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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 64 93
Rank change year-on-year -8 +29 -11
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 32 22 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.88% 2.01% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 2.35% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 14
10th Percentile £496 £275 £268
25th Percentile £538 £300 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £369 £550
Median % change year-on-year +58.64% -32.95% -10.20%
75th Percentile £650 £477 £638
90th Percentile - £544 £692
England median daily rate £545 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -5.22% +0.88% -2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £19.02 £21.23 -
25th Percentile £31.83 £28.74 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £41.98 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.79% - -
75th Percentile £75.31 £55.74 -
90th Percentile £77.50 £63.54 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +78.57% -38.04% -13.76%

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 1,404 938 1,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 82.30% 85.66% 86.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 417 804
10th Percentile £196 £243 £250
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £707
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 165 425
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -49.78% +31.26% +38.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.34
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.59% +3.81%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -9 11 £650 - 58
Cambridgeshire -3 7 £375 +25.00% 36
Bedfordshire -5 6 £585 +134.00% 23
Essex - 4 - - 56
Suffolk +5 2 £650 +42.47% 29
Norfolk -23 2 £550 - 22
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:

Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
3 4 (12.50%) AWS
4 3 (9.38%) Serverless
4 3 (9.38%) Snowflake
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.25%) Azure AI
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (6.25%) dbt
5 2 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub
6 1 (3.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Power BI
2 2 (6.25%) Tableau
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.13%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Aerospace
3 5 (15.63%) Electronics
4 4 (12.50%) Finance
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
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
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Business Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
6 2 (6.25%) Ada Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Ada Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Configuration Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Snowflake Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) .NET
1 2 (6.25%) Flash
2 1 (3.13%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (3.13%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.13%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.13%) RESTful
2 1 (3.13%) Semantic Kernel
2 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%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) NHS
3 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
1 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Agile
2 7 (21.88%) Validation
3 6 (18.75%) AI
3 6 (18.75%) Business Analysis
3 6 (18.75%) Coaching
3 6 (18.75%) Migration
3 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
3 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (15.63%) Change Management
4 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (15.63%) DevOps
4 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (12.50%) Analytics
5 4 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 4 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 4 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 4 (12.50%) Project Management
5 4 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) Python
2 3 (9.38%) Ada
2 3 (9.38%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) C
3 2 (6.25%) C++
4 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.13%) Perl
4 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.13%) PMP
4 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.25%) QA
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) Def Stans
2 1 (3.13%) EU AI Act
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Firmware
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.13%) SCOM
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) SAP
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle
4 3 (9.38%) Databricks
4 3 (9.38%) Foundry
5 2 (6.25%) OpenAI
5 2 (6.25%) StreamSets
6 1 (3.13%) Cerner
6 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow