Top 50 fastest growing online jobs in Q3 2011

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Freelancer.com, largest outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace, has announced its 50 fastest growing outsourcing jobs for the third quarter.

The Freelancer.com Fast 50 charts the top job categories in the world quarter by quarter, and provides an up-to-date account of job trends in online.

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Chief Executive, Matt Barrie, said, "The Fast 50 is a sophisticated indicator of the global online economy. These quarterly reports reflect the fortunes of companies such as Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Google, and we can dig deeper, beyond companies, to identify trends in the ascendancy and those in decline."

Almost 114,000 jobs were posted in the third quarter, up from 104,000 in the previous quarter.

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"Projects are up nearly 10 per cent compared to the second quarter. The diversity of the project categories represented, and quality of work delivered, continues to improve in leaps and bounds," Barrie added.

According to Barrie, Latest Facebook changes to intensify battle for social networking supremacy with Google+. Both Facebook and Social networking projects were up 32 per cent and 36 per cent respectively, before Mark Zuckerberg revealed Facebook's latest innovations at its annual f8 Conference last month.

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According to the Barrie, HTML5 projects are up whopping 38 per cent (to 1125 projects), while Flash declined 10 per cent (to 2794 jobs).

Adobe is planning for a post-Flash future, with the company recently launched Edge, which enables professionals to design animated Web content using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, rather than Flash, he added.

Barrie further added that, 3D Modelling, Rendering and Animation grew strongly amid demand from the entertainment and high-tech digital media industries.

Mobile apps start to fizz with the rate of growth of Android more than halving. After posting 20 percent growth last quarter, Android grew just 8 per cent this quarter (to 1848 jobs), but still doubled the growth rate iPhone projects (up 3 per cent to 3110 jobs- down from 9 per cent growth in Q2), said Barrie.

He further added that, we previously estimated that Android will overtake the iPhone by Q4 2012, and remain confident of this, despite this quarter's slowdown. Meanwhile, Blackberry and Symbian jobs were both down by 6 per cent each, continuing their steady decline from the previous quarter.

“Blackberry's woes are no surprise, with recent external data from comScore confirming that its smartphone sales dropped from 24.7 per cent to 19.7 per cent, while rumors abound that the company's foray into the tablet market is set to end due to non-existent public interest."

We have certainly seen a complete disinterest in Blackberry Playbook projects on Freelancer.com. comScore reported recently that the number of Android phones in use grew by nearly the same amount that Symbian phones declined, 44 per cent, says Barrie.

“We see a similar ratio with Android (up 8 per cent) and Symbian apps (down 6 per cent). It has prompted many to label Android the Symbian killer, although Nokia seems to be doing a pretty good job by itself.”

Other winners & losers:

Jobs related to Apple products continue to rise, with Cocoa jobs up 55 per cent (to 743, 3rd overall) and Objective C up 23 per cent (to 1035 jobs, 11th).

Microsoft continued with its terminal decline across the board (.NET, Windows Mobile, Exchange, Access, Server and Expression).

Java jobs fell 13 per cent (to 1857 projects), questioning whether Java is falling out of favor compared to the lingua franca of websites, PHP (a behemoth 25,639 jobs, up 3.3 per cent).