Mentoring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Mentorship
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 99 79
Rank change year-on-year +17 -20 -4
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 504 571 968
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.42% 2.51% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 2.81% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 419 701
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £417 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £588
90th Percentile £775 £700 £674
UK median daily rate £550 £587 £558
% change year-on-year -6.22% +5.15% +6.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 19 42
10th Percentile £15.17 £30.02 £10.77
25th Percentile £25.47 £54.04 £17.52
Median hourly rate £45.24 £75.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.68% +114.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile £59.06 £83.31 £58.02
90th Percentile £70.00 £83.72 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -46.67% +66.67% +4.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mentoring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Mentoring in the UK excluding London

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
North of England +47 181 £500 -9.09% 403
North West +34 102 £493 -10.36% 243
South East -1 101 £540 -6.57% 315
South West +14 96 £600 +1.78% 214
Yorkshire +49 78 £550 -1.35% 113
Midlands -8 60 £523 +8.85% 263
Scotland -6 45 £469 -9.86% 147
West Midlands -7 37 £550 +12.24% 169
East of England -11 25 £500 - 112
East Midlands -3 23 £411 -9.56% 94
Northern Ireland +16 19 £600 +50.00% 40
Wales +13 4 £405 -22.30% 43
Isle of Man - 2 - -
North East +9 1 - - 48
Mentoring
UK

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (1.59%) Confluence
1 8 (1.59%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.40%) Drupal
3 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.20%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.40%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.40%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.40%) Lectora
6 1 (0.20%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (1.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.40%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.40%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.40%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.40%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 57 (11.31%) AWS
2 54 (10.71%) Azure
3 28 (5.56%) Serverless
4 23 (4.56%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (2.38%) Amazon S3
7 11 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (1.98%) GCP
8 10 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (1.98%) OpenShift
9 9 (1.79%) SaaS
10 8 (1.59%) IaaS
11 7 (1.39%) PaaS
12 6 (1.19%) Azure Functions
13 5 (0.99%) Entra ID
13 5 (0.99%) Textract
14 4 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (0.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.76%) Firewall
2 16 (3.17%) Network Security
3 13 (2.58%) DNS
4 10 (1.98%) DHCP
4 10 (1.98%) VPN
5 9 (1.79%) Cisco ISE
5 9 (1.79%) WAN
6 8 (1.59%) BGP
6 8 (1.59%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (1.59%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (1.59%) LAN
6 8 (1.59%) VoIP
7 7 (1.39%) WLAN
8 6 (1.19%) Internet
8 6 (1.19%) MPLS
8 6 (1.19%) PBX
8 6 (1.19%) SAN
9 5 (0.99%) OSPF
9 5 (0.99%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (5.16%) SQL Server
3 25 (4.96%) Relational Database
4 17 (3.37%) MongoDB
5 14 (2.78%) NoSQL
5 14 (2.78%) Power BI
6 11 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (1.39%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.19%) MySQL
11 5 (0.99%) Data Mining
11 5 (0.99%) Tableau
12 4 (0.79%) Big Data
13 3 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.60%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.60%) DB2
13 3 (0.60%) Metadata
13 3 (0.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (4.76%) Git
2 22 (4.37%) JIRA
3 14 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.78%) JUnit
4 11 (2.18%) GitLab
5 6 (1.19%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.79%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.60%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.40%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.40%) Gradle
8 2 (0.40%) Hudson
8 2 (0.40%) Maven
8 2 (0.40%) Selenium
8 2 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.40%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.20%) CANoe
9 1 (0.20%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.20%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.20%) VersionOne
General
1 191 (37.90%) Social Skills
2 96 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 86 (17.06%) Finance
4 73 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 24 (4.76%) Military
7 18 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.78%) Legal
9 12 (2.38%) Banking
10 11 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.98%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.79%) Law
13 8 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.39%) Publishing
15 5 (0.99%) Retail
16 4 (0.79%) Automotive
16 4 (0.79%) Aviation
16 4 (0.79%) Electronics
16 4 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (12.90%) Senior
2 62 (12.30%) Developer
3 59 (11.71%) Lead
4 48 (9.52%) Analyst
5 44 (8.73%) Architect
6 25 (4.96%) Consultant
7 24 (4.76%) Java Developer
8 21 (4.17%) Project Manager
9 17 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (3.17%) Software Engineer
11 14 (2.78%) Capacity Manager
11 14 (2.78%) Problem Manager
11 14 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (2.58%) Cyber Defence Analyst
12 13 (2.58%) SIEM Consultant
12 13 (2.58%) Support Engineer
13 12 (2.38%) Availability Manager
13 12 (2.38%) Capacity and Availability Manager
13 12 (2.38%) DBA
13 12 (2.38%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.75%) React
2 23 (4.56%) REST
3 20 (3.97%) Spring
4 19 (3.77%) Spring Boot
5 16 (3.17%) CSS
6 14 (2.78%) HTML
7 13 (2.58%) JPA
8 12 (2.38%) Hibernate
8 12 (2.38%) JSON
8 12 (2.38%) RESTful
9 11 (2.18%) AWS CDK
10 10 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (1.98%) Kafka
10 10 (1.98%) XML
11 9 (1.79%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.79%) Node.js
12 8 (1.59%) .NET
12 8 (1.59%) Web Services
13 5 (0.99%) jQuery
13 5 (0.99%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 78 (15.48%) Management Information System
2 65 (12.90%) Cyber Threat
3 64 (12.70%) Cyber Defence
4 54 (10.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 23 (4.56%) Virtual Team
6 17 (3.37%) Product Ownership
7 16 (3.17%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.79%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
10 8 (1.59%) CMDB
10 8 (1.59%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.59%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.19%) PKI
12 6 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.99%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.99%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.74%) Windows
2 26 (5.16%) Linux
3 17 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.59%) Android
5 5 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.99%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.79%) Unix
7 2 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (31.35%) Agile
2 126 (25.00%) Coaching
3 95 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (17.46%) Cybersecurity
5 69 (13.69%) Incident Management
6 65 (12.90%) SIEM
7 63 (12.50%) Incident Response
8 61 (12.10%) Root Cause Analysis
9 56 (11.11%) DevOps
9 56 (11.11%) Protective Monitoring
10 55 (10.91%) Information Security
11 54 (10.71%) Service Management
12 53 (10.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (9.72%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 49 (9.72%) Threat Intelligence
14 48 (9.52%) CRM
14 48 (9.52%) ITIL
15 47 (9.33%) Scrum
16 46 (9.13%) MITRE ATT&CK
17 45 (8.93%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (10.52%) Java
2 36 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 34 (6.75%) Python
4 33 (6.55%) TypeScript
5 32 (6.35%) SQL
6 17 (3.37%) Bash
6 17 (3.37%) PowerShell
7 16 (3.17%) C#
8 11 (2.18%) C++
9 9 (1.79%) C
10 8 (1.59%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.39%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.39%) Perl
12 5 (0.99%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.79%) Groovy
13 4 (0.79%) PHP
13 4 (0.79%) Ruby
14 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.40%) Scala
14 2 (0.40%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 183 (36.31%) Security Cleared
2 110 (21.83%) SC Cleared
3 81 (16.07%) DV Cleared
4 65 (12.90%) Degree
5 14 (2.78%) CISSP
6 13 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.59%) CCIE
9 8 (1.59%) CISM
10 6 (1.19%) CCIE Data Center
10 6 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.19%) MCTS
11 5 (0.99%) MCITP
12 4 (0.79%) HNC
13 3 (0.60%) CCNP
13 3 (0.60%) PgMP
13 3 (0.60%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.40%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (10.32%) NIST
2 47 (9.33%) NIST 800
3 30 (5.95%) QA
4 28 (5.56%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.98%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.19%) SLA
6 6 (1.19%) WCAG
7 4 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.60%) NCSC
8 3 (0.60%) PMO
9 2 (0.40%) GDPR
9 2 (0.40%) HAZOP
9 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.20%) JTAG
10 1 (0.20%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.20%) P3O
10 1 (0.20%) PMBOK
System Software
1 26 (5.16%) Docker
2 19 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.99%) vSphere
5 4 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.60%) Firmware
7 2 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) iptables
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.20%) XenApp
8 1 (0.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.76%) Ansible
3 16 (3.17%) Terraform
4 11 (2.18%) Kibana
5 9 (1.79%) Grafana
5 9 (1.79%) logstash
6 6 (1.19%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.99%) WSUS
8 4 (0.79%) Nessus
8 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.79%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.60%) SCCM
9 3 (0.60%) VxRail
10 2 (0.40%) CEMLI
10 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.40%) Puppet
11 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 110 (21.83%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.56%) Oracle
3 19 (3.77%) Cisco
4 12 (2.38%) VMware
5 11 (2.18%) Tanium
6 10 (1.98%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.79%) Palo Alto
7 9 (1.79%) SAP
8 8 (1.59%) SolarWinds
9 7 (1.39%) CheckPoint
9 7 (1.39%) F5
9 7 (1.39%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.39%) Sparx
10 6 (1.19%) Autodesk
10 6 (1.19%) CA
11 5 (0.99%) EMC
11 5 (0.99%) Infoblox
11 5 (0.99%) Symantec
11 5 (0.99%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.79%) Veeam