The first table below looks at the demand for PhoneGap skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PhoneGap over the 3 months to 17 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 England 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PhoneGap
Rank 463 540 569
Rank change year-on-year
+77 +29
Contract jobs citing PhoneGap 47 18 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.113% 0.034% 0.005%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.019% 0.357% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 3
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
4612 5040 6025
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.10% 9.447% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2954 3058 3462
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 200 317
Average hourly rate £37.80 £36.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £23.88 £23.94
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
PhoneGap
UK

PhoneGap
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England PhoneGap Daily Rate Trend

PhoneGap
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PhoneGap across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England PhoneGap Daily Rate Histogram

PhoneGap
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PhoneGap within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
London +39 27 £350 +7.69%
South East +32 10 - -
North West +14 4 £260 -5.45%
East of England +15 3 £275 -
West Midlands - 3 - -
PhoneGap
UK

PhoneGap
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 70 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 63 (70.00%) Android
3 58 (64.44%) HTML5
4 49 (54.44%) Apple iOS
5 37 (41.11%) CSS
6 35 (38.89%) Appcelerator Titanium
6 35 (38.89%) Mobile App
7 28 (31.11%) iPhone
8 27 (30.00%) jQuery
9 26 (28.89%) Windows
10 23 (25.56%) Java
11 22 (24.44%) JSON
12 18 (20.00%) HTML
12 18 (20.00%) MVC
13 17 (18.89%) Blackberry
13 17 (18.89%) Objective-C
14 16 (17.78%) Agile Software Development
14 16 (17.78%) Handset
15 15 (16.67%) J2ME
15 15 (16.67%) Windows Mobile
15 15 (16.67%) CSS3
16 14 (15.56%) iPad
16 14 (15.56%) OO
16 14 (15.56%) XML
17 13 (14.44%) REST
17 13 (14.44%) Mobile Application Development
18 12 (13.33%) TDD
18 12 (13.33%) .NET
19 10 (11.11%) Sencha
20 9 (10.00%) Banking

PhoneGap
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 58 (64.44%) HTML5
2 37 (41.11%) CSS
3 27 (30.00%) jQuery
4 22 (24.44%) JSON
5 18 (20.00%) HTML
6 15 (16.67%) J2ME
6 15 (16.67%) CSS3
7 14 (15.56%) XML
8 13 (14.44%) REST
9 12 (13.33%) .NET
10 8 (8.889%) Web Services
10 8 (8.889%) Ajax
10 8 (8.889%) GWT
11 7 (7.778%) iOS SDK
11 7 (7.778%) Spring
11 7 (7.778%) Spring MVC
11 7 (7.778%) XSLT
11 7 (7.778%) Sencha Touch
12 6 (6.667%) SAML
12 6 (6.667%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.111%) Apache
1 1 (1.111%) ColdFusion
1 1 (1.111%) NetWeaver
1 1 (1.111%) CMS
1 1 (1.111%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (6.667%) Photoshop
2 3 (3.333%) GIMP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.778%) HTTP
2 4 (4.444%) Internet
3 1 (1.111%) SMS
3 1 (1.111%) VPN
3 1 (1.111%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.778%) SQL Server
1 7 (7.778%) SQLite
2 2 (2.222%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 35 (38.89%) Appcelerator Titanium
2 5 (5.556%) Xcode
3 3 (3.333%) Subversion
4 2 (2.222%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.222%) Dreamweaver
4 2 (2.222%) GitHub
5 1 (1.111%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.111%) Git (software)
General
1 9 (10.00%) Banking
2 7 (7.778%) Finance
3 2 (2.222%) Back Office
4 1 (1.111%) Games
4 1 (1.111%) Multimedia
4 1 (1.111%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 75 (83.33%) Developer
2 45 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
3 13 (14.44%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 10 (11.11%) Applications Developer
4 10 (11.11%) UI Developer
5 9 (10.00%) Front-End Developer
5 9 (10.00%) UI Programmer
6 7 (7.778%) Technical Leader
7 6 (6.667%) Web Developer
7 6 (6.667%) Architect
7 6 (6.667%) Android Developer
8 5 (5.556%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (4.444%) iOS Developer
10 3 (3.333%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.222%) Portal Developer
11 2 (2.222%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 2 (2.222%) C# Developer
11 2 (2.222%) C# .NET Developer
12 1 (1.111%) Java Mobile Developer
12 1 (1.111%) CSS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 35 (38.89%) Mobile App
2 28 (31.11%) iPhone
3 17 (18.89%) Blackberry
4 16 (17.78%) Handset
5 14 (15.56%) iPad
6 9 (10.00%) Social Network
7 7 (7.778%) Mobile Banking
7 7 (7.778%) PKI
8 5 (5.556%) Graphic Design
9 3 (3.333%) Inversion of Control
10 2 (2.222%) Open Source
11 1 (1.111%) SaaS
11 1 (1.111%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 63 (70.00%) Android
2 49 (54.44%) Apple iOS
3 26 (28.89%) Windows
4 15 (16.67%) Windows Mobile
5 7 (7.778%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (20.00%) MVC
2 16 (17.78%) Agile Software Development
3 14 (15.56%) OO
4 13 (14.44%) Mobile Application Development
5 12 (13.33%) TDD
6 9 (10.00%) Project Management
7 7 (7.778%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (7.778%) Test Automation
8 6 (6.667%) OOP
9 5 (5.556%) Scrum
10 4 (4.444%) Mobile Commerce
10 4 (4.444%) E-Commerce
11 3 (3.333%) Web Development
11 3 (3.333%) Compatibility Testing
11 3 (3.333%) MVVM
12 2 (2.222%) Memory Management
12 2 (2.222%) Cash Management
12 2 (2.222%) SOA
12 2 (2.222%) OOA/OOD
13 1 (1.111%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 70 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 23 (25.56%) Java
3 17 (18.89%) Objective-C
4 7 (7.778%) PHP
5 5 (5.556%) C#
6 4 (4.444%) Ruby
7 3 (3.333%) C++
8 1 (1.111%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (1.111%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.778%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.111%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (11.11%) Sencha
2 4 (4.444%) Apple
2 4 (4.444%) Appcelerator
3 3 (3.333%) Google
4 2 (2.222%) Adobe
5 1 (1.111%) Citrix
5 1 (1.111%) Sybase
5 1 (1.111%) SAP
5 1 (1.111%) Syclo
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