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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 69 75
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 27 28 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.06% 1.85% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 2.25% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 25
10th Percentile £185 - £270
25th Percentile £186 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £545
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -22.02% -18.66%
75th Percentile £548 £550 £575
90th Percentile £648 £575 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £73.25
25th Percentile - £51.25 £74.38
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -25.81% +6.90%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £79.38
90th Percentile - - £79.75
England median hourly rate £72.00 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +25.22% +1.79% -1.33%

All Process and 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 1,174 1,242 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.55% 81.93% 87.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 448 874
10th Percentile £200 £199 £221
25th Percentile £385 £306 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £596 £550 £623
90th Percentile £688 £638 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 356 367
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.84 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.26 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.82 £40.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -42.96% +101.92% -5.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.94% +51.21%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring 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 26 September 2025.

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 26 September 2025. 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
Bedfordshire 0 9 £342 - 23
Cambridgeshire -4 8 £513 +54.72% 57
Hertfordshire +3 4 £409 -18.25% 52
Norfolk -8 4 £545 +9.00% 7
Essex -3 2 - - 44
Mentoring
England

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) CMS
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.70%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP ERP
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) AWS
3 5 (18.52%) Serverless
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Functions
5 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.70%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.70%) Azure API Management
6 1 (3.70%) dbt
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.70%) OCI
6 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Environmental Health
5 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Military
5 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Architect
2 3 (11.11%) Developer
2 3 (11.11%) Lead
2 3 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Design Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 1 (3.70%) Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Programme Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Project Manager
4 1 (3.70%) QA Manager
4 1 (3.70%) QA Test Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.70%) Technical Trainer
4 1 (3.70%) Test Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Test Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Test Programme Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Trainer
4 1 (3.70%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) RESTful
2 3 (11.11%) REST
2 3 (11.11%) SOAP
3 2 (7.41%) .NET
3 2 (7.41%) Web Services
4 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.70%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.70%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (3.70%) Middleware
4 1 (3.70%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.70%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (3.70%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.70%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.41%) EPoS
2 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.93%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (18.52%) Agile
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (18.52%) Project Management
5 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.81%) High Availability
6 3 (11.11%) Coaching
6 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 3 (11.11%) ITSM
6 3 (11.11%) OOP
6 3 (11.11%) Process Improvement
6 3 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 3 (11.11%) Service Delivery
6 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
1 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.11%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Apex Code
3 1 (3.70%) C#
3 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 3 (11.11%) VCAP
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.70%) MCP
4 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) NIST
2 2 (7.41%) SLA
3 1 (3.70%) Def Stans
3 1 (3.70%) EU AI Act
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.70%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Citrix
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) SAP
2 3 (11.11%) VMware
2 3 (11.11%) Workday
3 1 (3.70%) Foundry
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) SnapLogic
3 1 (3.70%) StreamSets
3 1 (3.70%) Zscaler