Online freelance network freelancers say there is a high demand for people who are good at developing apps for mobile phones and tablets. com. Freelancer.
Com is an "outsourced" website through which employers can hire freelancers in areas such as software, writing, data entry, engineering, science, sales and marketing, accounting and legal services.
The site has more than 3 million users. Freelancer.
Com today released its online employment trends survey for the first three months of 2012, which includes 50 fastest-growing employment categories.
"Demand for Mobile (application)
As more and more businesses seek to deliver their products and services on these platforms, developers are no longer able to meet and will continue to grow, freelancers.
Com said in a statement.
Sales as "Postal"PC (
PC)
The equipment has surpassed PCs, and new models of products have entered the market, and jobs in these areas have increased.
The number of freelancers available for the Android app is up 2,863 from the fourth quarter of the 2011 calendar year, reaching one;
Jobs for IPhone apps increased by 4,318;
The price of the IPad rose 1,828.
Still, Android is only 23 in the fastest-growing job category; iPhone at 25; and iPad at 35.
The fastest jobs in the top five are outsourced by business processes (Up 303)
This is the outsourcing of "backstage"
"Office" and "non
Core functions.
Followed by PDF (Up 227); Excel (Up 200);
Data Processing (Up 187);
And copy typing (Up 152).
Twitter ranked 17 (up 39 per cent);
You take care of it at 20 (up 31 per cent); eBay at 27 (up 26 per cent);
And Facebook in 36 (
Up nine).
This data was extracted from the 172,936 positions posted on freelancers.
Com calendar 2012 for the first quarter. Freelancer.
Com chief executive Matt Barrie said the hiring position increased by 30 percentage points compared to the first three months.
"Overall, we see a significant increase in outsourcing and businesses are rethinking their strategy to move into the new year," he said . ".
Given the general slowdown, companies are trying to cut costs and see the use of online freelancers as a profit driver, Barry said. Small and medium-sized-
Scale of Enterprise (SMEs)
Ask for help from freelancer-the-
Customer Support.
Due to relatively low offshore costs, SMEs are also managing in outsourcing officesshore labour.
The 10 fastest growing areas of work for freelancers.
COM: 1 business process outsourcing 2 portable document format (pdf)
3 excel 4 data processing 5 Copy type 6 Web search 7 virtual assistant 8 data entry 9 article subtask 10 customer support Source: freelancer.