Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring WMI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WMI over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 689 895 937
Rank change year-on-year +206 +42 +275
Permanent jobs citing WMI 19 19 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.019% 0.016%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.34% 0.19% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 19 17 10
10th Percentile £68,250 - £37,000
25th Percentile £74,375 £55,000 £39,633
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% - +41.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,750 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +29.17% - +41.18%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,561 9,853 14,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.14% 9.60% 14.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,063 7,027 8,875
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £61,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -9.63% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +0.89%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WMI.

Salary trend for WMI in the UK

WMI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WMI over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WMI in the UK

WMI
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WMI within the UK over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +176 19 £77,500 +29.17% 15
UK excluding London +195 18 £77,500 +29.17% 13
South East +98 17 £77,500 +29.17% 8
London +100 1 £150,000 - 1
South West - 1 £47,500 -
Work from Home - 1 £47,500 - 1

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
1 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
1 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (5.26%) Kerberos
1 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (5.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (78.95%) MSI
General
1 3 (15.79%) Advertising
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Architect
2 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.26%) CentOS
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.26%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.26%) Windows 8
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Agile
2 3 (15.79%) Patch Management
2 3 (15.79%) Prototyping
3 2 (10.53%) Coaching
3 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
3 2 (10.53%) Network Design
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (5.26%) Asset Management
4 1 (5.26%) Batch Scripting
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.26%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (5.26%) Information Security
4 1 (5.26%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.26%) Software Deployment
4 1 (5.26%) User Experience
4 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (5.26%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) PHP
3 1 (5.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (89.47%) DV Cleared
1 17 (89.47%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) MCP
3 1 (5.26%) MCSE
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.26%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Fujitsu
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Centrify
4 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.26%) Okta
4 1 (5.26%) Remedy
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow