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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 39 44
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 37 33 49
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.00% 4.68% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.40% 5.37% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 29
10th Percentile £476 £355 £410
25th Percentile £500 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +2.25% -6.02%
75th Percentile £555 £578 £575
90th Percentile £641 £685 £685
Scotland median daily rate £501 £524 £500
% change year-on-year -4.39% +4.85% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.35 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £26.93 £55.70
% change year-on-year -25.72% -51.66% +197.07%

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 578 615 886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 93.68% 87.23% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 315 547
10th Percentile £231 £226 £200
25th Percentile £406 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £548 £536 £543
90th Percentile £615 £638 £611
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +2.78% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 9
10th Percentile £16.68 £16.50 £12.95
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% -32.60% +70.27%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £71.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.65 £22.94 £19.75
% change year-on-year -9.98% +16.14% +6.76%

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 20 November 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 & 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 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) CICS
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
1 2 (5.41%) Trello
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) AWS
2 10 (27.03%) Azure
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
3 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (10.81%) GCP
3 4 (10.81%) Serverless
4 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.41%) IaaS
5 2 (5.41%) Lucidchart
5 2 (5.41%) npm
5 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) DB2
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Cypress.io
1 4 (10.81%) Git
2 3 (8.11%) JIRA
3 2 (5.41%) webpack
4 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.70%) Maven
4 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.70%) Toad
General
1 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 14 (37.84%) Finance
3 10 (27.03%) Public Sector
4 6 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (10.81%) Banking
5 4 (10.81%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (5.41%) Automotive
7 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.70%) Back Office
8 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.70%) Law
8 1 (2.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Lead
2 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Consultant
3 3 (8.11%) Network Consultant
3 3 (8.11%) Network Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Senior
3 3 (8.11%) Test Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) PMO Lead
4 2 (5.41%) Python Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Support Team Leader
4 2 (5.41%) Team Leader
4 2 (5.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) React
2 4 (10.81%) AWS CDK
2 4 (10.81%) CSS
2 4 (10.81%) HTML
2 4 (10.81%) Hugging Face
2 4 (10.81%) NumPy
2 4 (10.81%) OpenCV
2 4 (10.81%) Pandas
2 4 (10.81%) PyTorch
2 4 (10.81%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (8.11%) boto
3 3 (8.11%) REST
3 3 (8.11%) Spring
3 3 (8.11%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.41%) FastAPI
4 2 (5.41%) Jest
4 2 (5.41%) JWT
4 2 (5.41%) Node.js
4 2 (5.41%) OAuth
4 2 (5.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.11%) Algorithms
2 3 (8.11%) Data Structures
2 3 (8.11%) PKI
3 2 (5.41%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Life Science
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
1 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Agile
2 14 (37.84%) Coaching
3 10 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (18.92%) AI
4 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (16.22%) DevOps
5 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.22%) Project Delivery
5 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
5 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
6 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
6 5 (13.51%) Code Quality
6 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (13.51%) LLM
6 5 (13.51%) Machine Learning
6 5 (13.51%) OCR
6 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (10.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Python
2 6 (16.22%) TypeScript
3 4 (10.81%) Java
3 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.41%) SQL
5 1 (2.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.92%) Accessibility
2 5 (13.51%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (5.41%) GDPR
3 2 (5.41%) PMO
4 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.70%) NCSC
4 1 (2.70%) NIST
4 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
1 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Grafana
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Cisco
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.41%) Hitachi
4 1 (2.70%) BMC
4 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.70%) IBM
4 1 (2.70%) Qualys
4 1 (2.70%) Remedy
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) VMware