Mentoring Jobs in Scotland

Mentorship
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Mentoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mentoring over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 49 7
Rank change year-on-year +15 -42 +14
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 248 497 726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.26% 7.29% 16.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.91% 8.00% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 143 203 222
10th Percentile £26,929 £29,300 £41,355
25th Percentile £37,287 £47,500 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.60% +11.12%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £89,461
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,934 £99,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £61,206 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.20% -12.56% +12.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,783 6,212 4,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.70% 91.15% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,307 2,458 2,089
10th Percentile £30,300 £28,425 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Mentoring in Scotland

Mentoring
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mentoring in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +3 90 £70,000 - 155
Glasgow +17 40 £63,000 +20.00% 148
Midlothian - 35 £26,929 - 15
Renfrewshire - 12 £63,000 - 18
Lanarkshire +1 10 £80,000 - 7
Inverclyde - 10 £63,000 -
East Lothian - 10 £26,929 -
Stirling +6 9 £42,500 -5.56%
Fife - 8 £48,750 - 17
West Lothian +7 6 £26,929 -5.51% 13
Moray - 5 £40,101 -
East Ayrshire - 4 £40,101 -
South Ayrshire - 4 £40,101 -
Dundee +11 2 £52,500 -4.55% 1
Aberdeen +13 1 - - 115
Dunbartonshire - 1 £52,500 - 4
North Lanarkshire - 1 £51,000 - 1
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 (2.42%) Apache
2 3 (1.21%) CMS
2 3 (1.21%) Confluence
2 3 (1.21%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.81%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.81%) Camunda
3 2 (0.81%) nginx
3 2 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.81%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 25 (10.08%) AWS
2 16 (6.45%) Azure
3 11 (4.44%) SaaS
4 10 (4.03%) GCP
5 7 (2.82%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.42%) GitHub
7 2 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (0.81%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.81%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (0.81%) ChatGPT
7 2 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.81%) dbt
7 2 (0.81%) Figma
7 2 (0.81%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.81%) Serverless
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.63%) Network Security
2 7 (2.82%) Firewall
3 6 (2.42%) VPN
4 2 (0.81%) DNS
4 2 (0.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.81%) FTP
5 1 (0.40%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.40%) HTTP
5 1 (0.40%) Multicast
5 1 (0.40%) NAS
5 1 (0.40%) RTP
5 1 (0.40%) RTSP
5 1 (0.40%) SAN
5 1 (0.40%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.82%) Power BI
3 4 (1.61%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.61%) Tableau
4 3 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.81%) DB2
5 2 (0.81%) Looker
5 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.81%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.40%) Metadata
6 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.44%) Visual Studio
2 9 (3.63%) Git
2 9 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.23%) JIRA
4 5 (2.02%) Eclipse
4 5 (2.02%) Eclipse RCP
5 4 (1.61%) GitLab
5 4 (1.61%) Xcode
6 3 (1.21%) XCTest
6 3 (1.21%) XCUITest
7 2 (0.81%) Checkstyle
7 2 (0.81%) JUnit
7 2 (0.81%) MSBuild
7 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.81%) webpack
8 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.40%) Gradle
8 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 77 (31.05%) Retail
2 71 (28.63%) Games
3 68 (27.42%) Telecoms
4 66 (26.61%) Finance
5 38 (15.32%) Social Skills
6 29 (11.69%) Banking
7 15 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.63%) Law
9 8 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.82%) Marketing
11 4 (1.61%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.61%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.21%) Military
12 3 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.81%) Electronics
13 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.81%) Local Government
13 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 115 (46.37%) Senior
2 50 (20.16%) Lead
3 36 (14.52%) Software Engineer
4 33 (13.31%) Architect
5 22 (8.87%) Senior Architect
5 22 (8.87%) Technical Leader
6 19 (7.66%) Developer
6 19 (7.66%) Senior Manager
7 15 (6.05%) Security Architect
8 13 (5.24%) Security Manager
9 12 (4.84%) Engineering Manager
9 12 (4.84%) Product Architect
9 12 (4.84%) Project Manager
9 12 (4.84%) Senior Security Architect
10 9 (3.63%) Senior Software Architect
10 9 (3.63%) Senior Systems Architect
10 9 (3.63%) Software Architect
10 9 (3.63%) Systems Architect
11 8 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.23%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.66%) CSS
1 19 (7.66%) HTML
2 16 (6.45%) .NET
3 10 (4.03%) .NET Framework
3 10 (4.03%) REST
3 10 (4.03%) Spring
3 10 (4.03%) Spring Boot
4 8 (3.23%) React
5 7 (2.82%) Kafka
6 6 (2.42%) Middleware
6 6 (2.42%) RESTful
7 5 (2.02%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.02%) JSP
8 3 (1.21%) Node.js
8 3 (1.21%) SOAP
8 3 (1.21%) Web Services
9 2 (0.81%) JSON
9 2 (0.81%) React Native
9 2 (0.81%) Sass
9 2 (0.81%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.84%) Management Information System
2 11 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.42%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.61%) Private Cloud
5 4 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (1.61%) SCADA
6 3 (1.21%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.81%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.81%) iSeries
7 2 (0.81%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.81%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.81%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.05%) Linux
2 8 (3.23%) Windows
3 7 (2.82%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.21%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.21%) Unix
4 3 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.81%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.40%) Android
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (46.37%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (32.26%) Coaching
3 60 (24.19%) Agile
4 55 (22.18%) Software Engineering
5 34 (13.71%) Project Management
6 25 (10.08%) Systems Engineering
7 21 (8.47%) CI/CD
8 20 (8.06%) Microservices
9 19 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (7.26%) DevOps
11 17 (6.85%) Analytics
12 16 (6.45%) Roadmaps
12 16 (6.45%) SDLC
12 16 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (6.05%) TDD
14 14 (5.65%) Information Security
14 14 (5.65%) OO
14 14 (5.65%) Software Architecture
14 14 (5.65%) Unit Testing
15 13 (5.24%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (12.90%) Java
1 32 (12.90%) SQL
2 24 (9.68%) C++
3 18 (7.26%) C
3 18 (7.26%) C#
4 12 (4.84%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.44%) Python
5 11 (4.44%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.02%) Ada
6 5 (2.02%) Objective-C
6 5 (2.02%) PHP
6 5 (2.02%) Rust
7 3 (1.21%) Go
7 3 (1.21%) Swift
8 2 (0.81%) Bash
8 2 (0.81%) Elixir
8 2 (0.81%) F#
8 2 (0.81%) RPG IV
8 2 (0.81%) Ruby
8 2 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 58 (23.39%) Degree
2 22 (8.87%) Chartered Engineer
3 19 (7.66%) CISSP
4 17 (6.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (4.03%) HNC
5 10 (4.03%) HND
6 7 (2.82%) CISM
7 4 (1.61%) CISA
7 4 (1.61%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.81%) CCNA
8 2 (0.81%) CCNP
8 2 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.81%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.03%) Accessibility
1 10 (4.03%) QA
2 8 (3.23%) NIST
3 7 (2.82%) NCSC
4 4 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.21%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.81%) PMO
7 1 (0.40%) ECSS
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.02%) Docker
1 5 (2.02%) Firmware
2 3 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.81%) vSphere
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.24%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Argo
3 1 (0.40%) CA Endevor
3 1 (0.40%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.40%) Panaseer
Vendors
1 66 (26.61%) BT
2 13 (5.24%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.02%) Splunk
4 4 (1.61%) Oracle
5 3 (1.21%) Cisco
5 3 (1.21%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.21%) Facebook
5 3 (1.21%) Google
5 3 (1.21%) VMware
5 3 (1.21%) YouTube
6 2 (0.81%) Adobe
6 2 (0.81%) F5
6 2 (0.81%) IBM
6 2 (0.81%) Juniper
6 2 (0.81%) McAfee
6 2 (0.81%) NetApp
6 2 (0.81%) Optimizely
6 2 (0.81%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.40%) Databricks
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat