Skill Demand and Supply on oDesk.com

Hi oDeskers,

We want to share some information regarding skills demanded and supplied on oDesk. The following analysis was done for:

• Jobs with specific skill(s)requested, posted during the 30 day period of 8/26/07 - 9/25/07
• Providers that were "active", i.e. signed up, applied to a job, took a test or worked, during the 30 day period of 8/26/07 - 9/25/07

We believe that this information might be very helpful to both Buyers and Providers.

Please post your thoughts on the information below, and any questions you have about the methodology and the data.

Please also let us know what other information you would like to see.

Top 20 skills for Jobs posted on oDesk:

Top 20 Provider skills on oDesk:

Low Active Provider-to-Job Posted ratio:

High Active Provider-to-Job Posted ratio:

Search counts on oDesk.com (note that the scales are logrithmic):

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Abid Mohsin

Vote Result

Score: 8.5, Votes: 2