Posted on 10/30/2019 1:28:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Freelancer's Top 50 report looks at what employers want now -- and tech skills are at the top of the list.
It's always good to be wanted. And, if you posses the key skills of data analytics, Microsoft Office , copy typing, or a virtual assistant, you are wanted very much. From just the previous quarter of 2019, employer demand has grown to 58% for data analysts, according to Freelancer's Q3 2019 Fast 50 Report, which chronicles the world's fastest growing and declining jobs on the global market place, and culls from posts from its more than 38 million users, 4.6 million of which are in the US.
Tech-related jobs are on the upswing, just as the US Labor Department reports a slow of 1.3% in the hiring of traditional jobs.
Employers need skilled workers who can analyze and interpret data and identify emerging trends, as demonstrated by the bump from 1,114 to 1,770 data analytic jobs on Freelancer.com.
Employers are clearly growing more confident in virtual assistants, a position which rose from the tenth to the second fastest-growing skill in demand. The leap from 7,925 to 12,329 job openings represents a 56% increase in the popular job, which includes tasks from data entry to social-media posting. Demand for artificial intelligence (AI) skills increased globally, despite a quarterly decline for Matlab and Mathematica, mechanical engineering, and algorithm.
"The demand from data analytics indicates more savvy businesses are seeking these highly specialized freelancers to help determine business decisions that increase revenue, improve operations, respond to emerging market trends and gain a competitive edge, while virtual assistants are streamlining processes and creating efficiencies and cost savings" Matt Barrie, Freelancer CEO and founder said in a press release.
The number one top freelancing jobs for Q3 2019 are for those skilled in data analytics, as businesses grapple with making sense of increasing volumes of data. The data analytic market is forecast to grow to $275 billion by 2023. Currently available jobs on Freelancer range from "developing trading strategies" to "understanding business trends." Demand for data-processing skills (38.6%) remains strong, despite dropping to fourteenth place (It was fifth in Q2 2019.).
While big tech moves to create smarter AI-powered virtual assistants like Google Duplex, Amazon Alexa , Microsoft Cortana, and Apple Siri for business and home admin, a human virtual assistant still (56%) holds much appeal, as it was second in most-wanted skills, rising from its previous position in Q2 2019 of tenth. The position calls for those who offer diversified skills; some "want ads" include customer service; others, social-media marketing and blog posting. Virtual assistant jobs hold appeal to those who like to work remotely, and can use the time to manage, not only the VA job, but whatever other projects they may have (or look for more permanent work).
Microsoft Office has experienced a renaissance under CEO Satya Nadella, and it was the third most in-demand skill this quarter. Previously, demand for the skill had been in decline until it began to grow, starting in 2018. For Q3 2019, it rose a further 54%. Microsoft Excel skills are in the Fast 50, too, moving from twentieth to sixteenth place from Q2 2019 to Q3 2019.
Copy typing, the process of inputting and transforming raw data into a format more appropriate for processing or data cleaning, was in fourth place in the top 10 most in-demand skills and grew 53% (6,988 to 10,629 jobs).
If you don't mind data entry/typing, the fifth position jobs are in transcription. Other emerging jobs to watch, said the report, are book writing and ghost writing, which cracked the top 25. The other emerging job is translation, "a variety of language skills were in hot demand in Q3 2019," the report indicated. Russian translation is number seven of the most in-demand skills, with a 51% rise, English translation saw a 29% rise, followed by Spanish (27%) and French (25%).
Here are the top in-demand skills for Q3 2019:
1. Data analytics
2. Virtual Assistant
3. Microsoft Office
4. Copy Typing
5. Transcription
6. Word
7. Russian
8. Bookkeeping
9. Email handling
10. Customer support
11. Freelance
12. Data Entry
13. Customer Service
14. Data processing
15. Web Search
16. Excel
17. PDF
18. React.js
19. Book writing
20. English
21. Spanish
22. Internet research
23. Digital Marketing
24. French
25. BPO
26. C++ Programming
27. Civil Engineering
28. Ardunio
29. Adobe Flash
30. Machine learning
31. Research Writing
32. Database programming
33. Swift
34. Programming
35. Statistics
36. PCB layout
37. Mathematics
38. Electronics
39. Objective C
40. Shopping Carts
41. Microsoft Access
42. Computer security
43. Network administration
44. Report writing
45. Engineering
46. Electrical engineering
47. Statistical analysis
48. Algorithm
49. Mechanical engineering
50. Matlab and Mathematica
So damn true.
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Gotta keep those elections going!
There is no way Swift and C++ are more in demand that C# for .NET, no way, no how
The need for Spanish is to be able to read and understand scientific papers.
Don’t need any of these skills to sit in the board of a foreign energy company. Just ask Hunter Biden.
Mostly useless unless couple with VBA competence and solid SQL skills.
The List makes no sense at all.
Engineering at 45 and 46.
Yup
Yep. For any real work SQL Server and extensive VBA is required.
A small multi-user database with no more than, say, 10 concurrent users could be built using *only* Access. More than that is pushing it which is why it's so easy to quickly outgrow and one of the reasons for its bad reputation. Another is poor product positioning and the consequent bad app design by power users with no DB skills.
“Cobol is at number 51.”
Wow! My first job was at a bank as a COBOL programmer back in 1983 or so.
28. Ardunio Already dead.
You need to go to #26 before you find a real career.
PDF is a skill?
This is a stupid list.
bkmk
Rail transportation and freight will suffer.
Isolated villages won’t be needing those things according to retarded minds like the Bern and AOC.
It is amazing how hard it is to find someone with relatively simple skills when you need to fill a job.
Back in 2013-14, when unemployment was high, a buddy searched in vain for someone with basic Unix shell scripting and SQL. Everything else he needed, the company was willing to teach him. The job was in Columbus, but we were willing to go $80-90K. No qualified takers.
I hate to think what it’s like now. Anyone who’s any good at all must be able to name his price.
Such as creating a Word template or an Excel formula or how to embed a video clip into a Powerpoint. There are thousands of things that can be done within just the Microsoft Office suite and those skills can be easily transferred to other products such as Google Docs.
This isn't just "secretary" stuff anymore. Business executives are expected to know this stuff too.
There was nothing special about Access except that it was "free" in that all the users had MS Office. I say nothing special, the Jet database engine in Access and FoxPro was probably pretty good for a local client database engine (never expected to compete with a server DB engine). But as far as building the UI in Access I always found that severely lacking, especially compared to MS Visual Studio (both .net and pre .net). And the VBA code base was definitely lacking relative to VB, C# or even FoxPro.
My millenial son is making a good living as a consultant and trainer with this new analytics company which is hiring:
They deliver training and consulting in:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_BI
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