Mentoring Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Mentorship
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Mentoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 59 95
Rank change year-on-year -15 +36 -22
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 38 18 17
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.81% 1.93% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.18% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 13 12
10th Percentile £168 - £428
25th Percentile £347 £185 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £400 £574
Median % change year-on-year +29.69% -30.25% +10.29%
75th Percentile £628 £488 £641
90th Percentile £650 £524 £740
England median daily rate £527 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -3.64% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £16.89 - -
25th Percentile £17.41 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.02 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -71.82% - -
75th Percentile £34.64 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £60.36 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% +31.25% -42.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Mentoring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,628 824 1,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 77.63% 88.22% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 432 751
10th Percentile £200 £230 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 174 579
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.78 £18.86 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £52.75 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -57.10% +38.38% +52.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.44 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mentoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Mentoring job vacancy trend in the East of England

Mentoring
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Mentoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in the East of England

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Mentoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Mentoring in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Mentoring in the East of England

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 April 2026. 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
Hertfordshire -12 13 £425 -21.30% 30
Bedfordshire -7 10 £585 +207.89% 7
Cambridgeshire +8 6 £185 - 27
Suffolk 0 4 £500 +9.59% 7
Essex -5 4 £575 +43.75% 14
Norfolk -27 1 - - 4
Mentoring
England

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.26%) OpenEdge
2 1 (2.63%) Apache
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.26%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) AWS
2 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 3 (7.89%) Azure AKS
3 3 (7.89%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (7.89%) Serverless
4 2 (5.26%) Azure AI
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Functions
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (5.26%) SaaS
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.63%) dbt
5 1 (2.63%) GCP
5 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.26%) Power BI
3 2 (5.26%) QlikView
3 2 (5.26%) Tableau
4 1 (2.63%) Big Data
4 1 (2.63%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.63%) Metadata
4 1 (2.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
1 1 (2.63%) Git
1 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.63%) Snyk
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.26%) Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Local Government
6 1 (2.63%) Electronics
6 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Developer
2 9 (23.68%) Analyst
2 9 (23.68%) Senior
3 7 (18.42%) Business Analyst
3 7 (18.42%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (15.79%) Qlik Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Architect
5 5 (13.16%) Lead
5 5 (13.16%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Administrator
6 2 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Configuration Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.26%) SAP Administrator
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Systems Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Spring
1 4 (10.53%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (2.63%) CSS
3 1 (2.63%) Flash
3 1 (2.63%) HTML
3 1 (2.63%) Jest
3 1 (2.63%) Playwright
3 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.63%) React
3 1 (2.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Algorithms
1 5 (13.16%) Robotics
2 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.63%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.63%) FPGA
4 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) NHS
4 1 (2.63%) PMI
4 1 (2.63%) SystemC
4 1 (2.63%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.63%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.05%) Computer Science
2 7 (18.42%) Business Analysis
2 7 (18.42%) DevOps
3 6 (15.79%) Agile
3 6 (15.79%) Change Management
3 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
3 6 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (15.79%) Decision-Making
3 6 (15.79%) Microservices
3 6 (15.79%) Requirements Gathering
3 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (13.16%) AI
4 5 (13.16%) ETL
4 5 (13.16%) Event-Driven
4 5 (13.16%) Migration
4 5 (13.16%) Network Architecture
4 5 (13.16%) Pedagogy
4 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (13.16%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) Python
2 5 (13.16%) SQL
3 4 (10.53%) Java
4 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.63%) C
5 1 (2.63%) C++
5 1 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Degree
2 9 (23.68%) Security Cleared
3 7 (18.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) Data Quality
1 3 (7.89%) SLA
2 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
1 1 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) SAP
3 3 (7.89%) Databricks
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) Civica
4 2 (5.26%) Foundry
4 2 (5.26%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.26%) Orchard
4 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.63%) Cerner
5 1 (2.63%) Google
5 1 (2.63%) Informatica
5 1 (2.63%) New Relic
5 1 (2.63%) Splunk
5 1 (2.63%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.63%) Talend