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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 42 40
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 +12
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 32 29 40
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.50% 4.70% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.02% 5.11% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 26
10th Percentile £441 £355 £413
25th Percentile £485 £463 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.67% +2.25% -1.57%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £575
90th Percentile £674 £686 £656
Scotland median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% -6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.35 -
Scotland median hourly rate £23.75 £26.93 £55.70
% change year-on-year -11.79% -51.66% +205.46%

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 532 567 832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.41% 91.90% 91.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 305 501
10th Percentile £231 £230 £200
25th Percentile £406 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £635 £626
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 10
10th Percentile £17.04 £20.30 £13.12
25th Percentile - £22.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +33.96% -17.17%
75th Percentile £33.63 £24.18 £31.97
90th Percentile £62.63 £26.70 £54.48
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.18
% change year-on-year -15.22% +22.99% +2.98%

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 30 December 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
1 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) CICS
2 1 (3.13%) CMS
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.13%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (3.13%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (3.13%) InDesign
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) AWS
2 8 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) IaaS
4 2 (6.25%) Lucidchart
4 2 (6.25%) PaaS
4 2 (6.25%) SaaS
4 2 (6.25%) Serverless
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) DHCP
1 1 (3.13%) DNS
1 1 (3.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Maven
2 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 9 (28.13%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Back Office
6 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.13%) Marketing
6 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Architect
2 4 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (9.38%) Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Consultant
3 3 (9.38%) Network Consultant
3 3 (9.38%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Designer
4 2 (6.25%) Lead
4 2 (6.25%) Python Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Service Designer
5 1 (3.13%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
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%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (9.38%) boto
3 2 (6.25%) AWS CDK
3 2 (6.25%) FastAPI
3 2 (6.25%) JWT
3 2 (6.25%) OAuth
3 2 (6.25%) React
3 2 (6.25%) REST
3 2 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (3.13%) .NET
4 1 (3.13%) CSS
4 1 (3.13%) HTML
4 1 (3.13%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
3 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) PKI
4 2 (6.25%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (3.13%) Animation
5 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.13%) e-Learning
5 1 (3.13%) Graphic Design
5 1 (3.13%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.13%) NHS
5 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.13%) SCADA
5 1 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
1 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Agile
2 13 (40.63%) Coaching
3 9 (28.13%) AI
4 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (18.75%) Machine Learning
5 6 (18.75%) OCR
5 6 (18.75%) Project Delivery
6 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (15.63%) DevOps
6 5 (15.63%) LLM
6 5 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (12.50%) Async-Await
7 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.50%) Code Quality
7 4 (12.50%) Computer Vision
7 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 4 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Python
2 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
3 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.25%) SQL
4 1 (3.13%) Bash
4 1 (3.13%) Bicep
4 1 (3.13%) C#
4 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) Degree
1 1 (3.13%) FFIEC
1 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
1 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Accessibility
2 4 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (9.38%) GDPR
4 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.13%) NCSC
4 1 (3.13%) NIST
4 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.13%) PMO
4 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Terraform
2 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.25%) Grafana
4 1 (3.13%) Ansible
4 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Cisco
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) Adobe
3 1 (3.13%) AVEVA
3 1 (3.13%) Remedy
3 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.13%) Thales