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Ask HN: Which CS industry skills are in most demand on freelancing sites?

31 points by febin 9y ago

eb0la 9y ago
Take a look at the Contract-IT-Job-Market on IT JobsWatch uk ( https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/Contract-IT-Job-Market https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/Contract-IT-Job-Market). It's a bit biased to the banking sector; but it gives you a general idea of the skills demand (and rates!). edit: Not just banking sector; but IT service providers. Europe (and the UK) are mostly service providers, I mean: usually don't develop IT products that they sell to others. We usually integrate and maintain stuff developed elsewhere (mostly by US companies).
- shortoncash 9y ago
  Thanks for linking such a useful site. It was interesting comparing the Europe to US rates too.
bewe42 9y ago
Sites like Upwork publish skill reports as this one: https://www.upwork.com/press/2017/11/02/q3-2017-skills-index/ https://www.upwork.com/press/2017/11/02/q3-2017-skills-index... But if you should sell on sites like that is another question
- gaius 9y ago
  “Robotics” on that list isn’t what it seems...
  - dasmoth 9y ago
    Can you be a bit more specific? I clicked through to some of the linked profiles and they broadly matched what I would have expected.
- GFischer 9y ago
  Any alternatives you can recommend for remote work? I already have a day job but I want to supplement my income.
vjankov 9y ago
I don't do freelance anymore, but all my past freelancing projects have been using NodeJS. I never learned it in college and only picked it up for an internship but it's has definitely proved very useful.
nukeop 9y ago
Node.js and Python are all the rage now. Especially frameworks like Django, React, and trendy technologies such as Docker and GraphQL.
AlexAmee 9y ago
Good question, I can only answer that for the German/Austrian market. I wrote a few Selenium scripts that would gather jobs from ~20 jobboards/freelancer sites. Then I compared them, distilled the technology and also the amount they were willing to pay. I'll spare you the details, but the clear winners were Java and C#. On the Java side of things, it's Spring MVC ( Spring boot catching up ) For the frontend, Germans and Austrians tend to trust Angular. So I picked Spring and Angular. So far I'm more than pleased with the customers storming in. I'd suggest you do the same for your region, I'm also convinced that your result might look totally different, depending on your country and region. I also did a few isolated tests, for some parts of Austria and the results surprised me a lot, for example, C# was the clear winner with over 60% market share in some areas. What I'm trying to tell you: This question is rather biased, just because you see 10 purple buses in the morning, that does not mean that suddenly the bus company changed its colors, it's maybe just a coincidence that someone just painted 10 buses purple, the only 10 purple buses in your town/city.
romanovcode 9y ago
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31 points by febin 9y ago

Take a look at the Contract-IT-Job-Market on IT JobsWatch uk ( https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/Contract-IT-Job-Market https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/Contract-IT-Job-Market). It's a bit biased to the banking sector; but it gives you a general idea of the skills demand (and rates!). edit: Not just banking sector; but IT service providers. Europe (and the UK) are mostly service providers, I mean: usually don't develop IT products that they sell to others. We usually integrate and maintain stuff developed elsewhere (mostly by US companies).

shortoncash 9y ago
Thanks for linking such a useful site. It was interesting comparing the Europe to US rates too.

bewe42 9y ago

Sites like Upwork publish skill reports as this one: https://www.upwork.com/press/2017/11/02/q3-2017-skills-index/ https://www.upwork.com/press/2017/11/02/q3-2017-skills-index... But if you should sell on sites like that is another question

gaius 9y ago
“Robotics” on that list isn’t what it seems...
- dasmoth 9y ago
  Can you be a bit more specific? I clicked through to some of the linked profiles and they broadly matched what I would have expected.
GFischer 9y ago
Any alternatives you can recommend for remote work? I already have a day job but I want to supplement my income.

vjankov 9y ago

I don't do freelance anymore, but all my past freelancing projects have been using NodeJS. I never learned it in college and only picked it up for an internship but it's has definitely proved very useful.

nukeop 9y ago

Node.js and Python are all the rage now. Especially frameworks like Django, React, and trendy technologies such as Docker and GraphQL.

AlexAmee 9y ago

Good question, I can only answer that for the German/Austrian market. I wrote a few Selenium scripts that would gather jobs from ~20 jobboards/freelancer sites. Then I compared them, distilled the technology and also the amount they were willing to pay. I'll spare you the details, but the clear winners were Java and C#. On the Java side of things, it's Spring MVC ( Spring boot catching up ) For the frontend, Germans and Austrians tend to trust Angular. So I picked Spring and Angular. So far I'm more than pleased with the customers storming in. I'd suggest you do the same for your region, I'm also convinced that your result might look totally different, depending on your country and region. I also did a few isolated tests, for some parts of Austria and the results surprised me a lot, for example, C# was the clear winner with over 60% market share in some areas. What I'm trying to tell you: This question is rather biased, just because you see 10 purple buses in the morning, that does not mean that suddenly the bus company changed its colors, it's maybe just a coincidence that someone just painted 10 buses purple, the only 10 purple buses in your town/city.

romanovcode 9y ago

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