Top 20 skills-in-demand in the Upwork freelancing site

Freelancing portal Upwork.com publishes top 20 skills-in-demand every quarter (https://www.upwork.com/press/2017/11/02/q3-2017-skills-index/)

It may not be completely relevant to us as we are B2B and enterprises acquire tech skills through freelancing channels very rarely. Still this gives an idea.

• You need to be watching the Blockchain/Bitcoins carefully. Even if you don’t believe in bitcoins, you should look for numerous other use cases with Blockchain platform
• As expected AI (ML, DL, NLP) has found place
• Building PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) for mobile native app like UX through Angular and React will continue
• Omission of .NET/Java are understandable as they are mostly enterprise. But I am surprised that NodeJS is missing

1. Robotics
2. Blockchain
3. Bitcoin
4. Penetration testing
5. React.js
6. Amazon Web Services Lambda
7. Augmented reality
8. Deep learning
9. Instagram marketing
10. Final Cut Pro X
11. Swift development
12. AngularJS development
13. Salesforce
14. Vulnerability assessment
15. Natural language processing
16. HubSpot marketing
17. Machine learning
18. Objective-C development
19. Learning Management System (LMS)
20. jQuery development