Mentoring Contracts with Work from Home Options

Mentorship
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 99 86
Rank change year-on-year +17 -13 +8
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 384 565 1,305
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.62% 2.36% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 2.63% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 373 941
10th Percentile £400 £412 £406
25th Percentile £485 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +8.32%
75th Percentile £663 £676 £663
90th Percentile £825 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 26
10th Percentile - £21.60 -
25th Percentile £15.17 £35.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £75.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +87.50% -38.93%
75th Percentile £31.00 £85.00 £64.78
90th Percentile £35.00 £88.00 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -46.67% +74.42% -2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,808 21,452 40,398
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.38% 89.66% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,620 15,212 29,410
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 498 524
10th Percentile £14.90 £17.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.81
90th Percentile £74.40 £78.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%

Mentoring
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mentoring trend for jobs with a WFH option

Mentoring
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mentoring.

Mentoring daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Mentoring daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mentoring.

Mentoring hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Mentoring over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Mentoring hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (3.13%) Confluence
2 10 (2.60%) Apache
3 6 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.30%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.04%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.78%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.52%) Drupal
7 2 (0.52%) IIS
8 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.52%) Adobe Captivate
4 2 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.52%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.52%) Camtasia
4 2 (0.52%) InVision
4 2 (0.52%) Lectora
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.52%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.52%) Sketch
5 1 (0.26%) Elementor
5 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Endur
1 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 92 (23.96%) Azure
2 79 (20.57%) AWS
3 34 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (7.55%) GCP
4 29 (7.55%) Serverless
5 22 (5.73%) GitHub
6 21 (5.47%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (4.43%) SaaS
9 16 (4.17%) Azure API Management
9 16 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
9 16 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (4.17%) Power Platform
10 15 (3.91%) PaaS
11 14 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (3.65%) IaaS
12 13 (3.39%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.60%) dbt
14 7 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.13%) Firewall
2 11 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.34%) DNS
4 6 (1.56%) DHCP
5 5 (1.30%) BGP
5 5 (1.30%) Network Security
5 5 (1.30%) VLAN
5 5 (1.30%) VPN
6 4 (1.04%) HTTP
7 3 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.78%) IOS XR
7 3 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.52%) Internet
8 2 (0.52%) OSPF
8 2 (0.52%) VSAN
9 1 (0.26%) Intranet
9 1 (0.26%) SSL
9 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.51%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.91%) NoSQL
3 15 (3.91%) Relational Database
4 12 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.13%) Power BI
5 10 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.34%) Oracle Reports
7 8 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (1.82%) Apache Arrow
8 7 (1.82%) Big Data
8 7 (1.82%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.56%) Apache Ignite
9 6 (1.56%) Dremio
10 5 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.04%) MySQL
12 3 (0.78%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 26 (6.77%) JIRA
2 25 (6.51%) Git
3 14 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.60%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.56%) GitLab
6 5 (1.30%) Selenium
7 4 (1.04%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.78%) fastlane
8 3 (0.78%) Maven
9 2 (0.52%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.52%) git-flow
9 2 (0.52%) JUnit
9 2 (0.52%) MLflow
9 2 (0.52%) Pylint
9 2 (0.52%) RStudio
9 2 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.52%) XCTest
9 2 (0.52%) XCUITest
General
1 122 (31.77%) Finance
1 122 (31.77%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 49 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (12.76%) Banking
4 34 (8.85%) Front Office
5 29 (7.55%) Back Office
6 16 (4.17%) Retail
7 11 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.34%) Marketing
8 9 (2.34%) Publishing
9 8 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.56%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.56%) Law
11 6 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.30%) Legal
13 4 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.78%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 76 (19.79%) Senior
2 63 (16.41%) Lead
3 59 (15.36%) Developer
4 44 (11.46%) Analyst
5 26 (6.77%) Architect
6 18 (4.69%) Consultant
6 18 (4.69%) Senior Analyst
7 16 (4.17%) Banking Analyst
7 16 (4.17%) Financial Analyst
7 16 (4.17%) Senior Developer
7 16 (4.17%) Software Engineer
7 16 (4.17%) SQL Analyst
7 16 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
8 15 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
9 13 (3.39%) Java Developer
10 12 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (2.86%) DBA
12 10 (2.60%) Technical Engineer
12 10 (2.60%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.55%) XML
2 21 (5.47%) HTML
3 20 (5.21%) CSS
4 19 (4.95%) React
5 17 (4.43%) REST
6 14 (3.65%) Kafka
7 13 (3.39%) Node.js
8 12 (3.13%) .NET
9 10 (2.60%) ARM Templates
9 10 (2.60%) Azure Blueprints
9 10 (2.60%) JSON
9 10 (2.60%) RESTful
9 10 (2.60%) Spring Boot
10 9 (2.34%) AWS CDK
10 9 (2.34%) Spring
11 8 (2.08%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.08%) jQuery
12 7 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (1.82%) React Native
12 7 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.38%) Management Information System
2 32 (8.33%) Derivative
2 32 (8.33%) Hedge funds
3 13 (3.39%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 11 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.08%) CMDB
8 8 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
8 8 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 8 (2.08%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.82%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.82%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.56%) Equities
10 6 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.65%) Windows
2 12 (3.13%) Linux
3 9 (2.34%) Android
4 7 (1.82%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.52%) Unix
7 1 (0.26%) VMS
7 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (32.81%) Agile
2 84 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (21.35%) DevOps
4 78 (20.31%) Coaching
5 54 (14.06%) Technical Leadership
6 51 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (11.46%) Software Engineering
8 43 (11.20%) Project Management
9 41 (10.68%) Asset Management
10 40 (10.42%) CI/CD
11 37 (9.64%) Analytics
12 35 (9.11%) Decision-Making
13 34 (8.85%) Cybersecurity
14 32 (8.33%) Investment Management
14 32 (8.33%) Roadmaps
15 29 (7.55%) Scrum
15 29 (7.55%) Test Automation
15 29 (7.55%) Test Strategy
16 28 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
17 26 (6.77%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (20.05%) Python
2 61 (15.89%) SQL
3 60 (15.63%) C#
4 49 (12.76%) Java
5 40 (10.42%) JavaScript
6 27 (7.03%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.86%) Ruby
8 9 (2.34%) Scala
9 8 (2.08%) Bash
10 6 (1.56%) PHP
10 6 (1.56%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.30%) Go
11 5 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.30%) Swift
12 4 (1.04%) C++
12 4 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.78%) C
13 3 (0.78%) Groovy
14 2 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 79 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 65 (16.93%) SC Cleared
3 46 (11.98%) Degree
4 16 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.86%) CISSP
6 10 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.34%) PMP
8 7 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.82%) CISM
9 6 (1.56%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.30%) CEH
10 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.30%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.04%) APMP
11 4 (1.04%) CCNA
11 4 (1.04%) MCTS
12 3 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.78%) CRISC
12 3 (0.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.90%) QA
2 23 (5.99%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.39%) NIST
4 12 (3.13%) NCSC
5 10 (2.60%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.08%) NIST 800
7 4 (1.04%) GRC
7 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.78%) GDPR
8 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.78%) WCAG
9 2 (0.52%) PMO
9 2 (0.52%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.26%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.26%) PMBOK
System Software
1 32 (8.33%) Docker
2 6 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.52%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Firmware
6 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.26%) XenApp
6 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (9.11%) Kubernetes
1 35 (9.11%) Terraform
2 23 (5.99%) Ansible
3 10 (2.60%) Grafana
4 9 (2.34%) Kibana
5 7 (1.82%) logstash
6 4 (1.04%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.04%) Puppet
7 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.52%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.52%) VxRail
8 1 (0.26%) Argo
8 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.26%) Istio
8 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.26%) Nagios
8 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.21%) Oracle
3 17 (4.43%) Google
4 11 (2.86%) Adobe
5 7 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.82%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.82%) VMware
6 5 (1.30%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.30%) SAP
6 5 (1.30%) Splunk
6 5 (1.30%) Tanium
7 4 (1.04%) Cisco
7 4 (1.04%) Databricks
7 4 (1.04%) Dell
8 3 (0.78%) CyberArk
8 3 (0.78%) TOWER Software
9 2 (0.52%) Apple
9 2 (0.52%) Ariba
9 2 (0.52%) Genesys
9 2 (0.52%) Intel