"FREELANCER" is the World's largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace. They connect over 26,074,071 employers and freelancers globally from over 247 countries, regions, and territories.
6 super-heroes in the Freelancing Job market
Being a freelance worker is a wonderful way to make a
living. It has no boundaries. You can enter into the global market of
freelancing from anywhere in the world. Anyway, if you are living in a low cost
country, your ability of competing in the freelancing market goes high. On the
other hand, there are certain countries which are popular in certain fields.
For an example, US is popular for writing and translating freelancers while
India is popular for low-cost software developers.
According to a recent report published by Oxford internet
institute (OII) there are some countries where most popular for freelance
workers. It is very interesting to see how much they make and how influential
they are in the freelance job market.
1.India
According to the report, 24% of freelance workers live in
India. In fact, 55% of these Indian freelancers are software developers. On the
other hand, they contribute a large some of around $400 billion to their
economy each year.
2.Bangladesh
Bangladesh is holding the second place with 16% of global
freelance workforce. Most of them are working in online sales and marketing
field. Some of them are also in the multimedia creation and software developing
fields. Bangladesh freelancers earn much better than their land-based workers
who only make around $60 a month.
3. United States
The next in the list is the US. According to this report,
around 55 million freelancers are living in the US soil. In fact, it is about
35% of American workforce. On the other hand, most of US online workers, are
also having regular 9-5 jobs. In other words, freelancing is not their primary
incoming source. They also do all sorts of freelancing jobs including software
developing, multimedia creations, writing and translations.
4. Pakistan
The next place goes to another South Asian country,
Pakistan. Most of Pakistan freelancers are into software developing market.
They make around $1 billion each year through freelancing job market.
5. Philippines
Around 6% of freelance workforce are Philippines, according
to this report. Most of this workforce are living in Quezon city, Manila city
and Cebu city in the Philippine. They are specialized in Content writing,
customer service and technical support fields.
6. United Kingdom
The 6th place goes to the UK. They provide some
certain professional freelance services such as accounting, legal services and
business consulting. In fact, 22% of freelance professional services market
hold by UK citizens. Most of these freelancers are University students. In
fact, 87% of UK university students are into freelancing market these days.
According to this very reliable report, Asian countries are the
leaders in the global freelancing job market. They provide affordable labor and
highly skilled technical workforce for the companies from all parts of the
world.
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