Where a mobile application developer can go next

Table 1 · Within reach

• ICT system developer 77% covered · difficulty 36.6
• digital games developer 77% covered · difficulty 33.4
• web developer 69% covered · difficulty 46.5
• software developer 69% covered · difficulty 47
• user interface developer 68% covered · difficulty 46.8
• numerical tool and process control programmer 68% covered · difficulty 46.1
• computer-aided design operator 64% covered · difficulty 52
• ICT network engineer 63% covered · difficulty 53.3

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

• embedded system designer 56% covered · difficulty 56.1
• system configurator 53% covered · difficulty 59.6
• software architect 53% covered · difficulty 59.1
• 3D modeller 46% covered · difficulty 64

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A mobile application developer needs 18 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

• mobile operating systems information and communication technologies (icts)
• develop automated migration methods management skills
• create flowchart diagram communication, collaboration and creativity
• use software design patterns communication, collaboration and creativity
• integrated development environment software information and communication technologies (icts)
• tools for software configuration management information and communication technologies (icts)
• use software libraries working with computers
• collect customer feedback on applications information skills
• migrate existing data working with computers
• analyse software specifications working with computers

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a mobile application developer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

• ICT network engineer 81% covered · difficulty 30.6
• digital games developer 78% covered · difficulty 34.5
• user interface developer 77% covered · difficulty 35.5
• ICT application configurator 77% covered · difficulty 36
• software architect 57% covered · difficulty 56.1
• system configurator 53% covered · difficulty 60.7
• blockchain developer 20% covered · difficulty 85.5
• ICT change and configuration manager 20% covered · difficulty 85.5

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Mobile application developer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a mobile application developer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.