Freelancer.com is the largest outsourcing website in the world. Recently it has released a report which contains details about the freelance trends in 2010.
According to this report, the demand for Content Writing in the freelance industry is growing day by day. Last year alone the more than 35 thousand projects were posted for content writing. It is a growth of whooping 410 percent. Technical writing and Ghost Writing too had a huge growth. This really shows that there has been ever increasing focus on Search Engine Optimization.
The next biggest mover is Social Networking. Facebook Application is the leader in this category with 11,000 projects and it is closely followed by Twitter Application with 3,000 + projects. They have grown up by 364% and 85% respectively. Selling in Internet is also growing. eBay projects increased 791% to reach 3900 + projects.
These are the top ten biggest movers
- Articles
- Article Rewriting
- PHP
- Graphic Design
- Facebook
- Advertising
- Academic Writing
- Ghost Writing
- Leads Blog
The biggest losers are
- Windows Desktop
- Perl
- Proof Reading
- Web Security
- System Admin
- C Programming
- XML
- Accounting
- ASP
- Flash
Freelancer.com extracted this data from more than 3,20,000 projects.
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