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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Freelancer.com reports surge in demand for mobile developers (Web worker daily)

Freelancer.com online jobs site today published its Freelancer 50 report focuses on the growth of various categories of employment on its market in the third quarter of 2010. The conclusions should prove particularly encouraging for mobile developers, with the report showing the growth in the category "Mobile phone" a staggering 145 percent.

Since the boom in mobile applications, it shouldn't be a surprise to see that freelancers with mobile development skills are in demand. But mobile application developers should always be pleased to see the category "Mobile phone" showing the fastest overall in this report. Search later on the list of skills in demand, there is more good news: Android category is also very strong, showing the growth of 24% over the previous quarter. It is less pink image for the iPhone, developers, whose category decreased by 4%.

Web developers should probably start brushing on HTML5 skills if they have not already. HTML5 growth increased by 72% in the third quarter. HTML5 and other related technologies, such as CSS3 and geolocation, can still not be supported in all browsers immediately, but businesses avant-pensée are already seeking to build innovative products.

Here are the top 10 of the report job categories:

Of course, as with similar reports from other independent markets such as Elance, you should take these figures with a pinch of salt. It is only the data market, albeit a large enough with two million users and approximately 180,000 jobs posted in the third quarter, and is also subject to the whims of the classification of jobs cut in, sometimes it is not white as for the categories, a particular work should fall, so it cannot be taken as representative of the broader freelance job market. However, it gives an interesting insight into market Freelancer.com.

Developers mobile app: are see you a surge in demand for your skills?

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