Mentoring Job Trends in West Lothian

Mentorship
Scotland > West Lothian

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Lothian requiring Mentoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 29 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Permanent jobs citing Mentoring 6 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Lothian 4.84% 1.89% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.00% 1.96% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £53,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £30,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -53.08% -7.14% +0.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Lothian

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 West Lothian.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 100 102 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Lothian 80.65% 96.23% 96.55%
Number of salaries quoted 67 34 50
10th Percentile £25,600 £37,375 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £50,000 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,375 £72,500
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -8.54%

Mentoring
Job Vacancy Trend in West Lothian

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

Mentoring job vacancy trend in West Lothian

Mentoring
Salary Trend in West Lothian

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing Mentoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing Mentoring

Mentoring
Job Locations in West Lothian

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mentoring within the West Lothian region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Livingston +9 1 - -
Bo'ness - 1 - -
Mentoring
Scotland

Mentoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Lothian 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 4 (66.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) IAM Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (33.33%) Lead Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Lead Software Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 4 (66.67%) LDAP
1 4 (66.67%) OAuth
1 4 (66.67%) OpenID
1 4 (66.67%) REST
1 4 (66.67%) SAML
1 4 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (66.67%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (66.67%) Programme Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) NCSC
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle