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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 69 89
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 -7
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 44 18 23
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.98% 1.86% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.06% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 14 16
10th Percentile £168 - £328
25th Percentile £325 £185 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 £483
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -17.10% -3.50%
75th Percentile £628 £497 £628
90th Percentile £653 £562 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £16.67 - -
25th Percentile £16.84 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £17.41 - £57.50
75th Percentile £17.70 - £63.75
90th Percentile £17.70 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +47.37% +18.75% -46.67%

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 1,736 872 1,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.16% 90.18% 85.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 462 675
10th Percentile £198 £226 £206
25th Percentile £363 £400 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £682
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 175 608
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.30 £15.39
Median hourly rate £23.83 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.44% - +81.82%
75th Percentile £65.88 £72.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% -2.14%

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 16 May 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
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 16 May 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 -13 12 £450 -16.67% 39
Cambridgeshire +15 10 £185 -72.59% 29
Bedfordshire -5 10 £585 +207.89% 11
Suffolk -2 6 £350 -23.29% 8
Essex -6 5 £523 +30.63% 18
Norfolk -19 1 - - 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 (9.09%) OpenEdge
2 1 (2.27%) Apache
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (11.36%) Power Platform
3 4 (9.09%) AWS
3 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (9.09%) SaaS
4 3 (6.82%) Azure AKS
4 3 (6.82%) Serverless
5 2 (4.55%) Azure AI
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Functions
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (4.55%) GCP
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Network Security
2 1 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (2.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.55%) Power BI
4 2 (4.55%) QlikView
4 2 (4.55%) Tableau
5 1 (2.27%) Big Data
5 1 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.27%) Metadata
5 1 (2.27%) MySQL
5 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
1 1 (2.27%) Git
1 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.27%) Snyk
1 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Finance
3 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 4 (9.09%) Local Government
5 2 (4.55%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Analyst
1 11 (25.00%) Developer
1 11 (25.00%) Senior
2 9 (20.45%) Senior Analyst
3 7 (15.91%) Business Analyst
4 6 (13.64%) Qlik Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Architect
5 5 (11.36%) Senior Business Analyst
6 4 (9.09%) Lead
6 4 (9.09%) Senior Systems Analyst
6 4 (9.09%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Administrator
8 2 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Data Architect
8 2 (4.55%) SAP Administrator
8 2 (4.55%) Scrum Master
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) Spring
1 4 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 2 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (2.27%) .NET
3 1 (2.27%) CSS
3 1 (2.27%) HTML
3 1 (2.27%) Jest
3 1 (2.27%) Playwright
3 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.27%) React
3 1 (2.27%) RESTful
3 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Algorithms
1 5 (11.36%) Robotics
2 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) PMI
3 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.27%) BYOD
4 1 (2.27%) CMDB
4 1 (2.27%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.27%) NHS
4 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) SystemC
4 1 (2.27%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) DevOps
2 9 (20.45%) Agile
2 9 (20.45%) CI/CD
2 9 (20.45%) Migration
3 8 (18.18%) Computer Science
3 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (15.91%) Analytics
4 7 (15.91%) Business Analysis
4 7 (15.91%) Change Management
4 7 (15.91%) Knowledge Transfer
4 7 (15.91%) Translating Business Requirements
5 6 (13.64%) Coaching
5 6 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (13.64%) Event-Driven
5 6 (13.64%) Microservices
5 6 (13.64%) Requirements Gathering
5 6 (13.64%) Scrum
5 6 (13.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) Python
2 6 (13.64%) SQL
3 5 (11.36%) Java
4 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.27%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) Degree
2 10 (22.73%) Security Cleared
3 7 (15.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.27%) MCSE
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) SLA
2 3 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.82%) QA
3 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) SCOM
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.09%) Civica
2 4 (9.09%) Orchard
2 4 (9.09%) SAP
2 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.82%) Databricks
3 3 (6.82%) Oracle
4 2 (4.55%) Foundry
4 2 (4.55%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.27%) BMC
5 1 (2.27%) Cerner
5 1 (2.27%) Google
5 1 (2.27%) Informatica
5 1 (2.27%) New Relic
5 1 (2.27%) Remedy
5 1 (2.27%) Splunk
5 1 (2.27%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.27%) Talend