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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 39 46
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 43 33 43
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.98% 4.46% 4.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.38% 5.21% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 26
10th Percentile £462 £365 £406
25th Percentile £475 £483 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £497 £490
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% +1.43% -7.89%
75th Percentile £549 £569 £563
90th Percentile £587 £685 £619
Scotland median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -7.15%

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 583 634 904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.64% 85.68% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 331 556
10th Percentile £262 £230 £202
25th Percentile £413 £375 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £525 £541
90th Percentile £601 £600 £605
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +3.06% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 8
10th Percentile £16.43 £14.04 £12.79
25th Percentile - £19.28 £16.61
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% -39.12% +105.03%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £55.65
90th Percentile £65.75 - £61.80
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.75
% change year-on-year -12.57% +15.82% +5.33%

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 6 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 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) CICS
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.65%) MS Visio
1 2 (4.65%) Trello
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) AWS
2 10 (23.26%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) Amazon S3
3 4 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (9.30%) GCP
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
3 4 (9.30%) Serverless
4 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.65%) Lucidchart
5 2 (4.65%) npm
5 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.33%) DB2
3 1 (2.33%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.33%) MySQL
3 1 (2.33%) Power Query
3 1 (2.33%) Redis
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Cypress.io
1 4 (9.30%) Git
2 3 (6.98%) JIRA
3 2 (4.65%) webpack
4 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) Maven
4 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.33%) Toad
General
1 17 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 15 (34.88%) Public Sector
3 14 (32.56%) Finance
4 6 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (11.63%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (9.30%) Banking
7 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (4.65%) Automotive
8 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.33%) Back Office
9 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.33%) Law
9 1 (2.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Lead
2 8 (18.60%) Senior
3 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Consultant
4 3 (6.98%) Network Consultant
4 3 (6.98%) Network Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Test Manager
5 2 (4.65%) Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) PMO Lead
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Manager
5 2 (4.65%) Senior User Researcher
5 2 (4.65%) Support Team Leader
5 2 (4.65%) Team Leader
5 2 (4.65%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) React
2 4 (9.30%) AWS CDK
2 4 (9.30%) CSS
2 4 (9.30%) HTML
2 4 (9.30%) Hugging Face
2 4 (9.30%) NumPy
2 4 (9.30%) OpenCV
2 4 (9.30%) Pandas
2 4 (9.30%) PyTorch
2 4 (9.30%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (6.98%) boto
3 3 (6.98%) REST
3 3 (6.98%) Spring
3 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.65%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.65%) Jest
4 2 (4.65%) JWT
4 2 (4.65%) Node.js
4 2 (4.65%) OAuth
4 2 (4.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.30%) Web Conferencing
3 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.98%) PKI
4 2 (4.65%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.65%) Life Science
4 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
1 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (60.47%) Agile
2 19 (44.19%) Coaching
3 10 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (16.28%) DevOps
6 7 (16.28%) Product Management
6 7 (16.28%) User Experience
7 6 (13.95%) AI
7 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
7 6 (13.95%) Line Management
7 6 (13.95%) Project Delivery
7 6 (13.95%) Roadmaps
7 6 (13.95%) Software Engineering
7 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
8 5 (11.63%) Code Quality
8 5 (11.63%) LLM
8 5 (11.63%) Project Management
8 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (11.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) Python
2 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
3 5 (11.63%) Java
4 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.98%) SQL
6 2 (4.65%) Bicep
7 1 (2.33%) Bash
7 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.33%) PMP
3 1 (2.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.26%) Accessibility
2 7 (16.28%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (9.30%) GDPR
4 2 (4.65%) PMO
5 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.33%) NCSC
5 1 (2.33%) NIST
5 1 (2.33%) QA
5 1 (2.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
1 2 (4.65%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Grafana
1 4 (9.30%) Terraform
2 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.65%) SCCM
4 1 (2.33%) Ansible
4 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Cisco
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
1 6 (13.95%) Oracle
2 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.65%) Hitachi
4 1 (2.33%) BMC
4 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.33%) IBM
4 1 (2.33%) Qualys
4 1 (2.33%) Remedy
4 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.33%) VMware