Talent Neuron study predicts rate of job postings to grow by 2015

The findings of the latest study on “Global Mobile Talent” by Talent Neuron have been revealed depicting the current gap in demand and availability of skilled mobile developers across various global locations. To address these gaps, companies are following various approaches including, acquisitions, leveraging global talent hotspots by expanding their R&D footprint and vendor partnerships to take advantage of available talent.

The study revealed that the supply of talent is definitely not being able to keep pace with demand and while job postings for mobile developers have doubled over the past two years, the number of registered developers is increasing only by 13%, thereby creating a huge gap. This rate of growth is expected till 2015.
 
The study found tremendous demand for HTML 5 development skills, which witnessed a 149% increase in job postings in 2013.

Vijay Swami, Co-Founder & CEO, Talent Neuron, said, "There is an intense war for mobile development talent, fuelled by low availability and the dynamic nature of the industry which requires constantly updated skill sets. Recruiters need to understand the underlying technology and requirements before writing job descriptions, and also understand location-specific trends. Rather than waiting for the perfect candidate, companies should aggressively leverage global locations to expand their catchment area, analyse skills of niche mobile first organizations before M&A and opportunistically leverage partners for talent (Not cost)."