Comments on: Stay Employed – Jobs with the Least Competition and Greatest Opportunity https://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-jobs-with-the-least-competition-and-greatest-opportunity/ oDesk - The Future of Work Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ariel Balter https://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-jobs-with-the-least-competition-and-greatest-opportunity/#comment-64968 Ariel Balter Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:01:16 +0000 http://www.odesk.com/blog/?p=973#comment-64968 Here are the numbes in csv format. I someone can tell me how to post it as an html table, please tell me!

Skills,Jobs Posted Per Month,Fill Ratio Below Average,Total Number of Fillable Jobs
Database Modeling,63,75%,47.25
LAMP,51,58%,29.58
Sales,43,51%,21.93
Facebook,71,48%,34.08
Cake PHP,43,38%,16.34
Drupal,187,32%,59.84
Cocoa,45,29%,13.05
Flex,59,28%,16.52
Link Building,44,27%,11.88
C#,205,27%,55.35
Linux,136,22%,29.92
Data Entry,195,21%,40.95
C++,136,18%,24.48
Ruby on Rails,187,18%,33.66
SQL,362,16%,57.92
Web Design,244,15%,36.6
E Commerce,87,14%,12.18
Java,221,13%,28.73
VB.NET,90,11%,9.9
JQuery,60,11%,6.6
AJAX,707,11%,77.77
Graphic Design,342,7%,23.94
SEO,290,6%,17.4
Magento,51,6%,3.06
Objective C,51,6%,3.06
ASP.NET,376,1%,3.76
Logo Design,48,0%,0
CMS,53,0%,0

]]> By: Ariel Balter https://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-jobs-with-the-least-competition-and-greatest-opportunity/#comment-64967 Ariel Balter Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:50:37 +0000 http://www.odesk.com/blog/?p=973#comment-64967 Great data collection! These are important numbers for jobs seekers.

However, the REAL number that matters is the product of the two columns. That tells how many available jobs there actually are in each area (at least as far as the number of postings measures number of jobs).

I’m going to make that data myself, but it would have been a cinch for you to do, and would have (IMHO) a superior understanding of numbers.

]]> By: The Freelance Economy according to oDesk | Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk https://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-jobs-with-the-least-competition-and-greatest-opportunity/#comment-57396 The Freelance Economy according to oDesk | Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:09:09 +0000 http://www.odesk.com/blog/?p=973#comment-57396 [...] Increased competition leaves the freelance provider with two recourses as she shapes her resume, especially in tech-oriented categories such as software development: Pursue the skills and jobs showing the greatest growth in 2008, or those with the least competition. [...]

]]> By: Joomla vs Drupal - Battle of the CMSes | Outsourcing Tips, Best Practices, and News from oDesk https://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-jobs-with-the-least-competition-and-greatest-opportunity/#comment-57211 Joomla vs Drupal - Battle of the CMSes | Outsourcing Tips, Best Practices, and News from oDesk Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:03:59 +0000 http://www.odesk.com/blog/?p=973#comment-57211 [...] to choose from, it seems to be much less competitive of a skill.

]]> By: BriceRichard https://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-jobs-with-the-least-competition-and-greatest-opportunity/#comment-57024 BriceRichard Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:07:33 +0000 http://www.odesk.com/blog/?p=973#comment-57024 There is no requests for the development of small-scale apps using VBA in MS Access?

You are kidding me right?

]]> By: Outsourcing Tips, Best Practices, and News from oDesk » Top Growth Tech Skills in 2008 https://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-jobs-with-the-least-competition-and-greatest-opportunity/#comment-53434 Outsourcing Tips, Best Practices, and News from oDesk » Top Growth Tech Skills in 2008 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:25:50 +0000 http://www.odesk.com/blog/?p=973#comment-53434 [...] | Forums | oConomy | Store « Stay Employed – Jobs with the Least Competition and Greatest Opportunity | Top Growth Tech Skills in 2008 January 8th, 2009 by [...]

]]> By: mycall https://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-jobs-with-the-least-competition-and-greatest-opportunity/#comment-53147 mycall Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:32:33 +0000 http://www.odesk.com/blog/?p=973#comment-53147 ASP.NET is open 1% of the time, VB.NET is open 11% of the time, and C# is open 27% of the time.

Of course, no one does ASP.NET without VB.NET or C#. Something is wrong with this data.

]]> By: Frank Higgins https://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-jobs-with-the-least-competition-and-greatest-opportunity/#comment-53099 Frank Higgins Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:59:46 +0000 http://www.odesk.com/blog/?p=973#comment-53099 sirrocco … ok maybe i should have phrased it “AJAX skill or experience”. you got me.

]]> By: sirrocco https://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-jobs-with-the-least-competition-and-greatest-opportunity/#comment-53096 sirrocco Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:38:30 +0000 http://www.odesk.com/blog/?p=973#comment-53096 I wonder what an “AJAX programmers” programmer is ???? Do they write only the JavaScript ? do they use every language asked of them on the server side ?

As an ASP.NET programmer… I write AJAX all the time … Am I an AJAX programmer ? or ASP.NET programmer ?… hmmmm

]]> By: Mike, Lost in California https://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-jobs-with-the-least-competition-and-greatest-opportunity/#comment-52633 Mike, Lost in California Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:01:26 +0000 http://www.odesk.com/blog/?p=973#comment-52633 Amazing how C# and ASP.NET post so many jobs, but so few people apply. I’m studying C#.NET for the heck of it, hoping to move into the .NET genre.

]]> By: Md. Mahmud Ahsan https://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-jobs-with-the-least-competition-and-greatest-opportunity/#comment-50883 Md. Mahmud Ahsan Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:55:04 +0000 http://www.odesk.com/blog/?p=973#comment-50883 But I found many jobs like Senior PHP, Long term PHP contract, why not individual “PHP” in this list ?!? As a facebook application developer, I’m very happy to see facebook popularity in number 3 position. :)

]]> By: Timothy https://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-jobs-with-the-least-competition-and-greatest-opportunity/#comment-50858 Timothy Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:04:40 +0000 http://www.odesk.com/blog/?p=973#comment-50858 I would love to see JavaScript (MooTools, Prototype, JQuery, etc) on that list.

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