The first table below looks at the demand for PhoneGap skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PhoneGap over the 3 months to 24 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 Development Applications category for the City of 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PhoneGap
Rank 191 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PhoneGap 12 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.188% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.529% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
785 652 1005
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.31% 8.290% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 489 757
Average daily rate £405 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.42% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
PhoneGap
London

PhoneGap
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London PhoneGap Jobs Demand Trend

PhoneGap
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London PhoneGap Daily Rate Trend

PhoneGap
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing PhoneGap 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 PhoneGap.

1 22 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 18 (75.00%) Android
3 15 (62.50%) HTML5
4 14 (58.33%) Apple iOS
5 10 (41.67%) Appcelerator Titanium
6 9 (37.50%) Java
6 9 (37.50%) CSS
7 8 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
8 7 (29.17%) JSON
8 7 (29.17%) Mobile App
9 6 (25.00%) iPhone
9 6 (25.00%) Objective-C
9 6 (25.00%) MVC
10 5 (20.83%) HTML
10 5 (20.83%) REST
11 4 (16.67%) J2ME
11 4 (16.67%) XML
11 4 (16.67%) Windows
11 4 (16.67%) Blackberry
11 4 (16.67%) Handset
11 4 (16.67%) Windows Mobile
11 4 (16.67%) Social Network
11 4 (16.67%) jQuery
12 3 (12.50%) Spring MVC
12 3 (12.50%) PKI
12 3 (12.50%) Graphic Design
12 3 (12.50%) Spring
12 3 (12.50%) Scrum
12 3 (12.50%) OOP
12 3 (12.50%) OO

PhoneGap
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing PhoneGap 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 PhoneGap. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (62.50%) HTML5
2 9 (37.50%) CSS
3 7 (29.17%) JSON
4 5 (20.83%) HTML
4 5 (20.83%) REST
5 4 (16.67%) J2ME
5 4 (16.67%) XML
5 4 (16.67%) jQuery
6 3 (12.50%) Spring MVC
6 3 (12.50%) Spring
6 3 (12.50%) CSS3
7 2 (8.333%) Node.js
7 2 (8.333%) Underscore.js
7 2 (8.333%) SAML
7 2 (8.333%) Dojo
7 2 (8.333%) OAuth
8 1 (4.167%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (4.167%) XSLT
8 1 (4.167%) Web Services
8 1 (4.167%) AngularJS
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.167%) WordPress
1 1 (4.167%) CMS
1 1 (4.167%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Internet
1 3 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (4.167%) VPN
2 1 (4.167%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Appcelerator Titanium
2 1 (4.167%) Xcode
General
1 3 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (4.167%) Games
2 1 (4.167%) Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (91.67%) Developer
2 15 (62.50%) Mobile Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Applications Developer
5 2 (8.333%) UI Programmer
5 2 (8.333%) UI Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Android Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Java Applications Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Architect
6 1 (4.167%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Java Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Mobile App
2 6 (25.00%) iPhone
3 4 (16.67%) Blackberry
3 4 (16.67%) Handset
3 4 (16.67%) Social Network
4 3 (12.50%) PKI
4 3 (12.50%) Graphic Design
5 2 (8.333%) iPad
5 2 (8.333%) Inversion of Control
6 1 (4.167%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 18 (75.00%) Android
2 14 (58.33%) Apple iOS
3 4 (16.67%) Windows
3 4 (16.67%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (25.00%) MVC
3 3 (12.50%) Scrum
3 3 (12.50%) OOP
3 3 (12.50%) OO
3 3 (12.50%) Mobile Application Development
4 2 (8.333%) MVVM
5 1 (4.167%) Web Design
5 1 (4.167%) Web Development
5 1 (4.167%) Project Management
5 1 (4.167%) Memory Management
5 1 (4.167%) Agile Project Management
5 1 (4.167%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 9 (37.50%) Java
3 6 (25.00%) Objective-C
4 3 (12.50%) C++
5 1 (4.167%) Ruby
5 1 (4.167%) PHP
System Software
1 1 (4.167%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (4.167%) Citrix
1 1 (4.167%) Apple
1 1 (4.167%) Appcelerator