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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 88 90
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +11
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,080 1,564 2,478
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.53% 2.69% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.99% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 1,017 1,719
10th Percentile £389 £400 £406
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £675
90th Percentile £825 £760 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.91% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 28 67
10th Percentile £15.17 £24.09 £11.08
25th Percentile £24.34 £47.50 £31.72
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +66.67% +9.76%
75th Percentile £57.12 £83.31 £59.38
90th Percentile £68.13 £86.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -48.67% +114.29% -12.50%

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 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
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 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
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% -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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +13 962 £550 -6.70% 2,068
UK excluding London +12 506 £525 -4.55% 1,520
London +6 474 £600 -7.69% 681
Work from Home +13 391 £550 -4.35% 967
North of England +39 178 £500 -9.09% 453
South East -9 106 £525 -8.70% 297
North West +28 104 £493 -10.36% 244
South West +24 99 £600 +1.78% 222
Yorkshire +48 73 £550 +2.33% 159
Midlands -4 64 £538 +13.26% 249
Scotland -5 43 £463 -11.27% 114
West Midlands 0 42 £570 +18.75% 140
East Midlands +7 22 £406 -10.33% 108
East of England -14 22 £483 -3.50% 136
Northern Ireland +17 16 £600 +50.00% 37
Wales +16 4 £405 -20.69% 42
Isle of Man - 2 - -
North East +8 1 - - 53

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 24 (2.22%) Confluence
2 17 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.02%) Apache
4 10 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.56%) SAS
6 5 (0.46%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.37%) govService
7 4 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.28%) CMS
8 3 (0.28%) IIS
9 2 (0.19%) Drupal
9 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.19%) Mendix
9 2 (0.19%) nginx
10 1 (0.093%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.093%) Appian
10 1 (0.093%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 17 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.28%) InVision
4 3 (0.28%) Sketch
5 2 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.19%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.19%) Lectora
6 1 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.093%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.37%) Endur
3 4 (0.37%) Shopify
4 3 (0.28%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.28%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.28%) 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%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.19%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.19%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.093%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 192 (17.78%) Azure
2 163 (15.09%) AWS
3 60 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 54 (5.00%) Serverless
5 53 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
6 39 (3.61%) GCP
7 34 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (2.78%) GitHub
8 30 (2.78%) SaaS
9 29 (2.69%) PaaS
10 27 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (2.13%) IaaS
12 19 (1.76%) Amazon S3
12 19 (1.76%) Azure Logic Apps
13 18 (1.67%) Azure API Management
14 16 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (1.30%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 53 (4.91%) Firewall
2 37 (3.43%) Network Security
3 32 (2.96%) DNS
4 22 (2.04%) WAN
5 21 (1.94%) VPN
6 18 (1.67%) Internet
7 17 (1.57%) DHCP
8 16 (1.48%) LAN
9 15 (1.39%) TCP/IP
10 14 (1.30%) Wireless
11 12 (1.11%) BGP
12 11 (1.02%) SD-WAN
13 10 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
13 10 (0.93%) SAN
13 10 (0.93%) WLAN
14 9 (0.83%) Cisco Firepower
14 9 (0.83%) OSPF
14 9 (0.83%) VoIP
15 8 (0.74%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (4.91%) SQL Server
3 48 (4.44%) Relational Database
4 46 (4.26%) Power BI
5 26 (2.41%) NoSQL
6 25 (2.31%) MongoDB
7 20 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.57%) Big Data
8 17 (1.57%) MySQL
9 16 (1.48%) Tableau
10 14 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
11 13 (1.20%) RDBMS
12 12 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (0.83%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.65%) Hadoop
16 6 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 62 (5.74%) Git
2 53 (4.91%) JIRA
3 34 (3.15%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.31%) JUnit
5 20 (1.85%) GitLab
6 15 (1.39%) Cypress.io
7 11 (1.02%) Maven
7 11 (1.02%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.65%) CircleCI
8 7 (0.65%) Gradle
9 6 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.46%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.46%) Selenium
10 5 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.46%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.37%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.37%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.37%) Pylint
11 4 (0.37%) RStudio
General
1 374 (34.63%) Social Skills
2 281 (26.02%) Finance
3 159 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (13.61%) Public Sector
5 71 (6.57%) Banking
6 50 (4.63%) Front Office
7 44 (4.07%) Telecoms
8 41 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
9 38 (3.52%) Back Office
10 35 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (2.69%) Law
11 29 (2.69%) Marketing
12 24 (2.22%) Legal
12 24 (2.22%) Retail
13 22 (2.04%) Military
14 21 (1.94%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.30%) Games
17 13 (1.20%) Local Government
18 11 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (16.20%) Senior
2 161 (14.91%) Developer
3 159 (14.72%) Lead
4 113 (10.46%) Analyst
5 105 (9.72%) Architect
6 53 (4.91%) Java Developer
7 45 (4.17%) Consultant
8 40 (3.70%) Software Engineer
9 35 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (3.15%) Senior Analyst
11 30 (2.78%) Senior Developer
12 29 (2.69%) Lead Developer
12 29 (2.69%) Network Engineer
13 28 (2.59%) Business Analyst
13 28 (2.59%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (2.50%) Project Manager
15 25 (2.31%) Designer
16 22 (2.04%) Financial Analyst
17 21 (1.94%) Technical Leader
18 20 (1.85%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.39%) React
2 56 (5.19%) REST
3 48 (4.44%) Spring
4 43 (3.98%) .NET
5 41 (3.80%) XML
6 40 (3.70%) Spring Boot
7 34 (3.15%) CSS
7 34 (3.15%) HTML
8 29 (2.69%) Kafka
9 26 (2.41%) JPA
10 25 (2.31%) Hibernate
10 25 (2.31%) Web Services
11 23 (2.13%) AngularJS
11 23 (2.13%) JSON
12 22 (2.04%) Node.js
13 18 (1.67%) RESTful
14 12 (1.11%) ARM Templates
15 11 (1.02%) Next.js
16 10 (0.93%) Azure Blueprints
16 10 (0.93%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 89 (8.24%) Management Information System
2 63 (5.83%) Cyber Threat
3 57 (5.28%) Cyber Defence
4 47 (4.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 47 (4.35%) Derivative
5 43 (3.98%) Hedge funds
6 38 (3.52%) Data Centre
7 37 (3.43%) Product Ownership
8 28 (2.59%) Virtual Team
9 21 (1.94%) Public Cloud
10 19 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (1.57%) CMDB
13 15 (1.39%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.30%) Algorithms
14 14 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.30%) Fixed Income
15 13 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
16 11 (1.02%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.37%) Windows
2 49 (4.54%) Linux
3 21 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.11%) Android
5 10 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.74%) Unix
7 7 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.37%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.093%) CentOS
13 1 (0.093%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (30.09%) Agile
2 245 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
3 226 (20.93%) Coaching
4 170 (15.74%) DevOps
5 121 (11.20%) Cybersecurity
6 118 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 112 (10.37%) CI/CD
8 108 (10.00%) Scrum
9 107 (9.91%) Software Engineering
10 97 (8.98%) Analytics
11 96 (8.89%) Roadmaps
12 94 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
13 84 (7.78%) Decision-Making
14 82 (7.59%) Project Management
15 77 (7.13%) ITIL
16 74 (6.85%) Computer Science
17 72 (6.67%) SIEM
18 71 (6.57%) Stakeholder Management
19 70 (6.48%) Test Automation
20 69 (6.39%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 163 (15.09%) Python
2 130 (12.04%) Java
3 124 (11.48%) SQL
4 102 (9.44%) C#
5 84 (7.78%) JavaScript
6 70 (6.48%) TypeScript
7 29 (2.69%) PowerShell
8 21 (1.94%) Bash
9 18 (1.67%) Scala
10 16 (1.48%) C++
11 14 (1.30%) Ruby
12 13 (1.20%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.11%) C
14 10 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.74%) Go
15 8 (0.74%) Perl
15 8 (0.74%) PHP
16 7 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.56%) Rust
17 6 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 271 (25.09%) Security Cleared
2 193 (17.87%) SC Cleared
3 151 (13.98%) Degree
4 90 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 51 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (2.41%) CISSP
8 22 (2.04%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.39%) CISM
10 14 (1.30%) CCIE
11 13 (1.20%) CCNA
11 13 (1.20%) CCNP
12 12 (1.11%) PMP
13 11 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.93%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.56%) CCIE Data Center
15 6 (0.56%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.48%) QA
2 54 (5.00%) NIST
3 40 (3.70%) NIST 800
4 39 (3.61%) Accessibility
5 33 (3.06%) Data Quality
6 15 (1.39%) NCSC
7 12 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.83%) GRC
8 9 (0.83%) SLA
9 8 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.56%) GDPR
11 6 (0.56%) PMO
12 5 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
12 5 (0.46%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.37%) WCAG
14 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.093%) Government Security Classifications
15 1 (0.093%) HAZOP
15 1 (0.093%) IASME
System Software
1 66 (6.11%) Docker
2 31 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.56%) vSphere
5 5 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.37%) vCloud
6 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.19%) Firmware
8 2 (0.19%) NFS
9 1 (0.093%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.093%) iptables
9 1 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.093%) XenApp
9 1 (0.093%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 76 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 67 (6.20%) Terraform
3 42 (3.89%) Ansible
4 16 (1.48%) Grafana
5 7 (0.65%) vCenter Server
6 6 (0.56%) Kibana
6 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.46%) Nessus
7 5 (0.46%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.46%) Puppet
7 5 (0.46%) SCCM
7 5 (0.46%) WSUS
8 4 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.37%) VxRail
8 4 (0.37%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.28%) CA Service Virtualization
9 3 (0.28%) logstash
9 3 (0.28%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 159 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 46 (4.26%) Oracle
3 43 (3.98%) Cisco
4 33 (3.06%) SAP
5 29 (2.69%) ServiceNow
6 26 (2.41%) VMware
7 22 (2.04%) Google
8 20 (1.85%) Palo Alto
9 16 (1.48%) Databricks
9 16 (1.48%) Salesforce
10 14 (1.30%) Juniper
11 13 (1.20%) Adobe
11 13 (1.20%) Fortinet
11 13 (1.20%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.83%) CA
12 9 (0.83%) SolarWinds
13 8 (0.74%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.74%) Dell
13 8 (0.74%) Informatica
14 7 (0.65%) F5