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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 44 37
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +19
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 31 23 38
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.63% 3.67% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% 3.86% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 26
10th Percentile £224 £269 £411
25th Percentile £381 £471 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £529
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -0.76% +4.13%
75th Percentile £663 £541 £619
90th Percentile £675 £629 £661
Scotland median daily rate £543 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 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% -
75th Percentile £66.50 £28.38 -
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 £27.35 £11.86
% change year-on-year +134.00% +130.61% -

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 583 596 718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.01% 95.21% 87.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 330 426
10th Percentile £236 £200 £230
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £487
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -5.08% +2.58%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £586
90th Percentile £651 £638 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £456 £480
% change year-on-year -1.21% -5.10% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 25 29
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.30 £15.82
25th Percentile £28.38 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% -11.54% +22.30%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £31.93 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.44 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.86% +15.06% +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 13 April 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 (16.13%) Apache
1 5 (16.13%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (9.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.45%) Confluence
4 1 (3.23%) CICS
4 1 (3.23%) CMS
4 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.23%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (3.23%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (3.23%) InDesign
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (35.48%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) Azure
3 7 (22.58%) GCP
4 5 (16.13%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.90%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.45%) AWS KMS
6 2 (6.45%) Azure AI
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.23%) Dagster
7 1 (3.23%) dbt
7 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.23%) Serverless
7 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) DHCP
1 4 (12.90%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) HTTP
2 1 (3.23%) LAN
2 1 (3.23%) Network Security
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.23%) Wireless
2 1 (3.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) Metadata
1 5 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.90%) Data Lake
2 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (12.90%) MySQL
3 3 (9.68%) Big Data
3 3 (9.68%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) MLflow
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Finance
3 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.90%) Banking
5 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.23%) Back Office
7 1 (3.23%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Games
7 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Legal
7 1 (3.23%) Retail
7 1 (3.23%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Architect
2 4 (12.90%) Data Architect
2 4 (12.90%) Developer
2 4 (12.90%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Designer
3 3 (9.68%) Lead
4 2 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (6.45%) ETL Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Designer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Service Designer
4 2 (6.45%) Service Designer
5 1 (3.23%) CICS Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Graphic Designer
5 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Network Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (3.23%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) REST
2 3 (9.68%) Kafka
3 2 (6.45%) .NET
3 2 (6.45%) FastAPI
3 2 (6.45%) JAX-RS
3 2 (6.45%) Quarkus
3 2 (6.45%) Spring
3 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.23%) boto
4 1 (3.23%) CSS
4 1 (3.23%) HTML
4 1 (3.23%) Hugging Face
4 1 (3.23%) JWT
4 1 (3.23%) Node.js
4 1 (3.23%) OpenCV
4 1 (3.23%) Pandas
4 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Algorithms
1 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
1 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
1 3 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.45%) Animation
2 2 (6.45%) PKI
2 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (3.23%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.23%) Graphic Design
3 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.23%) NHS
3 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.23%) SCADA
3 1 (3.23%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
1 4 (12.90%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.45%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Solaris
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) AI
2 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (29.03%) Coaching
4 8 (25.81%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (19.35%) Agile
5 6 (19.35%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (19.35%) Machine Learning
6 5 (16.13%) Analytics
6 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
6 5 (16.13%) Data Engineering
6 5 (16.13%) ETL
6 5 (16.13%) Microservices
6 5 (16.13%) Roadmaps
7 4 (12.90%) API Integration
7 4 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (12.90%) Data Science
7 4 (12.90%) Generative AI
7 4 (12.90%) Line Management
7 4 (12.90%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
3 5 (16.13%) SQL
4 2 (6.45%) Bash
4 2 (6.45%) C#
4 2 (6.45%) Java
5 1 (3.23%) C++
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) Lua
5 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
1 5 (16.13%) Master's Degree
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) FFIEC
4 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (12.90%) Data Quality
3 3 (9.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.23%) GDPR
5 1 (3.23%) PMO
5 1 (3.23%) QA
5 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.90%) Terraform
3 3 (9.68%) Ansible
4 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Oracle
2 4 (12.90%) Informatica
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Talend
3 2 (6.45%) Google
3 2 (6.45%) Thales
4 1 (3.23%) Adobe
4 1 (3.23%) AVEVA
4 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.23%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (3.23%) F5
4 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.23%) Remedy
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow