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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 62 65
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 52 27 28
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.16% 2.01% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.24% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 9
10th Percentile £343 £203 £293
25th Percentile £496 £457 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £545 £363
Median % change year-on-year +15.83% +50.34% -33.79%
75th Percentile £735 £641 £550
90th Percentile £776 £673 £560
England median daily rate £541 £525 £565
% change year-on-year +2.95% -7.00% -1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 4
10th Percentile £16.01 - £26.74
25th Percentile £16.19 £72.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 £75.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -76.67% +30.43% -25.81%
75th Percentile £47.50 £77.50 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +23.81% -7.06%

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 1,889 1,205 1,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.61% 89.93% 81.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 526 465
10th Percentile £190 £200 £213
25th Percentile £356 £379 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +11.72% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £560
90th Percentile £697 £683 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 330 302
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.25 £21.64 £32.61
Median % change year-on-year +118.35% -33.63% +63.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £56.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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
Cambridgeshire +12 13 £510 -0.49% 181
Hertfordshire -18 10 £724 +15.76% 101
Suffolk - 9 £724 - 9
Essex -13 8 £510 - 44
Bedfordshire -3 7 £550 +11.56% 46
Norfolk -7 4 - - 17
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 4 (7.69%) CMS
2 2 (3.85%) OpenEdge
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.85%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.92%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.08%) Azure
2 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.69%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.77%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.77%) GCP
4 3 (5.77%) Power Automate
4 3 (5.77%) PowerApps
4 3 (5.77%) SaaS
5 2 (3.85%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (3.85%) Google Gemini
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.85%) Serverless
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) WAN
2 4 (7.69%) LAN
2 4 (7.69%) VPN
3 2 (3.85%) Firewall
3 2 (3.85%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.92%) H.323
4 1 (1.92%) Telepresence
4 1 (1.92%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.92%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.92%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.92%) Metadata
3 1 (1.92%) Power BI
3 1 (1.92%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Git
2 2 (3.85%) Claude Code
2 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.92%) ERwin
3 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 18 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Telecoms
3 8 (15.38%) Finance
4 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.62%) Marketing
5 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.77%) Retail
7 2 (3.85%) Banking
7 2 (3.85%) Local Government
7 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Senior
2 4 (7.69%) Consultant
2 4 (7.69%) Developer
2 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Technician
2 4 (7.69%) Lead
2 4 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Technician
2 4 (7.69%) Senior Technician
3 3 (5.77%) Architect
3 3 (5.77%) Lecturer
3 3 (5.77%) Trainer
4 2 (3.85%) Analyst
4 2 (3.85%) Content Marketing Manager
4 2 (3.85%) IT Manager
4 2 (3.85%) Marketing Manager
4 2 (3.85%) Remedy Consultant
4 2 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (3.85%) Software Engineer
4 2 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.85%) Solutions Consultant
4 2 (3.85%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) Terraform
2 3 (5.77%) .NET
2 3 (5.77%) Kafka
3 2 (3.85%) Next.js
3 2 (3.85%) Node.js
3 2 (3.85%) React
3 2 (3.85%) REST
3 2 (3.85%) RESTful
3 2 (3.85%) Web Services
4 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.92%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.92%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.92%) gRPC
4 1 (1.92%) Spring
4 1 (1.92%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.92%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) CMDB
1 7 (13.46%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.62%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.69%) Social Media
4 2 (3.85%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.85%) Blog
4 2 (3.85%) BYOD
4 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.85%) PMI
4 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.92%) NHS
5 1 (1.92%) PKI
5 1 (1.92%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.92%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) Windows
2 4 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.77%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.92%) Android
4 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.92%) Linux
4 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.69%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (23.08%) Coaching
3 12 (23.08%) DevOps
4 11 (21.15%) ITSM
5 10 (19.23%) Agile
5 10 (19.23%) CI/CD
5 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (17.31%) ITIL
7 8 (15.38%) Event-Driven
8 7 (13.46%) Customer Service
8 7 (13.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (13.46%) Knowledge Transfer
8 7 (13.46%) Migration
9 6 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (11.54%) Microservices
9 6 (11.54%) Observability
9 6 (11.54%) Project Delivery
9 6 (11.54%) Service Delivery
9 6 (11.54%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.69%) C#
1 4 (7.69%) Java
2 3 (5.77%) SQL
3 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
3 2 (3.85%) X++
4 1 (1.92%) Groovy
4 1 (1.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) Degree
4 3 (5.77%) DBS Check
4 3 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.85%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.85%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.92%) ACCA
6 1 (1.92%) APMG
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.92%) CCNP
6 1 (1.92%) CIMA
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.92%) MCSE
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) QA
2 5 (9.62%) SLA
3 3 (5.77%) PMO
4 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (1.92%) Istio
2 1 (1.92%) linkerd
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.92%) SCCM
2 1 (1.92%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) Microsoft
1 12 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 7 (13.46%) Remedy
3 6 (11.54%) BMC
4 2 (3.85%) Civica
4 2 (3.85%) Orchard
4 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.92%) Adobe
5 1 (1.92%) Apple
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco
5 1 (1.92%) Genesys
5 1 (1.92%) Google
5 1 (1.92%) JDA
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle
5 1 (1.92%) SAP
5 1 (1.92%) VMware
5 1 (1.92%) Xero