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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 38 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +11
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 32 32 50
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.22% 4.65% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.61% 5.30% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 30
10th Percentile £475 £355 £411
25th Percentile £497 £463 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.67% +2.25% -7.15%
75th Percentile £551 £578 £575
90th Percentile £555 £685 £680
Scotland median daily rate £525 £524 £500
% change year-on-year +0.14% +4.85% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.35 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £26.93 £55.70
% change year-on-year -25.72% -51.66% +197.07%

All Process and 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 570 604 860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.99% 87.79% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 302 523
10th Percentile £223 £201 £205
25th Percentile £406 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £549
90th Percentile £625 £638 £615
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +3.06% -9.09% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 28 9
10th Percentile £16.68 £17.10 £12.95
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £71.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £21.44
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.30% +15.86%

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 November 2025.

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 2 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) CICS
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) AWS
2 8 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (12.50%) Serverless
4 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.25%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) IaaS
5 2 (6.25%) Lucidchart
5 2 (6.25%) PaaS
5 2 (6.25%) SaaS
6 1 (3.13%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) DB2
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Cypress.io
1 3 (9.38%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) Maven
3 1 (3.13%) Toad
3 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 15 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Finance
2 10 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 5 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Automotive
6 1 (3.13%) Back Office
6 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Law
6 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Lead
2 3 (9.38%) Analyst
2 3 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (9.38%) Consultant
2 3 (9.38%) Network Consultant
2 3 (9.38%) Network Engineer
2 3 (9.38%) Senior
2 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Architect
3 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 2 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) PMO Lead
3 2 (6.25%) Python Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
3 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.25%) Technical Leader
4 1 (3.13%) Data Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) DB2 Administrator
4 1 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) AWS CDK
1 4 (12.50%) Hugging Face
1 4 (12.50%) NumPy
1 4 (12.50%) OpenCV
1 4 (12.50%) Pandas
1 4 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 4 (12.50%) React
1 4 (12.50%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (9.38%) boto
2 3 (9.38%) CSS
2 3 (9.38%) HTML
3 2 (6.25%) FastAPI
3 2 (6.25%) JWT
3 2 (6.25%) Node.js
3 2 (6.25%) OAuth
3 2 (6.25%) REST
3 2 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (3.13%) Express.js
4 1 (3.13%) Jest
4 1 (3.13%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.38%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.38%) PKI
3 2 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Life Science
4 1 (3.13%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
1 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Agile
2 12 (37.50%) Coaching
3 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (21.88%) AI
5 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (18.75%) Project Delivery
6 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (15.63%) LLM
6 5 (15.63%) Machine Learning
6 5 (15.63%) OCR
6 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
6 5 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
7 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.50%) Code Quality
7 4 (12.50%) OOP
7 4 (12.50%) Scrum
7 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
3 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) SQL
5 1 (3.13%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) Accessibility
2 5 (15.63%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (6.25%) GDPR
3 2 (6.25%) PMO
4 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.13%) NCSC
4 1 (3.13%) NIST
4 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
1 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Grafana
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
1 3 (9.38%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Cisco
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) BMC
3 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.13%) Hitachi
3 1 (3.13%) IBM
3 1 (3.13%) Qualys
3 1 (3.13%) Remedy
3 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.13%) VMware