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

 6 months to
3 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 70 67
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 58 27 29
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.40% 2.03% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 2.26% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 13 10
10th Percentile £325 £185 £296
25th Percentile £424 £186 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £394
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +33.33% -28.08%
75th Percentile £735 £575 £525
90th Percentile £773 £648 £555
England median daily rate £542 £525 £570
% change year-on-year +3.29% -7.94% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 4
10th Percentile £16.01 - £26.74
25th Percentile £16.19 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £57.50
75th Percentile £47.50 - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £68.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -5.11% +30.48% -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 1,901 1,197 1,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.59% 90.14% 81.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 524 454
10th Percentile £190 £202 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +14.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £552
90th Percentile £694 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 501 322 332
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.86
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.06 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.57 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.48% -43.58% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +9 15 £345 -32.68% 199
Hertfordshire -14 12 £724 +77.00% 134
Essex -10 9 £543 - 100
Suffolk - 9 £537 - 37
Bedfordshire -3 8 £544 +186.18% 66
Norfolk -9 4 - - 42
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 3 (5.17%) CMS
1 3 (5.17%) OpenEdge
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.45%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.72%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.41%) Azure
2 5 (8.62%) AWS
2 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.90%) SaaS
4 3 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (5.17%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.17%) GCP
4 3 (5.17%) Power Automate
4 3 (5.17%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.45%) GitHub
5 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (3.45%) Google Gemini
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.45%) Serverless
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) WAN
2 4 (6.90%) LAN
2 4 (6.90%) VPN
3 2 (3.45%) Firewall
3 2 (3.45%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.72%) H.323
4 1 (1.72%) Telepresence
4 1 (1.72%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.72%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.72%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.72%) Metadata
3 1 (1.72%) Power BI
3 1 (1.72%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (1.72%) QlikView
3 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) Claude Code
2 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.72%) ERwin
3 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Finance
3 9 (15.52%) Telecoms
4 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Marketing
5 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.17%) Local Government
6 3 (5.17%) Retail
7 2 (3.45%) Banking
7 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (20.69%) Senior
2 7 (12.07%) Developer
3 5 (8.62%) Lead
4 4 (6.90%) Consultant
4 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Technician
4 4 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Technician
4 4 (6.90%) Senior Technician
5 3 (5.17%) Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Architect
5 3 (5.17%) Lecturer
5 3 (5.17%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Senior Systems Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Trainer
6 2 (3.45%) Content Marketing Manager
6 2 (3.45%) Presales Consultant
6 2 (3.45%) Presales Manager
6 2 (3.45%) Qlik Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) Terraform
2 3 (5.17%) .NET
2 3 (5.17%) Kafka
2 3 (5.17%) React
3 2 (3.45%) Next.js
3 2 (3.45%) Node.js
3 2 (3.45%) REST
3 2 (3.45%) RESTful
3 2 (3.45%) Web Services
4 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.72%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.72%) CSS
4 1 (1.72%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.72%) gRPC
4 1 (1.72%) HTML
4 1 (1.72%) Jest
4 1 (1.72%) Playwright
4 1 (1.72%) Spring
4 1 (1.72%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.72%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) CMDB
1 7 (12.07%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.62%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.90%) Social Media
4 3 (5.17%) Robotics
5 2 (3.45%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.45%) Blog
5 2 (3.45%) BYOD
5 2 (3.45%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.45%) PMI
5 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.72%) NHS
6 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.52%) Windows
2 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.17%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.72%) Android
4 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.72%) Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
2 17 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (22.41%) DevOps
4 12 (20.69%) Agile
4 12 (20.69%) CI/CD
4 12 (20.69%) Coaching
5 11 (18.97%) ITSM
6 10 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (15.52%) ITIL
8 8 (13.79%) Customer Service
8 8 (13.79%) Event-Driven
8 8 (13.79%) Knowledge Transfer
8 8 (13.79%) Migration
8 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
9 7 (12.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (12.07%) Project Delivery
10 6 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (10.34%) Microservices
10 6 (10.34%) Observability
10 6 (10.34%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.90%) C#
1 4 (6.90%) Java
1 4 (6.90%) SQL
2 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.17%) Python
2 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
3 2 (3.45%) X++
4 1 (1.72%) Groovy
4 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.34%) Degree
4 3 (5.17%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.45%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.72%) ACCA
6 1 (1.72%) APMG
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.72%) CCNP
6 1 (1.72%) CIMA
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.72%) MCSE
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) QA
2 5 (8.62%) SLA
3 3 (5.17%) PMO
4 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (1.72%) Istio
2 1 (1.72%) linkerd
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.72%) SCCM
2 1 (1.72%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.69%) ServiceNow
3 7 (12.07%) Remedy
4 6 (10.34%) BMC
5 3 (5.17%) Civica
5 3 (5.17%) Orchard
6 2 (3.45%) Oracle
6 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.72%) Adobe
7 1 (1.72%) Apple
7 1 (1.72%) Cisco
7 1 (1.72%) Genesys
7 1 (1.72%) Google
7 1 (1.72%) JDA
7 1 (1.72%) SAP
7 1 (1.72%) VMware
7 1 (1.72%) Xero
582 Mentoring jobs in the East of England