The role of mobile app developer is hardly new. Ever since Apple coined the phrase, ‘there’s an app for that’, people have been creating inventive, strange and interesting solutions for themselves, customers and organisations. There are gaming apps, finance apps, lifestyle apps, exercise apps and so much more, stuck in between the gaps that we didn’t know needed filling until, you guessed it, there was an app for that. So why is this still a burgeoning career? Perhaps because the statistics that surround apps are staggering. In 2020, consumers downloaded 218 billion apps to their devices, the app economy is expected to hit $6.3 trillion in 2021, and smartphones are evolving to make apps more accessible, battery life longer, and software more capable. In short, the mobile app developer is sitting inside a career that has a solid growth curve and their skills will remain on the most wanted list for some time to come.

“With around 5.2 billion unique mobile phone users in the world today, mobile devices have become the consumer platform of choice,” says Charl Naudé, partner, IT enterprise services at King Price Insurance. “Mobile apps are becoming a game changer in many industries.”