Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WMI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WMI over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 681 825
Rank change year-on-year +101 +144 -152
Contract jobs citing WMI 18 38 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.064% 0.027%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.35% 0.40% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 28 18
10th Percentile £450 £484 £471
25th Percentile £453 £506 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £524
90th Percentile £669 £661 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £600 £500
% change year-on-year +2.08% +20.00% +29.03%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

WMI is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,089 9,618 14,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.08% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,947 10,288
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 211 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £46.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.30% +130.00% -10.11%

WMI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WMI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WMI in the UK

WMI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WMI.

Daily rate trend for WMI in the UK

WMI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WMI over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WMI in the UK

WMI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WMI.

Hourly rate trend for WMI in the UK

WMI
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WMI within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +108 18 £538 -10.42% 4
UK excluding London +46 15 £613 +2.08% 4
South East +16 15 £613 +2.08% 3
London +100 3 £450 -15.49%

WMI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DHCP
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
1 1 (5.56%) NAS
1 1 (5.56%) SAN
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) MSI
2 1 (5.56%) Robot Framework
2 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Architect
1 13 (72.22%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Applications Packager
3 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Wintel Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) WSH
2 1 (5.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Client/Server
1 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Agile
2 13 (72.22%) Prototyping
3 1 (5.56%) Application Security
3 1 (5.56%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (5.56%) High Availability
3 1 (5.56%) Information Security
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (5.56%) ITIL
3 1 (5.56%) Migration
3 1 (5.56%) Patch Management
3 1 (5.56%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.56%) Service Management
3 1 (5.56%) Test Automation
3 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) VBScript
3 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Nessus
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) VMware