Sunday 27 November 2011

The New Demand in the iPhone Application Development And iPhone Game Development Job Market

I keep a close eye on the online IT job boards as they give a good indication to the skill-sets in demand, what current rates of pay are, and what technologies companies are implementing.

Over recent months it has become increasingly obvious that more and more job adverts are for people with skills in iphone application development and iphone game development. This being either technical roles such as mobile developers, designers or testers, or management roles to co-ordinate the development projects. If you look at some of the words and phrases used in these job adverts for the technologies used, you will find they are words that never really existed only a few years ago and there's a whole new type of job advert evolving.

This resource requirement trend is clearly going to increase and with the current squeeze on IT budgets it looks like many projects are being dropped by companies in favour of mobile developments as they see that having a mobile application is something critical to their business rather than a nice to have.

For the workforce, there is a bit of head scratching to do. If you want to future proof your skill-set then now is the time to start getting involved in iphone applications, look out for some iphone application jobs, and get a foot in the door. Else, there is a risk that you could get left behind and find yourself less valuable. Hire iPhone App developer