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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 68 72
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 56 28 26
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.49% 2.20% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 2.46% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 18 13
10th Percentile £168 - -
25th Percentile £325 £185 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £497 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% +16.82% -15.00%
75th Percentile £705 £548 £550
90th Percentile £739 £641 £570
England median daily rate £540 £521 £575
% change year-on-year +3.79% -9.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile £16.01 - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £57.50
75th Percentile £18.75 - £63.75
90th Percentile £28.26 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.25 £54.50
% change year-on-year -3.11% +32.58% -3.53%

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 1,760 1,137 1,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.19% 89.25% 82.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 837 497 450
10th Percentile £190 £200 £205
25th Percentile £400 £375 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £442
Median % change year-on-year - +13.12% -11.60%
75th Percentile £593 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £677 £638
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 294 405
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.69 £14.67
25th Percentile £16.19 £16.46 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% -25.00% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 5 September 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 15 £185 -63.90% 96
Hertfordshire -6 13 £650 +20.37% 66
Suffolk - 10 £350 - 6
Essex -12 9 £543 - 38
Bedfordshire -4 6 £544 +186.18% 26
Norfolk -14 3 - - 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 4 (7.14%) OpenEdge
2 2 (3.57%) CMS
3 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.57%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.79%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.86%) Azure
2 5 (8.93%) AWS
2 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (8.93%) SaaS
3 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.36%) GCP
4 3 (5.36%) Power Automate
4 3 (5.36%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.57%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.57%) GitHub
5 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (3.57%) Google Gemini
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.57%) Serverless
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) WAN
2 4 (7.14%) LAN
2 4 (7.14%) VPN
3 2 (3.57%) Firewall
3 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.79%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.79%) Power BI
3 1 (1.79%) QlikView
3 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (3.57%) Claude Code
2 2 (3.57%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.86%) Finance
3 9 (16.07%) Telecoms
4 5 (8.93%) Marketing
5 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Local Government
5 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.57%) Banking
6 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Retail
7 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Senior
2 9 (16.07%) Developer
3 4 (7.14%) Analyst
3 4 (7.14%) Consultant
3 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Technician
3 4 (7.14%) Lead
3 4 (7.14%) Qlik Developer
3 4 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Technician
3 4 (7.14%) Senior Systems Analyst
3 4 (7.14%) Senior Technician
3 4 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (3.57%) Content Manager
4 2 (3.57%) Content Marketing Manager
4 2 (3.57%) ITSM Consultant
4 2 (3.57%) Java Engineer
4 2 (3.57%) Presales Consultant
4 2 (3.57%) Presales Manager
4 2 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (3.57%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) Terraform
2 3 (5.36%) .NET
2 3 (5.36%) React
3 2 (3.57%) Kafka
3 2 (3.57%) Next.js
3 2 (3.57%) Node.js
3 2 (3.57%) REST
3 2 (3.57%) Web Services
4 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.79%) CSS
4 1 (1.79%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.79%) gRPC
4 1 (1.79%) HTML
4 1 (1.79%) Jest
4 1 (1.79%) Playwright
4 1 (1.79%) RESTful
4 1 (1.79%) Spring
4 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) CMDB
1 7 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.71%) Robotics
3 5 (8.93%) Algorithms
4 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (7.14%) Social Media
5 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.57%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.57%) Blog
6 2 (3.57%) BYOD
6 2 (3.57%) Low-Code
6 2 (3.57%) PMI
6 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.79%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.79%) NHS
7 1 (1.79%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.79%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.57%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 17 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (23.21%) DevOps
4 12 (21.43%) Agile
5 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
5 11 (19.64%) ITSM
5 11 (19.64%) Software Engineering
6 9 (16.07%) Knowledge Transfer
6 9 (16.07%) Migration
7 8 (14.29%) Coaching
7 8 (14.29%) Customer Service
7 8 (14.29%) ITIL
8 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (10.71%) Event-Driven
9 6 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (10.71%) Project Delivery
9 6 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (10.71%) Translating Business Requirements
10 5 (8.93%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.93%) Python
2 4 (7.14%) SQL
3 3 (5.36%) C#
3 3 (5.36%) Java
3 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.57%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.07%) Degree
3 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.57%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.79%) ACCA
6 1 (1.79%) APMG
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.79%) CIMA
6 1 (1.79%) MCSE
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
2 5 (8.93%) SLA
3 3 (5.36%) PMO
4 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.79%) Istio
2 1 (1.79%) linkerd
2 1 (1.79%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 11 (19.64%) ServiceNow
3 7 (12.50%) Remedy
4 6 (10.71%) BMC
5 4 (7.14%) Civica
5 4 (7.14%) Orchard
6 2 (3.57%) Oracle
6 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.79%) Adobe
7 1 (1.79%) Genesys
7 1 (1.79%) Google
7 1 (1.79%) JDA
7 1 (1.79%) SAP
7 1 (1.79%) Xero