The first table below looks at the demand for WMI skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WMI over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category for the Edinburgh region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing WMI 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - - -
As % of the Systems Management category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £328 £274
% change year-on-year
+45.03% +19.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Systems Management
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
55 78 108
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 6.790% 7.052% 8.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 44 28
Average daily rate £375 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £185 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £16.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -21.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
WMI
Scotland

WMI
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WMI across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Edinburgh WMI Jobs Demand Trend

WMI
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (100.00%) VBScript
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) DFS Replication

WMI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) VBScript
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 2 (100.00%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) VMware