us online work report

Growth Rate of Categories

YoY GROWTHTotal U.S.Registered on Elance-oDesk

CUMULATIVE ALL TIME

U.S. Online Work ReportJANUARY – MAY 2014

All data is sourced from the combined Elance and oDesk databases. © Elance-oDesk, Inc. 2014. All rights reserved.

This report represents U.S. activity only. For worldwide statistics, see the Global Online Work Report.

U.S. Online Work Spend

$231M 29% YoY GROWTH

New U.S. Freelancers Looking for Work

248K 6% YoY GROWTH

Movers & Shakers

Offline Job Openings

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Online Job Postings +22%

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Freelancer Earnings by Category2014 YEAR TO DATE

Writing & Translation . . . . . . . . . 30%

Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29%

Admin Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12%

Design & Multimedia . . . . . . . . . 11%

Sales & Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . 9%

Finance & Management . . . . . . . . 5%

Engineering & Manufacturing . . . . . 2%

Legal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1%

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New U.S. Online Job Postings

626K 20% YoY GROWTH

Skills with Growing Demand

Data Science

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Content Marketing

Android App Development

3D Modeling

Skills with Highest Paying Rate

Patent Law $112.20

Ruby Programming $61.00

Startup Consulting $54.00

Django Development $45.70

Animation $35.90

Skills with Decreasing Demand

Facebook Development

SEM

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PROJECTEDEOY 2014

BUSINESSES: 1.1M

Technology Finace & Managment

Writing & Translation

Admin Support

LegalDesign & Multimedia

Sales & Marketing

Engineering & Manufacturing

FREELANCERS: 2M

U.S. Online Work ReportJANUARY – MAY 2014

Spotlight on Technology

Current Top Skills with Highest Demand

PHP

HTML

Wordpress

MySQL

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Woocommerce

HTML5

Internet Security

Data Science

U.S. Tech Online Work Spend

U.S. Tech Online Postings

$127M 229K

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All data is sourced from the combined Elance and oDesk databases. © Elance-oDesk, Inc. 2014. All rights reserved.

This report represents U.S. activity only. For worldwide statistics, see the Global Online Work Report.