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19 Oct

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Global Freelance Market Trends – Sep 09

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Committed to delivering valuable information that will help freelancers in their search for freelance jobs and in intelligent strategizing, www.donanza.com has once again release its monthly dose report of Global Freelance Market Trends— this time, for the month of September.

With a relatively increasing number of followers and job seekers, the Donanza Team provides detailed statistics for freelance job scopes such as Web Design, Graphic Design, Content Writing, Social Networking, SEO and Sales to keep freelancers clued up on the movement of the ever changing world of freelancing.

This month’s Donanza search engine results are based on thousands of job postings from prominent freelance bidding sites such as oDesk, Elance and Scriptlance. The figures aim to serve as a guide on how ‘new’ service providers can find job from various sources in a single webpage and on how ‘tenured’ providers can commit wise decisions with regard to their field of expertise and career direction.

Last Month’s freelance job market trends report focused on the implication of the month’s statistics on the overall movement of the freelance job and outsourcing industry. Now, the statistics will be presented as is to give freelancers an unbiased feel on how to decide for their own careers.

50 Most Required Skills


DoNanza’s Index Skills Trends – September 2009
#Rank Skill #Rank Skill
#1 PHP (-) #26 Content Writing (-7)
#2 Website Design (-) #27 Advertising (-3)
#3 Graphic Design (-) #28 Link Building (9)
#4 SEO (+1) #29 XML (+1)
#5 MySQL (-1) #30 Script Installation (+4)
#6 Flash (-) #31 Craigslist (N/A)
#7 CSS (+1) #32 Research (-)
#8 Data Entry (-1) #33 Illustrator (-7)
#9 Copywriting (-) #34 Article writing (-9)
#10 WordPress (+1) #35 Data Processing (-4)
#11 HTML (-1) #36 iPhone (-)
#12 Javascript (-) #37 Excel (-4)
#13 Photoshop (-) #38 Sales (-3)
#14 Joomla (+1) #39 Technical Writing (+2)
#15 AJAX (+1) #40 ASP (-)
#16 Marketing (+1) #41 e-Marketing (N/A)
#17 Logo Design (-3) #42 Video Service (-)
#18 e-Commerce (+21) #43 Proofreading (-5)
#19 .NET (-1) #44 Drupal (+1)
#20 JAVA (+3) #45 Bulk Marketing (N/A)
#21 Social Networking (+1) #46 Ghostwriting (+29)
#22 C/C++ (+6) #47 Multimedia (+17)
#23 SQL (-3) #48 Facebook (-4)
#24 XHTML (+3) #49 C# (+1)
#25 Blog (+4) #50 Linux (-7)

This report covers 50 skills (considered most required) with rankings based on the number of jobs posted under each skill in the month of September. Our top 3 skills seem immovable from their spots. Freelancers from India will surely be most delighted on this result as news from softpedia specified India as the next largest PHP development source on the internet— with United States as its nearest competition.

SEO, however, which is currently in the fourth spot of our top 5, appears to be moving in ups and downs from top 4 last July to top 5 last August and now on top 4 again. MYSQL completes our top 5 with CSS and Data Entry always in an attempt to replace it in its spot.

The biggest rise in the list as of the month of September is Ghostwriting. The biggest dive out of the list, on the other hand is article writing with 9 steps behind its former slot. Finally, the Market Trend’s most impressive growth was recorded by Ghostwriting which is now 28 slots up from its former position in the top 100. Ironically, other skills under the category of content development recorded tremendous losses this month.

10 Most Popular Searches

10 Most Popular Searches
#1 Graphic Design
#2 Software Dev.
#3 Writing
#4 Web Dev.
#5 Translation
#6 Admin Support
#7 PHP
#8 Illustration
#9 Java
#10 Web Design

In demand trends or what we refer to as our 10 Most Popular Searches are Graphic Design, Software Development, Writing, Web Development, Translation, Admin Support, PHP, Illustration, Java and Web Design. The list has not gone through much change this month except for the fact that SEO, Multimedia and iPhone are already nowhere to be found in the top 10.

As advised earlier, this report is now simply a representation of the statistics based on collected facts. It will be helpful if you will check out our online freelance job market trends for the month of July and August for a better look on the status of your field of expertise and the demands (opportunities) that it generates for you.

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03 Aug

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Global Freelance Market Trends – July 09

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Freelancing Industry is indeed here to stay— this is what Donanza’s Search Engine Results and Rankings imply. If you are in doubt that this is for real, check out these three categories which can show you how the virtual home based scene has evolved from an unemployment option into a fulltime home based position.

50 Most Required Skills

Together with Donanza’s mission to expose all the freelance jobs available over the web comes a need to monitor market trends, provide statistics and present these data in an organized and unbiased manner. This category, together with the rest that will appear in this post, are going to be a constant content of this page as Donanza continually gives you a bird’s eye view of the freelancing industry’s movements. Below are the 50 Most Required Skills based on all the freelance websites’ job posts collected and tabulated.

DoNanza’s Index Skills Trends – July 2009
#Rank Skill #Rank Skill
#1 PHP #26 Link Building
#2 Website Design #27 Sales
#3 Graphic Design #28 Script Installation
#4 SEO #29 C/C++
#5 Data Entry #30 Illustrator
#6 MySQL #31 Excel
#7 Flash #32 Proofreading
#8 Copywriting #33 Research
#9 CSS #34 XML
#10 Javascript #35 XHTML
#11 Photoshop #36 Blog
#12 HTML #37 Article writing
#13 WordPress #38 iPhone
#14 Logo Design #39 Translation
#15 AJAX #40 ASP
#16 Joomla #41 Telemarketing
#17 Web Promotion #42 Market Research
#18 .NET #43 e-Commerce
#19 Social Networking #44 Linux
#20 Data Processing #45 Video Service
#21 SQL #46 Shopping Cart
#22 English #47 Visual Basic
#23 Content Writing #48 Admin Assistant
#24 JAVA #49 Internet Marketing
#25 Marketing #50 Facebook

Topping our 50 Most Required Skills chart are Php, Website Design, Graphic Design, SEO and Data Entry— all of which happen to be working together as a team to come up with an ‘attractive’ webpage. By attractive, we mean pleasing to the eye and search engine friendly.
An increasing trend on content-related skills (Copywriting, HTML, WordPress, Content Writing, Link Building, Blog and Article Writing) is also notable. This is obviously brought about by the increasing number of businesses with online presence which requires regular content updates for marketing purposes. Needless to say, content is a critical part of any webpage which may even determine a page’s affectivity over internet browsers and site visitors.

15 Most Popular Searches

10 Most Popular Searches
#1 Writing
#2 Software Dev.
#3 Graphic Design
#4 Web Dev.
#5 Admin Support
#6 Translation
#7 PHP
#8 SEO
#9 iPhone
#10 Web Design
#11 Java
#12 .NET
#13 Logo Design
#14 Android
#15 Paython

The best part of reading this is that you get to know which amongst the 50 Most Required Skills are consistently on every prospect clients’ watch list. Here is a table showcasing the top performers in Donanza’s search engine.
Landing the top spot is writing, which is a common freelance job, outsourced by clients from around the globe. Admin Support also finds its place in our list’s Top 5 as more and more people are already outsourcing administrative freelance jobs which includes (but are not limited to); web research, e-mail correspondence, diary management, blog posting, article submission to directories and business call handling.
Our Top 5 Most Required Skills also made it in our 15 Most Popular Searches. A common factor simply implies that there is more to come for these industries for a long period of time. Therefore, if you have the gift of gab or competitive programming skills, you are surely going to be in for some great freelance job appointments!

Funniest/Weirdest/Most Romantic Freelance Job Post

The last, but surely not the least category will be Donanza’s Funniest/Weirdest/Most Romantic Freelance Job Post. Let us cut out some slack and entertain ourselves with a job post which will have you wonder how a future bride would feel if she knew that her future groom’s efforts to make his marriage proposal to her extra special has even made its way to the virtual freelancing world!

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This is a proof of how limitless freelance job opportunities can be. This is not unique at all. Sure it is separable from the lot, but if you’ll care to browse some more, you will know that almost anyone can go on freelancing through the use of their valuable skills and a little self promotion.

Watch out for next month’s Search Engine Results, Rankings and Market Statistics, and continually make use of these data to be able to properly strategize and demand-proof your freelance career goals.

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