What skills I should learn to become a successful Freelancer?

If you new to freelancing and don’t have any skill. If you are confuse which skill you should learn. Which skills are in demand. I am here to list you some most in-demand skills of freelance market. Let me first make it clear that freelance market trend changes across years that’s why it’s better to keep on learning things day by day. Upwork and other freelance giants often publish their most in-demand skills for freelancing. 

According to freelancing guru the following skills will stay longer in freelance market

·        Adobe in-design (for publishing and book compiling)

·        3D design (Maya, 3DS Max) for cartoon movies

·        Creative design

·        HTML 5

·        WordPress (Woo Commerce)

·        Website Management

·        Branding

·        Angular.js

·        Business Cards

·        React.js

·        Block chain

·        Augmented Reality

·        Machine Learning/ IoT (internet of things)

The top 20 fastest-growing skills at upwork: (the highlighted skills are more in demand for technical people at upwork)

·         Blockchain

·         Tensorflow

·         Amazon DynamoDB

·         Computer vision

·         Microsoft Power BI

·         Augmented reality

·          Information security

·         Scala development

·         Instagram API

·         Chatbot development

·         React native

·         Media buying

·         Voice over

·         Subtitling

·         Art direction

·         Content strategy

·         Go development

·         Adobe Premiere

·         Machine learning

·         AngularJS development

An American business magazine “Forbes” also published four most in-demand skills of

freelance market:

·         Robotics and internet of things (IoT)

·         AI and machine learning

·         Blockchain technology

·         Data science

Quora platform experts identify following skills

·         Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Artificial Intelligence

·         Internet of Things (IoT)

·         BlockChain

·         Amazon Services

·         Augmented Reality

·         Computer Vision

Fiverr has also mentioned some highly paid freelancing skills listed below:

·         Video and animation marketing, $300-$18,000

·         Website building, $100-$3,000

·         Mobile app development, $300-$3,000

·         Search and display marketing, $100-$2,000

·         Chatbot development, $10-$2,000

·         Graphic design, $100-$3,000

·         3D and 2D models, $100-$2,000

·         Business copy-writing, $100-$2,000

A survey has been conducted at time.com for 20 highly paid job skills in freelancing:

·         Network analysis ($200)

·         Computer vision ($145)

·         Chef.io ($140)

·         Neural networks ($140)

·         Firmware engineering ($130)

·         Hardware prototyping ($130)

·         Cloud computing ($125)

·         Intellectual property law ($120)

·         Trade law ($115)

·         Privacy law ($115)

·         Spatial analysis ($110)

·         Apple Watch ($110)

·         NetSuite development ($110)

·         Acquisition strategy ($110)

·         Algorithm development ($100)

·         Software debugging ($100)

·         Digital signal processing ($100)

·         Ad lyrics writing ($100)

·         Natural language processing ($100)

·         Data processing ($100)