The first table below looks at the demand for WMI skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WMI over the 3 months to 23 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 England 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
Rank 496 519 519
Rank change year-on-year
+23 0
Contract jobs citing WMI 22 43 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.053% 0.081% 0.095%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.775% 1.305% 1.628%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 23
Average daily rate £435 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.84% +18.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £328 £270
% change year-on-year
+52.67% +21.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Systems Management
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
2838 3295 3316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 6.835% 6.170% 5.805%
Number of daily rates quoted 1627 1701 1623
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 157 224
Average hourly rate £20.50 £19.81 £23.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.47% -15.24%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.68 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
WMI
UK

WMI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England WMI Jobs Demand Trend

WMI
Daily Rate Trend

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

England WMI Daily Rate Trend

WMI
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WMI across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England WMI Daily Rate Histogram

WMI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England WMI Hourly Rate Trend

WMI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WMI within the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +16 16 £435 +33.84%
South East +15 4 - -
South West - 1 £475 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
WMI
UK

WMI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 26 (74.29%) Windows
2 19 (54.29%) Microsoft
2 19 (54.29%) SQL Server
3 15 (42.86%) VBScript
3 15 (42.86%) VMware
4 14 (40.00%) Windows 7
4 14 (40.00%) MS Excel
5 12 (34.29%) Finance
6 11 (31.43%) PowerShell
6 11 (31.43%) Active Directory
6 11 (31.43%) Citrix
7 10 (28.57%) C#
7 10 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
7 10 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (28.57%) Banking
8 9 (25.71%) Change Management
8 9 (25.71%) ITIL
9 8 (22.86%) Linux
9 8 (22.86%) TCP/IP
9 8 (22.86%) .NET
9 8 (22.86%) Oracle
9 8 (22.86%) Middleware
9 8 (22.86%) SQL Server 2008
9 8 (22.86%) Release Management
9 8 (22.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (22.86%) Incident Management
9 8 (22.86%) Capacity Management
9 8 (22.86%) SQL Server 2012
10 7 (20.00%) Problem Management
10 7 (20.00%) SCCM

WMI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 8 (22.86%) .NET
1 8 (22.86%) Middleware
2 6 (17.14%) ASP.NET
2 6 (17.14%) WCF
3 5 (14.29%) WPF
3 5 (14.29%) LINQ
3 5 (14.29%) jQuery
3 5 (14.29%) Reactive Extensions
3 5 (14.29%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 5 (14.29%) Ajax
3 5 (14.29%) .NET Remoting
3 5 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 5 (14.29%) HTML
3 5 (14.29%) Web Services
3 5 (14.29%) XML
3 5 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 4 (11.43%) DOM
5 3 (8.571%) Application Packaging
6 1 (2.857%) WebSphere
6 1 (2.857%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 7 (20.00%) IIS
2 3 (8.571%) Lync
2 3 (8.571%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (8.571%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (8.571%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.571%) MS Exchange
2 3 (8.571%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.857%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 14 (40.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.857%) Endur
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) TCP/IP
2 7 (20.00%) SNMP
3 5 (14.29%) Firewall
4 3 (8.571%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (8.571%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (5.714%) Internet
5 2 (5.714%) SAN
5 2 (5.714%) DNS
5 2 (5.714%) DHCP
6 1 (2.857%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (54.29%) SQL Server
2 8 (22.86%) SQL Server 2008
2 8 (22.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 8 (22.86%) SQL Server 2012
3 6 (17.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (8.571%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (2.857%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Expression Blend
1 5 (14.29%) Visual Studio
1 5 (14.29%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 4 (11.43%) InstallShield
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
2 10 (28.57%) Banking
3 7 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Developer
2 6 (17.14%) Support Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Applications Support
3 5 (14.29%) WPF Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Consultant
3 5 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Integration Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Software Integration Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) DBA
5 2 (5.714%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (5.714%) SQL DBA
6 1 (2.857%) Wintel Engineer
6 1 (2.857%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (2.857%) Microsoft Specialist
6 1 (2.857%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (2.857%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Clustering
2 3 (8.571%) PKI
3 1 (2.857%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.857%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 26 (74.29%) Windows
2 14 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 10 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (22.86%) Linux
5 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (14.29%) Windows 8
6 1 (2.857%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (2.857%) SUSE
6 1 (2.857%) Windows XP
6 1 (2.857%) Windows 2000
6 1 (2.857%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (25.71%) Change Management
2 9 (25.71%) ITIL
3 8 (22.86%) Release Management
3 8 (22.86%) Incident Management
3 8 (22.86%) Capacity Management
4 7 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 5 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 5 (14.29%) MVVM
5 5 (14.29%) SOA
6 4 (11.43%) Business Continuity
6 4 (11.43%) Investment Management
7 3 (8.571%) Asset Management
8 2 (5.714%) Fund Management
8 2 (5.714%) Migration
8 2 (5.714%) Capacity Planning
9 1 (2.857%) Network Load Balancing
9 1 (2.857%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (2.857%) Data Management
9 1 (2.857%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) VBScript
2 11 (31.43%) PowerShell
3 10 (28.57%) C#
4 6 (17.14%) VB
5 5 (14.29%) SQL
6 2 (5.714%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.857%) Java
7 1 (2.857%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.857%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (31.43%) Active Directory
2 7 (20.00%) VMware ESX
3 4 (11.43%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (11.43%) XenApp
3 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.714%) Terminal Services
5 1 (2.857%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) SCCM
1 7 (20.00%) SCOM
1 7 (20.00%) BladeLogic
1 7 (20.00%) Control-M
2 5 (14.29%) MOM
3 3 (8.571%) HP SIM
4 2 (5.714%) WSUS
5 1 (2.857%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (2.857%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.857%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.857%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (2.857%) Tivoli
5 1 (2.857%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 19 (54.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (42.86%) VMware
3 11 (31.43%) Citrix
4 8 (22.86%) Oracle
5 7 (20.00%) Altiris
6 6 (17.14%) HP
7 4 (11.43%) CheckPoint
7 4 (11.43%) Cisco
7 4 (11.43%) NetApp
8 3 (8.571%) Intel
9 2 (5.714%) McAfee
10 1 (2.857%) Brocade
10 1 (2.857%) Dell
10 1 (2.857%) OpenLink
10 1 (2.857%) NetIQ
10 1 (2.857%) Symantec
10 1 (2.857%) IBM
10 1 (2.857%) Veritas
10 1 (2.857%) F5
10 1 (2.857%) Nimsoft
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