Following our usual monthly report, we present the conclusions of the recent Elance Work Index, a top provided by Elance, which ranks the most desired skills in today’s online freelance work. Even if the latest report is only for the month of October, PHP skills seem to have won the competition for the number one spot in this year’s top, Elance reports.
After battling it out with Graphic Design all year, exchanging the number one spot between them several times, the fall in job numbers for Graphic Designers has clearly put PHP on top of the annual rankings. This demise has been noticed starting with August when Graphic Design skills slipped out of the top two positions, slowly going down to number ten for the month of October.
This month’s top ten is:
1. PHP
2. HTML
3. Article Writing
4. Content Writing
5. CSS
6. WordPress
7. Adobe Flash
8. Creative Writing
9. Photoshop
10. Graphic Design.
Analyzing the rest of the top 100 (via this link), we can see a huge number of writing-related skills like Creative Writing, Article Writing, Content Writing, Copywriting, Business Writing, Academic Writing and more.
As the team from Elance also noticed, this month’s top 100 was invaded by Translation-related skills, with Spanish Translation ranked at n… (read more)