Monday, October 5, 2015

iOS and Mac developer demographics - Fall 2015

iOS and Mac developer survey - October 2015

Our iOS and Mac developer Slack group has grown! The group now has over 200 developers from the Utah area. We ran the survey again using polldaddy.com. 95 people responded. We added a few new questions around education that produced some very interesting results.

What type of development do you do? (allowed multiple selections)


iOS
94
98.9%
Mac
19
20.0%
Android
14
14.7%
Other
9
9.5%


What type of iOS apps do you develop? (allowed multiple selections)

Productivity/Business
70
73.7%
Utilities
37
38.9%
Education
34
35.8%
Social Networking
23
24.2%
Health or medical
20
21.1%
Entertainment
17
17.9%
Games
17
17.9%
Other
6
6.3%


How much do you use Swift?

All my new projects are in Swift
47
49%
Everything
20
21%
Some
18
19%
None yet
10
11%


My programming education includes: (allowed multiple selections)

Self taught
48
50.5%
A college degree in CS or CE
47
49.5%
A college degree (other)
25
26.3%
A code bootcamp like Dev Mountain
15
15.8%
Formal, online code classes
7
7.4%
Other
5
5.3%


How long have you been programming professionally? 



How long have you been programming iOS/Mac?



How do the apps you have developed recently make money? (allowed multiple selections)

They don’t need to directly (e.g. banking app)
48
50.5%
Paid app
37
38.9%
IAP
23
24.2%
VC funded, not worrying about that right now
18
18.9%
Subscriptions
17
17.9%
Ads
10
10.5%
Other
7
7.4%


How do you primarily make money from apps/mobile ecosystem?

I work full time for a company
49
51.6%
Publishing apps that I develop
37
38.9%
Contract app development
23
24.2%
Teaching others how to do it
18
18.9%
Other 
17
17.9%
Making tools for other developers
10
10.5%
I work part time for a company
7
7.4%


If you work full time for someone else, what is your annual salary?

- Average $106,000



If you work full time for someone else, what other benefits do you get?

Paid Vacation
67
93.1%
Health Insurance
67
93.1%
401k/retirement
44
61.1%
iDevices, as needed
39
54.2%
Stock options
35
48.6%
Pays for service plan for iPhone
14
19.4%
Other
9
12.5%
Profit Sharing
7
9.7%


Do you do contract app development? Or does the company you work for hire you out…

Sometimes, on the side
44
46.0%
No
42
44.0%
Yes, full time
9
9.0%


What is your (or your employer's) hourly rate for contract app development?

- Average $103/hr