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 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 66 93
Rank change year-on-year -12 +27 -21
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 34 17 13
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.80% 1.69% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 1.93% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 8
10th Percentile £393 £340 £453
25th Percentile £500 £400 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £438 £600
Median % change year-on-year +33.71% -27.08% -2.04%
75th Percentile £628 £531 £675
90th Percentile £660 £585 £765
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £17.24 £21.23 -
25th Percentile £19.02 £28.74 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £41.98 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.79% - -
75th Percentile £73.13 £55.74 -
90th Percentile £77.50 £63.54 -
England median hourly rate £66.25 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +76.67% -6.25% -46.62%

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 1,495 881 1,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.98% 87.40% 86.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 672 463 807
10th Percentile £198 £250 £235
25th Percentile £350 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £693 £700
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 156 517
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.39 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.54 £20.01 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.90 £54.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -59.44% +41.66% +18.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.15 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -11.32% +4.62% -12.16%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -14 14 £575 +4.55% 38
Bedfordshire -2 9 £585 +134.00% 13
Cambridgeshire -1 4 £280 -53.33% 29
Essex -4 3 - - 39
Suffolk +5 2 £650 +42.47% 9
Norfolk -28 2 £550 - 10
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 1 (2.94%) Apache
1 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.88%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) Azure AKS
2 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
2 4 (11.76%) Serverless
3 3 (8.82%) AWS
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Functions
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (5.88%) Azure AI
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.94%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.94%) dbt
5 1 (2.94%) GCP
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.88%) Power BI
2 2 (5.88%) Tableau
3 1 (2.94%) Big Data
3 1 (2.94%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.94%) Metadata
3 1 (2.94%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.94%) QlikView
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.94%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) Snyk
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Aerospace
3 5 (14.71%) Electronics
4 4 (11.76%) Finance
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Law
6 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Analyst
1 7 (20.59%) Business Analyst
1 7 (20.59%) Senior
2 5 (14.71%) Architect
2 5 (14.71%) Developer
2 5 (14.71%) Lead
2 5 (14.71%) Senior Analyst
2 5 (14.71%) Senior Business Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Embedded Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Ada Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Administrator
5 2 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Qlik Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) Spring
1 4 (11.76%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.88%) .NET
2 2 (5.88%) Flash
2 2 (5.88%) Kafka
2 2 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (2.94%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (2.94%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.94%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.88%) FPGA
2 2 (5.88%) VHDL
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) NHS
3 1 (2.94%) Robotics
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.94%) SystemC
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) AI
1 8 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
2 7 (20.59%) Agile
2 7 (20.59%) Business Analysis
2 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
2 7 (20.59%) Validation
3 6 (17.65%) DevOps
3 6 (17.65%) Microservices
3 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (14.71%) Analytics
4 5 (14.71%) Change Management
4 5 (14.71%) Event-Driven
4 5 (14.71%) Machine Learning
4 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
5 4 (11.76%) Data Analysis
5 4 (11.76%) Migration
5 4 (11.76%) SysML
5 4 (11.76%) UML
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) Python
2 4 (11.76%) Java
2 4 (11.76%) SQL
3 3 (8.82%) Ada
4 2 (5.88%) C
4 2 (5.88%) C++
4 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.94%) Perl
5 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.65%) Degree
4 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) SLA
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.94%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Firmware
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
2 4 (11.76%) SAP
3 3 (8.82%) Databricks
3 3 (8.82%) Foundry
4 2 (5.88%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) Cerner
5 1 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) Informatica
5 1 (2.94%) New Relic
5 1 (2.94%) Splunk
5 1 (2.94%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.94%) Talend