Daily News
18 January 2021
Online staffing platform Freelancer.com reported the number of jobs on its platform rose 17% in 2020 to 2.1 million jobs compared to 2019 with 1.8 million, with the increase coming amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The Sydney-based company reported the job category with the fastest growth in demand was for those with skills in the open-source UI toolkit Flutter.
Freelancer.com operates six global offices: in San Francisco, London, Vancouver, Manila and Buenos Aires. The company employs 500+ people globally.
CEO Matt Barrie said the freelance online job market continues to flourish despite the global challenges.
“Towards the very end of Q1 2020 was the start of a deluge of demand and in Q2 to Q4 2020, the number of users that joined our platform, including freelancers and employers looking for freelancers, surged enormously,” Barrie said.
Covid-19 fueled increased growth in freelancing, but Barrie said growth was also spurred by individuals with a strong desire to start their own freelance enterprises.
“These are promising times and positive signs for the gig economy,” Barrie said.
Looking at the fastest-growing jobs for 2020, Freelancer.com noted eight of the 10 fastest-growing were in app development and website development.
Top of the list was Flutter, an open-source user interface software development kit released by Google. Developers use Flutter to develop applications for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Windows, Google Fuchsia and the web from a single codebase.
Other coding languages in demand included Firebase, Wix, RESTful API and Typescript.
Freelancer.com listed the fastest-increasing jobs on its platform for the full-year 2020 compared to 2019:
| Name | Job Count 2019 |
Job Count 2020 |
% Increase / Decrease | |
| 1 | Flutter | 2,136 | 8,971 | 319.99 % |
| 2 | Google Firebase | 1,908 | 5,365 | 181.18 % |
| 3 | Wix | 1,011 | 2,320 | 129.48 % |
| 4 | Data Analysis | 1,619 | 3,500 | 116.18 % |
| 5 | RESTful API | 1,579 | 3,362 | 112.92 % |
| 6 | Physics | 1,529 | 3,138 | 105.23 % |
| 7 | Full Stack Development | 1,957 | 3,889 | 98.72 % |
| 8 | Typescript | 1,267 | 2,428 | 91.63 % |
| 9 | iOS Development | 5,075 | 9,484 | 86.88 % |
| 10 | API | 4,177 | 7,705 | 84.46 % |
| 11 | Aws Lambda | 1,000 | 1,798 | 79.80 % |
| 12 | Kotlin | 1,430 | 2,550 | 78.32 % |
| 13 | Web API | 1,350 | 2,354 | 74.37 % |
| 14 | Word | 21,131 | 36,808 | 74.19 % |
| 15 | 16,028 | 27,811 | 73.52 % | |
| 16 | React.js | 12,237 | 20,791 | 69.90 % |
| 17 | React Native | 6,824 | 11,560 | 69.40 % |
| 18 | Docker | 1,664 | 2,789 | 67.61 % |
| 19 | 360-degree video | 1,047 | 1,747 | 66.86 % |
| 20 | Computer Science | 2,248 | 3,729 | 65.88 % |
| 21 | MongoDB | 2,348 | 3,886 | 65.50 % |
| 22 | Vue.js | 3,692 | 6,087 | 64.87 % |
| 23 | Mathematics | 11,047 | 18,211 | 64.85 % |
| 24 | Metatrader | 5,614 | 9,253 | 64.82 % |
| 25 | Chemical Engineering | 2,184 | 3,530 | 61.63 % |
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