Mentoring Job Trends in Scotland

Mentorship
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 24 45
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 -31
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 215 213 505
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 6.82% 10.02% 7.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.69% 10.78% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 84 121 211
10th Percentile - - £24,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -6.46% -15.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year -7.41% +10.28% -12.56%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,219 1,976 5,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.40% 92.94% 89.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,248 820 2,526
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in Scotland

Mentoring
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Scotland over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Mentoring in Scotland

Mentoring
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Edinburgh +9 83 £37,250 -46.79% 26
Glasgow +6 35 £55,000 -26.67% 28
Aberdeen -3 18 £30,500 - 2
Dundee -1 17 - - 1
Stirling -5 13 £54,500 +28.24% 2
South Lanarkshire - 9 £72,500 -
Banffshire - 8 £30,000 -
Fife -2 7 - - 3
Midlothian +1 6 - - 23
West Lothian -3 5 - - 1
Highlands - 4 £52,500 - 4
Lanarkshire +6 2 - - 20
Moray 0 2 £100,000 -
North Lanarkshire -6 2 - - 2
Falkirk - 2 - - 1
East Lothian +2 1 - -
Perth and Kinross - 1 £28,000 - 1
Mentoring
UK

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.40%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.93%) Confluence
3 1 (0.47%) Apache
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.40%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.93%) Alphatax
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 129 (60.00%) Azure
2 32 (14.88%) Entra ID
3 28 (13.02%) Google Workspace
4 25 (11.63%) AWS
5 15 (6.98%) GitHub
6 11 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.72%) GCP
8 6 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.86%) dbt
11 3 (1.40%) Apigee
11 3 (1.40%) Azure AI
11 3 (1.40%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (1.40%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.40%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.40%) Vertex AI
12 2 (0.93%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.93%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (19.07%) Broadband
2 10 (4.65%) Internet
3 7 (3.26%) DNS
4 6 (2.79%) Firewall
5 4 (1.86%) DHCP
6 3 (1.40%) Network Security
6 3 (1.40%) VPN
7 2 (0.93%) LAN
7 2 (0.93%) Mobile Broadband
7 2 (0.93%) Softphone
7 2 (0.93%) VLAN
8 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.47%) WAN
8 1 (0.47%) Wireless
8 1 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (0.93%) Power BI
3 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.47%) Data Vault
3 1 (0.47%) Metadata
3 1 (0.47%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.72%) Git
2 4 (1.86%) JIRA
2 4 (1.86%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.47%) GitLab
General
1 116 (53.95%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.14%) Finance
3 37 (17.21%) Games
4 30 (13.95%) Organisational Skills
5 21 (9.77%) Multimedia
6 13 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.19%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.72%) Banking
9 6 (2.79%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Billing
11 2 (0.93%) Electronics
11 2 (0.93%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.93%) Marketing
11 2 (0.93%) Police
11 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (38.60%) Analyst
2 68 (31.63%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 68 (31.63%) Junior
2 68 (31.63%) Junior Analyst
2 68 (31.63%) Junior Security Analyst
2 68 (31.63%) Security Analyst
3 47 (21.86%) Senior
4 21 (9.77%) Trainee
5 20 (9.30%) Developer
6 19 (8.84%) Lead
7 11 (5.12%) Senior Analyst
7 11 (5.12%) Support Analyst
8 10 (4.65%) Architect
8 10 (4.65%) IAM Developer
8 10 (4.65%) Technical Leader
9 8 (3.72%) Senior Support Analyst
9 8 (3.72%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (2.79%) Applications Support Analyst
10 6 (2.79%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
10 6 (2.79%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.88%) SOAP
2 31 (14.42%) REST
3 30 (13.95%) GraphQL
3 30 (13.95%) OAuth
4 28 (13.02%) LDAP
4 28 (13.02%) OpenID
4 28 (13.02%) SAML
5 10 (4.65%) CSS
5 10 (4.65%) HTML
6 8 (3.72%) AWS CDK
7 6 (2.79%) .NET
8 4 (1.86%) Web Services
9 3 (1.40%) LangChain
9 3 (1.40%) Semantic Kernel
10 2 (0.93%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.93%) OpenAPI
10 2 (0.93%) React
10 2 (0.93%) Swagger
10 2 (0.93%) Tailwind CSS
10 2 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.28%) Cyber Threat
1 35 (16.28%) Cyberattack
2 21 (9.77%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.79%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.86%) FPGA
5 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.40%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.93%) AS400
6 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.93%) iPhone
6 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.47%) Replication
7 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.19%) Windows
2 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.93%) Android
3 2 (0.93%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.47%) Linux
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (60.47%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (16.74%) Roadmaps
3 35 (16.28%) Agile
3 35 (16.28%) Programme Delivery
4 30 (13.95%) Identity Access Management
5 29 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (13.02%) Regulatory Compliance
7 26 (12.09%) CI/CD
8 25 (11.63%) DevOps
9 19 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (8.84%) Line Management
9 19 (8.84%) Observability
10 18 (8.37%) Coaching
10 18 (8.37%) Test Automation
11 17 (7.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (7.44%) Software Engineering
13 15 (6.98%) ITIL
14 14 (6.51%) Technical Leadership
15 12 (5.58%) ERP
16 11 (5.12%) Ethical Hacking
Programming Languages
1 34 (15.81%) PowerShell
2 28 (13.02%) Bash
2 28 (13.02%) T-SQL
3 27 (12.56%) Python
4 25 (11.63%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.98%) SQL
6 13 (6.05%) Java
7 8 (3.72%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.86%) R
9 2 (0.93%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.93%) C#
9 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.93%) RPG
9 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.47%) Scala
10 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 79 (36.74%) Azure Certification
1 79 (36.74%) CompTIA Security+
2 68 (31.63%) CompTIA CySA+
3 13 (6.05%) A+ Certification
4 11 (5.12%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.12%) CEH
4 11 (5.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (5.12%) Network+ Certification
5 10 (4.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 10 (4.65%) Degree
6 8 (3.72%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.40%) ACCA
7 3 (1.40%) CIMA
7 3 (1.40%) ICAEW
8 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.93%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.93%) HNC
8 2 (0.93%) HND
8 2 (0.93%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.47%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.49%) NCSC
2 28 (13.02%) NIST
3 4 (1.86%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.40%) QA
5 2 (0.93%) GDPR
5 2 (0.93%) SLA
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.47%) GxP
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (16.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.93%) BitLocker
2 2 (0.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (4.65%) Terraform
2 8 (3.72%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 96 (44.65%) Microsoft
2 68 (31.63%) ForeScout
3 10 (4.65%) Google
3 10 (4.65%) Oracle
4 9 (4.19%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.86%) Cisco
5 4 (1.86%) Pega
6 3 (1.40%) Databricks
6 3 (1.40%) Foundry
6 3 (1.40%) Meraki
7 2 (0.93%) Bomgar
7 2 (0.93%) IBM
7 2 (0.93%) iManage
7 2 (0.93%) Okta
7 2 (0.93%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.93%) SAP
8 1 (0.47%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.47%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.47%) F5
8 1 (0.47%) Palo Alto