Mentoring Contracts in Scotland

Mentorship
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Mentoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mentoring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 73 63
Rank change year-on-year +16 -10 -24
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 62 57 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.82% 2.57% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 2.90% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 46 88
10th Percentile £309 £197 £423
25th Percentile £398 £413 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £641
90th Percentile £689 £651 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £25.46 - -
25th Percentile £25.79 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £11.86 -
Median % change year-on-year +130.61% - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +18.75% -46.67% +114.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Mentoring in Scotland

Mentoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Mentoring in Scotland

Mentoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mentoring in Scotland

Mentoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mentoring in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Mentoring in Scotland

Mentoring
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +16 28 £563 +11.26% 56
Edinburgh 0 27 £525 -4.55% 80
Aberdeen - 1 £500 - 4
Mentoring
UK

Mentoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (8.06%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.23%) Camunda
2 2 (3.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.61%) CMS
3 1 (1.61%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.61%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Finacle
2 2 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 17 (27.42%) AWS
2 12 (19.35%) Azure
3 6 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (9.68%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.06%) IaaS
4 5 (8.06%) PaaS
4 5 (8.06%) SaaS
5 3 (4.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.23%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.61%) Asana
7 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Network Security
2 2 (3.23%) VPN
2 2 (3.23%) WAN
3 1 (1.61%) BGP
3 1 (1.61%) DHCP
3 1 (1.61%) DNS
3 1 (1.61%) Firewall
3 1 (1.61%) LAN
3 1 (1.61%) OSPF
3 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.35%) MySQL
2 10 (16.13%) Oracle Database
3 6 (9.68%) MariaDB
4 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.84%) OLAP
6 3 (4.84%) Power BI
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.23%) Power Query
7 2 (3.23%) Redis
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.61%) GIS
8 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Git
2 5 (8.06%) JIRA
3 2 (3.23%) Artifactory
3 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (33.87%) Public Sector
2 17 (27.42%) Finance
3 16 (25.81%) Social Skills
4 15 (24.19%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.68%) Banking
6 4 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (6.45%) Law
7 3 (4.84%) Back Office
7 3 (4.84%) Private Banking
8 2 (3.23%) Front Office
8 2 (3.23%) Games
8 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (38.71%) Developer
2 18 (29.03%) Lead
3 9 (14.52%) Lead Developer
3 9 (14.52%) Senior
4 8 (12.90%) Oracle Developer
5 6 (9.68%) Architect
6 5 (8.06%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.45%) Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Server Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Team Leader
8 3 (4.84%) Test Leader
9 2 (3.23%) Automation Test Lead
9 2 (3.23%) Head of Engineering
9 2 (3.23%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.97%) Spring
1 13 (20.97%) Spring Boot
2 5 (8.06%) RESTful
3 4 (6.45%) JSON
4 3 (4.84%) REST
5 2 (3.23%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.23%) HTML
5 2 (3.23%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (3.23%) LDAP
5 2 (3.23%) Node.js
5 2 (3.23%) SOAP
5 2 (3.23%) Web Services
5 2 (3.23%) XML
5 2 (3.23%) YAML
6 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.61%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.61%) CSS
6 1 (1.61%) Express.js
6 1 (1.61%) J2EE
6 1 (1.61%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Public Cloud
2 5 (8.06%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.84%) Derivative
4 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.23%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.23%) PKI
5 2 (3.23%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.61%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.61%) PMI
6 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.74%) Linux
2 5 (8.06%) Windows
2 5 (8.06%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.45%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.61%) CentOS
4 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.26%) Agile
1 20 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (20.97%) CI/CD
2 13 (20.97%) Microservices
3 12 (19.35%) Coaching
4 11 (17.74%) Knowledge Transfer
5 10 (16.13%) Project Management
5 10 (16.13%) SDLC
6 9 (14.52%) DevOps
6 9 (14.52%) Project Planning
6 9 (14.52%) TDD
6 9 (14.52%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (11.29%) ITIL
7 7 (11.29%) Project Delivery
7 7 (11.29%) Scrum
8 6 (9.68%) Cost Reduction
8 6 (9.68%) Line Management
9 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (8.06%) Roadmaps
9 5 (8.06%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.65%) Java
2 13 (20.97%) JavaScript
3 12 (19.35%) SQL
4 9 (14.52%) PL/SQL
5 8 (12.90%) TypeScript
6 6 (9.68%) Shell Script
7 5 (8.06%) Python
8 3 (4.84%) Bash
8 3 (4.84%) Bicep
9 2 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Degree
2 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.23%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.61%) CCNA
3 1 (1.61%) CCSP
3 1 (1.61%) CISM
3 1 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.61%) CRISC
3 1 (1.61%) ISEB
3 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (6.45%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.61%) NCSC
3 1 (1.61%) NIST
3 1 (1.61%) PMO
3 1 (1.61%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) SLA
3 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.61%) Docker
1 1 (1.61%) Firmware
1 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (16.13%) Terraform
2 3 (4.84%) Ansible
2 3 (4.84%) Grafana
3 2 (3.23%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.23%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.61%) Packer
4 1 (1.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
1 13 (20.97%) Oracle
2 4 (6.45%) Red Hat
2 4 (6.45%) VMware
3 3 (4.84%) Avaloq
3 3 (4.84%) Temenos
4 2 (3.23%) Cisco
4 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.61%) Google
5 1 (1.61%) Juniper