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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 39 40
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 41 24 42
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.78% 3.95% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.58% 4.21% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 29
10th Percentile £304 £480 £409
25th Percentile £485 £493 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £666 £685 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £645
Scotland median daily rate £538 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% -7.15%
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% -36.75%
75th Percentile £66.50 £28.38 -
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 £26.93 £55.00
% change year-on-year +137.70% -51.05% +193.33%

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 541 570 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.42% 93.90% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 309 487
10th Percentile £193 £193 £225
25th Percentile £406 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £638 £639
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 25
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.30 £13.26
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.02 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.56% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £72.00 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +12.54%

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 10 February 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 6 (14.63%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (12.20%) Apache
3 3 (7.32%) Apache Spark
4 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.44%) CICS
5 1 (2.44%) CMS
5 1 (2.44%) Confluence
5 1 (2.44%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.44%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (2.44%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.44%) InDesign
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.44%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (39.02%) AWS
2 12 (29.27%) Azure
3 6 (14.63%) GCP
4 4 (9.76%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (4.88%) AWS KMS
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.88%) IaaS
5 2 (4.88%) Lucidchart
5 2 (4.88%) PaaS
5 2 (4.88%) SaaS
5 2 (4.88%) Serverless
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) DHCP
1 2 (4.88%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (2.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (2.44%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) HTTP
2 1 (2.44%) LAN
2 1 (2.44%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.44%) Wireless
2 1 (2.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.76%) Data Lake
2 4 (9.76%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.76%) Metadata
2 4 (9.76%) MySQL
3 3 (7.32%) Big Data
3 3 (7.32%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Maven
2 1 (2.44%) MLflow
2 1 (2.44%) webpack
General
1 17 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 12 (29.27%) Finance
3 10 (24.39%) Public Sector
4 5 (12.20%) Banking
5 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Back Office
7 1 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Games
7 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Marketing
7 1 (2.44%) Retail
7 1 (2.44%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Architect
2 5 (12.20%) Senior
3 4 (9.76%) Data Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Analyst
4 3 (7.32%) Consultant
4 3 (7.32%) Designer
4 3 (7.32%) Network Consultant
4 3 (7.32%) Network Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Python Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Developer
5 2 (4.88%) ETL Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Lead
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Designer
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Service Designer
5 2 (4.88%) Service Designer
5 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) Hugging Face
1 4 (9.76%) NumPy
1 4 (9.76%) OpenCV
1 4 (9.76%) Pandas
1 4 (9.76%) PyTorch
1 4 (9.76%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (7.32%) boto
2 3 (7.32%) FastAPI
2 3 (7.32%) Kafka
3 2 (4.88%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.88%) JWT
3 2 (4.88%) OAuth
3 2 (4.88%) React
3 2 (4.88%) REST
3 2 (4.88%) RESTful
4 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.44%) Express.js
4 1 (2.44%) Jest
4 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.44%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Algorithms
1 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.32%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.32%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.32%) PKI
4 2 (4.88%) Animation
4 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (4.88%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.44%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.44%) Graphic Design
5 1 (2.44%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.44%) NHS
5 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.44%) SCADA
5 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Windows
1 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) AI
2 14 (34.15%) Agile
2 14 (34.15%) Coaching
2 14 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (24.39%) Machine Learning
3 10 (24.39%) Technical Leadership
4 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (17.07%) ETL
6 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (14.63%) Data Governance
6 6 (14.63%) OCR
6 6 (14.63%) Project Delivery
6 6 (14.63%) Roadmaps
7 5 (12.20%) Analytics
7 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
7 5 (12.20%) Computer Science
7 5 (12.20%) Data Engineering
7 5 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (12.20%) LLM
7 5 (12.20%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) Python
2 6 (14.63%) SQL
3 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.88%) Bash
4 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.44%) Bicep
5 1 (2.44%) C#
5 1 (2.44%) C++
5 1 (2.44%) Java
5 1 (2.44%) Lua
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Master's Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) FFIEC
5 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) Accessibility
2 4 (9.76%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.76%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (7.32%) GDPR
4 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.88%) QA
5 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.44%) NCSC
5 1 (2.44%) NIST
5 1 (2.44%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.88%) Firmware
2 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Terraform
2 4 (9.76%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.32%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Grafana
4 2 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Oracle
2 5 (12.20%) Cisco
2 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.76%) Informatica
3 4 (9.76%) Talend
4 2 (4.88%) Google
4 2 (4.88%) Thales
5 1 (2.44%) Adobe
5 1 (2.44%) AVEVA
5 1 (2.44%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.44%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (2.44%) F5
5 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.44%) Remedy
5 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow