GEC NEWS WIREOnly 6% of enterprises have all the mobile developer talent they need
New research conducted for OutSystemsby independent research company Opinion Mattershas revealed that 85% of companies have a mobile backlog of between one and 20 applications, with a majority (50%) having a backlog of between 10 and 20 apps.
“It’s clear that organizations are struggling to deal with a deluge of mobile app requests, multiple platforms to support, hundreds of change requests, and complex backend integrations,”commented Paulo Rosado, CEO of OutSystems.“To make matters worse, as demand for mobile app developers grows, companies will continue to have a challenge hiring developers. Not only will they be increasingly hard to find, they will also beincreasingly expensive.”
The survey’s findings show that mobility is a key priority. There is a growing demand for mobile apps, which can be a money spinner for enterprises. The top two challenges when building mobile apps are budget (53%) and time (50%). Other challenges ranged from a gap in skills to both business and users having unrealistic expectations to the development environment not currently being right for mobile. The top three skills respondents had challenges hiring for were Java (31%), JavaScript (19%) and .NET (17%).
