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View All NewsFreelancer.com lists 50 fastest-moving online jobs, design-related offerings are on top
Online staffing firm Freelancer.com reported online jobs involving design — including Adobe InDesign, 3D Design and creative design — rank among the fastest-growing jobs while interest in cryptocurrency-related work is also trending upward.
Adobe InDesign topped the list of fast-moving jobs with 29% growth in jobs, according to Freelancer.com’s quarterly report.
The company based its report on an analysis of 482,525 jobs posted in the third quarter.
It also noted cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin are gaining interest. Recent projects advertised on the site involving cryptocurrencies include “designs for an initial coin offering,” “a CTO with bitcoin knowledge,” “creating new altcoin currencies,” “blockchain whitepapers,” “cryptocurrency content writers” and “help with a gambling blockchain.”
Turning to jobs in decline, Freelancer.com’s report noted Microsoft jobs are down 41.1%.
The fastest-moving online jobs are:
| Rank | Job Category | No. of Jobs Q2 | No. of Jobs Q3 | Change (%) |
| 1 | Adobe InDesign | 1,278 | 1,653 | 29.3% |
| 2 | 3D Design | 4,398 | 5,677 | 29.1% |
| 3 | Creative Design | 1,749 | 2,178 | 24.5% |
| 4 | HTML5 | 8,178 | 9,980 | 22.0% |
| 5 | WooCommerce | 1,898 | 2,276 | 19.9% |
| 6 | Website Management | 1,946 | 2,332 | 19.8% |
| 7 | Branding | 2,702 | 3,175 | 17.5% |
| 8 | Angular.js | 2,604 | 3,054 | 17.3% |
| 9 | Business Cards | 3,574 | 4,136 | 15.7% |
| 10 | React.js | 1,032 | 1,192 | 15.5% |
| 11 | Laravel | 1,500 | 1,709 | 13.9% |
| 12 | English Grammar | 1,278 | 1,456 | 13.9% |
| 13 | Website Testing | 1,474 | 1,674 | 13.6% |
| 14 | English (US) | 5,169 | 5,813 | 12.5% |
| 15 | Amazon Web Services | 1,866 | 2,093 | 12.2% |
| 16 | English (UK) | 3,696 | 4,123 | 11.6% |
| 17 | Adobe Flash | 1,486 | 1,651 | 11.1% |
| 18 | Arabic | 1,177 | 1,300 | 10.5% |
| 19 | Bootstrap | 2,023 | 2,227 | 10.1% |
| 20 | Game Design | 1,251 | 1,377 | 10.1% |
| 21 | Email Marketing | 1,668 | 1,815 | 8.8% |
| 22 | Game Development | 1,321 | 1,435 | 8.6% |
| 23 | Web Hosting | 2,159 | 2,337 | 8.2% |
| 24 | Web Security | 1,189 | 1,284 | 8.0% |
| 25 | Shopify | 2,558 | 2,754 | 7.7% |
| 26 | Electronics | 2,395 | 1,792 | -25.2% |
| 27 | Research | 10,570 | 7,843 | -25.8% |
| 28 | Engineering | 4,433 | 3,253 | -26.6% |
| 29 | Manufacturing | 1,325 | 972 | -26.6% |
| 30 | Testing / QA | 1,180 | 861 | -27.0% |
| 31 | 3,424 | 2,488 | -27.3% | |
| 32 | Research Writing | 16,781 | 12,139 | -27.7% |
| 33 | Powerpoint | 5,486 | 3,958 | -27.9% |
| 34 | Electrical Engineering | 2,661 | 1,915 | -28.0% |
| 35 | Mechanical Engineering | 2,122 | 1,504 | -29.1% |
| 36 | Internet Research | 3,928 | 2,770 | -29.5% |
| 37 | User Interface / IA | 5,468 | 3,837 | -29.8% |
| 38 | Mathematics | 2,899 | 2,024 | -30.2% |
| 39 | Word | 4,300 | 2,985 | -30.6% |
| 40 | Software Architecture | 24,737 | 17,121 | -30.8% |
| 41 | Excel | 32,151 | 22,130 | -31.2% |
| 42 | Product Descriptions | 2,410 | 1,632 | -32.3% |
| 43 | Payroll | 1,065 | 702 | -34.1% |
| 44 | 2,411 | 1,575 | -34.7% | |
| 45 | Google Plus | 2,262 | 1,472 | -34.9% |
| 46 | Script Install | 1,443 | 928 | -35.7% |
| 47 | Microcontroller | 1,710 | 1,082 | -36.7% |
| 48 | Matlab and Mathematica | 3,373 | 2,130 | -36.9% |
| 49 | Report Writing | 10,045 | 6,233 | -37.9% |
| 50 | Microsoft | 1,157 | 681 | -41.1% |