The Tech Skills You’ll Pay More for in 2010

“In particular, the online contract worker marketplace said 2010
is shaping up to be a hot year for developers with PHP, HTML, CSS,
WordPress and Adobe Flash skills, as well as designers with
Photoshop expertise. Demand for those skilled in the MySQL database
also cracked a Elance’s top-ten list of 2010’s most requested
skills.

“As the economy nosedived in 2009, Elance said its business
picked up as many IT shops looked to contract workers instead of
employing full-timers. Elance said employers posted over 300,000
new jobs for the year and its service providers raked in almost $70
million.

“For the closing year, Elance gave PHP its “MVP” award as the
most consistently in-demand skill.”

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