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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 64 88
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 -8
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 51 19 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.28% 2.00% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 2.21% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 14 17
10th Percentile £168 - £334
25th Percentile £391 £185 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +39.06% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £497 £625
90th Percentile £735 £562 £690
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
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 £57.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% +43.75% -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 1,754 860 1,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.55% 90.43% 85.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 463 670
10th Percentile £200 £226 £200
25th Percentile £375 £406 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 167 609
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.30 £15.39
Median hourly rate £24.55 £38.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.39% -5.00% +81.82%
75th Percentile £66.00 £72.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £73.46 £83.10 £75.05
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%

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 23 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 23 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 -10 16 £650 +20.37% 36
Cambridgeshire +16 11 £185 -72.59% 27
Bedfordshire -5 10 £585 +207.89% 9
Suffolk 0 8 £500 +9.59% 8
Essex -13 5 £523 +30.63% 11
Norfolk -20 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 (7.84%) OpenEdge
2 1 (1.96%) Apache
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.92%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.53%) Azure
2 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (9.80%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (7.84%) AWS
4 4 (7.84%) SaaS
5 3 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 3 (5.88%) Serverless
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.92%) GCP
6 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.92%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Network Security
2 1 (1.96%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.92%) Power BI
4 2 (3.92%) QlikView
4 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (3.92%) Tableau
5 1 (1.96%) Big Data
5 1 (1.96%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.96%) Metadata
5 1 (1.96%) MySQL
5 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.96%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.96%) Snyk
General
1 14 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Finance
3 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.84%) Aerospace
4 4 (7.84%) Local Government
5 2 (3.92%) Banking
5 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Senior
2 11 (21.57%) Analyst
2 11 (21.57%) Developer
3 9 (17.65%) Senior Analyst
4 7 (13.73%) Business Analyst
5 6 (11.76%) Qlik Developer
6 5 (9.80%) Architect
6 5 (9.80%) Senior Business Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Lead
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Systems Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) Java Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Administrator
9 2 (3.92%) Consultant
9 2 (3.92%) Data Architect
9 2 (3.92%) Remedy Consultant
9 2 (3.92%) SAP Administrator
9 2 (3.92%) Scrum Master
9 2 (3.92%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) Spring
1 4 (7.84%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.92%) .NET
2 2 (3.92%) Kafka
3 1 (1.96%) CSS
3 1 (1.96%) HTML
3 1 (1.96%) Jest
3 1 (1.96%) Playwright
3 1 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.96%) React
3 1 (1.96%) RESTful
3 1 (1.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) CMDB
2 5 (9.80%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.80%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (9.80%) Robotics
3 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.92%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.92%) BYOD
4 2 (3.92%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.92%) PMI
4 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.96%) NHS
5 1 (1.96%) SystemC
5 1 (1.96%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (23.53%) DevOps
3 11 (21.57%) Migration
4 10 (19.61%) Agile
5 9 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 9 (17.65%) ITSM
6 8 (15.69%) Change Management
6 8 (15.69%) Computer Science
6 8 (15.69%) Knowledge Transfer
6 8 (15.69%) Project Delivery
6 8 (15.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (15.69%) Translating Business Requirements
7 7 (13.73%) Analytics
7 7 (13.73%) Business Analysis
7 7 (13.73%) Coaching
7 7 (13.73%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (13.73%) Event-Driven
7 7 (13.73%) Microservices
7 7 (13.73%) Software Engineering
8 6 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.73%) Python
1 7 (13.73%) SQL
2 5 (9.80%) Java
3 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.92%) C#
4 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.92%) X++
5 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.49%) SC Cleared
3 12 (23.53%) Degree
4 7 (13.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.92%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.96%) MCSE
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) SLA
2 4 (7.84%) QA
3 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) SCOM
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) ServiceNow
2 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
3 7 (13.73%) Remedy
4 6 (11.76%) BMC
5 4 (7.84%) Civica
5 4 (7.84%) Orchard
5 4 (7.84%) SAP
6 3 (5.88%) Databricks
6 3 (5.88%) Oracle
7 2 (3.92%) Foundry
7 2 (3.92%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.96%) Cerner
8 1 (1.96%) Google
8 1 (1.96%) Informatica
8 1 (1.96%) New Relic
8 1 (1.96%) Splunk
8 1 (1.96%) StreamSets
8 1 (1.96%) Talend