Fastest growing freelance jobs in Australia

Australia based crowdsourcing marketplace website, Freelancer.com, released its latest Fast 50 Report charting the fastest growing and declining job categories.

 

Social media jobs and creative skills show the highest rise in demand. Website development, as well as internet applications, also were in high demand.

 

React.js jobs grew by 25.73% in the last quarter. React.js is the open source JavaScript library which is used for mobile applications and user interface development. Almost 2,121 React.js jobs were posted by Freelancer.com, placing this job category in the second position in terms of growth.

 

Active Server Pages (ASP) which is the server side script engine used for web pages also showed immense growth in demand. Freelancer.com posted 2,138 ASP jobs in the third quarter, which was a 21.75% increase quarter-by-quarter. This placed ASP jobs in third place over the quarter, in terms of growth.

 

Angular.js, another JavaScript-based web application framework, saw a growth of 7.75% with almost 475 jobs being posted on the website.

 

Projects featuring Adobe Flash grew by 19.54% with almost 1,890 jobs, as per The Business Insider.

 

Social Networking jobs were the seventh highest in-demand jobs with a growth of nearly 16.90%. Almost 2,283 such jobs were posted by Freelancer.com. Facebook Marketing, with a growth rate of 15.05% with 6,733 jobs was ranked eighth among the fastest growing jobs.

 

The Top 25 fastest growing jobs, as per Freelancer.com, are:

 

Rank	Job Category	Q2 2018	Q3 2018	Growth (%)
1	Copy Typing	4090	5203	27.21
2	React.js	1687	2121	25.73
3	ASP	1756	2138	21.75
4	Adobe Flash	1581	1890	19.54
5	Word	2939	3439	17.01
6	Data processing	11353	13282	16.99
7	Social Networking	1953	2283	16.90
8	Facebook Marketing	5852	6733	15.05
9	Illustrator	24571	27948	13.74
10	Node.js	3394	3825	12.70
11	Customer Service	1452	1627	12.05
12	Virtual Assistant	5299	5927	11.85
13	Twitter	2476	2747	10.95
14	Social Media Marketing	6233	6867	10.17
15	Data Entry	24425	26884	10.07
16	Amazon Web Services	2726	2988	9.61
17	Django	1109	1215	9.56
18	PDF	2452	2685	9.50
19	Customer Support	1947	2125	9.14
20	Video Production	3606	3905	8.29
21	Visual Basic	3339	3608	8.06
22	Angular.js	4407	4750	7.78
23	Photoshop Design	10818	11607	7.29
24	Blog	6379	6833	7.12
25	Web Hosting	2064	2209	7.03

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