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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 39
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 35 25 43
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.80% 4.17% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.47% 4.45% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 28
10th Percentile £445 £340 £409
25th Percentile £489 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.94% -1.20% -1.57%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £575
90th Percentile - £687 £649
Scotland median daily rate £535 £524 £500
% change year-on-year +2.15% +4.75% -5.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £27.35 £11.86
Median % change year-on-year - +130.61% -36.75%
Scotland median hourly rate £23.75 £26.93 £55.00
% change year-on-year -11.79% -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 541 562 826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.72% 93.67% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 305 493
10th Percentile £215 £200 £228
25th Percentile £409 £391 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +2.78% -8.16% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 27 24
10th Percentile £17.36 £20.30 £14.10
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.02 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £68.13 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +15.15%

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 27 January 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 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) CICS
2 1 (2.86%) CMS
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.86%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (2.86%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.86%) InDesign
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) AWS
2 9 (25.71%) Azure
3 3 (8.57%) GCP
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.71%) AWS KMS
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.71%) IaaS
4 2 (5.71%) Lucidchart
4 2 (5.71%) PaaS
4 2 (5.71%) SaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.86%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DHCP
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
1 1 (2.86%) LAN
1 1 (2.86%) Network Security
1 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.86%) Wireless
1 1 (2.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Maven
2 1 (2.86%) webpack
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Finance
3 9 (25.71%) Public Sector
4 5 (14.29%) Banking
5 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.71%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Back Office
7 1 (2.86%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Marketing
7 1 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Architect
2 5 (14.29%) Senior
3 4 (11.43%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Consultant
4 3 (8.57%) Designer
4 3 (8.57%) Network Consultant
4 3 (8.57%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Python Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Designer
5 2 (5.71%) Service Designer
5 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Hugging Face
1 3 (8.57%) NumPy
1 3 (8.57%) OpenCV
1 3 (8.57%) Pandas
1 3 (8.57%) PyTorch
1 3 (8.57%) SQLAlchemy
2 2 (5.71%) boto
2 2 (5.71%) FastAPI
2 2 (5.71%) React
2 2 (5.71%) RESTful
3 1 (2.86%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.86%) CSS
3 1 (2.86%) Express.js
3 1 (2.86%) HTML
3 1 (2.86%) Node.js
3 1 (2.86%) OAuth
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.86%) Spring
3 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.43%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.57%) PKI
4 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (5.71%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (2.86%) Animation
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.86%) Graphic Design
5 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) NHS
5 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.86%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Agile
2 13 (37.14%) Coaching
3 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (25.71%) AI
5 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (17.14%) Project Delivery
7 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 5 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (14.29%) DevOps
7 5 (14.29%) Machine Learning
7 5 (14.29%) OCR
7 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 5 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (11.43%) LLM
8 4 (11.43%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (8.57%) Architectural Patterns
9 3 (8.57%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) Python
2 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.71%) Bash
3 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.71%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.86%) Bicep
4 1 (2.86%) C#
4 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) FFIEC
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Accessibility
1 4 (11.43%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (8.57%) GDPR
3 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.71%) QA
4 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.86%) NCSC
4 1 (2.86%) NIST
4 1 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
1 2 (5.71%) Firmware
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Terraform
2 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.57%) Ansible
4 2 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.86%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Cisco
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle
2 2 (5.71%) Thales
3 1 (2.86%) Adobe
3 1 (2.86%) AVEVA
3 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.86%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (2.86%) F5
3 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.86%) Remedy
3 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow