Freelancer.com Spots Massive Increases In Demand For HTML5, Geolocation Jobs

"Online marketplace for outsourcing Freelancer.com, formerly known as GetAFreelancer, this morning announced their findings on the fastest growing online outsourcing jobs in Q2 with the release of the Freelancer 50.

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. 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.

Geolocation, no doubt driven by the buzz surrounding and early successes booked by companies such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt and of course Twitter, grabbed the number one spot this quarter.

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..."

Continued at: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/06/freelancer-geolocation-html5-jobs/

 

So guys what do you think about HTML5? HTML5 Jobs increased by 721% on freelancer.com

Do you think this is significant? Do you guys think that Flash could be decreased in demand in coming years? As there is a clear increase in demand in HTML 5.