Freelancing hub Freelancer.com compiles a quarterly roundup of job categories where it sees the biggest growth in job postings. The big growth areas in the last quarter of 2012? Web hosting, software testing and website testing.
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The full list is below. Remember that the numbers reflect jobs posted, not necessarily accepted: if everyone who wants freelance web hosting assistance is paying lousy rates, that won’t be evident from the figures. A total of 261,003 jobs were listed on the site during the quarter.
| Rank | Job | Q4 2012 | Q3 2012 | % change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Web Hosting | 4059 | 118 | 3340% |
| 2 | Software Testing | 5200 | 196 | 2554% |
| 3 | Website Testing | 3923 | 182 | 2055% |
| 4 | Website Management | 4073 | 551 | 639% |
| 5 | Engineering | 2477 | 408 | 507% |
| 6 | Amazon Web Services | 1895 | 335 | 466% |
| 7 | Powerpoint | 1253 | 306 | 309% |
| 8 | Windows Desktop | 1923 | 475 | 305% |
| 9 | Word | 4578 | 1474 | 211% |
| 10 | Email Marketing | 1003 | 351 | 186% |
| 11 | Icon Design | 1007 | 429 | 135% |
| 12 | Book Writing | 1300 | 623 | 109% |
| 13 | Software Architecture | 12127 | 5897 | 106% |
| 14 | Copy Typing | 12897 | 6917 | 86% |
| 15 | 2444 | 1375 | 78% | |
| 16 | XML | 1479 | 858 | 72% |
| 17 | Technical Writing | 3495 | 2092 | 67% |
| 18 | Translation | 3297 | 2100 | 57% |
| 19 | Linux | 2185 | 1412 | 55% |
| 20 | Academic Writing | 5403 | 3506 | 54% |
| 21 | SQL | 1810 | 1308 | 38% |
| 22 | Accounting | 1035 | 757 | 37% |
| 23 | Script Install | 1947 | 1450 | 34% |
| 24 | C# Programming | 2750 | 2103 | 31% |
| 25 | User Interface / IA | 2777 | 2155 | 29% |
| 26 | Java | 3277 | 2560 | 28% |
| 27 | MySQL | 14024 | 11002 | 27% |
| 28 | CSS | 9015 | 7098 | 27% |
| 29 | Web Scraping | 3189 | 2511 | 27% |
| 30 | Research | 2669 | 2111 | 26% |
| 31 | ASP | 1500 | 1187 | 26% |
| 32 | HTML5 | 3827 | 3038 | 26% |
| 33 | 3D Animation | 1655 | 1328 | 25% |
| 34 | 3D Modelling | 1466 | 1187 | 24% |
| 35 | eBay | 1790 | 1469 | 22% |
| 36 | Illustration | 1555 | 1290 | 21% |
| 37 | Visual Basic | 1630 | 1372 | 19% |
| 38 | jQuery / Prototype | 3527 | 2972 | 19% |
| 39 | Android | 4282 | 4002 | 7% |
| 40 | Internet Marketing | 15244 | 15458 | -1.40% |
| 41 | eCommerce | 3862 | 3931 | -1.80% |
| 42 | Link Building | 6844 | 7066 | -3.10% |
| 43 | SEO | 10159 | 10505 | -3.30% |
| 44 | Shopping Carts | 2944 | 3059 | -3.80% |
| 45 | iPhone | 5298 | 5508 | -3.80% |
| 46 | Social Networking | 5820 | 6131 | -5.10% |
| 47 | 2240 | 2392 | -6.40% | |
| 48 | 6581 | 7186 | -8.40% | |
| 49 | iPad | 2036 | 2376 | -14% |
| 50 | BPO | 2946 | 4493 | -34% |
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