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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 65 85
Rank change year-on-year -7 +20 -14
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 32 22 32
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.13% 1.74% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 2.15% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 17
10th Percentile £203 - £263
25th Percentile £359 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £363 £545
Median % change year-on-year +47.59% -33.49% -16.15%
75th Percentile £591 £478 £550
90th Percentile £649 £551 £630
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile £38.71 £26.74 £73.25
25th Percentile £66.25 £42.50 £74.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -25.81% +6.90%
75th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £79.38
90th Percentile - £67.25 £79.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £50.75 £56.49
% change year-on-year +28.08% -10.16% -2.05%

All Process and 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 1,307 1,025 1,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 87.08% 80.90% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 412 887
10th Percentile £189 £230 £225
25th Percentile £363 £317 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £557 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £725
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 215 372
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +30.95% -5.02%
75th Percentile £64.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +28.57%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 -9 12 £625 - 70
Cambridgeshire -12 8 £363 +20.83% 51
Bedfordshire -6 6 £493 - 16
Norfolk -14 4 £545 - 13
Essex - 2 - - 35
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 (3.13%) CMS
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) Serverless
4 3 (9.38%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.13%) dbt
6 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.13%) PaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.13%) Power BI
1 1 (3.13%) SAP HANA
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Electronics
4 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Finance
5 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Retail
6 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.13%) Environmental Health
6 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Law
6 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Architect
2 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Embedded Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Lead
3 3 (9.38%) Technical Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Ada Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Ada Software Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Configuration Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Design Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Developer
4 2 (6.25%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Programme Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Test Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Test Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) RESTful
2 3 (9.38%) .NET
2 3 (9.38%) REST
2 3 (9.38%) SOAP
3 2 (6.25%) Flash
3 2 (6.25%) Web Services
4 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.13%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.13%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.13%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (3.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) FPGA
2 2 (6.25%) VHDL
3 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
1 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (21.88%) Agile
2 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
2 7 (21.88%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (18.75%) Validation
4 5 (15.63%) AI
4 5 (15.63%) Project Management
5 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (12.50%) High Availability
5 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 3 (9.38%) Coaching
6 3 (9.38%) Containerisation
6 3 (9.38%) DevOps
6 3 (9.38%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (9.38%) Process Improvement
6 3 (9.38%) Project Delivery
6 3 (9.38%) SDLC
6 3 (9.38%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.38%) Ada
5 2 (6.25%) C
5 2 (6.25%) C++
5 2 (6.25%) SQL
6 1 (3.13%) C#
6 1 (3.13%) Perl
6 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
3 3 (9.38%) VCAP
4 2 (6.25%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.13%) MCP
5 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) NIST
2 2 (6.25%) SLA
3 1 (3.13%) Def Stans
3 1 (3.13%) EU AI Act
3 1 (3.13%) GDPR
3 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.13%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.38%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle
3 3 (9.38%) Citrix
3 3 (9.38%) VMware
3 3 (9.38%) Workday
4 2 (6.25%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) Foundry
5 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.13%) StreamSets
5 1 (3.13%) Zscaler