Freelancer's Fast 50 Reveals Fastest Growing Tech Jobs

Interesting data from a roll-up of 190,000 tech job listings, with some observations after the table.

FREELANCER FAST 50 (FASTEST MOVERS)

Rank	Category	Q2 2012	Q1 2012	Growth
1	Word	1594	728	118.96%
2	Web Scraping	3232	2025	59.60%
3	Objective C	1809	1140	58.68%
4	User Interface / IA	1756	1234	42.30%
5	Mobile Phone	5709	4209	35.64%
6	iPhone	5112	3926	30.21%
7	iPad	2308	1826	26.40%
8	C Programming	2501	2068	20.94%
9	Android	3444	2859	20.46%
10	HTML5	2108	1763	19.57%
11	PDF	1647	1385	18.92%
12	Virtual Assistant	3770	3202	17.74%
13	jQuery / Prototype	2247	1927	16.61%
14	Data Processing	21274	18331	16.05%
15	Excel	22947	20282	13.14%
16	Software Architecture	5095	4530	12.47%
17	Shopping Carts	2647	2370	11.69%
18	Telemarketing	1104	999	10.51%
19	Banner Design	1810	1672	8.25%
20	Technical Writing	2250	2119	6.18%
21	Copy Typing	2835	2709	4.65%
22	Logo Design	5768	5569	3.57%
23	Linux	1270	1239	2.50%
24	Magento	1752	1723	1.68%
25	Social Networking	5308	5250	1.10%
26	Website Design	23098	22945	0.67%
27	Data Entry	30943	30805	0.45%
28	Illustrator	2096	2103	-0.33%
29	HTML	22281	22533	-1.12%
30	Twitter	2184	2213	-1.31%
31	Flash	2522	2594	-2.78%
32	PHP	29381	30254	-2.89%
33	Article Submission	2681	2792	-3.98%
34	Proofreading	1377	1447	-4.84%
35	Internet Marketing	13848	14667	-5.58%
36	AJAX	3709	3978	-6.76%
37	Report Writing	1220	1313	-7.08%
38	SEO	9397	10133	-7.26%
39	C++ Programming	1921	2074	-7.38%
40	Link Building	6529	7120	-8.30%
41	C# Programming	1935	2122	-8.81%
42	Article Rewriting	6298	6941	-9.26%
43	Blog	3581	4086	-12.36%
44	Customer Support	1022	1171	-12.72%
45	Facebook	6510	7537	-13.63%
46	Articles	11282	13064	-13.64%
47	Academic Writing	3579	4219	-15.17%
48	eBay	1042	1284	-18.85%
49	Classifieds Posting	661	826	-19.98%
50	.NET	2919	4748	-38.52%

Mobile and user experience (UX) is hotter than a firecracker.

In what may be an anomaly, Microsoft's .NET stack fell off a cliff this quarter.

Open standards, with HTML 5, Javascript and the ubiquitous jQuery, continue to dominate.