The first table below looks at the demand for WMI skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WMI over the 3 months to 24 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.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
Rank 504 542 532
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -10
Contract jobs citing WMI 25 42 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.054% 0.072% 0.085%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.783% 1.175% 1.441%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 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 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3192 3573 3609
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.880% 6.127% 5.912%
Number of daily rates quoted 1794 1824 1718
Average daily rate £375 £350 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -5.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 170 236
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.81 £22.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.94% -12.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £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
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

WMI Daily Rate Trend

WMI
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WMI within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

WMI Hourly Rate Trend

WMI
Top 13 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 UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +28 24 £435 +33.84%
London +22 17 £435 +33.84%
Surrey +15 5 - -
South East +13 5 - -
City of London - 2 £415 -
Scotland - 1 £525 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
South West - 1 £475 -
Wiltshire - 1 £475 -
Renfrewshire - 1 £525 -
Swindon - 1 £475 -
Erskine - 1 £525 -
Birmingham - 1 - -

WMI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 31 (77.50%) Windows
2 23 (57.50%) Microsoft
3 20 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 19 (47.50%) VMware
5 18 (45.00%) VBScript
6 17 (42.50%) MS Excel
7 16 (40.00%) Windows 7
8 15 (37.50%) PowerShell
9 13 (32.50%) Windows Server 2008
9 13 (32.50%) Active Directory
10 12 (30.00%) Citrix
10 12 (30.00%) C#
10 12 (30.00%) Finance
11 11 (27.50%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (27.50%) Banking
12 10 (25.00%) Change Management
12 10 (25.00%) ITIL
12 10 (25.00%) TCP/IP
13 9 (22.50%) Linux
13 9 (22.50%) Oracle
13 9 (22.50%) Middleware
13 9 (22.50%) Incident Management
13 9 (22.50%) Release Management
13 9 (22.50%) Capacity Management
14 8 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
14 8 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
14 8 (20.00%) Problem Management
14 8 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (20.00%) Altiris
14 8 (20.00%) BladeLogic

WMI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 9 (22.50%) Middleware
2 8 (20.00%) .NET
3 6 (15.00%) WCF
3 6 (15.00%) XML
3 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET
4 5 (12.50%) HTML
4 5 (12.50%) DOM
4 5 (12.50%) Web Services
4 5 (12.50%) Ajax
4 5 (12.50%) .NET Remoting
4 5 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 5 (12.50%) WPF
4 5 (12.50%) LINQ
4 5 (12.50%) jQuery
4 5 (12.50%) Reactive Extensions
4 5 (12.50%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 5 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (7.500%) Application Packaging
6 1 (2.500%) SOAP
6 1 (2.500%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 7 (17.50%) IIS
2 3 (7.500%) MS Exchange
2 3 (7.500%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.500%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (7.500%) Lync
2 3 (7.500%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (7.500%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (2.500%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (42.50%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.500%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.500%) Endur
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (17.50%) SNMP
3 5 (12.50%) Firewall
4 4 (10.00%) DNS
5 3 (7.500%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (7.500%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (5.000%) Network Security
6 2 (5.000%) Internet
6 2 (5.000%) SAN
6 2 (5.000%) DHCP
7 1 (2.500%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 8 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 8 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (15.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (7.500%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (2.500%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Visual Studio
1 5 (12.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 5 (12.50%) Expression Blend
2 4 (10.00%) InstallShield
General
1 12 (30.00%) Finance
2 11 (27.50%) Banking
3 8 (20.00%) Front Office
4 1 (2.500%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.500%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Developer
1 7 (17.50%) Applications Support
2 6 (15.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) Applications Support Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Software Integration Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) WPF Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (5.000%) DBA
5 2 (5.000%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (5.000%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (5.000%) SQL DBA
5 2 (5.000%) Architect
6 1 (2.500%) Test Manager
6 1 (2.500%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (2.500%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Clustering
2 3 (7.500%) PKI
3 1 (2.500%) Firmware
3 1 (2.500%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.500%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 31 (77.50%) Windows
2 16 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 13 (32.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (22.50%) Linux
5 7 (17.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (12.50%) Windows 8
7 3 (7.500%) Windows 2000
8 2 (5.000%) Windows XP
9 1 (2.500%) SUSE
9 1 (2.500%) Windows 2000 Server
9 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (25.00%) Change Management
2 10 (25.00%) ITIL
3 9 (22.50%) Incident Management
3 9 (22.50%) Release Management
3 9 (22.50%) Capacity Management
4 8 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 5 (12.50%) SOA
5 5 (12.50%) Multithreading
5 5 (12.50%) MVVM
6 4 (10.00%) Investment Management
6 4 (10.00%) Business Continuity
7 3 (7.500%) Asset Management
8 2 (5.000%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (5.000%) Migration
8 2 (5.000%) Fund Management
9 1 (2.500%) ERP
9 1 (2.500%) Project Management
9 1 (2.500%) Configuration Management
9 1 (2.500%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) VBScript
2 15 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 12 (30.00%) C#
4 6 (15.00%) VB
5 5 (12.50%) SQL
6 2 (5.000%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.000%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.500%) Java
7 1 (2.500%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.500%) Degree
2 1 (2.500%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.500%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.500%) JSP 440
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Active Directory
2 8 (20.00%) VMware ESX
3 5 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (10.00%) XenApp
4 4 (10.00%) Terminal Services
5 2 (5.000%) DFS Replication
6 1 (2.500%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) BladeLogic
1 8 (20.00%) Control-M
2 7 (17.50%) SCCM
2 7 (17.50%) SCOM
3 5 (12.50%) MOM
4 3 (7.500%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (7.500%) HP SIM
5 2 (5.000%) WSUS
6 1 (2.500%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (2.500%) Tivoli
6 1 (2.500%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (2.500%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.500%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 23 (57.50%) Microsoft
2 19 (47.50%) VMware
3 12 (30.00%) Citrix
4 9 (22.50%) Oracle
5 8 (20.00%) Altiris
5 8 (20.00%) HP
6 4 (10.00%) CheckPoint
6 4 (10.00%) NetApp
6 4 (10.00%) Cisco
7 3 (7.500%) Intel
7 3 (7.500%) McAfee
8 1 (2.500%) IBM
8 1 (2.500%) Dell
8 1 (2.500%) Veritas
8 1 (2.500%) NetIQ
8 1 (2.500%) Symantec
8 1 (2.500%) Sophos
8 1 (2.500%) OpenLink
8 1 (2.500%) Brocade
8 1 (2.500%) F5
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