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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 14 25
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 +15
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 7,787 12,556 14,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.91% 12.36% 9.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.23% 12.93% 9.92%
Number of salaries quoted 5,031 4,088 6,176
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £38,986
25th Percentile £43,329 £51,833 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +11.11% +0.80%
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 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 7 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 7 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 6,838 £62,500 -10.71% 2,201
UK excluding London -16 5,624 £57,965 -7.26% 1,564
Work from Home +12 3,600 £63,823 -8.82% 960
North of England -3 1,971 £60,000 -4.00% 436
London +8 1,848 £78,273 -2.52% 747
South East -3 1,229 £57,500 -15.13% 323
North West -6 1,046 £57,965 -3.39% 237
Midlands -13 844 £50,000 -13.04% 283
Yorkshire +6 645 £61,206 -5.84% 156
South West -20 596 £56,500 +2.73% 200
West Midlands -11 522 £55,242 -7.93% 180
Scotland -40 504 £62,500 -10.00% 102
East Midlands -16 308 £44,000 -23.48% 102
East of England -34 288 £55,173 -6.09% 164
North East +7 285 £61,853 +23.71% 46
Wales -16 134 £58,800 +30.67% 47
Northern Ireland -3 62 £40,000 -23.81% 44
Isle of Man - 2 £36,000 -

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 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 133 (1.71%) Confluence
3 122 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 95 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 61 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 45 (0.58%) CMS
7 40 (0.51%) nginx
8 37 (0.48%) Tuxedo
9 36 (0.46%) Camunda
10 34 (0.44%) IIS
11 31 (0.40%) JBoss
12 30 (0.39%) Apache
13 28 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
14 27 (0.35%) WordPress
15 19 (0.24%) SAS
16 17 (0.22%) OpenStack
17 11 (0.14%) Umbraco
18 10 (0.13%) Drupal
19 9 (0.12%) Tomcat
20 8 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 644 (8.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 179 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (0.49%) UserZoom
5 25 (0.32%) AutoCAD
6 23 (0.30%) Sketch
7 22 (0.28%) Simulink
8 21 (0.27%) Photoshop
9 20 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
10 17 (0.22%) MS Visio
11 15 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
12 12 (0.15%) Revit
13 8 (0.10%) Adobe XD
14 7 (0.090%) InVision
15 6 (0.077%) SOLIDWORKS
16 5 (0.064%) OrCAD
17 4 (0.051%) Blender
17 4 (0.051%) EPLAN
17 4 (0.051%) Maya
17 4 (0.051%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 44 (0.57%) 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%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.064%) SAP FSCM
10 5 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.064%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,528 (19.62%) Azure
2 1,365 (17.53%) AWS
3 596 (7.65%) GCP
4 402 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
5 327 (4.20%) SaaS
6 291 (3.74%) Power Platform
7 220 (2.83%) IBM Cloud
8 178 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
9 138 (1.77%) Serverless
10 132 (1.70%) Entra ID
11 125 (1.61%) Amazon S3
12 116 (1.49%) IaaS
13 110 (1.41%) GitHub
14 90 (1.16%) PaaS
15 89 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
16 76 (0.98%) OpenShift
17 75 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
17 75 (0.96%) OCI
18 73 (0.94%) dbt
19 65 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 486 (6.24%) Broadband
2 277 (3.56%) Firewall
3 154 (1.98%) WAN
4 108 (1.39%) DNS
5 101 (1.30%) LAN
6 97 (1.25%) VPN
7 77 (0.99%) Network Security
8 75 (0.96%) TCP/IP
9 64 (0.82%) SAN
10 62 (0.80%) SD-WAN
11 61 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
12 59 (0.76%) DHCP
13 58 (0.74%) Wireless
14 57 (0.73%) Internet
15 54 (0.69%) VLAN
16 42 (0.54%) OSPF
17 41 (0.53%) MPLS
18 40 (0.51%) 5G
18 40 (0.51%) BGP
19 25 (0.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 371 (4.76%) BigQuery
1 371 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 360 (4.62%) NoSQL
3 291 (3.74%) Looker
4 268 (3.44%) MongoDB
5 264 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
6 262 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
7 222 (2.85%) MySQL
8 216 (2.77%) Power BI
9 158 (2.03%) Big Data
10 152 (1.95%) DB2
10 152 (1.95%) Relational Database
11 112 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
12 88 (1.13%) Tableau
13 76 (0.98%) Data Lake
13 76 (0.98%) Oracle Database
14 46 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
14 46 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 45 (0.58%) DynamoDB
16 44 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 347 (4.46%) Git
2 254 (3.26%) JIRA
3 234 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 176 (2.26%) GitLab
5 81 (1.04%) Selenium
6 46 (0.59%) Visual Studio
7 38 (0.49%) CircleCI
7 38 (0.49%) IntelliJ
7 38 (0.49%) Maven
8 36 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 36 (0.46%) JUnit
9 34 (0.44%) IBM UrbanCode
10 32 (0.41%) Cucumber
11 31 (0.40%) Bitbucket
12 29 (0.37%) TeamCity
13 28 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
14 27 (0.35%) NUnit
14 27 (0.35%) Subversion
15 25 (0.32%) Gradle
16 24 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 2,569 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 2,177 (27.96%) Finance
3 1,337 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1,296 (16.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 969 (12.44%) Public Sector
6 734 (9.43%) Influencing Skills
7 486 (6.24%) Law
8 465 (5.97%) Marketing
9 274 (3.52%) Retail
10 265 (3.40%) Banking
11 259 (3.33%) Legal
12 186 (2.39%) Manufacturing
13 176 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
14 135 (1.73%) Telecoms
15 113 (1.45%) Games
16 106 (1.36%) Automotive
17 105 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
18 94 (1.21%) Electronics
19 89 (1.14%) Financial Institution
20 82 (1.05%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,993 (25.59%) Senior
2 1,577 (20.25%) Lead
3 938 (12.05%) Developer
4 821 (10.54%) Analyst
5 646 (8.30%) Architect
6 469 (6.02%) Software Engineer
7 370 (4.75%) Data Engineer
8 360 (4.62%) Senior Developer
9 311 (3.99%) Senior Manager
10 300 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
11 259 (3.33%) Lead Developer
12 232 (2.98%) Technical Leader
13 230 (2.95%) Consultant
14 221 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
15 219 (2.81%) Project Manager
16 218 (2.80%) Principal Engineer
17 207 (2.66%) Delivery Manager
18 205 (2.63%) Team Leader
19 181 (2.32%) Full Stack Engineer
20 178 (2.29%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 634 (8.14%) .NET
2 589 (7.56%) React
3 474 (6.09%) HTML
4 431 (5.53%) CSS
5 343 (4.40%) AngularJS
6 317 (4.07%) Web Services
7 308 (3.96%) REST
8 252 (3.24%) RESTful
9 231 (2.97%) ASP.NET
10 208 (2.67%) Spring
11 203 (2.61%) Vue
12 178 (2.29%) Node.js
13 166 (2.13%) jQuery
14 155 (1.99%) XML
15 141 (1.81%) .NET Core
16 133 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
16 133 (1.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 126 (1.62%) Spring Boot
18 124 (1.59%) JSON
19 121 (1.55%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 523 (6.72%) Self-Motivation
2 352 (4.52%) Product Ownership
3 334 (4.29%) Algorithms
4 322 (4.14%) Management Information System
5 270 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 264 (3.39%) Public Cloud
7 249 (3.20%) e-Learning
8 229 (2.94%) Blockchain
9 215 (2.76%) Data Centre
10 200 (2.57%) Data Structures
11 178 (2.29%) Cloud Native
12 120 (1.54%) IoT
13 112 (1.44%) Mobile App
14 108 (1.39%) Onboarding
15 90 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
16 89 (1.14%) Client/Server
17 82 (1.05%) PMI
18 81 (1.04%) Derivative
19 77 (0.99%) Driving Licence
20 75 (0.96%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 729 (9.36%) Windows
2 570 (7.32%) Linux
3 220 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 210 (2.70%) Apple iOS
5 198 (2.54%) Android
6 99 (1.27%) Unix
7 70 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 62 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
9 58 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 52 (0.67%) Windows 10
11 42 (0.54%) CentOS
12 30 (0.39%) Mac OS
13 17 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 16 (0.21%) Ubuntu
15 12 (0.15%) AIX
15 12 (0.15%) SUSE
16 11 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
17 10 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
18 8 (0.10%) Solaris
19 7 (0.090%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,240 (41.61%) Agile
2 2,964 (38.06%) Coaching
3 1,772 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
4 1,139 (14.63%) Decision-Making
5 1,085 (13.93%) DevOps
6 983 (12.62%) Software Engineering
7 844 (10.84%) Project Management
8 824 (10.58%) Roadmaps
9 717 (9.21%) Actionable Insight
10 607 (7.80%) CI/CD
11 601 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 595 (7.64%) Analytics
13 565 (7.26%) Computer Science
14 558 (7.17%) Cybersecurity
15 498 (6.40%) Business Case
16 496 (6.37%) Project Delivery
17 495 (6.36%) Budgeting
18 473 (6.07%) Line Management
19 472 (6.06%) Test Automation
20 469 (6.02%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,139 (14.63%) SQL
2 815 (10.47%) Java
3 766 (9.84%) Python
4 745 (9.57%) C#
5 736 (9.45%) JavaScript
6 249 (3.20%) TypeScript
7 208 (2.67%) PowerShell
8 160 (2.05%) C++
9 146 (1.87%) PHP
10 134 (1.72%) C
11 110 (1.41%) Scala
12 101 (1.30%) Bash
13 96 (1.23%) T-SQL
14 80 (1.03%) Ruby
15 73 (0.94%) COBOL
15 73 (0.94%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 72 (0.92%) Kotlin
17 65 (0.83%) Go
18 42 (0.54%) Swift
19 40 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 1,309 (16.81%) Degree
2 578 (7.42%) Security Cleared
3 451 (5.79%) ACCA
3 451 (5.79%) CIMA
4 305 (3.92%) SC Cleared
5 268 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 144 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 125 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 122 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 113 (1.45%) PMI Certification
10 101 (1.30%) DBS Check
11 82 (1.05%) CISSP
11 82 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 78 (1.00%) CCNA
13 77 (0.99%) Azure Certification
14 71 (0.91%) AWS Certification
15 67 (0.86%) APMP
16 64 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
17 56 (0.72%) PMP
18 44 (0.57%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 476 (6.11%) QA
2 364 (4.67%) GDPR
3 258 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 182 (2.34%) SLA
5 151 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 97 (1.25%) PMO
7 88 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 76 (0.98%) NIST
9 71 (0.91%) WCAG
10 57 (0.73%) NCSC
11 52 (0.67%) GMP
12 39 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
12 39 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
13 27 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 26 (0.33%) PCI DSS
15 20 (0.26%) JSP 440
16 16 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 14 (0.18%) GRC
18 13 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 12 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 395 (5.07%) Docker
2 319 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 139 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 57 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
6 54 (0.69%) Firmware
7 29 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 27 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
9 25 (0.32%) vSphere
10 16 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 13 (0.17%) IAG
11 13 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 12 (0.15%) vCloud
13 9 (0.12%) Forefront TMG
13 9 (0.12%) HDFS
13 9 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
14 8 (0.10%) KVM
15 3 (0.039%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.039%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.026%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 428 (5.50%) Kubernetes
2 379 (4.87%) Terraform
3 188 (2.41%) Ansible
4 97 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 95 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 52 (0.67%) Progress Chef
7 43 (0.55%) SCCM
8 38 (0.49%) Puppet
9 35 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 34 (0.44%) vCenter Server
11 33 (0.42%) ZABBIX
12 32 (0.41%) Grafana
13 25 (0.32%) Functional Safety
14 23 (0.30%) SCOM
15 21 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 20 (0.26%) FortiGate
16 20 (0.26%) WSUS
17 15 (0.19%) Nagios
18 14 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
18 14 (0.18%) Istio
Vendors
1 1,583 (20.33%) Microsoft
2 535 (6.87%) Google
3 313 (4.02%) Oracle
4 274 (3.52%) ServiceNow
5 272 (3.49%) IBM
6 264 (3.39%) Red Hat
7 244 (3.13%) VMware
8 130 (1.67%) Cisco
9 116 (1.49%) Dell
10 103 (1.32%) SAP
11 100 (1.28%) Dynatrace
12 79 (1.01%) YouTube
13 76 (0.98%) Salesforce
14 73 (0.94%) Micro Focus
14 73 (0.94%) Splunk
15 72 (0.92%) Juniper
16 65 (0.83%) Veeam
17 63 (0.81%) Atlassian
18 59 (0.76%) Adobe
19 50 (0.64%) Databricks