What are the marketable skills right now? Rupa Toor at Elance wrote an article for my website on the top skills that clients are looking for right now. They list them in a place called Skills Central where Elance consolidates the demand and supply for hundreds of skills.
How does this help you? With Skills Central, you can easily identify the skills that are in high demand by employers, enabling you learn, offer or market your skills to attract new clients and work. If you’re new to freelancing and don’t know where to start, you can also use Skills Central to get an idea of where you should focus your service offering. Want to know what’s hot right now?
Top 20 Skills in demand on Elance based on jobs posted in December 2008 by Rupa Toor:
3 MySQL
4 HTML Coding
6 CSS Programming
8 Flash
10 Research
11 Web Content
12 Photoshop
13 Data Entry
14 Illustrator
15 Logo Design
16 AJAX
17 Javascript
18 WordPress
19 Copywriting
Compared to the top 10 skills in demand in October 2008, December 2008 shows the following trends:
– 8 of the 10 skills listed in October are still in demand in December
– PHP Programming remains the top skill in demand
– Graphic Design is moving up – starting at spot number five in October 2008, and currently in up to number two.
Check out Skills Central today and get in on the latest trends.
Rupa Toor, a Marketing Associate at Elance, manages and writes for the Elance blog.
Rupa Toor / Barry Moltz:
I visited the Elance Skills Central site and the site lists the number of professionals available to work each skill and not the number of jobs posted for that skill.
Except if I am mistaken, I am missing the part where it tells you how many jobs were posted for each skill.
This is important to me because I just posted an article saying that SQL Skills are at #3 in the list of sought after skills and my readers are asking what the first two are.
Can you answer that? Here is the article: http://www.it-career-coach.net/2009/02/15/sql-third-most-in-demand-skill/