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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 45 63
Rank change year-on-year +20 +18 -24
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 45 31 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.08% 3.72% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.49% 4.34% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 25
10th Percentile £400 £323 £400
25th Percentile £463 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £494
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +0.61% -5.90%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £525
90th Percentile £638 £643 £583
Scotland median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.43% -0.60% -6.02%

All Process and 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 601 714 973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.50% 85.71% 91.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 377 618
10th Percentile £306 £220 £225
25th Percentile £413 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £625 £600
Scotland median daily rate £466 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +152.32%
75th Percentile £49.35 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £63.88 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.29 £19.18
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.76% -10.79%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Mentoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring 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 20 September 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 and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
1 2 (4.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (4.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) AWS
2 12 (26.67%) Azure
3 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
3 4 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (8.89%) GCP
3 4 (8.89%) IaaS
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.89%) PaaS
3 4 (8.89%) SaaS
3 4 (8.89%) Serverless
4 3 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.44%) Lucidchart
5 2 (4.44%) npm
5 2 (4.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.22%) DB2
3 1 (2.22%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.22%) MySQL
3 1 (2.22%) Power Query
3 1 (2.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Cypress.io
2 3 (6.67%) Git
3 2 (4.44%) JIRA
3 2 (4.44%) webpack
4 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) Maven
4 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.22%) Toad
General
1 17 (37.78%) Public Sector
1 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 16 (35.56%) Finance
3 9 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (17.78%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (8.89%) Law
6 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.67%) Banking
7 2 (4.44%) Automotive
7 2 (4.44%) Games
7 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Senior
2 7 (15.56%) Lead
3 5 (11.11%) Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Test Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Network Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Product Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) React
2 4 (8.89%) AWS CDK
2 4 (8.89%) Hugging Face
2 4 (8.89%) NumPy
2 4 (8.89%) OpenCV
2 4 (8.89%) Pandas
2 4 (8.89%) PyTorch
2 4 (8.89%) RESTful
2 4 (8.89%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (6.67%) boto
3 3 (6.67%) CSS
3 3 (6.67%) HTML
3 3 (6.67%) Spring
3 3 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.44%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.44%) Jest
4 2 (4.44%) JWT
4 2 (4.44%) OAuth
4 2 (4.44%) REST
5 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.67%) PKI
4 2 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.44%) Life Science
4 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.22%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Windows
1 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 4 (8.89%) Linux
3 3 (6.67%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (62.22%) Agile
2 18 (40.00%) Coaching
3 13 (28.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 8 (17.78%) Test Automation
6 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
6 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (15.56%) Product Management
6 7 (15.56%) User Experience
7 6 (13.33%) Architecture Roadmap
7 6 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (13.33%) DevOps
7 6 (13.33%) Line Management
7 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 5 (11.11%) OCR
8 5 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 5 (11.11%) Scrum
8 5 (11.11%) Service Design
8 5 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) Java
1 7 (15.56%) Python
2 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
3 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.67%) SQL
4 2 (4.44%) Bicep
5 1 (2.22%) Bash
5 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (8.89%) GDPR
4 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.22%) NCSC
4 1 (2.22%) NIST
4 1 (2.22%) PMO
4 1 (2.22%) QA
4 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.44%) Docker
1 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Grafana
2 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Terraform
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.44%) SCCM
4 1 (2.22%) Ansible
4 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.89%) Oracle
2 4 (8.89%) VMware
3 3 (6.67%) Cisco
3 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.44%) Hitachi
5 1 (2.22%) BMC
5 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.22%) IBM
5 1 (2.22%) Qualys