According to a recent Upwork report, Americans spent more than one billion hours per week freelancing in 2018. With 61 million Gen Zers entering the workforce in the next few years, these numbers are only expected to increase—which means competition in securing gig employment. To help employees prepare, Upwork compiled a list of the 20 fastest-growing skills in the U.S. freelance job market in the fourth quarter of 2018:
- Hadoop
- Dropbox API
- Genetic algorithms
- Microbiology
- Computational linguistics
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Digital signal processing
- Intercom
- Interactive advertising
- Invision
- Employee training
- Kubernetes
- OAuth
- Autodesk Revit
- App store optimization
- App usability analysis
- Vue.js framework
- Learning Management Solution (LMS) consulting
- 3D scanning
- React.js framework
Seventy-five percent of these skills are brand-new to the list, demonstrating how quickly trends in the tech industry and gig labor market fluctuate. Learn more at upwork.com/i/freelancing-in-america/2018.iBi
