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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 70 82
Rank change year-on-year +13 +12 -4
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 56 24 26
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.56% 1.91% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 2.17% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 17 14
10th Percentile £168 - £317
25th Percentile £347 £185 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £400 £458
Median % change year-on-year +30.94% -12.57% -8.50%
75th Percentile £684 £538 £569
90th Percentile £735 £559 £617
England median daily rate £538 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -6.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £16.18 - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £57.50
75th Percentile £19.02 - £63.75
90th Percentile £32.48 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -3.45% +28.34% -13.09%

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 1,719 1,106 1,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.46% 88.13% 83.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 518 530
10th Percentile £192 £200 £200
25th Percentile £386 £367 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £550
90th Percentile £685 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 262 515
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.60 £17.97 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.03 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -4 16 £650 +22.64% 40
Cambridgeshire +16 12 £185 -63.90% 47
Bedfordshire +2 11 £563 +196.05% 8
Suffolk - 9 £350 - 4
Essex -13 8 £575 +43.75% 25
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 1 (1.79%) Apache
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.79%) CMS
2 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
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 14 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (10.71%) AWS
2 6 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 4 (7.14%) SaaS
4 3 (5.36%) Azure AKS
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Functions
4 3 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.36%) GCP
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.36%) Power Automate
4 3 (5.36%) PowerApps
4 3 (5.36%) Serverless
5 2 (3.57%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.57%) Google Gemini
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) LAN
1 4 (7.14%) WAN
2 2 (3.57%) VPN
3 1 (1.79%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.57%) QlikView
3 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.79%) Big Data
4 1 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.79%) Metadata
4 1 (1.79%) MySQL
4 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.79%) Power BI
4 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Git
2 2 (3.57%) Claude Code
2 2 (3.57%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.79%) JIRA
3 1 (1.79%) Snyk
General
1 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Finance
3 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
4 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Local Government
5 4 (7.14%) Marketing
6 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.57%) Retail
7 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Developer
1 13 (23.21%) Senior
2 6 (10.71%) Lead
2 6 (10.71%) Qlik Developer
3 5 (8.93%) Analyst
3 5 (8.93%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Technician
4 4 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Technician
4 4 (7.14%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 4 (7.14%) Senior Technician
4 4 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Architect
6 2 (3.57%) Consultant
6 2 (3.57%) IT Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Remedy Consultant
6 2 (3.57%) Scrum Master
6 2 (3.57%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) Spring
1 4 (7.14%) Spring Boot
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%) CSS
4 1 (1.79%) HTML
4 1 (1.79%) Jest
4 1 (1.79%) Playwright
4 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) CMDB
2 6 (10.71%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.71%) Robotics
3 5 (8.93%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.93%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.57%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.57%) BYOD
6 2 (3.57%) Low-Code
6 2 (3.57%) PMI
6 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.79%) Blog
7 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.79%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.79%) Social Media
7 1 (1.79%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.79%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Windows
2 4 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.79%) Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (23.21%) DevOps
3 12 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 11 (19.64%) Agile
4 11 (19.64%) ITSM
5 9 (16.07%) Knowledge Transfer
5 9 (16.07%) Software Engineering
6 8 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 8 (14.29%) ITIL
6 8 (14.29%) Migration
6 8 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
7 7 (12.50%) Customer Service
7 7 (12.50%) Event-Driven
7 7 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 7 (12.50%) Microservices
8 6 (10.71%) Coaching
8 6 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (10.71%) Project Delivery
9 5 (8.93%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.50%) SQL
2 6 (10.71%) Python
3 5 (8.93%) Java
4 4 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.36%) C#
6 2 (3.57%) X++
Qualifications
1 13 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.64%) Degree
3 10 (17.86%) SC Cleared
4 7 (12.50%) 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%) APMG
6 1 (1.79%) MCSE
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) QA
1 6 (10.71%) SLA
2 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) PMO
3 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (1.79%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) 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%) Oracle
5 4 (7.14%) Orchard
6 2 (3.57%) SAP
7 1 (1.79%) Adobe
7 1 (1.79%) Genesys
7 1 (1.79%) Google
7 1 (1.79%) Informatica
7 1 (1.79%) JDA
7 1 (1.79%) New Relic
7 1 (1.79%) Splunk
7 1 (1.79%) Talend