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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 30 54
Rank change year-on-year -8 +24 +3
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 34 37 22
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.53% 5.89% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.27% 6.16% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 15
10th Percentile £260 £322 £408
25th Percentile £472 £445 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £497 £494
Median % change year-on-year +19.72% +0.61% -1.84%
75th Percentile £656 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £643 £638
Scotland median daily rate £550 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +15.79% +2.70% -11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 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 £21.22 £11.86
% change year-on-year +201.60% +78.92% -

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 645 601 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 86.00% 95.70% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 331 430
10th Percentile £338 £244 £219
25th Percentile £413 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -2.53% -
75th Percentile £552 £538 £559
90th Percentile £650 £600 £657
Scotland median daily rate £460 £460 £475
% change year-on-year - -3.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 31
10th Percentile £17.44 - £13.25
25th Percentile £42.50 £17.30 £16.13
Median hourly rate £51.25 £22.00 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year +132.95% +14.76% -1.64%
75th Percentile £70.50 £27.45 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £50.06 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.97 £19.50
% change year-on-year +0.15% +2.41% +34.48%

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 26 May 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 (14.71%) Apache
1 5 (14.71%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.94%) CMS
3 1 (2.94%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.94%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (2.94%) InDesign
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.94%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Azure
2 12 (35.29%) AWS
3 9 (26.47%) GCP
4 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.76%) IaaS
5 4 (11.76%) PaaS
5 4 (11.76%) SaaS
6 2 (5.88%) AWS KMS
6 2 (5.88%) Azure AI
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.94%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.94%) Dagster
7 1 (2.94%) dbt
7 1 (2.94%) GitHub
7 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) DHCP
1 4 (11.76%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (2.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) HTTP
2 1 (2.94%) LAN
2 1 (2.94%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.94%) Wireless
2 1 (2.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Metadata
1 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 4 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (11.76%) MySQL
2 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.82%) Big Data
3 3 (8.82%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) Gatling
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) JMeter
2 1 (2.94%) MLflow
General
1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Finance
3 6 (17.65%) Banking
4 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (8.82%) Retail
7 2 (5.88%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.88%) Financial Institution
7 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.88%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.94%) Games
8 1 (2.94%) Legal
8 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Architect
2 4 (11.76%) Data Architect
2 4 (11.76%) Developer
2 4 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Designer
3 3 (8.82%) Senior
4 2 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (5.88%) ETL Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Lead
4 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Designer
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Service Designer
4 2 (5.88%) Service Designer
5 1 (2.94%) Graphic Designer
5 1 (2.94%) Network Architect
5 1 (2.94%) Performance Tester
5 1 (2.94%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (2.94%) Python Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) REST
2 3 (8.82%) Kafka
3 2 (5.88%) .NET
3 2 (5.88%) FastAPI
3 2 (5.88%) JAX-RS
3 2 (5.88%) Quarkus
3 2 (5.88%) Spring
3 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.94%) A2A Protocol
4 1 (2.94%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.94%) Hugging Face
4 1 (2.94%) JWT
4 1 (2.94%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (2.94%) OAuth
4 1 (2.94%) OpenCV
4 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.94%) React
4 1 (2.94%) RESTful
4 1 (2.94%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (2.94%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.82%) Algorithms
3 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.88%) Animation
4 2 (5.88%) PKI
4 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.94%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.94%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.94%) Graphic Design
5 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.94%) NHS
5 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.94%) SCADA
5 1 (2.94%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Windows
1 4 (11.76%) Windows Server
2 2 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Solaris
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) AI
1 14 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (26.47%) Agile
2 9 (26.47%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (23.53%) Coaching
3 8 (23.53%) Roadmaps
4 6 (17.65%) Analytics
4 6 (17.65%) Architectural Patterns
4 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (17.65%) Machine Learning
4 6 (17.65%) Microservices
4 6 (17.65%) Scrum
5 5 (14.71%) Data Engineering
5 5 (14.71%) Data Modelling
5 5 (14.71%) ETL
6 4 (11.76%) API Integration
6 4 (11.76%) Architecture Roadmap
6 4 (11.76%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) Python
2 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 5 (14.71%) SQL
4 3 (8.82%) Java
5 2 (5.88%) Bash
5 2 (5.88%) C#
6 1 (2.94%) C++
6 1 (2.94%) Lua
6 1 (2.94%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
1 5 (14.71%) Master's Degree
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.82%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.94%) GDPR
4 1 (2.94%) QA
4 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.76%) Terraform
3 3 (8.82%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.94%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle
3 4 (11.76%) Informatica
3 4 (11.76%) Talend
4 2 (5.88%) Google
4 2 (5.88%) Splunk
4 2 (5.88%) Thales
5 1 (2.94%) Adobe
5 1 (2.94%) AVEVA
5 1 (2.94%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.94%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (2.94%) F5
5 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto