The application developer intervenes to technically design a mobile application. Autonomous, endowed with a capacity of adaptation and pedagogue, it creates applications for mobiles or improves already existing applications according to the specifications of its customers and the tendencies of the market

The application developer is the artist and creator of apps for mobile smartphones and tablets. Its mission is initially to create technically a mobile application and to ensure the computer development. It can intervene to design from A to Z an application or to improve those, which already exist. After having created the computer programs of the application and having defined the algorithms allowing the data processing, it carries out many tests of the application in question to ensure at the same time the respect of the specifications and the good functioning of his creation. It makes sure to anticipate the foreseeable evolutions of the application and the various problems, which could possibly arise.

Application Developer: Skills

An application developer must have a solid knowledge of the mobile world, current standards, programming languages. Algorithm, mathematics and geometry are also areas that the application developer must master. It must also demonstrate its ability to adapt to understand the needs of its customers and translate them into computer. Rigorous, autonomous and responsible, he knows how to be up to date with market trends and new technologies.

Where App Developers Can Expect A Good Pay?

The United States is paying more developers

Developer salaries are higher in the United States ($ 83,000 per year, on average). In the US, start-ups pay more than service companies. According to Compass, a company that specializes in start-up performance analysis, the average earnings of US start-ups are 13% higher than those offered by “traditional” IT service providers (IBM, Verizon, JP Morgan Technology, etc.). In Europe, with the notable exception of the United Kingdom, traditional start-ups and IT firms offer roughly similar salaries ($ 55,000 per year, on average). However, social models are very different.

For remote work, developers based in Brazil, Mexico, Belarus and Ukraine will get higher pay from foreign companies, with local firms being less generous. For expatriate developers, Silicon Valley remains the destination of choice. Nearly 70% of the developers active in the region in 2013 were born abroad, according to the 2015 SVCIP report.

On average, the salaries of computer engineers increase by 20% after three years of activity and increase strongly after 7 years of experience. They then stabilize, and then rebound after 20 years of career.

Back-end engineers are valued

Another lesson from the study, B2B companies offer app developers salaries 20% higher, on average, than businesses in the B2C segment. Moreover, in start-ups with Series B financing, developer salaries almost doubled the largest increase in the life cycle of a start-up.

In addition, the salaries of engineers and back-end developers are on average 35% higher than those of front-end developers. Professionals who master C ++, Python and C have the highest salaries ($ 100,000 or more per year in a US company). In terms of functions, data scientists and software developer are the highest paid on the market. At the same time, strong demand for mobile apps is driving up the salaries of industry’s app developers.

What are the technologies or computer languages to master to be better paid at the end of his studies?

The focus is on the most rewarding specializations for junior developers. For the fifth consecutive year, the digital recruiting firm, Industry Experts, has been studying the salaries of developers based on their level of experience and the computer languages and technologies they master. Their study makes it possible to draw up a ranking of the most profitable specializations for young developers.

Among junior profiles (0-2 years of experience), it is the Ruby developers who are the best paid with a gross annual remuneration that increased up 5% compared to last year. According to Industry Experts, this growth can be explained by the fact that there are more and more companies operating under Ruby, particularly among startups. The strengths of this technology? Its ease of understanding and the diversity of options it allows.

Then the Full-Stack JS developers are the best paid, between 37,000 and 46,000 $. They are true Swiss knives of the code; they can intervene on all the chain of development (from the design to the deployment) and are increasingly sought after by the companies, in particular the small structures which cannot afford to have a team with several different developers (front-end, back-end, mobile…).

Finally, it is the Android app developers, salary between 41,845 and 46,000 $ gross annual complete the podium. “The mobile first trend is confirmed and the recruitment needs follow,” says Industry Experts, which states that companies have tended to internalize the development of their Android applications more than in the past and that they have had to hire specialized Android developers.

To understand these differences in salaries between developers, we must keep in mind that the market is in tension – there are many offers and few candidates – and also in perpetual change. New technologies or languages are appearing regularly, and businesses such as schools or trainings need to be updated. Developers also have an interest in training these rising techs to stay in the running.

In terms of training, Industry Experts also specified that “a real difference in salary is noted between the profiles holding an engineering degree and those who are not” at the beginning of career, especially among PHP developers. Then, this difference is smooth over time, over the experience gained by the developers.

At the end of the study, however, Industry Experts recall – with caution – which it cannot serve as a basis for wage negotiations. These ranges are indicative and correspond to recruitments made during the year on permanent positions. In addition to the degree and level of experience, many other elements can vary the level of remuneration: number of different frameworks mastered, type of business (startup – key accounts – software vendors – agency)