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View All NewsFreelancer.com says fastest-growing jobs involved nonfungible tokens; bitcoin jobs fall
Demand rose for freelancers with skills in nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, in the first quarter, but demand for bitcoin skills fell, according to a report released last week by Freelancer.com.
The number of jobs involving NFTs rose 37.60% from the fourth quarter of 2021 to the first quarter of 2022 — it ranked as the fastest-growing category of jobs. There were approximately 2,814 NFT-related jobs on Freelancer.com.
An NFT is a digital object — artwork, sports memorabilia, famous photographs and anything else that can be digitized — created by using blockchain technology.
“In the first quarter we saw ambitious trading of monkey jpegs suck the volume out of bitcoin-related projects,” said Matt Barrie, chief executive at Freelancer.com. “It remains to be seen whether NFTs in their current form are a flash in the pan or whether they become an enduring asset class for investment over speculative trading.”
Separately, the number of bitcoin-related jobs fell 31.16% in the first quarter when compared to the fourth quarter of 2021 to a total of 1,045. However, two other categories saw larger decreases quarter over quarter: Statistics-related jobs fell 31.86% to 2,160 and Microsoft Office-related jobs fell 31.67% to 1,329.
Freelancer.com’s “Fast 50” quarterly index is based on data from 351,000 jobs posted on Freelancer.com during the first quarter.
The fastest-growing jobs on Freelancer.com in Q1 2022 compared to Q4 2021:
| Name | Job count Q4 2021 | Job count Q1 2022 | % increase |
| Non-fungible Tokens | 2,045 | 2,814 | 37.60% |
| Caricature & Cartoons | 2,678 | 3,205 | 19.68% |
| Home Design | 1,283 | 1,518 | 18.32% |
| Interior Design | 2,761 | 3,264 | 18.22% |
| Building Architecture | 4,179 | 4,929 | 17.95% |
| Legal | 1,213 | 1,416 | 16.74% |
| AutoCAD | 5,252 | 5,848 | 11.35% |
| Search Engine Marketing | 1,933 | 2,147 | 11.07% |
| Illustration | 9,312 | 10,330 | 10.93% |
| 3D Rendering | 10,087 | 11,127 | 10.31% |
| CAD/CAM | 3,500 | 3,854 | 10.11% |
| 3D Animation | 8,573 | 9,418 | 9.86% |
| 3D Modelling | 11,832 | 12,900 | 9.03% |
| Web Development | 1,741 | 1,890 | 8.56% |
| Animation | 7,412 | 8,010 | 8.07% |
| Music | 1,233 | 1,322 | 7.22% |
| Unity 3D | 2,384 | 2,550 | 6.96% |
| Visual Basic | 2,533 | 2,690 | 6.20% |
| 3D Design | 6,929 | 7,347 | 6.03% |
| Illustrator | 33,324 | 35,311 | 5.96% |
| Covers & Packaging | 1,340 | 1,419 | 5.90% |
| Civil Engineering | 1,227 | 1,294 | 5.46% |
| Flyer Design | 1,769 | 1,865 | 5.43% |
| Deep Learning | 1,071 | 1,129 | 5.42% |
| Product Design | 1,561 | 1,632 | 4.55% |
The fastest-declining jobs on Freelancer.com in Q1 2022 compared to Q4 2021:
| Name | Job count Q4 2021 | Job count Q1 2022 | % decrease |
| Statistics | 3,170 | 2,160 | -31.86% |
| Microsoft Office | 1,945 | 1,329 | -31.67% |
| Bitcoin | 1,518 | 1,045 | -31.16% |
| R Programming Language | 1,336 | 922 | -30.99% |
| Django | 2,713 | 1,997 | -26.39% |
| Report Writing | 8,578 | 6,332 | -26.18% |
| Statistical Analysis | 1,942 | 1,459 | -24.87% |
| 5,497 | 4,135 | -24.78% | |
| Mathematics | 3,432 | 2,591 | -24.50% |
| Ethereum | 2,340 | 1,780 | -23.93% |
| Technical Writing | 7,494 | 5,880 | -21.54% |
| Research Writing | 15,917 | 12,547 | -21.17% |
| Word | 6,492 | 5,166 | -20.43% |
| Editing | 6,539 | 5,232 | -19.99% |
| Swift | 1,610 | 1,290 | -19.88% |
| Research | 7,109 | 5,712 | -19.65% |
| Google Firebase | 1,026 | 826 | -19.49% |
| Local Job | 2,817 | 2,281 | -19.03% |
| Matlab and Mathematica | 3,289 | 2,683 | -18.43% |
| Objective C | 2,432 | 1,991 | -18.13% |
| Data Science | 1,021 | 837 | -18.02% |
| C Programming | 9,683 | 7,941 | -17.99% |
| Magento | 1,604 | 1,320 | -17.71% |
| Java | 12,698 | 10,481 | -17.46% |
| jQuery / Prototype | 1,791 | 1,485 | -17.09% |