Most Required skills in freelancer

Freelancing is the best source for part-time or home based income. Here are the are the most required skills for freelancing in different categories.

Note: Below titles are categories and the number denotes the number of projects per week. Similarly below tables shows skills and number of projects posted per week. 

Websites, IT & Software (17802)

In this section there will be jobs related to websites and software technologies used in website. For a one week window there are 17K jobs posted under this section. Most of the job require PHP skills with knowledge in some other technology. Here are the list of skills and their weekly job count. 

PHP	3577
HTML	2782
Software Architecture	935
Wordpress	818
MySQL	668

It is now clear that PHP is the most required IT skills for freelancing. There are also jobs posted based on popular IT programming languages like Java, C, C++ but they are very less. 

Design, Media & Architecture (15667)

Designing is used everywhere right from big machines to a tea cup. You need have experience in Adobe Photoshop or any such software skills to get hired as freelancer. These kind of jobs are posted under the skills such as graphic design or website design or logo design. 

Graphic Design	3814
Website Design	3199
Logo Design	934
Photoshop	773

Graphic designer is the most required skill in any freelancing website. For a week there are 3814 jobs posted in single website. Freelancers are paid well for this skill. So if you are planning to learn any skills from scratch go learn graphic designing tools like Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator. 

Writing & Content (5509)

Below are the top 5 skills in freelancer which requires no skills. Anybody who has basic English grammar knowledge can bid in these projects. These are easy to done projects and there are 5000 such projects posted per week. 

Articles	753
Copy Typing	690
Ghostwriting	485
Copywriting	472
Content Writing	435

Sales & Marketing (3814)
This projects are suitable for people with good Google Search skills. Project under this section will asked for email id of particular criteria. You need to search in Google for that criteria and get email id of the person. Usually they call them as leads.

Internet Marketing	865
Marketing	540