Mentoring Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Mentorship
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Mentoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 41 41
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +16
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 29 26 32
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.11% 4.15% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.79% 4.36% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 22
10th Percentile £206 £283 £410
25th Percentile £350 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +8.27%
75th Percentile £675 £538 £619
90th Percentile - £620 £646
Scotland median daily rate £535 £525 £506
% change year-on-year +1.90% +3.75% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.32 -
Median hourly rate £64.00 £27.35 £11.86
Median % change year-on-year +134.00% +130.61% -
75th Percentile £66.50 £28.38 -
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 £27.35 £11.86
% change year-on-year +134.00% +130.61% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 606 596 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.96% 95.06% 88.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 330 426
10th Percentile £243 £210 £230
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -3.54% +1.05%
75th Percentile £543 £538 £575
90th Percentile £646 £631 £669
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 31
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.30 £15.10
25th Percentile £28.38 £18.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.94 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year +117.98% +0.30% +7.57%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.54 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £40.04 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% +10.05%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mentoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Mentoring job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Mentoring
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Mentoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in Edinburgh

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Mentoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (17.24%) Apache
1 5 (17.24%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.90%) Confluence
4 1 (3.45%) CICS
4 1 (3.45%) CMS
4 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.45%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (3.45%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (3.45%) InDesign
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.45%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) AWS
2 9 (31.03%) Azure
3 7 (24.14%) GCP
4 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.90%) AWS KMS
6 2 (6.90%) Azure AI
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.45%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.45%) Dagster
7 1 (3.45%) dbt
7 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.45%) Serverless
7 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) DHCP
1 4 (13.79%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (3.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) HTTP
2 1 (3.45%) LAN
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) Wireless
2 1 (3.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Metadata
1 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (13.79%) Data Lake
2 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (13.79%) MySQL
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.34%) Big Data
3 3 (10.34%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) MLflow
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.79%) Banking
5 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Games
7 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Legal
7 1 (3.45%) Retail
7 1 (3.45%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Data Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Designer
3 3 (10.34%) Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (6.90%) ETL Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Designer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Service Designer
4 2 (6.90%) Service Designer
5 1 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 1 (3.45%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Network Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Python Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) REST
2 3 (10.34%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) .NET
3 2 (6.90%) FastAPI
3 2 (6.90%) JAX-RS
3 2 (6.90%) Quarkus
3 2 (6.90%) Spring
3 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.45%) Hugging Face
4 1 (3.45%) JWT
4 1 (3.45%) NumPy
4 1 (3.45%) OAuth
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.45%) Pandas
4 1 (3.45%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
4 1 (3.45%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (3.45%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (3.45%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Algorithms
1 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
1 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
1 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.90%) Animation
2 2 (6.90%) PKI
2 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (3.45%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.45%) Graphic Design
3 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.45%) NHS
3 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.45%) SCADA
3 1 (3.45%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
1 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.90%) Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Solaris
3 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) AI
2 13 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (31.03%) Coaching
4 8 (27.59%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (20.69%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (20.69%) Machine Learning
6 5 (17.24%) Analytics
6 5 (17.24%) Data Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) ETL
6 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (17.24%) Microservices
6 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
7 4 (13.79%) Agile
7 4 (13.79%) API Integration
7 4 (13.79%) Data Management
7 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
7 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (13.79%) Data Science
7 4 (13.79%) Data Security
7 4 (13.79%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) Python
2 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
3 5 (17.24%) SQL
4 2 (6.90%) Bash
4 2 (6.90%) C#
4 2 (6.90%) Java
5 1 (3.45%) C++
5 1 (3.45%) Lua
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
1 5 (17.24%) Master's Degree
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) FFIEC
4 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.45%) GDPR
4 1 (3.45%) PMO
4 1 (3.45%) QA
4 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) Informatica
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Talend
3 2 (6.90%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) Thales
4 1 (3.45%) Adobe
4 1 (3.45%) AVEVA
4 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.45%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (3.45%) F5
4 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow