10 Most Demanded Skills for Working Online

With a rapid connectivity of the entire world as a global village; trends of working remotely from home as Freelance professionals have greatly increased in past few years. Professionals with diverse skill sets are preferring freelance jobs instead of traditional 9 to 5 strict working hours.
With a huge competition among the people from around the globe; It has become tough for people to win the project bids and obtain long lasting clients on freelancing sites. With such a high competition; one key factor that dominates is the skill set that freelancers possess.
Based on the current job market situation in freelancing sites; I am going to talk about 10 highly demanding skills with most available projects and online jobs.

1. PHP Programming

PHP is a choice for a large number of organizations ranging from small to large scale enterprises for development of their websites and other web applications because of low cost (as Its open source). PHP Programmers are the most demanded professionals when It comes to freelancing world.
PHP Programming is not just about the core PHP development. PHP Based CMS systems like Wordpress, Joomla etc. are the main factor behind popularity of this programming language.
If you want to be a smart Freelance professional; try to excel in PHP programming especially Its different frameworks like Zend, CakePHP etc and also in development of Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Themes, Joomla Modules etc.

2. Web/Graphic Designing

Designers are also among the most sought professionals in freelancing sites. Websites front end UI designers, Logo Designers and all types of graphics designers with advanced skills in latest tools and technologies are earning huge money by working online.
In order to be a strong competitor for designing projects bids, you should excel in Photoshop, Corel Draw and other designing tools.

3. Mobile Applications Development

Android and Iphone application development has shown a tremendous growth in past few years. Smart phones have widely replaced old traditional phones and now people are switching to the usage of smart phones for all fun and business activities rather than using it just as a tool to make calls.

Android application developers are among highly paid and highly demanded resources in freelancing world. Learn Android application development using java to be among the list of these demanded professionals.

Iphone Applications developers who develop using langauges like Objective C are also enjoying a huge earning through freelancing sites.

4. Front End Development

Front end developers using technologies like AJAX, JQUERY, FLASH, FLEX, JavaScript etc. can find huge number of projects on freelancing sites and can earn handsomely through online work.

For front end developers, designing skills are also sometimes very much needed and having designing skills is a great added advantage for such professionals.

5. SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

SEO is need of every website and every business working online. SEO professionals are those who help businesses to optimize their presence online. 

For becoming thorough SEO professional; You should have strong grip on both On site SEO as well as Off Site SEO.

6. .Net Programming

Microsoft Dot Net Programmers with expertise in C# or VB.Net programming can find large number of projects on freelancing sites matching their skills. 

To compete with other freelancers, you should keep yourself updated with latest technologies, tools and Frameworks for Dot Net programming.

7. JAVA Programming

Both Core Java and J2EE programmers are highly demanded by the employers on freelancing sites. Technologies like JSF, Hibernate, JSF, Spring etc. can add more value to your profile if you are interested to try your luck for JAVA projects.

8. Content Writing

Most of the times, content writing (including article writing) is considered a part of SEO work but keeping in mind the high demand of this; I am putting it as a separate skill here.

Article Writers with strong grip on grammatical aspects of a language along with knowledge of how to write SEO friendly articles are much demanded now a days.

Writing Blog posts, Forum Posts and other technical write ups are also greatly demanded skills for freelance writers.

9. Marketing

Marketing professionals who know how to market products and services and reach potential customers and clients in an efficient manner are well in demand in freelancing market. 

Online marketing involves social media marketing, Lead generation, Mass emailing and various other techniques. 

10. Shell Scripting

Professionals with strong grip on Scripting (Linux/Unix Bash scripting, Python Scripting, TCL scripting etc.) are also among top sought professionals by freelance employers.