Mentoring Job Trends in Edinburgh

Mentorship
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 -17
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 162 128 111
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 13.57% 13.09% 8.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.74% 13.36% 9.53%
Number of salaries quoted 67 70 84
10th Percentile - £26,929 £50,326
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,139 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £71,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -57.34% +1.31% +1.62%
75th Percentile £46,250 £93,778 £91,934
90th Percentile £68,000 £140,677 £122,500
Scotland median annual salary £30,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -44.55% -15.38% -6.40%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 968 958 1,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 81.07% 97.96% 90.52%
Number of salaries quoted 499 442 920
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,029 £43,750 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -2.37%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -10.74%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Mentoring
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in Edinburgh

Mentoring
Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 16 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Balerno -2 1 - -
Mentoring
Scotland

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 4 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.62%) Apache
3 1 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Weka
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 24 (14.81%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (6.17%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (6.17%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (6.17%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (6.17%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (6.17%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 102 (62.96%) Azure
2 54 (33.33%) GitHub
3 48 (29.63%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (25.93%) AWS
5 23 (14.20%) dbt
6 21 (12.96%) Entra ID
7 20 (12.35%) GitHub Copilot
7 20 (12.35%) Snowflake
8 14 (8.64%) OCI
9 11 (6.79%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (6.79%) Salesforce Einstein
10 10 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (4.94%) GCP
12 3 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.85%) Boomi
12 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.85%) SaaS
13 2 (1.23%) Apigee
13 2 (1.23%) Google Workspace
14 1 (0.62%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.35%) Internet
2 3 (1.85%) Broadband
3 1 (0.62%) DHCP
3 1 (0.62%) DNS
3 1 (0.62%) Firewall
3 1 (0.62%) LAN
3 1 (0.62%) Network Security
3 1 (0.62%) Wireless
3 1 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 9 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (14.81%) Oracle Forms
2 19 (11.73%) Git
3 14 (8.64%) Jenkins
3 14 (8.64%) JIRA
General
1 80 (49.38%) Finance
2 38 (23.46%) Multimedia
3 36 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.56%) Games
6 6 (3.70%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.85%) Front Office
8 3 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.85%) Retail
9 2 (1.23%) Electronics
9 2 (1.23%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.23%) Marketing
9 2 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.23%) Police
9 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.62%) Legal
Job Titles
1 78 (48.15%) Senior
2 42 (25.93%) Trainee
3 34 (20.99%) Analyst
4 19 (11.73%) Senior Analyst
5 14 (8.64%) Applications Engineer
5 14 (8.64%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (8.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 14 (8.64%) Junior
5 14 (8.64%) Junior Analyst
5 14 (8.64%) Junior Security Analyst
5 14 (8.64%) Security Analyst
5 14 (8.64%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 13 (8.02%) Developer
7 11 (6.79%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (6.79%) Trainee Developer
8 10 (6.17%) ERP Analyst
8 10 (6.17%) Oracle Analyst
8 10 (6.17%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 10 (6.17%) Software Developer
8 10 (6.17%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.52%) SOAP
2 20 (12.35%) CSS
2 20 (12.35%) HTML
3 17 (10.49%) RESTful
4 16 (9.88%) REST
5 14 (8.64%) JSON
5 14 (8.64%) XML
6 13 (8.02%) GraphQL
6 13 (8.02%) OAuth
7 11 (6.79%) Lightning Web Components
7 11 (6.79%) OpenAPI
7 11 (6.79%) Swagger
8 6 (3.70%) .NET
9 5 (3.09%) SAML
10 3 (1.85%) Kafka
10 3 (1.85%) React Native
10 3 (1.85%) Web Services
11 2 (1.23%) LDAP
11 2 (1.23%) OpenID
12 1 (0.62%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.43%) Cloud Native
2 22 (13.58%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (12.35%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (1.85%) Cyberattack
4 3 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.85%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.23%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.56%) Windows
2 6 (3.70%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.23%) Android
3 2 (1.23%) Linux
4 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (43.21%) Coaching
2 65 (40.12%) Agile
3 64 (39.51%) Asset Management
4 61 (37.65%) Cybersecurity
5 55 (33.95%) CI/CD
6 53 (32.72%) DevOps
7 37 (22.84%) Test Automation
8 33 (20.37%) Migration
9 30 (18.52%) Root Cause Analysis
10 28 (17.28%) Observability
11 27 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (15.43%) Translating Business Requirements
13 24 (14.81%) ERP
13 24 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (14.20%) Analytics
14 23 (14.20%) Sprint Planning
14 23 (14.20%) Sprint Retrospective
15 22 (13.58%) AI
16 21 (12.96%) Data Modelling
17 20 (12.35%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 45 (27.78%) SQL
2 42 (25.93%) Python
3 28 (17.28%) Java
4 24 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 22 (13.58%) PowerShell
6 14 (8.64%) PL/SQL
6 14 (8.64%) Shell Script
7 11 (6.79%) Apex Code
7 11 (6.79%) C#
8 9 (5.56%) R
9 2 (1.23%) Bash
9 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.23%) Scala
9 2 (1.23%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.62%) Swift
Qualifications
1 36 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 32 (19.75%) CompTIA Security+
3 22 (13.58%) AWS Certification
4 20 (12.35%) A+ Certification
4 20 (12.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 20 (12.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (11.11%) CEH
5 18 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
6 14 (8.64%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.85%) Degree
7 3 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.23%) CISM
8 2 (1.23%) CISSP
8 2 (1.23%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.62%) CCIE
9 1 (0.62%) CCNP
9 1 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.62%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.09%) GDPR
1 5 (3.09%) NIST
2 3 (1.85%) NCSC
3 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.23%) GxP
3 2 (1.23%) SLA
4 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 18 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.23%) Docker
3 2 (1.23%) vSphere
4 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (19.75%) Terraform
2 17 (10.49%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.47%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 53 (32.72%) Microsoft
2 30 (18.52%) Oracle
3 14 (8.64%) ForeScout
3 14 (8.64%) Okta
4 11 (6.79%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.70%) Cisco
6 5 (3.09%) Google
7 4 (2.47%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.85%) Charles River
8 3 (1.85%) Databricks
8 3 (1.85%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.85%) Pega
8 3 (1.85%) Workday
9 2 (1.23%) SAP
10 1 (0.62%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.62%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (0.62%) F5
10 1 (0.62%) Palo Alto