Job postings to work with apps in the U.S. by operative system 2022

According to a study on the mobile app economy conducted in the United States, in January 2022 there were approximately 2.22 million job postings related to positions in the iOS app ecosystem, as well as over 2.06 million job postings related to open positions in the Android app ecosystem. The number of total advertised jobs in the app economy amounted to approximately 2.56 million, as app-related roles usually require the expertise to cover both Android and iOS ecosystems. This number represents an increase of 14 percent compared to April 2019, when the total number of app-related advertised jobs was over 2.24 million.

Number of job postings related to mobile app ecosystem roles in the United States from April 2019 to January 2022, by operative system (in 1,000s)

Date of estimate	Total app economy jobs	iOS ecosystem jobs	Android ecosystem jobs
April 2019	2,246	1,853	1,736
February 2020	2,417	2,029	1,890
August 2020	2,520	2,135	1,983
January 2022	2,564	2,225	2,065

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May 2022

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United States

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April 2019 to January 2022

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According to the source, a worker in the app economy is defined as employed in: "An IT-related job that uses App Economy skills, [...] a non-IT job that supports core app economy jobs in the same enterprise [...], a job in the local economy that is supported either by the goods and services purchased by the enterprise, or by the income flowing to core and indirect app economy workers."

According to the source: "Many App Economy job postings, especially in the United States, refer to both iOS and Android skills."
According to the source: "We use public job postings from the Indeed real-time database of job postings."

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