The continuing explosion in the app economy is driving specific skills shortages among the European IT community, according to new insights from freelancer marketplace twago.
According to analysis of projects executed across its service, Europe’s most wanted IT skills in 2012 were PHP, HTML, MySQL, JavaScript and HTML5.
“The app economy has created new professions in the last couple of years,” says Gunnar Berning, CEO of twago. “The need for qualified app developers for the iPhone and Android as well as HTML5 experts is dynamically growing.
“We expect this development will become even stronger in 2013 since Windows Phone 8 and Apple’s iPad mini will further drive the competition between Apple and Android.”
