Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WMI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WMI over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 660 839
Rank change year-on-year +100 +179 -144
Contract jobs citing WMI 19 34 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% 0.059% 0.027%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% 0.37% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 23 18
10th Percentile £450 £478 £485
25th Percentile £453 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +19.94% +25.06%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £531
90th Percentile £669 £650 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £600 £500
% change year-on-year +2.08% +20.00% +29.03%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

WMI is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,096 9,119 14,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.98% 15.92% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,684 6,541 10,109
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 201 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.76 £22.41 £15.56
Median hourly rate £26.38 £52.50 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -49.75% +139.84% -45.28%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £44.46
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.00 £58.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.09% +100.25% -13.83%

WMI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WMI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WMI in the UK

WMI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WMI.

Daily rate trend for WMI in the UK

WMI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WMI over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WMI in the UK

WMI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WMI.

Hourly rate trend for WMI in the UK

WMI
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WMI within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +99 18 £538 -10.42% 7
UK excluding London +37 16 £613 +2.08% 5
South East +16 16 £613 +2.08% 1
London +100 2 £450 -18.18% 2

WMI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (5.26%) PaaS
1 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) SNMP
1 1 (5.26%) SSH
Development Applications
1 14 (73.68%) MSI
2 1 (5.26%) Robot Framework
2 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
1 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Architect
1 14 (73.68%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Applications Packager
3 1 (5.26%) Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Senior
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Wintel Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) WSH
2 1 (5.26%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) LDAP
2 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.26%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (84.21%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Agile
2 14 (73.68%) Prototyping
3 1 (5.26%) Analytics
3 1 (5.26%) Application Security
3 1 (5.26%) Information Security
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (5.26%) ITIL
3 1 (5.26%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (5.26%) Server Management
3 1 (5.26%) Test Automation
3 1 (5.26%) Use Case
3 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) VBScript
3 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) Perl
3 1 (5.26%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (78.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Nessus
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) TADDM
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) VMware