Employers Are Paying Freelancers Big Bucks for These 25 in-Demand Skills
Source: John Rampton
Want to join the freelancer revolution? Did you know that there are thousands of freelancer jobs that pay six figures?
Over the past ten years, I've both worked as a freelancer and hired countless freelancers, some for six-figure positions. And along the way, I've noticed that there are a few freelancer skills that pay more than others. Want to join the ranks of six-figure and other well remunerated freelancers? Here are the skills that hirers are looking for:
1. Natural language processing/Twilio API Development
Thanks to the emergence of voice-activated assistants, such as Amazon ($AMZN) Echo and Google ($GOOG) Home, natural language processing has become one of, if not the most in-demand freelancing skills.
This particular gig, in which you enable machines to understand human language, requires a background in computer science, artificial intelligence, and linguistics, and can command at its highest levels a salary of well over $100,000 annually.
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2. Swift development
The Apple Watch was developed using the programming language Swift. Since sales for the Apple Watch broke records during the 2016 holiday season, demand for freelancers skilled in developing this iOS app is surging, with an average salary of $85,000.
3. Social media management
This one shouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, businesses of all sizes are in need of talented individuals to implement and manage the day-to-day activities for their social media marketing campaigns.
While not as high-paying as more-tech related skills, social media managers average between $67,750 and $94,250 per year.
4. Amazon Marketplace Web Services (MWS)
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is an integrated web service API that assists Amazon sellers to programmatically exchange data on listings, orders, payments and reports. Since this online ecommerce site is showing no signs of slowing, there’s a need for freelancers with python skills. This also includes devops companies.
The amount freelancers can charge clients will vary depending on the scope of the project.
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5. AngularJS development
With this skill, you can extend HTML vocabulary in order to build either mobile or desktop web applications. Since this is the framework for dynamic web apps, the demand for this skill should continue to increase.
The average national salary is over $102,000. For a better understanding of this job, check out our programmer guide.
6. MySQL programming
As the world’s most popular open-source database, this skill -- which requires knowledge in web-scripting languages like PHP -- can earn freelancers between $45,495 and $99,187,depending on their experience.
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