Who’s Hiring? Recruitment The Freelance Jobs In Highest Demand For 2023 By Katherine Steiner-Dicks Last updated Jan 7, 2023 Photo by Antoni Shkraba via Pexels As the tech giants lay off staff, freelance job sites are seeing employers lean on freelancers for support with tech-related skills At the end of 2022, like years before, many businesses and companies relied 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 , according to a survey conducted by freelance jobs site, Freelancer.com The Fast 50 Index report found that 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 aimed to start businesses in the new year, increasing the number of market research and business plan projects posted to Freelancer.com’s platform. Report Writing jobs were up 59.5%, from 3,374 to 5,384, which brought the skill to the number one spot in the index when ranking the percentage growth of more than 2,000 skills available on Freelancer.com. Mass layoffs in tech are causing ripple effects as companies scramble to plug skills gaps within their organisations. We’re observing this in waves. As the tech giants lay off staff, we’re seeing employers lean on freelancers for support with tech-related skills. Matt Barrie, Chief Executive at Freelancer.com Coming in a close second is the skill of Matlab and Mathematica (up 56.4%, from 1,250 to 1,955), which are separate programming languages used by engineers and scientists to analyse 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. 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 Fast 50’s previous quarter reports, where freelance jobs for software, app and website developers surged as a result of global tech layoffs. In Q4 2022, the data reveals the new trend is employers hiring for programming jobs , as skills specific to programming dominated the rankings. Web Scraping , often used for lead generation and price monitoring, came in as the fourth fastest-growing skill, increasing by 32.6% (from 3,891 to 5,162). C Programming and C++ Programming , general-purpose programming and coding languages used to develop systems and applications, increased by 28.9% (from 4,974 to 6,415) and 23.7% (from 4,775 to 5,907), respectively. Jobs requiring skills in Python , a high-level, general-purpose programming language, also grew by 20.7% (from 10,712 to 12,931). Adding to the growth of engineering-related programming Matlab and Mathematica projects seeking skills in Engineering also increased in Q4 2022 with Electrical Engineering jobs growing by 25.6% (from 2,305 to […]
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