East of England WMI Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WMI over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
Location Berkshire Cheshire Chichester City of London East Midlands East of England England Essex Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Liverpool London Merseyside North West Northampton Northamptonshire South East UK West Midlands West Sussex	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	141	140
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	6	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	0.526 %	1.016 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£325	-
Average daily rate	£356	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£388	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£380
% change on same period last year	-8.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.25	£30.70
% change on same period last year	-4.72 %
Application Development East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1141	1279
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.521 %	1.294 %
Daily rates quoted	374	371
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£337
Average daily rate	£379	£358
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£409	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	77	155
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.30	£30.01
Average hourly rate	£31.23	£31.53
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.16	£33.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
WMI England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

WMI
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WMI across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WMI
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WMI across the East of England region.

WMI
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WMI across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

WMI
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WMI across the East of England region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WMI within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hertfordshire	-2	5	£375	-
Essex	-	1	£338	-

WMI England

WMI
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing WMI also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WMI.

1 8 (100.00 %) VBScript 1 8 (100.00 %) Windows 1 8 (100.00 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 7 (87.50 %) Lotus 2 7 (87.50 %) Windows Server 2003 2 7 (87.50 %) Lotus Domino 2 7 (87.50 %) VB 2 7 (87.50 %) ADSI 2 7 (87.50 %) Citrix 3 5 (62.50 %) Active Directory 3 5 (62.50 %) SQL 4 4 (50.00 %) Transact-SQL 4 4 (50.00 %) SQL Server 4 4 (50.00 %) ADO 4 4 (50.00 %) DHCP

4 4 (50.00 %) DNS 4 4 (50.00 %) IBM 4 4 (50.00 %) Government 4 4 (50.00 %) SAN 4 4 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 5 3 (37.50 %) OpenView 5 3 (37.50 %) HP 5 3 (37.50 %) MetaFrame 6 1 (12.50 %) ASP 6 1 (12.50 %) SMS 6 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (12.50 %) BC Cleared 6 1 (12.50 %) InstallShield 6 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms

WMI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing WMI also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WMI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (87.50 %) ADSI 2 4 (50.00 %) ADO 3 1 (12.50 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 7 (87.50 %) Lotus Domino
Communications & Networking 1 4 (50.00 %) DHCP 1 4 (50.00 %) DNS 1 4 (50.00 %) SAN 2 1 (12.50 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (50.00 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) InstallShield	General 1 4 (50.00 %) Government 2 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Engineer	Operating Systems 1 8 (100.00 %) Windows 2 7 (87.50 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (12.50 %) BC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 8 (100.00 %) VBScript 2 7 (87.50 %) VB 3 5 (62.50 %) SQL 4 4 (50.00 %) Transact-SQL
System Software 1 5 (62.50 %) Active Directory 2 3 (37.50 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 8 (100.00 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 3 (37.50 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 7 (87.50 %) Citrix 1 7 (87.50 %) Lotus 2 4 (50.00 %) IBM 3 3 (37.50 %) HP