Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 12 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

LinkWindows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
Location
3 months to
12 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank459429585
Rank change year-on-year
Down-30Up+156
Matching contract IT job ads261422
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.055 %0.035 %0.027 %
As % of the Application Development category0.207 %0.158 %0.112 %
Daily rates quoted737
Average daily rate£450£400£488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50 %-17.94 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£308£400£375
% change year-on-year
-23.12 %+6.660 %
Hourly rates quoted124
Average hourly rate£36.00£34.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.880 %+13.33 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£36.00£34.00£30.00
% change year-on-year
+5.880 %+13.33 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12581884319648
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK26.82 %21.93 %24.08 %
Daily rates quoted638230696319
Average daily rate£380£350£360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.570 %-2.770 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£219£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£588£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4265031237
Average hourly rate£30.00£30.00£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.00£15.00£19.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£42.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.00£30.00£32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.660 %-7.690 %

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.

WMI
Demand Trend

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

WMI Demand Trend

WMI
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WMI within the UK over the 3 months to 12 March 2010.

WMI Daily Rate Histogram

WMI
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 18 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 12 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-3426£450+12.50 %
LondonDown-5914£450+63.63 %
City of LondonDown-587£450-
South EastUp+116£365-8.75 %
BuckinghamshireNew entry-5£365-
Milton KeynesNew entry-4£365-
South WestUp+33--
GloucestershireNew entry-3--
North WestNew entry-2--
East of EnglandUp+231£250-
BerkshireUp+101--
Docklands, LondonNew entry-1--
LancashireNew entry-1--
EssexNew entry-1£250-
CheshireNew entry-1--
PrestonNew entry-1--
ChelmsfordNew entry-1£250-
BracknellNew entry-1--

WMI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, 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.

143 (86.00 %)Windows
232 (64.00 %)PowerShell
329 (58.00 %)Windows Server 2003
427 (54.00 %)Windows Server 2008
526 (52.00 %)VBScript
623 (46.00 %)SCCM
722 (44.00 %)Active Directory
818 (36.00 %).NET
916 (32.00 %)Citrix
1015 (30.00 %)MSI
1015 (30.00 %)C#
1114 (28.00 %)DHCP
1114 (28.00 %)DNS
1213 (26.00 %)C
1213 (26.00 %)MS Exchange
1213 (26.00 %)Hyper-V
1312 (24.00 %)Security Cleared
1312 (24.00 %)SMS
1312 (24.00 %)Linux
1312 (24.00 %)VB.NET
1312 (24.00 %)Microsoft
1312 (24.00 %)Exchange Server 2003
1411 (22.00 %)Exchange Server 2007
1411 (22.00 %)Altiris
1411 (22.00 %)Cisco
1411 (22.00 %)XML
1510 (20.00 %)SQL
169 (18.00 %)VB
169 (18.00 %)Banking
178 (16.00 %)BladeLogic

WMI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
118 (36.00 %).NET
211 (22.00 %)XML
34 (8.000 %)ASP
34 (8.000 %)Software Packaging
43 (6.000 %)HTML
43 (6.000 %)WSH
52 (4.000 %)POSIX
52 (4.000 %)ADSI
61 (2.000 %)WCF
61 (2.000 %).NET Framework
61 (2.000 %)Application Packaging
61 (2.000 %)ASP.NET
61 (2.000 %)X-Windows
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
113 (26.00 %)MS Exchange
212 (24.00 %)Exchange Server 2003
311 (22.00 %)Exchange Server 2007
44 (8.000 %)IIS
52 (4.000 %)BizTalk Server
52 (4.000 %)WebLogic
61 (2.000 %)SharePoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (6.000 %)MS Excel
21 (2.000 %)MS Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
14 (8.000 %)SoftGrid
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
114 (28.00 %)DHCP
114 (28.00 %)DNS
212 (24.00 %)SMS
35 (10.00 %)TCP/IP
43 (6.000 %)iSCSI
43 (6.000 %)SAN
52 (4.000 %)3G
52 (4.000 %)Intranet
52 (4.000 %)Internet
52 (4.000 %)Broadband
52 (4.000 %)WAN
52 (4.000 %)Firewall
61 (2.000 %)BIG-IP
61 (2.000 %)LAN
61 (2.000 %)LDAP
61 (2.000 %)FTP
61 (2.000 %)S/MIME
61 (2.000 %)SSL
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (12.00 %)SQL Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (4.000 %)FrontPage
21 (2.000 %)InterDev
21 (2.000 %)Visual Studio
21 (2.000 %)AdminStudio
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
19 (18.00 %)Banking
25 (10.00 %)Government
34 (8.000 %)Finance
42 (4.000 %)Investment Banking
42 (4.000 %)Music
51 (2.000 %)Legal
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
19 (18.00 %)Consultant
27 (14.00 %)Server Engineer
35 (10.00 %)Windows Engineer
44 (8.000 %)Build Engineer
44 (8.000 %)Wintel Engineer
44 (8.000 %)Wintel Server Engineer
53 (6.000 %)Senior Server Engineer
53 (6.000 %)Windows Server Engineer
53 (6.000 %)Senior Windows Server Engineer
53 (6.000 %).NET Developer
53 (6.000 %)Administrator
53 (6.000 %)Developer
53 (6.000 %)Analyst
62 (4.000 %)Technical Consultant
62 (4.000 %)C# Developer
62 (4.000 %)Desktop Engineer
62 (4.000 %)Web Administrator
62 (4.000 %)Performance Engineer
62 (4.000 %)Deployment Analyst
71 (2.000 %)3rd Line Support Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (4.000 %)Clustering
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
143 (86.00 %)Windows
229 (58.00 %)Windows Server 2003
327 (54.00 %)Windows Server 2008
412 (24.00 %)Linux
54 (8.000 %)Windows XP
54 (8.000 %)Windows 7
63 (6.000 %)UNIX
72 (4.000 %)Windows Vista
72 (4.000 %)Windows 2000 Server
81 (2.000 %)HPUX
81 (2.000 %)Solaris
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
16 (12.00 %)Configuration Management
24 (8.000 %)Project Management
24 (8.000 %)Migration
24 (8.000 %)Incident Management
33 (6.000 %)Validation
33 (6.000 %)Disaster Recovery
33 (6.000 %)ITIL
42 (4.000 %)Business Desktop Deployment
51 (2.000 %)Capacity Planning
51 (2.000 %)Performance Management
51 (2.000 %)Release Management
51 (2.000 %)Load Balancing
51 (2.000 %)Agile Software Development
51 (2.000 %)Scrum
51 (2.000 %)Workflow
51 (2.000 %)Change Management
51 (2.000 %)PRINCE2
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
132 (64.00 %)PowerShell
226 (52.00 %)VBScript
315 (30.00 %)C#
413 (26.00 %)C
512 (24.00 %)VB.NET
610 (20.00 %)SQL
79 (18.00 %)VB
85 (10.00 %)JavaScript
85 (10.00 %)Shell Script
92 (4.000 %)Java
92 (4.000 %)Perl
92 (4.000 %)PL/SQL
101 (2.000 %)VB6
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
112 (24.00 %)Security Cleared
26 (12.00 %)SC Cleared
26 (12.00 %)DV Cleared
31 (2.000 %)BC Cleared
31 (2.000 %)MCSE
31 (2.000 %)Cisco Certification
31 (2.000 %)Microsoft Certification
31 (2.000 %)CCNA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
122 (44.00 %)Active Directory
213 (26.00 %)Hyper-V
35 (10.00 %)VMware Infrastructure
41 (2.000 %)VMware ESX
41 (2.000 %)VMware Workstation
41 (2.000 %)ISA Server
41 (2.000 %)Terminal Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
123 (46.00 %)SCCM
215 (30.00 %)MSI
37 (14.00 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
43 (6.000 %)SCOM
52 (4.000 %)OpenView
52 (4.000 %)BMC PATROL
52 (4.000 %)MOM
52 (4.000 %)HP NNM
52 (4.000 %)OVOU
52 (4.000 %)BMC Performance Manager
52 (4.000 %)OVPI
52 (4.000 %)OVPM
52 (4.000 %)Cacti
61 (2.000 %)Sysprep
61 (2.000 %)McAfee ePO
61 (2.000 %)SCVMM
61 (2.000 %)ServiceCenter
61 (2.000 %)WSUS
61 (2.000 %)Tivoli
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
116 (32.00 %)Citrix
212 (24.00 %)Microsoft
311 (22.00 %)Altiris
311 (22.00 %)Cisco
48 (16.00 %)BladeLogic
57 (14.00 %)VMware
63 (6.000 %)McAfee
63 (6.000 %)HP
72 (4.000 %)BMC
72 (4.000 %)Oracle
72 (4.000 %)Kaspersky
81 (2.000 %)Tumbleweed
81 (2.000 %)Macrovision
81 (2.000 %)Symantec