Where a mobile application developer can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a mobile application developer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Mobile application developers implement applications software for mobile devices, based on the designs provided, using general or specific development tools for device operating systems.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 77%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 8difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 88required or supplementary
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.
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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
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a mobile application developer already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.