WMI Contract Job Trends

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring WMI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 533 561
Rank change year-on-year -108 +28 +94
Contract jobs citing WMI 20 12 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.038% 0.037% 0.045%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.28% 0.24% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 6
10th Percentile £282 - £450
25th Percentile £444 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £610 £688 £597
90th Percentile £650 - £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £581 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -3.17% +2.13% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 7,061 5,079 5,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.41% 15.62% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,815 3,354 3,815
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £519
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -2.60% -5.73%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £622
90th Percentile £688 £695 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £491 £500
% change year-on-year +1.83% -1.80% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 73 91
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.21 £20.25 £22.16
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% +26.98% -45.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £51.63
90th Percentile £77.40 £78.46 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £59.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -11.02% +47.50% -13.21%

WMI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WMI job vacancy trend in the UK

WMI
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WMI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WMI

WMI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WMI over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WMI in the UK

WMI
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WMI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WMI

WMI
Top 10 Contract Job 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 17 July 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
England -114 19 £581 -3.17% 1
UK excluding London -90 17 £581 -3.17% 1
South East -67 7 £625 +4.17% 1
West Midlands - 7 £581 -
Midlands - 7 £581 -
Work from Home - 3 £582 -
North of England - 3 £282 -
London -81 2 £270 -
North West - 2 £282 -
Yorkshire - 1 £282 -

WMI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) MSI
2 1 (5.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Server Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) JSON
1 3 (15.00%) OAuth
1 3 (15.00%) REST
1 3 (15.00%) SailPoint
1 3 (15.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) PKI
2 3 (15.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) iPad
3 1 (5.00%) iPhone
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (40.00%) Linux
3 7 (35.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Architectural Design
1 8 (40.00%) Network Management
2 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (15.00%) Data Mapping
5 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (15.00%) Runbook
5 3 (15.00%) Workflow
6 2 (10.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (5.00%) High Availability
7 1 (5.00%) People Management
7 1 (5.00%) Project Delivery
7 1 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (5.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Ansible
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) ServiceNow
2 8 (40.00%) Cisco
2 8 (40.00%) F5
2 8 (40.00%) Fortinet
2 8 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 8 (40.00%) SolarWinds
2 8 (40.00%) Splunk
3 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (30.00%) VMware
5 3 (15.00%) Okta
6 2 (10.00%) Bloomberg
6 2 (10.00%) Citrix
6 2 (10.00%) Reuters
7 1 (5.00%) Snow