The first table below looks at the demand for CAML skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CAML over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the London region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML)
Rank 379 410 432
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +22
Contract jobs citing CAML 8 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.036% 0.029% 0.003%
As % of the Application Development category 0.125% 0.104% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 1
Average daily rate £319 £450 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.16% +28.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £550 £375 £450
% change year-on-year
+46.66% -16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £41.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6387 7659 9377
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.04% 28.01% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4619 5048 6312
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 106 136
Average hourly rate £41.50 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.90 £17.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
CAML
England

CAML
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CAML across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

London CAML Jobs Demand Trend

CAML
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CAML across the London region.

London CAML Daily Rate Trend

CAML
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CAML across the London region.

London CAML Hourly Rate Trend

CAML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CAML within the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
City of London +9 1 £338 +9.75%
CAML
England

CAML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing CAML 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 CAML.

1 11 (100.00%) C#
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 11 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 10 (90.91%) CSS
2 10 (90.91%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (81.82%) XSLT
3 9 (81.82%) HTML
4 8 (72.73%) SQL
4 8 (72.73%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (72.73%) jQuery
5 7 (63.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (63.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (63.64%) Publishing
5 7 (63.64%) T-SQL
5 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
6 6 (54.55%) XML
6 6 (54.55%) Ajax
6 6 (54.55%) SharePoint 2010
7 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
7 4 (36.36%) Release Management
7 4 (36.36%) System Testing
7 4 (36.36%) Migration
8 3 (27.27%) W3C
8 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
8 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
9 2 (18.18%) Supplier Management
9 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
9 2 (18.18%) HTML5
10 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008

CAML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing CAML 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 CAML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (90.91%) CSS
3 9 (81.82%) XSLT
3 9 (81.82%) HTML
4 8 (72.73%) jQuery
5 6 (54.55%) XML
5 6 (54.55%) Ajax
6 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
7 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
7 2 (18.18%) HTML5
8 1 (9.091%) WCF
8 1 (9.091%) ASP
8 1 (9.091%) DHTML
8 1 (9.091%) XHTML
8 1 (9.091%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 11 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (54.55%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (90.91%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (72.73%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (63.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (63.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (63.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
1 11 (100.00%) SharePoint Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior SharePoint Developer
3 1 (9.091%) SharePoint Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
1 4 (36.36%) Release Management
1 4 (36.36%) System Testing
1 4 (36.36%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Supplier Management
3 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 7 (63.64%) T-SQL
3 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.091%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (9.091%) Microsoft