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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 42 41
Rank change year-on-year +16 -1 +13
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 40 26 42
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.50% 4.17% 4.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.29% 4.44% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 27
10th Percentile £304 £269 £413
25th Percentile £485 £480 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% +4.50% -0.30%
75th Percentile £666 £685 £575
90th Percentile £675 £687 £653
Scotland median daily rate £540 £524 £500
% change year-on-year +3.10% +4.75% -5.84%
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% -47.72%
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% +142.45%

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 549 585 800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.27% 93.90% 90.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 320 483
10th Percentile £188 £195 £230
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 £561
90th Percentile £675 £638 £643
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £482
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 27
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.30 £13.27
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.01 £16.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.95% -32.60% +63.06%
75th Percentile £68.00 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £26.52 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +10.05%

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 18 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 5 (12.50%) Apache
1 5 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.50%) CICS
3 1 (2.50%) CMS
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.50%) InDesign
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (37.50%) AWS
2 13 (32.50%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) GCP
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (5.00%) AWS KMS
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.00%) IaaS
5 2 (5.00%) Lucidchart
5 2 (5.00%) PaaS
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
5 2 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) DHCP
1 2 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) HTTP
2 1 (2.50%) LAN
2 1 (2.50%) Network Security
2 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.50%) Wireless
2 1 (2.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Metadata
1 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (10.00%) MySQL
3 3 (7.50%) Big Data
3 3 (7.50%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Maven
2 1 (2.50%) MLflow
2 1 (2.50%) webpack
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.00%) Finance
3 10 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (12.50%) Banking
5 3 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Back Office
7 1 (2.50%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Games
7 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Legal
7 1 (2.50%) Retail
7 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Architect
2 4 (10.00%) Data Architect
2 4 (10.00%) Senior
3 3 (7.50%) Consultant
3 3 (7.50%) Designer
3 3 (7.50%) Network Consultant
3 3 (7.50%) Network Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Python Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Developer
4 2 (5.00%) ETL Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Senior Designer
4 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (10.00%) NumPy
1 4 (10.00%) OpenCV
1 4 (10.00%) Pandas
1 4 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (10.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (7.50%) boto
2 3 (7.50%) FastAPI
2 3 (7.50%) Kafka
2 3 (7.50%) REST
3 2 (5.00%) .NET
3 2 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 2 (5.00%) JWT
3 2 (5.00%) OAuth
3 2 (5.00%) React
3 2 (5.00%) RESTful
4 1 (2.50%) CSS
4 1 (2.50%) Jest
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.50%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.50%) PKI
4 2 (5.00%) Animation
4 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.50%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.50%) Graphic Design
5 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.50%) NHS
5 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.50%) SCADA
5 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.50%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Windows
1 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) AI
2 13 (32.50%) Coaching
3 12 (30.00%) Agile
3 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 10 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (17.50%) ETL
6 7 (17.50%) OCR
6 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps
7 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (15.00%) Data Governance
7 6 (15.00%) Project Delivery
8 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 5 (12.50%) LLM
8 5 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (10.00%) Scrum
9 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) Python
2 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (5.00%) Bash
3 2 (5.00%) C#
3 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.50%) Bicep
4 1 (2.50%) C++
4 1 (2.50%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) Lua
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) FFIEC
5 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 4 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (7.50%) GDPR
4 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (5.00%) QA
5 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.50%) NCSC
5 1 (2.50%) NIST
5 1 (2.50%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.00%) Firmware
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Terraform
2 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) Grafana
4 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Oracle
2 5 (12.50%) Cisco
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.00%) Informatica
3 4 (10.00%) Talend
4 2 (5.00%) Google
4 2 (5.00%) Thales
5 1 (2.50%) Adobe
5 1 (2.50%) AVEVA
5 1 (2.50%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.50%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (2.50%) F5
5 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.50%) Remedy
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow