Blockchain tops Upwork's freelance skills index for a second straight quarter
Upwork’s Q2 2018 Skills Index is out this week and ranks the 20 fastest-growing skills for freelancers.
Freelancers with tech skills have plenty of reason to be happy with the report: programming and coding skills continue to rank high, and Blockchain is the #1 skill on the index for the second straight quarter.
Upwork also reports that elearning is on the rise, especially as freelancers navigate an increasingly evolving landscape: 70 percent of the fastest-growing skills are new to the index, and 55 percent of freelancers participated in skills-related education in the last six months.
You can read the full report here and check out the list of skills below:
The top 20 fastest-growing skills, Q2 2018:
- Blockchain
- Google Cloud Platform
- Volusion
- Risk management
- Product photography
- Rapid prototyping
- Google App Engine API
- SCORM
- GitLab
- Go development
- Apple UIKit
- Enterprise architecture
- Tensorflow
- Atlassian Confluence
- Apple Xcode
- eLearning
- Customer retention
- Articulate storyline
- Node.js
- Scala development