Thursday, July 26, 2012

Freelancer's Fast 50 Reveals Fastest Growing Tech Jobs

Interesting data from a roll-up of 190,000 tech job listings, with some observations after the table.

FREELANCER FAST 50 (FASTEST MOVERS)

Rank

Category

Q2 2012

Q1 2012

Growth

1

Word

1594

728

118.96%

2

Web Scraping

3232

2025

59.60%

3

Objective C

1809

1140

58.68%

4

User Interface / IA

1756

1234

42.30%

5

Mobile Phone

5709

4209

35.64%

6

iPhone

5112

3926

30.21%

7

iPad

2308

1826

26.40%

8

C Programming

2501

2068

20.94%

9

Android

3444

2859

20.46%

10

HTML5

2108

1763

19.57%

11

PDF

1647

1385

18.92%

12

Virtual Assistant

3770

3202

17.74%

13

jQuery / Prototype

2247

1927

16.61%

14

Data Processing

21274

18331

16.05%

15

Excel

22947

20282

13.14%

16

Software Architecture

5095

4530

12.47%

17

Shopping Carts

2647

2370

11.69%

18

Telemarketing

1104

999

10.51%

19

Banner Design

1810

1672

8.25%

20

Technical Writing

2250

2119

6.18%

21

Copy Typing

2835

2709

4.65%

22

Logo Design

5768

5569

3.57%

23

Linux

1270

1239

2.50%

24

Magento

1752

1723

1.68%

25

Social Networking

5308

5250

1.10%

26

Website Design

23098

22945

0.67%

27

Data Entry

30943

30805

0.45%

28

Illustrator

2096

2103

-0.33%

29

HTML

22281

22533

-1.12%

30

Twitter

2184

2213

-1.31%

31

Flash

2522

2594

-2.78%

32

PHP

29381

30254

-2.89%

33

Article Submission

2681

2792

-3.98%

34

Proofreading

1377

1447

-4.84%

35

Internet Marketing

13848

14667

-5.58%

36

AJAX

3709

3978

-6.76%

37

Report Writing

1220

1313

-7.08%

38

SEO

9397

10133

-7.26%

39

C++ Programming

1921

2074

-7.38%

40

Link Building

6529

7120

-8.30%

41

C# Programming

1935

2122

-8.81%

42

Article Rewriting

6298

6941

-9.26%

43

Blog

3581

4086

-12.36%

44

Customer Support

1022

1171

-12.72%

45

Facebook

6510

7537

-13.63%

46

Articles

11282

13064

-13.64%

47

Academic Writing

3579

4219

-15.17%

48

eBay

1042

1284

-18.85%

49

Classifieds Posting

661

826

-19.98%

50

.NET

2919

4748

-38.52%


Mobile and user experience (UX) is hotter than a firecracker.

In what may be an anomaly, Microsoft's .NET stack fell off a cliff this quarter.

Open standards, with HTML 5, Javascript and the ubiquitous jQuery, continue to dominate.


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