Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for WMI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WMI over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 895 936 1210
Rank change year-on-year +41 +274 -304
Permanent jobs citing WMI 19 16 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.016% 0.016%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.19% 0.11% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 17 10 9
10th Percentile - £37,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £39,633 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +41.18% -22.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile - - £63,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +41.18% -22.73%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,853 14,263 30,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.60% 14.65% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,027 8,875 14,106
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% -3.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +0.89% +7.27%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WMI.

Salary trend for WMI in the UK

WMI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WMI over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WMI in the UK

WMI
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WMI within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +76 19 £60,000 - 5
South East +13 18 £60,000 - 1
UK excluding London -19 18 £60,000 - 3
London - 1 - - 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Google Workspace
1 1 (5.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (68.42%) SNMP
1 13 (68.42%) SSH
1 13 (68.42%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (68.42%) MySQL
1 13 (68.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (68.42%) Eclipse
2 5 (26.32%) MSI
3 4 (21.05%) Robot Framework
3 4 (21.05%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Games
2 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Senior
1 13 (68.42%) Senior Support Engineer
1 13 (68.42%) Senior Technical Engineer
1 13 (68.42%) Senior Technical Support
1 13 (68.42%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
1 13 (68.42%) Support Engineer
1 13 (68.42%) Technical Engineer
1 13 (68.42%) Technical Support
1 13 (68.42%) Technical Support Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Information Security Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Service Desk Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (68.42%) Ajax
1 13 (68.42%) AngularJS
1 13 (68.42%) CSS
1 13 (68.42%) HTML
1 13 (68.42%) JDBC
1 13 (68.42%) ODBC
1 13 (68.42%) REST
1 13 (68.42%) SOAP
1 13 (68.42%) Web Services
1 13 (68.42%) XHTML
1 13 (68.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (68.42%) CMDB
2 4 (21.05%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (68.42%) Linux
2 13 (68.42%) Unix
3 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
4 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
5 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) ITSM
2 13 (68.42%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (68.42%) Data Extraction
2 13 (68.42%) Database Tuning
2 13 (68.42%) ITIL
2 13 (68.42%) Mentoring
2 13 (68.42%) Network Management
2 13 (68.42%) OO
2 13 (68.42%) OOP
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) Prototyping
4 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.26%) Application Security
5 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (5.26%) Facilities Management
5 1 (5.26%) Incident Response
5 1 (5.26%) Operations Management
5 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.26%) Service Delivery Management
5 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) PowerShell
2 17 (89.47%) Python
3 13 (68.42%) Java
3 13 (68.42%) JavaScript
3 13 (68.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
1 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Ansible
1 4 (21.05%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (5.26%) Nessus
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Oracle
1 13 (68.42%) Splunk
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) Fujitsu
3 1 (5.26%) Google