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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 89 93
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,089 1,561 2,448
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.53% 2.70% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 3.00% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 720 1,009 1,689
10th Percentile £392 £400 £406
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +5.26%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £675
90th Percentile £825 £763 £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 31 66
10th Percentile £15.17 £27.98 £11.06
25th Percentile £24.34 £53.75 £33.64
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +66.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57.12 £83.31 £61.88
90th Percentile £68.13 £85.00 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -48.67% +114.29% -5.41%

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 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +11 969 £550 -6.38% 1,948
UK excluding London +15 512 £525 -4.55% 1,425
London +5 477 £593 -8.85% 634
Work from Home +16 394 £550 -4.35% 923
North of England +47 179 £500 -9.09% 426
South East -4 108 £525 -9.17% 269
North West +30 104 £493 -10.36% 226
South West +24 100 £600 +1.95% 203
Yorkshire +48 74 £550 +2.33% 150
Midlands -7 64 £538 +13.26% 246
Scotland -12 45 £464 -11.24% 103
West Midlands -4 42 £570 +18.75% 140
East Midlands +6 22 £406 -10.33% 105
East of England -8 22 £483 -5.39% 138
Northern Ireland +16 16 £600 +50.00% 33
Wales +12 4 £405 -20.69% 39
Isle of Man - 2 - -
North East +11 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 (2.20%) Confluence
2 17 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.01%) Apache
4 10 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.55%) SAS
6 5 (0.46%) IIS
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
9 2 (0.18%) Drupal
9 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.18%) Mendix
9 2 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.092%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.092%) Appian
10 1 (0.092%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 17 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.73%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.37%) InVision
4 4 (0.37%) Sketch
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.18%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.18%) Lectora
6 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.092%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.64%) 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 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.18%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.18%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.18%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.092%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 194 (17.81%) Azure
2 165 (15.15%) AWS
3 60 (5.51%) Power Platform
4 55 (5.05%) Serverless
5 54 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (3.58%) Dynamics 365
6 39 (3.58%) GCP
7 35 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (2.75%) GitHub
8 30 (2.75%) SaaS
9 29 (2.66%) PaaS
10 27 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (2.11%) IaaS
12 20 (1.84%) Amazon S3
13 19 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (1.65%) Azure API Management
15 16 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (1.29%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 53 (4.87%) Firewall
2 37 (3.40%) Network Security
3 32 (2.94%) DNS
4 24 (2.20%) WAN
5 21 (1.93%) VPN
6 18 (1.65%) Internet
6 18 (1.65%) LAN
7 17 (1.56%) DHCP
8 15 (1.38%) TCP/IP
9 14 (1.29%) Wireless
10 12 (1.10%) BGP
10 12 (1.10%) SAN
11 11 (1.01%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
12 10 (0.92%) WLAN
13 9 (0.83%) Cisco Firepower
13 9 (0.83%) OSPF
13 9 (0.83%) VoIP
14 8 (0.73%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (5.05%) SQL Server
3 48 (4.41%) Relational Database
4 46 (4.22%) Power BI
5 26 (2.39%) NoSQL
6 25 (2.30%) MongoDB
7 20 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.56%) Big Data
8 17 (1.56%) MySQL
9 16 (1.47%) Tableau
10 14 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
11 13 (1.19%) RDBMS
12 12 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.83%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.64%) Hadoop
17 6 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 62 (5.69%) Git
2 53 (4.87%) JIRA
3 34 (3.12%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.30%) JUnit
5 20 (1.84%) GitLab
6 15 (1.38%) Cypress.io
7 11 (1.01%) Maven
7 11 (1.01%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.64%) CircleCI
8 7 (0.64%) Gradle
9 6 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.55%) 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%) Axure RP
11 4 (0.37%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.37%) Pylint
11 4 (0.37%) RStudio
General
1 378 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 282 (25.90%) Finance
3 159 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (13.77%) Public Sector
5 71 (6.52%) Banking
6 50 (4.59%) Front Office
7 44 (4.04%) Telecoms
8 41 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
9 38 (3.49%) Back Office
10 36 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (2.66%) Law
11 29 (2.66%) Marketing
12 24 (2.20%) Legal
12 24 (2.20%) Retail
13 22 (2.02%) Military
14 21 (1.93%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.29%) Games
17 13 (1.19%) Local Government
18 11 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 176 (16.16%) Senior
2 163 (14.97%) Developer
2 163 (14.97%) Lead
3 113 (10.38%) Analyst
4 107 (9.83%) Architect
5 53 (4.87%) Java Developer
6 45 (4.13%) Consultant
7 40 (3.67%) Software Engineer
8 35 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.12%) Senior Analyst
10 31 (2.85%) Lead Developer
11 30 (2.75%) Senior Developer
12 29 (2.66%) Network Engineer
13 28 (2.57%) Business Analyst
13 28 (2.57%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (2.48%) Project Manager
15 26 (2.39%) Designer
16 22 (2.02%) Financial Analyst
17 21 (1.93%) Technical Leader
18 20 (1.84%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.34%) React
2 56 (5.14%) REST
3 48 (4.41%) Spring
4 44 (4.04%) .NET
5 41 (3.76%) XML
6 40 (3.67%) Spring Boot
7 34 (3.12%) CSS
7 34 (3.12%) HTML
8 29 (2.66%) Kafka
9 26 (2.39%) JPA
10 25 (2.30%) Hibernate
10 25 (2.30%) Web Services
11 23 (2.11%) AngularJS
11 23 (2.11%) JSON
12 22 (2.02%) Node.js
13 18 (1.65%) RESTful
14 12 (1.10%) ARM Templates
15 11 (1.01%) Next.js
15 11 (1.01%) PySpark
16 10 (0.92%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 89 (8.17%) Management Information System
2 63 (5.79%) Cyber Threat
3 57 (5.23%) Cyber Defence
4 47 (4.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 47 (4.32%) Derivative
5 43 (3.95%) Hedge funds
6 39 (3.58%) Data Centre
7 37 (3.40%) Product Ownership
8 28 (2.57%) Virtual Team
9 22 (2.02%) Public Cloud
10 19 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (1.56%) CMDB
13 16 (1.47%) Onboarding
14 15 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.29%) Algorithms
15 14 (1.29%) Data Structures
15 14 (1.29%) Fixed Income
16 13 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
17 11 (1.01%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 61 (5.60%) Windows
2 49 (4.50%) Linux
3 24 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.10%) Android
5 10 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.73%) Unix
7 7 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.55%) 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 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.092%) CentOS
13 1 (0.092%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (30.30%) Agile
2 246 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
3 227 (20.84%) Coaching
4 172 (15.79%) DevOps
5 121 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 119 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 112 (10.28%) CI/CD
8 109 (10.01%) Scrum
9 107 (9.83%) Software Engineering
10 98 (9.00%) Roadmaps
11 97 (8.91%) Analytics
12 95 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
13 84 (7.71%) Decision-Making
14 82 (7.53%) Project Management
15 78 (7.16%) ITIL
16 74 (6.80%) Computer Science
17 72 (6.61%) SIEM
18 71 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
19 70 (6.43%) Test Automation
20 69 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 167 (15.34%) Python
2 130 (11.94%) Java
3 125 (11.48%) SQL
4 103 (9.46%) C#
5 84 (7.71%) JavaScript
6 70 (6.43%) TypeScript
7 32 (2.94%) PowerShell
8 23 (2.11%) Bash
9 18 (1.65%) Scala
10 16 (1.47%) C++
11 14 (1.29%) Ruby
12 13 (1.19%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.10%) C
14 10 (0.92%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.73%) Go
15 8 (0.73%) Perl
15 8 (0.73%) PHP
16 7 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.55%) Groovy
17 6 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 271 (24.89%) Security Cleared
2 193 (17.72%) SC Cleared
3 152 (13.96%) Degree
4 90 (8.26%) DV Cleared
5 51 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.58%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (2.39%) CISSP
8 22 (2.02%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.38%) CCNA
9 15 (1.38%) CCNP
9 15 (1.38%) CISM
10 14 (1.29%) CCIE
11 12 (1.10%) PMP
12 11 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.92%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.55%) CCIE Data Center
14 6 (0.55%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.43%) QA
2 54 (4.96%) NIST
3 40 (3.67%) NIST 800
4 39 (3.58%) Accessibility
5 34 (3.12%) Data Quality
6 15 (1.38%) NCSC
7 13 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.92%) SLA
9 9 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.83%) GRC
10 7 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.55%) GDPR
11 6 (0.55%) 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 (0.092%) Government Security Classifications
15 1 (0.092%) HAZOP
15 1 (0.092%) IASME
System Software
1 66 (6.06%) Docker
2 33 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.55%) vSphere
5 5 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.37%) vCloud
7 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.18%) Firmware
8 2 (0.18%) NFS
9 1 (0.092%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.092%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.092%) iptables
9 1 (0.092%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.092%) XenApp
9 1 (0.092%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 77 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 68 (6.24%) Terraform
3 42 (3.86%) Ansible
4 16 (1.47%) Grafana
5 7 (0.64%) SCCM
5 7 (0.64%) vCenter Server
6 6 (0.55%) Kibana
6 6 (0.55%) 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%) 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
1 161 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 46 (4.22%) Oracle
3 43 (3.95%) Cisco
4 33 (3.03%) SAP
5 29 (2.66%) ServiceNow
6 28 (2.57%) VMware
7 22 (2.02%) Google
8 20 (1.84%) Palo Alto
9 17 (1.56%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.47%) Databricks
11 14 (1.29%) Juniper
11 14 (1.29%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.19%) Adobe
12 13 (1.19%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.83%) CA
13 9 (0.83%) F5
13 9 (0.83%) SolarWinds
14 8 (0.73%) CheckPoint
14 8 (0.73%) Dell
14 8 (0.73%) Informatica