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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 74 71
Rank change year-on-year +32 -3 -39
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 78 46 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.79% 2.15% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 2.48% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 34 76
10th Percentile £279 £180 £424
25th Percentile £315 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £521
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.05% +0.97%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £625
90th Percentile £612 £640 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £16.56 - -
25th Percentile £18.77 - -
Median hourly rate £20.00 £11.86 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.63% - -
75th Percentile £22.10 - -
90th Percentile £25.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% -46.67% +97.37%

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 1,519 1,853 2,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.19% 86.67% 91.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 1,147 1,712
10th Percentile £255 £223 £260
25th Percentile £368 £363 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -2.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £572 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 92 57
10th Percentile £16.18 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.07 £11.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £15.99
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +21.95% -57.28%
75th Percentile £25.42 £42.71 £35.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £62.33
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £37.18 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.86% +6.23% +36.29%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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
Edinburgh +18 40 £513 +3.74% 65
Glasgow +2 24 £480 -6.75% 76
Fife - 2 £70 - 13
West Lothian -2 1 £188 +2.04% 15
Aberdeen - 1 £500 - 10
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 6 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.85%) Confluence
3 2 (2.56%) Camunda
4 1 (1.28%) GeoServer
Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Finacle
2 2 (2.56%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (2.56%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (19.23%) Azure
2 10 (12.82%) AWS
2 10 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.41%) IaaS
4 5 (6.41%) PaaS
4 5 (6.41%) SaaS
5 4 (5.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (5.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (3.85%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.56%) GCP
8 1 (1.28%) Asana
8 1 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.28%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.28%) Slack
8 1 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) Firewall
1 3 (3.85%) Network Security
2 2 (2.56%) VPN
2 2 (2.56%) WAN
3 1 (1.28%) BGP
3 1 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.28%) DHCP
3 1 (1.28%) DNS
3 1 (1.28%) Internet
3 1 (1.28%) LAN
3 1 (1.28%) OSPF
3 1 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.54%) Oracle Database
2 6 (7.69%) MySQL
3 5 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.13%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.85%) MariaDB
5 3 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (3.85%) Power Query
5 3 (3.85%) Redis
6 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.28%) DB2
7 1 (1.28%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (11.54%) JIRA
2 7 (8.97%) Git
3 2 (2.56%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.28%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.28%) Toad
4 1 (1.28%) webpack
General
1 26 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 24 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 22 (28.21%) Finance
4 17 (21.79%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.26%) Banking
6 7 (8.97%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (6.41%) Law
9 4 (5.13%) Manufacturing
10 3 (3.85%) Back Office
10 3 (3.85%) Private Banking
11 2 (2.56%) Aerospace
11 2 (2.56%) Automotive
11 2 (2.56%) Front Office
11 2 (2.56%) Games
11 2 (2.56%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (2.56%) Military
12 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (24.36%) Developer
2 17 (21.79%) Lead
3 13 (16.67%) Senior
4 7 (8.97%) Architect
4 7 (8.97%) Oracle Developer
5 6 (7.69%) Analyst
5 6 (7.69%) Lead Developer
6 5 (6.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.13%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 3 (3.85%) Information Governance Specialist
8 3 (3.85%) Information Specialist
8 3 (3.85%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (3.85%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.85%) Server Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Team Leader
8 3 (3.85%) Test Manager
9 2 (2.56%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.54%) Spring Boot
2 8 (10.26%) Spring
3 5 (6.41%) JSON
3 5 (6.41%) RESTful
4 4 (5.13%) REST
5 3 (3.85%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.85%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (3.85%) React
5 3 (3.85%) Web Services
5 3 (3.85%) YAML
6 2 (2.56%) CSS
6 2 (2.56%) HTML
6 2 (2.56%) LDAP
6 2 (2.56%) SOAP
6 2 (2.56%) XML
7 1 (1.28%) .NET
7 1 (1.28%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.28%) Express.js
7 1 (1.28%) J2EE
7 1 (1.28%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.41%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.41%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.13%) PKI
2 4 (5.13%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.85%) Derivative
3 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.85%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.56%) Life Science
4 2 (2.56%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.28%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.28%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.54%) Linux
1 9 (11.54%) Windows
2 8 (10.26%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.13%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.46%) Agile
2 28 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (25.64%) Coaching
4 13 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 11 (14.10%) DevOps
5 11 (14.10%) SDLC
6 10 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (11.54%) ITIL
7 9 (11.54%) Project Management
7 9 (11.54%) Project Planning
7 9 (11.54%) Test Automation
8 8 (10.26%) Line Management
8 8 (10.26%) Roadmaps
8 8 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (8.97%) Microservices
9 7 (8.97%) Project Delivery
10 6 (7.69%) Change Management
10 6 (7.69%) Data Protection
10 6 (7.69%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.79%) Java
2 13 (16.67%) SQL
3 9 (11.54%) PL/SQL
4 8 (10.26%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.69%) Python
6 5 (6.41%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.13%) Bicep
8 3 (3.85%) Bash
8 3 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.28%) C#
10 1 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.56%) CCA
3 2 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.28%) CASP
4 1 (1.28%) CCNA
4 1 (1.28%) CCSP
4 1 (1.28%) CISSP
4 1 (1.28%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.28%) HNC
4 1 (1.28%) ISEB
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.28%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.82%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.41%) GDPR
4 2 (2.56%) PMO
5 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.28%) QA
5 1 (1.28%) SLA
5 1 (1.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.28%) Docker
3 1 (1.28%) Firmware
3 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) Terraform
2 4 (5.13%) Grafana
3 3 (3.85%) Ansible
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.85%) Progress Chef
3 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.56%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.56%) SCCM
4 2 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.28%) Argo
5 1 (1.28%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (24.36%) Microsoft
2 17 (21.79%) Oracle
3 4 (5.13%) Red Hat
3 4 (5.13%) VMware
4 3 (3.85%) Avaloq
4 3 (3.85%) Cisco
4 3 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.85%) Temenos
5 2 (2.56%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.56%) Hitachi
5 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.28%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.28%) BMC
6 1 (1.28%) IBM
6 1 (1.28%) Juniper
6 1 (1.28%) Qualys