The chief executive of Australian-based Internet start-up, global outsourcing marketplace, Freelancer.com, Matt Barrie, said today the latest findings of the company’s online Fast 50 survey of the jobs market, revealed that in there was a “tremendous rise across the key web technology areas”, with HTML up 193% – to a “whopping 72,571 new jobs.” Barrie says that HTML5 was up 118% (to 4,121 jobs), website design up 94% – to a “massive” 83,931 new jobs – with shopping carts up 68% (to 8,437 jobs), and PHP- the lingua franca of websites- rose 69% (to 104,597 new jobs) in 2011.
“We are uniquely positioned to comment on jobs conducted online, with over 3.2 million users and 1.5 million online jobs posted on Freelancer.com to date,” Barrie claimed.
Barrie says that the web has been the main battleground of technology entrepreneurs for many years, but “with the emergence of an online workforce as a key resource, even the layperson can now launch a website or iPhone application.” “From our data, it is clear that 2012 will see the emergence of a whole new generation of Web 2.0 entrepreneurs.”….
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