According to a study on the mobile app economy conducted in the United States, in January 2022 there were approximately 2.56 million job postings related to positions in the mobile app economy, up by 1.74 percent compared to August 2020. Since the launching of the Apple App Store in July 2008, the number of jobs advertised in the app economy has experienced a constant growth trend, which only started slowing down in 2020. Since November 2011, the number of advertised app-related jobs in the U.S. has increased by approximately 450 percent.
Number of job postings related to mobile app ecosystem roles in the United States from July 2008 to January 2022
(in 1,000s)
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: "We use public job postings from the Indeed real-time database of job postings."
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Progressive Policy Institute. (May 5, 2022). Number of job postings related to mobile app ecosystem roles in the United States from July 2008 to January 2022 (in 1,000s) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 09, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1311976/job-posting-work-with-apps-us/
Progressive Policy Institute. "Number of job postings related to mobile app ecosystem roles in the United States from July 2008 to January 2022 (in 1,000s)." Chart. May 5, 2022. Statista. Accessed January 09, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1311976/job-posting-work-with-apps-us/
Progressive Policy Institute. (2022). Number of job postings related to mobile app ecosystem roles in the United States from July 2008 to January 2022 (in 1,000s). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 09, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1311976/job-posting-work-with-apps-us/
Progressive Policy Institute. "Number of Job Postings Related to Mobile App Ecosystem Roles in The United States from July 2008 to January 2022 (in 1,000s)." Statista, Statista Inc., 5 May 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1311976/job-posting-work-with-apps-us/
Progressive Policy Institute, Number of job postings related to mobile app ecosystem roles in the United States from July 2008 to January 2022 (in 1,000s) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1311976/job-posting-work-with-apps-us/ (last visited January 09, 2025)
Number of job postings related to mobile app ecosystem roles in the United States from July 2008 to January 2022 (in 1,000s) [Graph], Progressive Policy Institute, May 5, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1311976/job-posting-work-with-apps-us/
