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

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 89 91
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +9
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 1,051 1,512 2,509
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.46% 2.68% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 2.99% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 994 1,747
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £463 £487 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £675
90th Percentile £825 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -5.91% +7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 25 65
10th Percentile £15.17 £32.32 £10.91
25th Percentile £25.40 £60.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +66.67% +4.65%
75th Percentile £57.33 £83.31 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £88.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £75.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -45.33% +114.29% -20.45%

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 36,593 50,587 79,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.80% 89.68% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,580 35,017 55,732
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,483 1,675 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +5 933 £550 -6.85% 2,398
UK excluding London +15 493 £518 -5.91% 1,868
London -1 466 £600 -7.30% 892
Work from Home +23 383 £550 -5.66% 1,184
North of England +51 181 £500 -9.09% 452
North West +28 103 £493 -10.36% 264
South East -10 101 £540 -7.06% 549
South West +13 89 £593 +0.51% 231
Yorkshire +41 77 £550 - 132
Midlands -2 61 £538 +12.08% 285
Scotland -14 41 £463 -11.06% 140
West Midlands -12 37 £550 +6.02% 167
East Midlands +2 24 £411 -8.67% 113
East of England -10 24 £525 +5.00% 161
Northern Ireland +15 18 £600 +50.00% 41
Wales +11 4 £405 -22.30% 49
Isle of Man - 2 - -
North East +9 1 - - 57

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 26 (2.47%) Confluence
2 19 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.95%) Apache
4 10 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.48%) SAS
7 4 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.38%) govService
7 4 (0.38%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.29%) CMS
8 3 (0.29%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.19%) Drupal
9 2 (0.19%) IIS
9 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.19%) Mendix
10 1 (0.095%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.095%) Appian
10 1 (0.095%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.095%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 17 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.19%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.19%) InVision
5 2 (0.19%) Lectora
5 2 (0.19%) Sketch
6 1 (0.095%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.095%) Revit
6 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.095%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.38%) Endur
3 4 (0.38%) Shopify
4 3 (0.29%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.29%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.29%) 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%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.19%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.095%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.095%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 180 (17.13%) Azure
2 155 (14.75%) AWS
3 58 (5.52%) Power Platform
4 52 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (4.95%) Serverless
5 39 (3.71%) Dynamics 365
6 38 (3.62%) GCP
7 32 (3.04%) SaaS
8 31 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (2.76%) GitHub
10 27 (2.57%) PaaS
11 24 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (1.90%) Amazon S3
12 20 (1.90%) IaaS
13 19 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (1.71%) Azure API Management
15 17 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (1.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.62%) Firewall
2 29 (2.76%) Network Security
3 25 (2.38%) DNS
4 19 (1.81%) VPN
5 18 (1.71%) DHCP
5 18 (1.71%) Internet
6 15 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.43%) WAN
7 14 (1.33%) LAN
8 11 (1.05%) BGP
9 10 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
9 10 (0.95%) Wireless
9 10 (0.95%) WLAN
10 9 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (0.86%) VoIP
11 8 (0.76%) Cisco Firepower
11 8 (0.76%) OSPF
11 8 (0.76%) VLAN
12 7 (0.67%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.57%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (4.66%) SQL Server
3 48 (4.57%) Relational Database
4 44 (4.19%) Power BI
5 25 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 24 (2.28%) MongoDB
7 19 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.62%) Big Data
9 16 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (1.33%) Tableau
11 13 (1.24%) MySQL
11 13 (1.24%) RDBMS
12 12 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.76%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.67%) Hadoop
16 6 (0.57%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 60 (5.71%) Git
2 52 (4.95%) JIRA
3 33 (3.14%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.38%) JUnit
5 19 (1.81%) GitLab
6 14 (1.33%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.95%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.76%) Maven
9 7 (0.67%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.57%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.57%) Selenium
11 5 (0.48%) Gradle
11 5 (0.48%) RStudio
12 4 (0.38%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.38%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.38%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.38%) Pylint
13 3 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 373 (35.49%) Social Skills
2 279 (26.55%) Finance
3 152 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (13.23%) Public Sector
5 71 (6.76%) Banking
6 51 (4.85%) Front Office
7 42 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 42 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 38 (3.62%) Back Office
9 34 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.76%) Law
11 26 (2.47%) Legal
11 26 (2.47%) Retail
12 24 (2.28%) Marketing
13 23 (2.19%) Military
14 18 (1.71%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (1.24%) Local Government
16 13 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (1.05%) Games
Job Titles
1 171 (16.27%) Senior
2 162 (15.41%) Developer
3 153 (14.56%) Lead
4 109 (10.37%) Analyst
4 109 (10.37%) Architect
5 55 (5.23%) Java Developer
6 46 (4.38%) Consultant
7 39 (3.71%) Software Engineer
7 39 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
8 33 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
9 30 (2.85%) Project Manager
9 30 (2.85%) Senior Developer
10 26 (2.47%) Lead Developer
11 25 (2.38%) Business Analyst
12 24 (2.28%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (2.09%) Financial Analyst
14 21 (2.00%) Designer
14 21 (2.00%) Network Engineer
14 21 (2.00%) Technical Leader
15 20 (1.90%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.57%) React
2 54 (5.14%) REST
3 49 (4.66%) Spring
4 42 (4.00%) Spring Boot
5 41 (3.90%) .NET
6 40 (3.81%) XML
7 37 (3.52%) CSS
7 37 (3.52%) HTML
8 29 (2.76%) Kafka
9 26 (2.47%) JPA
10 25 (2.38%) Hibernate
11 23 (2.19%) AngularJS
11 23 (2.19%) Node.js
11 23 (2.19%) Web Services
12 22 (2.09%) JSON
13 20 (1.90%) RESTful
14 12 (1.14%) jQuery
15 11 (1.05%) ARM Templates
15 11 (1.05%) Next.js
15 11 (1.05%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 89 (8.47%) Management Information System
2 64 (6.09%) Cyber Threat
3 58 (5.52%) Cyber Defence
4 48 (4.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 47 (4.47%) Derivative
6 43 (4.09%) Hedge funds
7 35 (3.33%) Data Centre
7 35 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 29 (2.76%) Virtual Team
9 19 (1.81%) Public Cloud
10 17 (1.62%) CMDB
10 17 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.52%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.43%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.33%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.33%) Fixed Income
14 13 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (1.05%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.04%) Windows
2 43 (4.09%) Linux
3 21 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.33%) Android
5 10 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.76%) Unix
7 5 (0.48%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.29%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.095%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (30.45%) Agile
2 241 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
3 231 (21.98%) Coaching
4 157 (14.94%) DevOps
5 120 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 117 (11.13%) Cybersecurity
7 107 (10.18%) Scrum
8 106 (10.09%) Software Engineering
9 100 (9.51%) CI/CD
10 95 (9.04%) Analytics
11 92 (8.75%) Roadmaps
11 92 (8.75%) Technical Leadership
12 90 (8.56%) Project Management
13 86 (8.18%) Decision-Making
14 78 (7.42%) Stakeholder Management
15 75 (7.14%) Computer Science
16 70 (6.66%) SIEM
17 67 (6.37%) Microservices
17 67 (6.37%) Test Automation
18 65 (6.18%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 155 (14.75%) Python
2 126 (11.99%) Java
3 118 (11.23%) SQL
4 103 (9.80%) C#
5 84 (7.99%) JavaScript
6 70 (6.66%) TypeScript
7 30 (2.85%) PowerShell
8 20 (1.90%) Bash
9 18 (1.71%) Scala
10 15 (1.43%) C++
11 13 (1.24%) Kotlin
11 13 (1.24%) Ruby
12 12 (1.14%) C
13 10 (0.95%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.76%) Perl
15 7 (0.67%) Go
15 7 (0.67%) PHP
15 7 (0.67%) Swift
16 6 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 254 (24.17%) Security Cleared
2 179 (17.03%) SC Cleared
3 152 (14.46%) Degree
4 85 (8.09%) DV Cleared
5 52 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (2.47%) CISSP
8 24 (2.28%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.52%) CISM
10 15 (1.43%) PMP
11 14 (1.33%) CCIE
12 13 (1.24%) PMI Certification
13 11 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.57%) CCIE Data Center
14 6 (0.57%) CCNA
14 6 (0.57%) CEH
14 6 (0.57%) MCTS
14 6 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.76%) QA
2 52 (4.95%) NIST
3 41 (3.90%) NIST 800
4 39 (3.71%) Accessibility
5 32 (3.04%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.33%) NCSC
7 10 (0.95%) SLA
8 8 (0.76%) GRC
8 8 (0.76%) PMO
9 7 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.57%) GDPR
11 5 (0.48%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.38%) WCAG
13 2 (0.19%) HAZOP
13 2 (0.19%) P3O
14 1 (0.095%) PMBOK
14 1 (0.095%) SEPA
System Software
1 63 (5.99%) Docker
2 30 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.57%) vSphere
5 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.38%) vCloud
6 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.29%) XenApp
7 3 (0.29%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.19%) Firmware
8 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.19%) NFS
8 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.095%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.095%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.095%) iptables
9 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 75 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 61 (5.80%) Terraform
3 40 (3.81%) Ansible
4 16 (1.52%) Grafana
5 7 (0.67%) Kibana
5 7 (0.67%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.48%) Nessus
6 5 (0.48%) WSUS
7 4 (0.38%) logstash
7 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.38%) Puppet
7 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (0.38%) VxRail
7 4 (0.38%) ZABBIX
8 3 (0.29%) Argo
8 3 (0.29%) Istio
8 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 157 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.19%) Oracle
3 31 (2.95%) Cisco
4 30 (2.85%) SAP
5 25 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.19%) Google
7 19 (1.81%) Palo Alto
7 19 (1.81%) VMware
8 16 (1.52%) Databricks
9 15 (1.43%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.24%) Adobe
10 13 (1.24%) Juniper
11 9 (0.86%) SolarWinds
12 8 (0.76%) CheckPoint
12 8 (0.76%) Dell
12 8 (0.76%) Informatica
13 7 (0.67%) CA
13 7 (0.67%) IBM
13 7 (0.67%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.67%) Sparx