Mentoring Contracts in Scotland

Mentorship
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 68 39
Rank change year-on-year -6 -29 +11
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 57 111 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.58% 3.89% 5.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 4.20% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 86 150
10th Percentile £197 £421 £338
25th Percentile £413 £460 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +4.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £575
90th Percentile £651 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.36% +5.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £47.05
25th Percentile - - £48.63
Median hourly rate £11.86 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £54.80
90th Percentile - - £55.42
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% +114.29% +2.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,645 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.68% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,903 2,321
10th Percentile £230 £261 £244
25th Percentile £400 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 55 49
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £54.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in Scotland

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in Scotland

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in Scotland

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in Scotland

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Edinburgh +19 32 £550 +8.27% 36
Glasgow -18 15 £506 -22.15% 27
West Lothian +3 4 £184 -70.60% 2
South Lanarkshire -1 1 £475 -5.19% 4
Mentoring
UK

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (5.26%) Confluence
1 3 (5.26%) IIS
2 1 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.75%) SAS
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Adobe Captivate
1 2 (3.51%) Camtasia
1 2 (3.51%) Lectora
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (35.09%) AWS
2 14 (24.56%) Amazon S3
2 14 (24.56%) Serverless
3 13 (22.81%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (22.81%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (19.30%) OpenShift
5 9 (15.79%) Azure
6 4 (7.02%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.02%) IaaS
6 4 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (7.02%) PaaS
6 4 (7.02%) Rekognition
6 4 (7.02%) SaaS
6 4 (7.02%) Textract
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) LAN
2 3 (5.26%) SAN
2 3 (5.26%) WAN
3 2 (3.51%) Firewall
3 2 (3.51%) VSAN
4 1 (1.75%) Internet
4 1 (1.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.56%) Amazon Aurora
1 14 (24.56%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.02%) MongoDB
2 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.51%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (3.51%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (3.51%) DB2
4 2 (3.51%) MariaDB
4 2 (3.51%) MySQL
4 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.75%) Power BI
5 1 (1.75%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.75%) Redis
5 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.28%) JIRA
3 5 (8.77%) Cypress.io
4 4 (7.02%) Git
5 3 (5.26%) CircleCI
5 3 (5.26%) Maven
6 2 (3.51%) GitLab
6 2 (3.51%) Gradle
6 2 (3.51%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.51%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.75%) gulp
7 1 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.75%) Selenium
7 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.75%) Subversion
7 1 (1.75%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.75%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (56.14%) Public Sector
2 15 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.77%) Finance
5 4 (7.02%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Law
8 1 (1.75%) Banking
8 1 (1.75%) French Language
8 1 (1.75%) German Language
8 1 (1.75%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.75%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Lead
2 14 (24.56%) Developer
3 10 (17.54%) Architect
4 7 (12.28%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (10.53%) Analyst
6 5 (8.77%) Software Developer
7 4 (7.02%) Technical Leader
8 3 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (5.26%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Lead Architect
8 3 (5.26%) Lead Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Architect
8 3 (5.26%) Senior
9 2 (3.51%) Learning Technologist
9 2 (3.51%) Migration Architect
9 2 (3.51%) React Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.56%) AWS CDK
2 12 (21.05%) React
3 8 (14.04%) CSS
3 8 (14.04%) HTML
4 4 (7.02%) Node.js
4 4 (7.02%) Spring
5 3 (5.26%) .NET
6 2 (3.51%) Flash
6 2 (3.51%) OAuth
6 2 (3.51%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.51%) Spring Security
7 1 (1.75%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.75%) MDX
7 1 (1.75%) PySpark
7 1 (1.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (12.28%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.51%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.51%) e-Learning
5 2 (3.51%) Learning Management System
5 2 (3.51%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.51%) Video Editing
5 2 (3.51%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 2 (3.51%) Wiki
6 1 (1.75%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) Windows
2 4 (7.02%) Unix
2 4 (7.02%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.26%) Linux
4 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.88%) Agile
2 25 (43.86%) Coaching
3 17 (29.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (24.56%) CI/CD
4 14 (24.56%) User Experience
5 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (21.05%) DevOps
7 11 (19.30%) Code Quality
7 11 (19.30%) Kanban
7 11 (19.30%) Roadmaps
8 10 (17.54%) Inclusive Design
8 10 (17.54%) Service Design
9 9 (15.79%) Human-Centred Design
9 9 (15.79%) Microservices
10 8 (14.04%) Community of Practice
10 8 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (14.04%) Product Management
10 8 (14.04%) Requirements Analysis
10 8 (14.04%) Scrum
11 7 (12.28%) Architecture Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.32%) Python
1 15 (26.32%) TypeScript
2 13 (22.81%) Java
3 12 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 8 (14.04%) Bash
5 6 (10.53%) Shell Script
6 5 (8.77%) SQL
7 4 (7.02%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.26%) Groovy
8 3 (5.26%) Ruby
9 2 (3.51%) C#
10 1 (1.75%) C++
10 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.75%) Go
10 1 (1.75%) PHP
10 1 (1.75%) VBA
10 1 (1.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (21.05%) Degree
2 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.26%) CCNA
3 3 (5.26%) CCNP
3 3 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) ISEB
5 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (38.60%) Accessibility
2 6 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (10.53%) QA
3 4 (7.02%) WCAG
4 2 (3.51%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Docker
2 4 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.51%) vSphere
5 1 (1.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) Grafana
2 8 (14.04%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.77%) Terraform
4 3 (5.26%) Ansible
4 3 (5.26%) SCCM
5 2 (3.51%) Kibana
5 2 (3.51%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.51%) VxRail
6 1 (1.75%) Argo
6 1 (1.75%) FreeIPA
6 1 (1.75%) Icinga
6 1 (1.75%) Istio
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) VMware
3 4 (7.02%) Oracle
4 3 (5.26%) F5
5 2 (3.51%) Adobe
5 2 (3.51%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.51%) Dell
5 2 (3.51%) Greenplum
6 1 (1.75%) Avaya
6 1 (1.75%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.75%) Fiserv
6 1 (1.75%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.75%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.75%) Splunk