Jobs and skills

[vbbng]

What are the most sort after skills here with the lowest competition.

[Anonymous-User]

It would be better to focus on your experience and skills, and offer a niche or specialty that separates you from the rest of the crowd. Highlight the best of what you have to offer and target clients that need it. 

Everything here is competitive, and this isn't a place to get rich quick. It's a great place to find clients once you run it like a business for yourself and not look at it as a J.O.B.

[browersr]

https://www.upwork.com/blog/2019/02/fastest-growing-skills-upwork-q4-2018/

[prestonhunter]

Vivian:

We don't talk about it very much in the Forum, and Upwork doesn't really mention it...

But you are actually right.

As Cairenn mentioned, it is recommended that you focus on what YOU DO WELL, and highlight that.

HOWEVER:

There is an ALTERNATIVE path to success.

A secret to earning money - both here on Upwork and elsewhere - is to provide skills/expertise/services which are IN DEMAND, but which are in short supply.

If you can do that, then you can be quite successful here.

The secret that is rarely mentioned is that there are MANY skills which you can learn in a relatively short time, which have HIGH DEMAND relative to the supply of workers. These can include mastering specific software packages or techniques which clients find they need expertise in, but which few freelancers offer to do.

If you take this route ("money instead of passion"), then it means you will NOT do things like:

creative writing

WordPress

voice-over artist

Graphic Design

etc.

You won't do something that they taught you in school. Because there are already too many people doing that.

But if you are flexible, then you could learn to enjoy something you never even imagined yourself doing, but which you learned for the sake of $$$.

[prestonhunter]

Having said all that, let me emphasize that even if you go this route, Upwork still "isn't a place to get rich quick."

(As Cairenn pointed out.)

[richard_wein]

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Scott B wrote:

https://www.upwork.com/blog/2019/02/fastest-growing-skills-upwork-q4-2018/

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Apparently those are the "fastest growing skills", and not necessarily the skills with the fastest growing demand. (But, with Upwork's inability to word things clearly, who knows?)

[ojeh2020]

There appears to be a new list for 2019 Q2: 

https://www.upwork.com/press/2019/08/14/q2-2019-skills/