Jobs: Tech, Cloud on the Rise

Allison Howen — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:45:00 GMT

A recent report from online work platform Elance, shows that more work is migrating to the tech industry, even including a greater demand for jobs in the cloud.

Unlike the traditional employment market, the number of businesses that are hiring online workers has increased 107 percent in the last year.

Hiring trends from the past quarter include an increased need for those that have skills with 3D multimedia and video, as well as skills in mobile — including a 32 percent increase in demand for iOS skills, a 25 percent rise in demand for those with iPad-specific skills and a 14 percent increase for workers with Android skills.

Additionally, the report shows an increased focus on CRM and customer data, including a 35 percent rise in demand for Salesforce.com experts, a 9 percent increase for SugarCRM and 29 percent increase for Data Interpretation.

According to the report, the top five overall skills in demand include PHP programmers, Wordpress programmers, article writing, graphic design and HTML programmers.

Elance Report on Hot Online Skills

MaureenA — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:42:00 GMT

Elance released its Online Work Index report for April 2009. The report lists the top 100 skills in demand for current job postings. The list is definitely something to consider for those looking to advance their skills to make them more marketable in a tough job market - including soon-to-be-graduates. The top 10 skills are a good mix of technical skills and creative skills with PHP and MySQL ranking 1 and 2 respectively, and graphic design and article writing ranking 4 and 5 respectively. Social media continues to grow, as Twitter skills made the first appearance on the report ranking at 93. Facebook skills increased by 10 from the previous report.

In addition, Elance lists whether the skills have increased or decreased in demand and by how many points. The report is based on more than 100,000 jobs posted on the site in the last few months.

Elance offers professionals 250 skills tests for free on its site. The report notes that more than 13,000 skills tests were taken in March.

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Jobs: Tech, Cloud on the Rise

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