The rise of apps has led to almost half a million new jobs in the United States in the past five years. That estimates a analistenbedrijf in command of Technet. How many people in the Netherlands are working on apps, is unclear.
The new jobs are not only independent developers, but within traditional companies and the companies that provide mobile platforms, such as Google, Apple and Microsoft. That claims analistenbedrijf South Mountain Economics in an estimate for the number of jobs.
The estimate is only a rough number in a database of vacancies has the analistenbureau looked at the number of features offered for app developers, after which they were multiplied to find the total number of jobs for app developers to calculate. Via this procedure, the analyst from a number of slightly more than 300,000. Subsequently, a ‘multiply factor’ applied 1.5: the analistenbureau estimates that by every app developer half a job elsewhere arises. That is according to South Mounatain conservative: some calculations are based on a ‘mutiply factor of 2.5 or 3.5. The number of 466.000 jobs by apps is only a rough estimate: it should be lower but also easy higher.
South Mountain counts two types of apps: apps for smartphones and Facebook apps, such as the game Farmville. It is unclear how the situation in the Netherlands. Because companies like Microsoft and Google less employees in the Netherlands, the number will also be relatively lower.