Freelancer.com, the world’s largest outsourcing and crowd sourcing marketplace and confirmed attendee at Digital JAM 2.0 3 day event on June 28th -30th, 2012 at the Jamaica Conference Centre, today announced its 50 fastest growing online job categories for the first quarter of 2012 with the release of the Freelancer Fast 50.
According to the Chief Executive, Matt Barrie, “the Fast 50 pulls data from over 3.3 million users and 1.5 million projects creating the most comprehensive insight into online job trends. “We have seen a huge increase in outsourcing on the whole, with businesses rethinking their strategies moving into the New Year,” Barrie said.
The other jobs in the Fast 50′s top 10 include:
- PDF Converters and Editors
- Excel
- Data Processing
- Copy Typing
- Web Search
- Virtual Assistant
- Data Entry
- Article Submission
- Customer Support
Top 3 Trends for Q1 2012:
– Outsourcing surges with a rise in business process outsourcing: Outsourcing of backoffice and non-core functionality has seen a dramatic rise in the last quarter with Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) showing the highest growth of any job category in Q1 of 2012.
– Huge increase in VA jobs as businesses focus on core activities: Virtual Assistant jobs (up by 144% to 3205 jobs) have seen a surge in this quarter. SMEs, who traditionally do office administration in-house, are outsourcing these tasks as a result of the comparatively low cost of off-shore labour.
– Mobile app development grows as smart phones show no sign of slowing: Android (up by 26% to 2,863 jobs), iPhone (up by 27% to 4,318 jobs) and iPad (up by 19% to 1,828 jobs), with “post-PC device” sales outstripping that of PCs and a slew of new models hitting the market, the number of jobs in these areas has seen a steady increase.
Full Press Release:http://press.freelancer.com.s3.amazonaws.com/2012-04-26-Freelancer-Fast-50-Q1-2012.pdf
About Freelancer.com
Freelancer.com is the largest outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace in the world. Through Freelancer.com, businesses connect with over 3.3 million independent professionals from all over the world. Employers can hire freelancers in areas such as software, writing, data entry and design, right through to engineering and the sciences, sales & marketing and accounting & legal services. The average job is under US$200, making Freelancer.com extremely cost effective for small businesses, which often need a wide variety of jobs to be done, but cannot justify the expense of hiring full time.
