Mentoring Contracts in the South West

Mentorship
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 79 93
Rank change year-on-year +10 +14 -20
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 91 91 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.88% 2.62% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 2.92% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 72 54
10th Percentile £517 £464 £346
25th Percentile £540 £525 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £595 £560
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +6.21% +7.69%
75th Percentile £713 £653 £653
90th Percentile £850 £725 £763
England median daily rate £550 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -7.63% +3.56% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 6
10th Percentile - £56.31 £53.55
25th Percentile £15.17 £72.50 £57.71
Median hourly rate £45.75 £83.31 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -45.09% +26.61% +19.64%
75th Percentile £57.33 - £75.20
90th Percentile - £83.65 £80.91
England median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -46.67% +114.29% -22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,626 3,113 3,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.97% 89.71% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,680 2,274 2,317
10th Percentile £225 £313 £297
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.37%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £724 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 317 207
10th Percentile £13.88 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.40 £20.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.76% +10.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.29
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in the South West

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in the South West

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the South West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mentoring in the South West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Mentoring in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the South West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Wiltshire +42 51 £593 +6.28% 37
Bristol -12 19 £600 +9.09% 97
Devon +1 10 £588 -2.08% 18
Dorset +12 6 - - 14
Gloucestershire -1 4 £700 - 26
Somerset -7 1 £550 -16.98% 29
Mentoring
England

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (3.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.99%) Azure
2 5 (5.49%) AWS
2 5 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.30%) PaaS
5 2 (2.20%) GCP
5 2 (2.20%) IaaS
5 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.10%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.10%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.10%) Serverless
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) Network Security
2 4 (4.40%) DNS
2 4 (4.40%) Wireless
3 2 (2.20%) Firewall
3 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.10%) NGFW
4 1 (1.10%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.10%) VPN
4 1 (1.10%) VSAN
4 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.10%) Parquet
2 1 (1.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (3.30%) JIRA
3 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.10%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) Selenium
General
1 49 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 25 (27.47%) Finance
3 17 (18.68%) Military
4 16 (17.58%) Public Sector
5 12 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (10.99%) Telecoms
7 7 (7.69%) Publishing
8 4 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Legal
9 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.10%) Aviation
10 1 (1.10%) Banking
10 1 (1.10%) Electronics
10 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Marketing
10 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (18.68%) Lead
2 15 (16.48%) Analyst
3 10 (10.99%) Delivery Manager
4 8 (8.79%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 8 (8.79%) Project Manager
5 7 (7.69%) Senior
6 6 (6.59%) Architect
6 6 (6.59%) Consultant
6 6 (6.59%) Senior Delivery Manager
6 6 (6.59%) Senior Manager
6 6 (6.59%) SOC Manager
6 6 (6.59%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Security Manager
7 5 (5.49%) SIEM Consultant
8 4 (4.40%) Administrator
8 4 (4.40%) Author
8 4 (4.40%) Technical Author
8 4 (4.40%) Test Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 3 (3.30%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.20%) React
2 1 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.10%) JSON
2 1 (1.10%) Node.js
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.10%) REST
2 1 (1.10%) Vue
2 1 (1.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (39.56%) Cyber Defence
2 33 (36.26%) Cyber Threat
3 28 (30.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 27 (29.67%) Management Information System
5 7 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (4.40%) NHS
6 4 (4.40%) Operational Technology
6 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.30%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.10%) PKI
9 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.69%) Windows
2 3 (3.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (37.36%) SIEM
3 29 (31.87%) Information Security
4 28 (30.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 28 (30.77%) Incident Management
4 28 (30.77%) Incident Response
4 28 (30.77%) Protective Monitoring
4 28 (30.77%) Threat Intelligence
5 27 (29.67%) Agile
6 23 (25.27%) Case Management
6 23 (25.27%) Coaching
6 23 (25.27%) CRM
6 23 (25.27%) Root Cause Analysis
6 23 (25.27%) SOAR
6 23 (25.27%) Use Case
7 19 (20.88%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 13 (14.29%) Security Architecture
9 12 (13.19%) Programme Management
10 10 (10.99%) DevOps
10 10 (10.99%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
2 2 (2.20%) Python
3 1 (1.10%) C
3 1 (1.10%) C++
3 1 (1.10%) Java
3 1 (1.10%) Perl
3 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.10%) Ruby
3 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.10%) SQL
3 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 69 (75.82%) Security Cleared
2 43 (47.25%) DV Cleared
3 31 (34.07%) SC Cleared
4 12 (13.19%) Degree
5 8 (8.79%) CISM
5 8 (8.79%) CISSP
6 6 (6.59%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (4.40%) HNC
8 2 (2.20%) CCNA
8 2 (2.20%) CCNP
8 2 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.10%) CREST Certified
9 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.10%) MRICS
9 1 (1.10%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (34.07%) NIST
2 29 (31.87%) NIST 800
3 6 (6.59%) QA
4 3 (3.30%) NCSC
4 3 (3.30%) PMO
5 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.10%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (1.10%) NEBOSH
5 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.10%) Docker
1 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (1.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.10%) Ansible
2 1 (1.10%) Grafana
2 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (32.97%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.59%) Sparx
3 3 (3.30%) Cisco
4 2 (2.20%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.20%) VMware
5 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.10%) Databricks
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle
5 1 (1.10%) SAP