Freelancer.com sees massive increase in demand for HTML5 jobs

“Freelancer.com now caters to a user base of 1.6 million small and medium-sized businesses (up from 1 million in October 2009) and says it has outsourced more than 725,000 projects to date,” Robin Wauters reports for TechCrunch. “Looking at the projects and comparing jobs posted on its website in the first quarter 2010 to those posted in Q2, the company has drawn a number of conclusions about what’s hot in the online job market.”

“Surprise, surprise: all jobs related to geolocation, cloud services, HTML5 and mobile application and website development are gaining ground quickly,” Wauters reports. “Freelancer.com spotted a whopping 909% increase in geolocation jobs online. As a result of what the company dubs the ‘Apple effect’, Freelancer.com also saw a significant 721% boost in HTML5 jobs.”

Full article, with the top 20 fastest growing online outsourcing jobs, here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Manny S.” for the heads up.]