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<u>Freelancer.com</u> (ASX: FLN) (OTCQX: FLNCF), the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by number of users and jobs posted, today released its quarterly Fast 50 Index for Q4 2022.
The index, which is based on data from 372,000 jobs posted on <u>Freelancer.com</u> between October 1 to December 31st 2022, ranks programming, report writing, and research related jobs among the fastest growing skills on the platform.
At the end of the year, many businesses and companies often rely on freelancers to assist with high volume tasks. According to the Q4 data, the leading tasks for the end of 2022 were Report Writing, Research and Technical Writing.
These job types were trending as employers were hiring freelancers to support them with compiling 2022 retrospective reports, creating strategic plans for 2023, and writing business reports. Research jobs also spiked as many entrepreneurs aim to start businesses in the new year, increasing the number of market research and business plan projects posted to the platform.
Report Writing (up 59.5%, from 3,374 to 5,384) takes the number one spot in the index when ranking the percentage growth of more than 2,000 skills available on Freelancer.com. Coming in a close second is the skill Matlab and Mathematica (up 56.4%, from 1,250 to 1,955), which are separate programming languages used by engineers and scientists to analyze data. Research jobs and Research Writing rank as the third and fifth fastest growing skills, up by 36.3% (from 3,905 to 5,325) and 32.1% (from 7,527 to 9,944), respectively.
<i>Top 5 Fast Growing Skills for Q4 2022:</i>
Report Writing – up 59.5%
Matlab and Mathematica – up 56.4%
Research – up 36.3%
Web Scraping – up 32.6%
Research Writing – up 32.1%
A sudden increase in projects for tech and IT related skills on Freelancer is a continuation of the trends observed in Freelancer’s <u>Fast 50 for Q2 2022</u> and <u>Fast 50 for Q3 2022</u> – where freelance jobs for software, app and…
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