Despite high global unemployment rates, 74 percent of U.S. and U.K. companies are looking for candidates to fill mobile positions, and 29 percent of those are hiring mobile strategists, according to research by Antenna Software.

The demand for workers with mobile skills is expected to grow over the next year as 51 percent of respondents say they've created mobile-specific roles while 20 percent of respondents say they intend to add one to two mobile-related roles in the next year. Another 5 percent of respondents say they could introduce as many as five to 10 mobile roles during the next 12 months.

Of respondents with open mobile positions, 25 percent say finding the right workers is challenging, and 93 percent say this is not due to few applicants but attributed to the lack of candidates with the right qualifications. Even 40 percent of respondents say the volume of applicants is the least challenging facto when filling new mobile roles.