (17.47%) AWS
3 601 (7.68%) GCP
4 405 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
5 327 (4.18%) SaaS
6 297 (3.79%) Power Platform
7 220 (2.81%) IBM Cloud
8 180 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
9 138 (1.76%) Serverless
10 132 (1.69%) Entra ID
11 125 (1.60%) Amazon S3
12 115 (1.47%) IaaS
13 110 (1.41%) GitHub
14 89 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
14 89 (1.14%) PaaS
15 77 (0.98%) dbt
15 77 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
16 76 (0.97%) OpenShift
17 75 (0.96%) OCI
18 65 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 486 (6.21%) Broadband
2 280 (3.58%) Firewall
3 154 (1.97%) WAN
4 110 (1.41%) DNS
5 101 (1.29%) LAN
6 99 (1.26%) VPN
7 77 (0.98%) Network Security
7 77 (0.98%) TCP/IP
8 65 (0.83%) SAN
9 62 (0.79%) SD-WAN
10 61 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
11 59 (0.75%) DHCP
12 58 (0.74%) Wireless
13 57 (0.73%) Internet
14 55 (0.70%) VLAN
15 42 (0.54%) MPLS
15 42 (0.54%) OSPF
16 40 (0.51%) 5G
16 40 (0.51%) BGP
17 26 (0.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (4.78%) SQL Server
2 373 (4.76%) BigQuery
3 361 (4.61%) NoSQL
4 291 (3.72%) Looker
5 268 (3.42%) MongoDB
6 263 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
7 262 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
8 225 (2.87%) MySQL
9 221 (2.82%) Power BI
10 160 (2.04%) Big Data
11 152 (1.94%) Relational Database
12 151 (1.93%) DB2
13 112 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
14 91 (1.16%) Tableau
15 76 (0.97%) Data Lake
15 76 (0.97%) Oracle Database
16 47 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 46 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
18 45 (0.57%) DynamoDB
19 44 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 348 (4.45%) Git
2 258 (3.30%) JIRA
3 238 (3.04%) Jenkins
4 176 (2.25%) GitLab
5 80 (1.02%) Selenium
6 47 (0.60%) Visual Studio
7 39 (0.50%) IntelliJ
7 39 (0.50%) Maven
8 38 (0.49%) CircleCI
9 36 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 35 (0.45%) JUnit
11 34 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
12 32 (0.41%) Bitbucket
13 31 (0.40%) Cucumber
14 30 (0.38%) TeamCity
15 28 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
15 28 (0.36%) Subversion
16 27 (0.34%) NUnit
17 24 (0.31%) Gradle
18 23 (0.29%) SonarQube
General
1 2,581 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 2,190 (27.97%) Finance
3 1,344 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1,302 (16.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 977 (12.48%) Public Sector
6 735 (9.39%) Influencing Skills
7 487 (6.22%) Law
8 467 (5.97%) Marketing
9 281 (3.59%) Retail
10 276 (3.53%) Banking
11 258 (3.30%) Legal
12 186 (2.38%) Manufacturing
13 177 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
14 136 (1.74%) Telecoms
15 114 (1.46%) Games
16 106 (1.35%) Automotive
17 105 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
18 95 (1.21%) Electronics
19 89 (1.14%) Financial Institution
20 82 (1.05%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,000 (25.55%) Senior
2 1,591 (20.32%) Lead
3 939 (11.99%) Developer
4 823 (10.51%) Analyst
5 651 (8.32%) Architect
6 471 (6.02%) Software Engineer
7 370 (4.73%) Data Engineer
8 360 (4.60%) Senior Developer
9 311 (3.97%) Senior Manager
10 300 (3.83%) Senior Analyst
11 260 (3.32%) Lead Developer
12 233 (2.98%) Technical Leader
13 232 (2.96%) Consultant
14 224 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
15 221 (2.82%) Project Manager
16 218 (2.78%) Principal Engineer
17 208 (2.66%) Delivery Manager
18 204 (2.61%) Team Leader
19 181 (2.31%) Full Stack Engineer
20 177 (2.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 638 (8.15%) .NET
2 585 (7.47%) React
3 470 (6.00%) HTML
4 426 (5.44%) CSS
5 343 (4.38%) AngularJS
6 317 (4.05%) Web Services
7 309 (3.95%) REST
8 252 (3.22%) RESTful
9 231 (2.95%) ASP.NET
10 209 (2.67%) Spring
11 202 (2.58%) Vue
12 177 (2.26%) Node.js
13 166 (2.12%) jQuery
14 157 (2.01%) XML
15 141 (1.80%) .NET Core
16 133 (1.70%) ASP.NET Core
16 133 (1.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 128 (1.63%) Spring Boot
18 122 (1.56%) JSON
19 121 (1.55%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 524 (6.69%) Self-Motivation
2 358 (4.57%) Product Ownership
3 336 (4.29%) Algorithms
4 322 (4.11%) Management Information System
5 270 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 270 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 249 (3.18%) e-Learning
7 229 (2.93%) Blockchain
8 218 (2.78%) Data Centre
9 200 (2.55%) Data Structures
10 177 (2.26%) Cloud Native
11 120 (1.53%) IoT
12 111 (1.42%) Mobile App
12 111 (1.42%) Onboarding
13 90 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
14 89 (1.14%) Client/Server
15 82 (1.05%) PMI
16 81 (1.03%) Derivative
17 79 (1.01%) Driving Licence
18 75 (0.96%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 732 (9.35%) Windows
2 576 (7.36%) Linux
3 220 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 212 (2.71%) Apple iOS
5 199 (2.54%) Android
6 101 (1.29%) Unix
7 70 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
8 63 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
9 58 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 53 (0.68%) Windows 10
11 42 (0.54%) CentOS
12 32 (0.41%) Mac OS
13 18 (0.23%) Ubuntu
14 17 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 13 (0.17%) SUSE
16 12 (0.15%) AIX
17 11 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
18 10 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
19 8 (0.10%) Solaris
20 7 (0.089%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,261 (41.65%) Agile
2 2,980 (38.06%) Coaching
3 1,777 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
4 1,143 (14.60%) Decision-Making
5 1,093 (13.96%) DevOps
6 984 (12.57%) Software Engineering
7 846 (10.81%) Project Management
8 832 (10.63%) Roadmaps
9 718 (9.17%) Actionable Insight
10 611 (7.80%) CI/CD
11 602 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 601 (7.68%) Analytics
13 570 (7.28%) Computer Science
14 557 (7.11%) Cybersecurity
15 498 (6.36%) Business Case
15 498 (6.36%) Project Delivery
16 495 (6.32%) Budgeting
17 474 (6.05%) Test Automation
18 473 (6.04%) Line Management
19 472 (6.03%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,143 (14.60%) SQL
2 821 (10.49%) Java
3 769 (9.82%) Python
4 749 (9.57%) C#
5 734 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 246 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 214 (2.73%) PowerShell
8 163 (2.08%) C++
9 146 (1.86%) PHP
10 134 (1.71%) C
11 111 (1.42%) Scala
12 102 (1.30%) Bash
13 98 (1.25%) T-SQL
14 80 (1.02%) Ruby
15 73 (0.93%) COBOL
15 73 (0.93%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 71 (0.91%) Kotlin
17 65 (0.83%) Go
18 43 (0.55%) Swift
19 41 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 1,318 (16.83%) Degree
2 586 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 451 (5.76%) ACCA
3 451 (5.76%) CIMA
4 315 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 270 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 145 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 126 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 124 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
9 113 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 101 (1.29%) DBS Check
11 82 (1.05%) CISSP
11 82 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 80 (1.02%) CCNA
13 77 (0.98%) Azure Certification
14 71 (0.91%) AWS Certification
15 67 (0.86%) APMP
16 66 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
17 56 (0.72%) PMP
18 44 (0.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 478 (6.11%) QA
2 364 (4.65%) GDPR
3 257 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 180 (2.30%) SLA
5 152 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 97 (1.24%) PMO
7 90 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 76 (0.97%) NIST
9 71 (0.91%) WCAG
10 58 (0.74%) NCSC
11 52 (0.66%) GMP
12 40 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
12 40 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
13 27 (0.34%) NIST 800
14 26 (0.33%) PCI DSS
15 20 (0.26%) JSP 440
16 17 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 14 (0.18%) GRC
18 13 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 12 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 397 (5.07%) Docker
2 322 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 144 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 58 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 54 (0.69%) Firmware
7 29 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 27 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
9 26 (0.33%) vSphere
10 16 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 13 (0.17%) IAG
11 13 (0.17%) vCloud
11 13 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.11%) Forefront TMG
12 9 (0.11%) HDFS
12 9 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
13 8 (0.10%) KVM
14 3 (0.038%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.038%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.026%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 432 (5.52%) Kubernetes
2 379 (4.84%) Terraform
3 189 (2.41%) Ansible
4 97 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 95 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 52 (0.66%) Progress Chef
7 43 (0.55%) SCCM
8 39 (0.50%) Puppet
9 35 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (0.45%) ZABBIX
10 34 (0.43%) vCenter Server
11 33 (0.42%) Grafana
12 25 (0.32%) Functional Safety
13 23 (0.29%) SCOM
14 21 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 20 (0.26%) FortiGate
15 20 (0.26%) WSUS
16 16 (0.20%) Nagios
17 14 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
18 13 (0.17%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,587 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 538 (6.87%) Google
3 313 (4.00%) Oracle
4 275 (3.51%) IBM
5 274 (3.50%) ServiceNow
6 265 (3.38%) Red Hat
7 250 (3.19%) VMware
8 130 (1.66%) Cisco
9 116 (1.48%) Dell
10 103 (1.32%) SAP
11 100 (1.28%) Dynatrace
12 80 (1.02%) YouTube
13 76 (0.97%) Salesforce
14 73 (0.93%) Micro Focus
14 73 (0.93%) Splunk
15 72 (0.92%) Juniper
16 66 (0.84%) Atlassian
16 66 (0.84%) Veeam
17 59 (0.75%) Adobe
18 51 (0.65%) Databricks