Mentoring Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Mentorship
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Mentoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 57 44
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 +2
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 36 12 29
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.86% 1.73% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.47% 1.94% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 27
10th Percentile £270 £354 £393
25th Percentile £425 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% -9.52% -14.98%
75th Percentile £605 £538 £674
90th Percentile £670 £563 £790
Scotland median daily rate £478 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.34% -1.20% -6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £15.89 - -
25th Percentile £17.10 - -
Median hourly rate £19.42 - -
75th Percentile £22.05 - -
90th Percentile £23.45 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 - £55.70
% change year-on-year - - +197.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 658 619 754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.80% 89.19% 91.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 405 507
10th Percentile £300 £280 £343
25th Percentile £381 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £613 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.05% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 19
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.39 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.11 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £26.76 £17.72
90th Percentile £57.50 £41.70 £27.64
Scotland median hourly rate £19.99 £20.94 £19.06
% change year-on-year -4.55% +9.88% +1.63%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mentoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Mentoring job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Mentoring
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Mentoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Glasgow over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in Glasgow

Mentoring
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Mentoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 4 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.78%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) AWS
2 8 (22.22%) Azure
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (11.11%) Slack
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.56%) Lucidchart
5 2 (5.56%) Serverless
5 2 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) VPN
1 2 (5.56%) WAN
2 1 (2.78%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.78%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.78%) NewSQL
3 1 (2.78%) OLTP
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Git
1 7 (19.44%) JIRA
2 4 (11.11%) Terragrunt
3 3 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.56%) JUnit
4 2 (5.56%) Mockito
5 1 (2.78%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Public Sector
3 8 (22.22%) Finance
4 7 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Retail
7 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Analyst
2 6 (16.67%) Developer
3 5 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Support Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Lead
5 3 (8.33%) Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Consultant
5 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Network Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Change Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Security Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Spring
1 5 (13.89%) Spring Boot
2 4 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 4 (11.11%) Node.js
3 3 (8.33%) React
4 2 (5.56%) Hibernate
4 2 (5.56%) J2EE
4 2 (5.56%) JPA
4 2 (5.56%) Kafka
4 2 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) .NET
5 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.78%) Next.js
5 1 (2.78%) OAuth
5 1 (2.78%) OpenID
5 1 (2.78%) Playwright
5 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.78%) REST
5 1 (2.78%) RESTful
5 1 (2.78%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Driving Licence
2 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Windows
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) Agile
2 12 (33.33%) Coaching
3 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 9 (25.00%) DevOps
4 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (19.44%) Microservices
5 7 (19.44%) Roadmaps
6 6 (16.67%) Migration
6 6 (16.67%) Operational Stability
7 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
7 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (13.89%) ITIL
7 5 (13.89%) Problem Management
7 5 (13.89%) Project Delivery
7 5 (13.89%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (11.11%) GitOps
8 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (11.11%) Prototyping
8 4 (11.11%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Java
2 7 (19.44%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.56%) Bicep
4 2 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (5.56%) SQL
4 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.78%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (2.78%) C#
5 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.56%) CASP
3 2 (5.56%) CISSP
3 2 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
3 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) GCIA
3 2 (5.56%) GCIH
3 2 (5.56%) HNC
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.78%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) HND
4 1 (2.78%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) GDPR
1 3 (8.33%) SLA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.33%) Docker
3 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 8 (22.22%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) Argo
2 4 (11.11%) Istio
3 1 (2.78%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Cisco
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) ArcSight
4 1 (2.78%) Veracode