# Julia among 20 fastest growing freelancer skills in demand in US for Q1 of 2019 according to UpWork & TechRepublic

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-20-fastest-growing-freelancer-skills-in-demand-in-us-for-q1-of-2019-according-to-upwork-techrepublic/24295/1 "2019-05-17T00:48:28Z")

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[https://www.techrepublic.com/google-amp/article/ulia-kubernetes-and-hadoop-among-the-20-fastest-growing-freelancer-skills/](https://www.techrepublic.com/google-amp/article/ulia-kubernetes-and-hadoop-among-the-20-fastest-growing-freelancer-skills/)

Don’t know much about how the gig market works and who tends to participate. Doesn’t sound too shabby though 🙂

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-20-fastest-growing-freelancer-skills-in-demand-in-us-for-q1-of-2019-according-to-upwork-techrepublic/24295/2 "2019-05-17T02:17:00Z")

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Didn’t expect that but it sounds good! 🙂

Honestly, the list looks a bit weird. “US Taxation” as a skill and it’s the top?

I clicked on the [Julia Development link](https://www.upwork.com/hire/julia-developers/) and most freelancers that came up do not look like Julia developers. BTW, quite a few hits had their first names as Julia 😅

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 2:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-20-fastest-growing-freelancer-skills-in-demand-in-us-for-q1-of-2019-according-to-upwork-techrepublic/24295/3 "2019-05-17T02:32:46Z")

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The [UpWork press release](https://www.upwork.com/press/2019/05/15/q1-2019-skills/) isn’t terribly clear on their methodology, but it does seem like they are reporting increases in demand for Julia work, not in numbers of Julia freelancers. Probably.

Yes there is a lot of noise in their listings of freelancers. Searching for just “Julia” is maybe a little less noisy than “Julia developer”.

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> Honestly, the list looks a bit weird. “US Taxation” as a skill and it’s the top?

I think it’s probably a timing thing - taxes for companies and individuals in the US are largely a first quarter affair (Tax Day is April 15). It’s pretty common for companies to beef up tax people (ie accountants) in Jan-Apr.