Highlights
In Q3 2010, employers on Elance posted 98,032 new jobs and online professionals earned over $24 million working on Elance, pushing the lifetime earnings on Elance to over $300 million. Top sectors included IT and Creative Services, with Marketing experiencing the strongest year-over-year growth.Online Professionals earned a record $24.5 million on Elance in Q3 2010, a 42% year-over-year increase
Job postings are up 11% in Q3, a marked contrast to the stagnant off-line job market
While IT continues to maintain its position as the largest category (59% of overall earnings), Marketing experienced the fastest growth (with provider earnings up 61% year-over-year)
Jobs for PHP programmers, HTML5, Mobile and Social Gaming developers fueled the growth in the IT category (up 40% year-over-year)
Data By Category
- Overall Highlights
- Information Technology
- Creative
- Marketing
- Operations
- US Outlook
Top IT Skills In Demand
Rank
Skill
Change
1.
PHP
-
2.
HTML
-
3.
WordPress
1
4.
MySQL
1
5.
CSS
-
6.
Flash
-
7.
JavaScript
-
8.
iPhone
-
9.
Joomla!
1
10.
AJAX
1
11.
.NET
-
12.
eCommerce
-
13.
XHTML
-
14.
iPad
2
15.
jQuery
14
16.
Facebook
1
17.
Android
8
18.
ASP.NET
4
19.
Java
1
20.
Drupal
-
21.
Web Services
4
22.
Social Networking Apps
1
23.
HTML5
NEW
24.
XML
1
25.
SQL
3
26.
Google Website Optimizer
7
27.
ActionScript
1
28.
PayPal
4
29.
Objective-C
1
30.
SQL Server
2
31.
Linux
4
32.
BlackBerry
4
33.
Google Maps
NEW
34.
ASP
2
35.
Ruby on Rails
2
36.
Mobile
7
37.
osCommerce
2
38.
Amazon Web Services
2
40.
Twitter
2
41.
C #
NEW
42.
LAMP
7
43.
DHTML
9
44.
Flex
3
45.
Cocoa
-
46.
Google App Engine
9
47.
Apache
5
48.
Microsoft Access
2
49.
Xcode
5
50.
Zen Cart
-
Top IT Performing Countries
Rank
Country
Change
1.
India-
2.
Ukraine-
3.
United States-
4.
Pakistan-
5.
Russia-
6.
Romania-
7.
United Kingdom-
8.
Canada-
9.
China1
10.
Bangladesh1
IT Provider Earnings
$11,738,064
Q1 2010
$13,542,922
Q2 2010
$14,375,265
Q3 2010
Spotlight on IT
- IT remained the top performing job category with a 40% increase in provider earnings in Q3 year-over-year
- Google Maps made its debut on the top 100 overall skill list jumping 185 spots, signaling a huge trend by businesses looking to incorporate geolocation features into their websites and mobile applications
- Demand for specific mobile technologies continued to trend upwards throughout 2010 with iPhone (up 5 into the top 20), and iPad (up 4) climbing the charts, while demand for Android developers surged 26 positions into the top 50. BlackBerry, riding momentum from Q2, makes its debut on the top 100 chart after jumping 13 positions
