Mentoring Contracts in Scotland

Mentorship
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Mentoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mentoring over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 73 42
Rank change year-on-year -7 -31 +3
Contract jobs citing Mentoring 42 104 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.96% 3.86% 5.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 4.17% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 80 163
10th Percentile £181 £425 £338
25th Percentile £409 £462 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +4.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £542 £641 £562
90th Percentile £638 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.98
25th Percentile - - £48.46
Median hourly rate £11.86 - £51.42
75th Percentile - - £53.88
90th Percentile - - £55.06
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -46.67% +66.67% +9.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Mentoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,887 2,493 3,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.10% 92.54% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,767 2,243
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 46
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £18.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.00 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -57.25% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

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 17 May 2024.

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 17 May 2024. 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 +3 22 £494 -2.76% 39
Glasgow -11 11 £491 -24.10% 47
West Lothian +3 4 £184 -70.60% 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 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Adobe Captivate
1 2 (4.76%) Camtasia
1 2 (4.76%) Lectora
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (42.86%) AWS
2 13 (30.95%) Amazon S3
2 13 (30.95%) AWS CloudFormation
2 13 (30.95%) AWS Lambda
2 13 (30.95%) Serverless
3 11 (26.19%) OpenShift
4 7 (16.67%) Textract
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (9.52%) Rekognition
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.38%) Azure
8 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.38%) IaaS
8 1 (2.38%) PaaS
8 1 (2.38%) SaaS
8 1 (2.38%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
1 2 (4.76%) VSAN
2 1 (2.38%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) LAN
2 1 (2.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.95%) Amazon Aurora
1 13 (30.95%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (4.76%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (4.76%) DB2
3 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.90%) JIRA
3 3 (7.14%) Git
4 2 (4.76%) CircleCI
4 2 (4.76%) GitLab
4 2 (4.76%) Maven
5 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.38%) Gradle
5 1 (2.38%) Selenium
5 1 (2.38%) Subversion
5 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.38%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.38%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (52.38%) Public Sector
2 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (9.52%) Finance
6 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Law
8 1 (2.38%) Banking
8 1 (2.38%) French Language
8 1 (2.38%) German Language
8 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Italian Language
8 1 (2.38%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Developer
2 6 (14.29%) Lead
3 5 (11.90%) Software Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Automation Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Data Centre Architect
6 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Learning Technologist
6 2 (4.76%) Procurement Specialist
6 2 (4.76%) Scrum Master
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) UX Designer
6 2 (4.76%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) AWS CDK
2 6 (14.29%) React
3 4 (9.52%) CSS
3 4 (9.52%) HTML
3 4 (9.52%) Node.js
3 4 (9.52%) Spring
4 3 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 3 (7.14%) SpaCy
5 2 (4.76%) Flash
5 2 (4.76%) OAuth
5 2 (4.76%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.76%) Spring Security
6 1 (2.38%) .NET
6 1 (2.38%) PySpark
6 1 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.76%) e-Learning
3 2 (4.76%) Learning Management System
3 2 (4.76%) Video Editing
3 2 (4.76%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Unix
2 2 (4.76%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Windows
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (61.90%) Agile
2 22 (52.38%) Coaching
3 14 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (30.95%) User Experience
5 12 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 12 (28.57%) Kanban
6 11 (26.19%) Code Quality
6 11 (26.19%) Community of Practice
6 11 (26.19%) Requirements Analysis
6 11 (26.19%) Scrum
7 10 (23.81%) Code Coverage
7 10 (23.81%) ETL
7 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (23.81%) Service Design
8 8 (19.05%) DevOps
8 8 (19.05%) Product Management
9 7 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (16.67%) Machine Learning
9 7 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
9 7 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) Python
2 13 (30.95%) TypeScript
3 11 (26.19%) Java
4 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 6 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 4 (9.52%) Bash
7 3 (7.14%) SQL
8 2 (4.76%) Groovy
8 2 (4.76%) Ruby
9 1 (2.38%) C#
9 1 (2.38%) C++
9 1 (2.38%) VBA
9 1 (2.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) ISEB
2 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (14.29%) QA
3 4 (9.52%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (9.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.76%) vSphere
3 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 9 (21.43%) Grafana
3 3 (7.14%) Terraform
4 2 (4.76%) Ansible
4 2 (4.76%) Kibana
4 2 (4.76%) vCenter Server
4 2 (4.76%) VxRail
5 1 (2.38%) Argo
5 1 (2.38%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Oracle
2 2 (4.76%) Adobe
2 2 (4.76%) Dell
2 2 (4.76%) Greenplum
2 2 (4.76%) VMware
3 1 (2.38%) Avaya
3 1 (2.38%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (2.38%) Fortinet