Mentoring Contracts in England

Mentorship
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 85 89 91
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +14
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 932 1,265 1,958
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.53% 2.66% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.96% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 817 1,360
10th Percentile £377 £397 £413
25th Percentile £463 £484 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £850 £763 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £587 £558
% change year-on-year -6.22% +5.15% +6.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 25 55
10th Percentile £17.00 £32.32 £10.91
25th Percentile £25.81 £51.83 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +114.29% -25.13%
75th Percentile £57.33 £83.31 £58.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £84.36 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -46.67% +66.67% +4.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in England

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in England

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in England

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in England

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mentoring in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Mentoring in England

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the England region 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
London +1 466 £600 -7.69% 785
North of England +47 181 £500 -9.09% 405
North West +34 102 £493 -10.36% 244
South East -1 101 £540 -6.57% 317
South West +14 96 £600 +1.78% 216
Yorkshire +49 78 £550 -1.35% 114
Midlands -8 60 £523 +8.85% 264
West Midlands -7 37 £550 +12.24% 169
East of England -11 25 £500 - 113
East Midlands -3 23 £411 -9.56% 95
North East +9 1 - - 48
Mentoring
UK

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 24 (2.58%) Confluence
2 15 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.86%) Apache
4 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.54%) SAS
6 4 (0.43%) govService
7 3 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.32%) CMS
8 2 (0.21%) Drupal
8 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.21%) Mendix
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.11%) Appian
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.21%) InVision
6 2 (0.21%) Sketch
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.11%) CANalyzer
7 1 (0.11%) Elementor
7 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 9 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.43%) Endur
3 4 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.43%) Shopify
4 2 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.21%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.21%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.21%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.21%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.11%) Actimize
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 149 (15.99%) Azure
2 113 (12.12%) AWS
3 45 (4.83%) Power Platform
4 39 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (3.76%) GCP
6 34 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
7 25 (2.68%) Serverless
8 23 (2.47%) SaaS
9 21 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (2.04%) Azure API Management
12 17 (1.82%) PaaS
13 15 (1.61%) GitHub
14 12 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (1.18%) Entra ID
16 10 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.07%) IaaS
17 9 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
18 8 (0.86%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.54%) Firewall
2 25 (2.68%) Network Security
3 19 (2.04%) DNS
4 18 (1.93%) Internet
5 17 (1.82%) WAN
6 15 (1.61%) LAN
7 14 (1.50%) DHCP
7 14 (1.50%) VPN
8 11 (1.18%) BGP
9 10 (1.07%) Cisco ISE
9 10 (1.07%) Wireless
10 9 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (0.97%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.97%) VoIP
10 9 (0.97%) WLAN
11 8 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
11 8 (0.86%) OSPF
12 7 (0.75%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.64%) IPsec
13 6 (0.64%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 43 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (4.61%) Relational Database
3 38 (4.08%) Power BI
4 19 (2.04%) NoSQL
5 17 (1.82%) Big Data
5 17 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (1.61%) MongoDB
7 14 (1.50%) Tableau
8 13 (1.39%) MySQL
9 10 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (0.86%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.75%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.75%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.64%) Apache Ignite
13 6 (0.64%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.64%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 53 (5.69%) Git
2 41 (4.40%) JIRA
3 25 (2.68%) JUnit
4 23 (2.47%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.72%) GitLab
6 11 (1.18%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.64%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.64%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.54%) Maven
8 5 (0.54%) RStudio
9 4 (0.43%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.43%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.43%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.43%) NeoLoad
9 4 (0.43%) Pylint
9 4 (0.43%) Selenium
10 3 (0.32%) fastlane
10 3 (0.32%) Gradle
10 3 (0.32%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.32%) XCUITest
General
1 334 (35.84%) Social Skills
2 240 (25.75%) Finance
3 133 (14.27%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (11.70%) Public Sector
5 67 (7.19%) Banking
6 47 (5.04%) Front Office
7 39 (4.18%) Telecoms
8 37 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (3.65%) Back Office
10 27 (2.90%) Retail
11 26 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (2.58%) Legal
12 24 (2.58%) Military
13 22 (2.36%) Law
14 17 (1.82%) Marketing
15 14 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.29%) Games
16 12 (1.29%) Local Government
16 12 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 10 (1.07%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 165 (17.70%) Senior
2 147 (15.77%) Developer
3 131 (14.06%) Lead
4 101 (10.84%) Analyst
5 89 (9.55%) Architect
6 52 (5.58%) Java Developer
7 44 (4.72%) Consultant
8 39 (4.18%) Software Engineer
9 31 (3.33%) Project Manager
9 31 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
9 31 (3.33%) Senior Developer
9 31 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.90%) Business Analyst
11 23 (2.47%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (2.47%) Lead Developer
12 20 (2.15%) Financial Analyst
12 20 (2.15%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (2.04%) Designer
13 19 (2.04%) Senior Manager
13 19 (2.04%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (6.22%) React
2 54 (5.79%) REST
3 44 (4.72%) Spring
4 40 (4.29%) Spring Boot
5 32 (3.43%) .NET
5 32 (3.43%) HTML
5 32 (3.43%) XML
6 31 (3.33%) CSS
7 26 (2.79%) JPA
8 25 (2.68%) Hibernate
8 25 (2.68%) Kafka
9 21 (2.25%) Web Services
10 20 (2.15%) RESTful
11 18 (1.93%) AngularJS
11 18 (1.93%) JSON
11 18 (1.93%) Node.js
12 13 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (1.29%) Redux
14 11 (1.18%) GraphQL
14 11 (1.18%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 83 (8.91%) Management Information System
2 69 (7.40%) Cyber Threat
3 68 (7.30%) Cyber Defence
4 56 (6.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 43 (4.61%) Derivative
6 39 (4.18%) Hedge funds
7 31 (3.33%) Data Centre
8 29 (3.11%) Virtual Team
9 27 (2.90%) Product Ownership
10 18 (1.93%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (1.50%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.50%) CMDB
12 14 (1.50%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.50%) Fixed Income
13 13 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.18%) Security Posture
16 10 (1.07%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 46 (4.94%) Windows
2 39 (4.18%) Linux
3 19 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.61%) Android
5 13 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.43%) Unix
8 3 (0.32%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (29.40%) Agile
2 206 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
3 200 (21.46%) Coaching
4 127 (13.63%) DevOps
5 110 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 108 (11.59%) Cybersecurity
7 95 (10.19%) Scrum
8 92 (9.87%) Software Engineering
9 87 (9.33%) Analytics
10 84 (9.01%) CI/CD
11 80 (8.58%) Decision-Making
12 79 (8.48%) Technical Leadership
13 77 (8.26%) Roadmaps
13 77 (8.26%) SIEM
14 72 (7.73%) Incident Response
15 71 (7.62%) Incident Management
15 71 (7.62%) Project Management
16 70 (7.51%) Stakeholder Management
17 68 (7.30%) Root Cause Analysis
18 67 (7.19%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 119 (12.77%) Python
2 109 (11.70%) Java
3 103 (11.05%) SQL
4 92 (9.87%) C#
5 69 (7.40%) JavaScript
6 61 (6.55%) TypeScript
7 28 (3.00%) PowerShell
8 19 (2.04%) Scala
9 15 (1.61%) Bash
10 14 (1.50%) Ruby
11 13 (1.39%) C++
11 13 (1.39%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.29%) C
13 9 (0.97%) Swift
14 8 (0.86%) Perl
15 7 (0.75%) PHP
16 6 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.64%) Rust
17 5 (0.54%) Go
18 4 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 247 (26.50%) Security Cleared
2 169 (18.13%) SC Cleared
3 127 (13.63%) Degree
4 93 (9.98%) DV Cleared
5 44 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (2.04%) CISSP
7 19 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.50%) CCIE
9 11 (1.18%) CISM
9 11 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.07%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
11 8 (0.86%) PMP
12 6 (0.64%) CCIE Data Center
12 6 (0.64%) MCTS
12 6 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.54%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.54%) MCITP
14 4 (0.43%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (6.87%) QA
2 59 (6.33%) NIST
3 49 (5.26%) NIST 800
4 33 (3.54%) Data Quality
5 19 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.97%) SLA
7 8 (0.86%) PMO
8 6 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.64%) GRC
8 6 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.54%) GDPR
9 5 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.43%) NCSC
11 2 (0.21%) HAZOP
11 2 (0.21%) P3O
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.11%) JTAG
12 1 (0.11%) PMBOK
12 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (4.61%) Docker
2 29 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.43%) vCloud
5 4 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.43%) vSphere
6 3 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.32%) XenApp
6 3 (0.32%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.21%) Firmware
7 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.11%) iptables
8 1 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (5.90%) Kubernetes
2 41 (4.40%) Terraform
3 28 (3.00%) Ansible
4 12 (1.29%) Kibana
5 11 (1.18%) logstash
6 9 (0.97%) Grafana
7 5 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.54%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.54%) WSUS
8 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.43%) Nessus
8 4 (0.43%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.43%) Puppet
8 4 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.43%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.32%) SCCM
10 2 (0.21%) CEMLI
10 2 (0.21%) Istio
10 2 (0.21%) VxRail
Vendors
1 148 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 31 (3.33%) Cisco
3 28 (3.00%) Oracle
4 23 (2.47%) ServiceNow
5 22 (2.36%) Google
6 19 (2.04%) Palo Alto
7 18 (1.93%) SAP
8 15 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.61%) VMware
9 13 (1.39%) Databricks
9 13 (1.39%) Juniper
10 11 (1.18%) Tanium
11 10 (1.07%) Adobe
12 9 (0.97%) SolarWinds
13 8 (0.86%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.86%) Informatica
14 7 (0.75%) IBM
14 7 (0.75%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.75%) Sparx
15 6 (0.64%) Arista