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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 14 25
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +16
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 7,769 12,784 14,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.88% 12.32% 9.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.17% 12.88% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,067 4,245 6,239
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £38,869
25th Percentile £43,329 £51,833 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,920
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +11.25% +0.67%
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 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
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 £81,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 3 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 3 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 -8 6,814 £62,500 -10.71% 1,880
UK excluding London -16 5,583 £57,965 -7.26% 1,357
Work from Home +12 3,623 £64,040 -8.51% 889
North of England -3 1,983 £60,000 -4.00% 393
London +8 1,867 £78,273 -2.52% 643
South East -4 1,183 £57,500 -14.81% 265
North West -6 1,051 £57,965 -3.39% 221
Midlands -15 836 £50,000 -13.04% 236
Yorkshire +6 647 £61,206 -5.84% 131
South West -19 595 £56,500 +0.89% 176
West Midlands -10 520 £57,500 -2.13% 150
Scotland -41 505 £65,000 -6.40% 101
East Midlands -15 302 £44,000 -23.48% 85
North East +7 290 £62,500 +16.28% 45
East of England -33 285 £55,173 -8.05% 144
Wales -19 135 £58,800 +29.30% 45
Northern Ireland -4 64 £45,000 -14.29% 38
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
1 146 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 137 (1.76%) Confluence
3 124 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 94 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
5 61 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 45 (0.58%) CMS
7 40 (0.51%) nginx
8 37 (0.48%) Tuxedo
9 36 (0.46%) Camunda
10 35 (0.45%) IIS
11 31 (0.40%) JBoss
12 30 (0.39%) Apache
13 29 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
14 27 (0.35%) 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 (8.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 179 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (0.49%) UserZoom
5 24 (0.31%) AutoCAD
5 24 (0.31%) Sketch
6 22 (0.28%) Simulink
7 21 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 20 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
9 17 (0.22%) MS Visio
10 15 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
11 12 (0.15%) Revit
12 8 (0.10%) Adobe XD
12 8 (0.10%) InVision
13 6 (0.077%) SOLIDWORKS
14 5 (0.064%) OrCAD
15 4 (0.051%) Adobe After Effects
15 4 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
15 4 (0.051%) Blender
15 4 (0.051%) Maya
Business Applications
1 43 (0.55%) 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 (0.090%) 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%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 1,536 (19.77%) Azure
2 1,373 (17.67%) AWS
3 603 (7.76%) GCP
4 407 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
5 327 (4.21%) SaaS
6 298 (3.84%) Power Platform
7 219 (2.82%) IBM Cloud
8 181 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 141 (1.81%) Serverless
10 132 (1.70%) Entra ID
11 123 (1.58%) Amazon S3
12 115 (1.48%) IaaS
13 112 (1.44%) GitHub
14 89 (1.15%) PaaS
15 88 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
16 77 (0.99%) dbt
17 76 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
18 75 (0.97%) OpenShift
19 74 (0.95%) OCI
20 65 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 486 (6.26%) Broadband
2 280 (3.60%) Firewall
3 155 (2.00%) WAN
4 110 (1.42%) DNS
5 102 (1.31%) LAN
6 99 (1.27%) VPN
7 77 (0.99%) Network Security
7 77 (0.99%) TCP/IP
8 65 (0.84%) SAN
9 62 (0.80%) SD-WAN
10 61 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
11 59 (0.76%) DHCP
12 58 (0.75%) Wireless
13 56 (0.72%) Internet
14 55 (0.71%) 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
1 373 (4.80%) BigQuery
2 372 (4.79%) SQL Server
3 361 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 291 (3.75%) Looker
5 268 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 263 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
7 262 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
8 224 (2.88%) MySQL
9 222 (2.86%) Power BI
10 160 (2.06%) Big Data
11 151 (1.94%) Relational Database
12 150 (1.93%) DB2
13 110 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
14 91 (1.17%) Tableau
15 77 (0.99%) Data Lake
16 76 (0.98%) Oracle Database
17 47 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
17 47 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 45 (0.58%) DynamoDB
19 44 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 348 (4.48%) Git
2 257 (3.31%) JIRA
3 237 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 175 (2.25%) GitLab
5 79 (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 34 (0.44%) IBM UrbanCode
10 34 (0.44%) JUnit
11 32 (0.41%) Bitbucket
12 30 (0.39%) Cucumber
12 30 (0.39%) TeamCity
13 28 (0.36%) NUnit
13 28 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
13 28 (0.36%) Subversion
14 24 (0.31%) Gradle
15 23 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 2,519 (32.42%) Social Skills
2 2,192 (28.21%) Finance
3 1,343 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1,234 (15.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 977 (12.58%) Public Sector
6 733 (9.43%) Influencing Skills
7 487 (6.27%) Law
8 468 (6.02%) Marketing
9 281 (3.62%) Retail
10 277 (3.57%) Banking
11 256 (3.30%) Legal
12 187 (2.41%) Manufacturing
13 179 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
14 137 (1.76%) Telecoms
15 113 (1.45%) Games
16 106 (1.36%) Automotive
17 105 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
18 97 (1.25%) Electronics
19 89 (1.15%) Financial Institution
20 82 (1.06%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,987 (25.58%) Senior
2 1,568 (20.18%) Lead
3 940 (12.10%) Developer
4 824 (10.61%) Analyst
5 592 (7.62%) Architect
6 473 (6.09%) Software Engineer
7 370 (4.76%) Data Engineer
8 362 (4.66%) Senior Developer
9 311 (4.00%) Senior Manager
10 301 (3.87%) Senior Analyst
11 259 (3.33%) Lead Developer
12 233 (3.00%) Technical Leader
13 232 (2.99%) Consultant
14 220 (2.83%) Project Manager
15 218 (2.81%) Principal Engineer
16 208 (2.68%) Delivery Manager
17 204 (2.63%) Team Leader
18 185 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
19 181 (2.33%) Full Stack Engineer
20 178 (2.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 636 (8.19%) .NET
2 584 (7.52%) React
3 468 (6.02%) HTML
4 424 (5.46%) CSS
5 344 (4.43%) AngularJS
6 315 (4.05%) Web Services
7 310 (3.99%) REST
8 251 (3.23%) RESTful
9 230 (2.96%) ASP.NET
10 209 (2.69%) Spring
11 202 (2.60%) Vue
12 176 (2.27%) Node.js
13 165 (2.12%) jQuery
14 156 (2.01%) XML
15 142 (1.83%) .NET Core
16 133 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
17 132 (1.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 129 (1.66%) Spring Boot
19 121 (1.56%) JSON
20 119 (1.53%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 524 (6.74%) Self-Motivation
2 358 (4.61%) Product Ownership
3 336 (4.32%) Algorithms
4 321 (4.13%) Management Information System
5 270 (3.48%) Public Cloud
6 269 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 247 (3.18%) e-Learning
8 228 (2.93%) Blockchain
9 218 (2.81%) Data Centre
10 200 (2.57%) Data Structures
11 179 (2.30%) Cloud Native
12 120 (1.54%) IoT
13 112 (1.44%) Onboarding
14 110 (1.42%) Mobile App
15 91 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
16 89 (1.15%) Client/Server
17 82 (1.06%) PMI
18 81 (1.04%) Derivative
19 79 (1.02%) Driving Licence
20 75 (0.97%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 733 (9.43%) Windows
2 576 (7.41%) Linux
3 221 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 212 (2.73%) Apple iOS
5 199 (2.56%) Android
6 101 (1.30%) Unix
7 71 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 64 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
9 58 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 54 (0.70%) 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 (0.090%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,264 (42.01%) Agile
2 2,912 (37.48%) Coaching
3 1,713 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
4 1,141 (14.69%) Decision-Making
5 1,095 (14.09%) DevOps
6 986 (12.69%) Software Engineering
7 847 (10.90%) Project Management
8 831 (10.70%) Roadmaps
9 717 (9.23%) Actionable Insight
10 614 (7.90%) CI/CD
11 601 (7.74%) Analytics
11 601 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 572 (7.36%) Computer Science
13 558 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
14 498 (6.41%) Business Case
14 498 (6.41%) Project Delivery
15 495 (6.37%) Budgeting
16 472 (6.08%) Data Science
16 472 (6.08%) Test Automation
17 462 (5.95%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 1,144 (14.73%) SQL
2 825 (10.62%) Java
3 769 (9.90%) Python
4 748 (9.63%) C#
5 731 (9.41%) JavaScript
6 246 (3.17%) TypeScript
7 215 (2.77%) PowerShell
8 164 (2.11%) C++
9 147 (1.89%) PHP
10 135 (1.74%) C
11 111 (1.43%) Scala
12 101 (1.30%) Bash
13 99 (1.27%) T-SQL
14 80 (1.03%) Ruby
15 73 (0.94%) COBOL
15 73 (0.94%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 71 (0.91%) Kotlin
17 65 (0.84%) Go
18 43 (0.55%) Swift
19 41 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 1,260 (16.22%) Degree
2 588 (7.57%) Security Cleared
3 451 (5.81%) ACCA
3 451 (5.81%) CIMA
4 316 (4.07%) SC Cleared
5 274 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 146 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 128 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 124 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
9 113 (1.45%) PMI Certification
10 101 (1.30%) DBS Check
11 82 (1.06%) CISSP
11 82 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 80 (1.03%) CCNA
13 77 (0.99%) Azure Certification
14 73 (0.94%) AWS Certification
15 66 (0.85%) APMP
15 66 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
16 56 (0.72%) PMP
17 44 (0.57%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 477 (6.14%) QA
2 364 (4.69%) GDPR
3 257 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 179 (2.30%) SLA
5 151 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 97 (1.25%) PMO
7 91 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 76 (0.98%) NIST
9 71 (0.91%) WCAG
10 58 (0.75%) NCSC
11 52 (0.67%) GMP
12 42 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
13 40 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
14 27 (0.35%) NIST 800
15 26 (0.33%) PCI DSS
16 20 (0.26%) JSP 440
17 18 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 14 (0.18%) GRC
19 13 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
20 12 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 398 (5.12%) Docker
2 323 (4.16%) Active Directory
3 144 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (0.90%) Hyper-V
5 58 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
6 54 (0.70%) Firmware
7 29 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 27 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
8 27 (0.35%) vSphere
9 16 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.17%) IAG
10 13 (0.17%) vCloud
10 13 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.12%) Forefront TMG
11 9 (0.12%) HDFS
11 9 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
12 8 (0.10%) KVM
13 4 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.039%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.026%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 434 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 380 (4.89%) Terraform
3 188 (2.42%) Ansible
4 97 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 94 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 52 (0.67%) 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 (0.44%) vCenter Server
11 33 (0.42%) Grafana
12 25 (0.32%) Functional Safety
13 22 (0.28%) SCOM
14 21 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 20 (0.26%) FortiGate
15 20 (0.26%) WSUS
16 16 (0.21%) Nagios
17 14 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
18 13 (0.17%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,589 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 540 (6.95%) Google
3 312 (4.02%) Oracle
4 274 (3.53%) IBM
4 274 (3.53%) ServiceNow
5 264 (3.40%) Red Hat
6 250 (3.22%) VMware
7 130 (1.67%) Cisco
8 117 (1.51%) Dell
9 104 (1.34%) SAP
10 99 (1.27%) Dynatrace
11 81 (1.04%) YouTube
12 76 (0.98%) Salesforce
13 73 (0.94%) Micro Focus
13 73 (0.94%) Splunk
14 72 (0.93%) Juniper
15 66 (0.85%) Atlassian
15 66 (0.85%) Veeam
16 59 (0.76%) Adobe
17 51 (0.66%) Databricks