WMI Contract Job Trends in England

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring WMI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 515 519
Rank change year-on-year -89 +4 +67
Contract jobs citing WMI 25 10 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.054% 0.036% 0.039%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.50% 0.26% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 8 2
10th Percentile £325 - £518
25th Percentile £453 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £622 £575
90th Percentile £650 £688 £583
UK median daily rate £582 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -3.04% +9.09% +4.76%

All Systems Management Skills
England

WMI falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,043 3,822 3,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.96% 13.87% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,377 2,529 2,742
10th Percentile £308 £281 £300
25th Percentile £419 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £603 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +3.80% -3.38% -5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 62 56
10th Percentile £21.66 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £46.00 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.47 £44.48 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.70% +16.27% -23.08%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.27 £63.00
90th Percentile £87.42 £79.88 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £38.25
% change year-on-year +116.67% -21.57% -28.84%

WMI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WMI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

WMI job vacancy trend in England

WMI
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WMI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WMI

WMI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WMI in England over the 6 months to 7 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WMI in England

WMI
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WMI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WMI

WMI
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WMI within the England region over the 6 months to 7 September 2026. 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
South East -66 14 £625 +4.17% 2
West Midlands - 7 £581 -
Midlands - 7 £581 - 1
North of England - 3 £282 -
North West - 2 £282 -
London -75 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £282 -
WMI
UK

WMI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
1 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) SNMP
2 1 (4.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.00%) SSH
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) MSI
2 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Architect
1 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Integration Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) REST
1 4 (16.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) JSON
2 3 (12.00%) OAuth
2 3 (12.00%) SailPoint
2 3 (12.00%) XML
3 1 (4.00%) DCOM
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) PKI
2 3 (12.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Linux
3 7 (28.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.00%) Unix
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Agile
2 11 (44.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (28.00%) Architectural Design
3 7 (28.00%) Network Management
4 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (24.00%) Project Delivery
5 5 (20.00%) Patch Management
5 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (16.00%) Prototyping
6 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (12.00%) Data Mapping
7 3 (12.00%) High Availability
7 3 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (12.00%) Runbook
7 3 (12.00%) Workflow
8 1 (4.00%) Containerisation
8 1 (4.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (52.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 7 (28.00%) Cisco
3 7 (28.00%) F5
3 7 (28.00%) Fortinet
3 7 (28.00%) Palo Alto
3 7 (28.00%) SolarWinds
3 7 (28.00%) Splunk
4 5 (20.00%) VMware
5 3 (12.00%) Okta
6 1 (4.00%) BMC
6 1 (4.00%) CyberArk