‘Mobility for business’ and ‘enterprise mobility’ concepts are now gaining momentum considering the changing behavioral patterns of users in this digital age. As per Jan 2017 report, there are 4.9 billion unique mobile users overall. The penetration rate of mobile phones into our day-to-day lives has increased by 66%.
Mobile Apps for Businesses
Utility of mobile apps for businesses is realized by entrepreneurs who are now coming up with mobile app development requirements. Large enterprises can afford to handover the project to a reputed mobile app development company, however small land medium size businesses are bound to get the work done in limited budget. This is where the service of ‘hire app developers’ comes in handy.
Estimating the Real Cost of Hiring App Developer
In order to estimate the real world cost of hiring an app developer, we need to know the situation in which a client would choose this approach. There are 2 possibilities under which client choose to hire mobile app developer:
- Client is looking forward to build a mobile app from scratch. In this case, he needs a developer who can handle the project from development to deployment to the App Store.
- In another case, client may already have an app existing in the App Store which he wishes to redevelop to make it more functional and feature-rich in nature.
The cost to build an app right from the start is different from revamping it. This is because the total number of hours spent in development would drastically differ in both these cases.
Apart from this, the overall cost of hiring a developer also depends on the complexity of app. For example, a static app may cost bare minimum while developing gaming or social media app would require you to spend handsome amount of money.
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Following table gives a rough estimate of how much would it cost to hire a developer from leading mobile app development company:
This table shows tentative rates for one to calculate and set aside a budget for mobile app development project. Another thing to consider while estimating the budget is that hiring developers would not account for total cost of project. Other resources such as designer and QA would also be involved in the project.
The rates charged by developers vary as per their experience, expertise and level of work portfolio undertaken by them.
The rates charged by developers vary as per their experience, expertise and level of work portfolio undertaken by them.