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This morning we got news that the U.S. economy unexpectedly shrank in the final quarter of 2012, apparently due to big cutbacks in defense spending. But during the same period, dozens of online job categories saw a worldwide increase, according to Freelancer.com, one of the biggest cloud labor sites around.
Freelancer.com uses data from its huge marketplace for work that can be performed online to track cloud-based job trends.
Some of the highlights from the end of last year include more people making a living off eBay, website hosting services, software and website testing. There were some losers, as well. Freelancer.com says "social media and Internet Marketing jobs continue to fall out of favour in the wake of constant platform and search index changes."
Using clearly crowdsourced data extracted from 261,003 jobs posted on Freelancer.com in Q4 2012, up from 230,614 in Q3, here's how the top 50 online job categories fared:
| Rank | Job Category | Q4 | Q3 | Increase |
| 1 | Web Hosting | 4059 | 118 | 3340% |
| 2 | Software Testing | 5200 | 196 | 2554% |
| 3 | Website Testing | 3923 | 182 | 2055% |
| 4 | Website Management | 4073 | 551 | 639% |
| 5 | Engineering | 2477 | 408 | 507% |
| 6 | Amazon Web Services | 1895 | 335 | 466% |
| 7 | Powerpoint | 1253 | 306 | 309% |
| 8 | Windows Desktop | 1923 | 475 | 305% |
| 9 | Word | 4578 | 1474 | 211% |
| 10 | Email Marketing | 1003 | 351 | 186% |
| 11 | Icon Design | 1007 | 429 | 135% |
| 12 | Book Writing | 1300 | 623 | 109% |
| 13 | Software Architecture | 12127 | 5897 | 106% |
| 14 | Copy Typing | 12897 | 6917 | 86% |
| 15 | 2444 | 1375 | 78% | |
| 16 | XML | 1479 | 858 | 72% |
| 17 | Technical Writing | 3495 | 2092 | 67% |
| 18 | Translation | 3297 | 2100 | 57% |
| 19 | Linux | 2185 | 1412 | 55% |
| 20 | Academic Writing | 5403 | 3506 | 54% |
| 21 | SQL | 1810 | 1308 | 38% |
| 22 | Accounting | 1035 | 757 | 37% |
| 23 | Script Install | 1947 | 1450 | 34% |
| 24 | C# Programming | 2750 | 2103 | 31% |
| 25 | User Interface / IA | 2777 | 2155 | 29% |
| 26 | Java | 3277 | 2560 | 28% |
| 27 | MySQL | 14024 | 11002 | 27% |
| 28 | CSS | 9015 | 7098 | 27% |
| 29 | Web Scraping | 3189 | 2511 | 27% |
| 30 | Research | 2669 | 2111 | 26% |
| 31 | ASP | 1500 | 1187 | 26% |
| 32 | HTML5 | 3827 | 3038 | 26% |
| 33 | 3D Animation | 1655 | 1328 | 25% |
| 34 | 3D Modelling | 1466 | 1187 | 24% |
| 35 | eBay | 1790 | 1469 | 22% |
| 36 | Illustration | 1555 | 1290 | 21% |
| 37 | Visual Basic | 1630 | 1372 | 19% |
| 38 | jQuery / Prototype | 3527 | 2972 | 19% |
| 39 | Android | 4282 | 4002 | 7% |
| 40 | Internet Marketing | 15244 | 15458 | -1.4% |
| 41 | eCommerce | 3862 | 3931 | -1.8% |
| 42 | Link Building | 6844 | 7066 | -3.1% |
| 43 | SEO | 10159 | 10505 | -3.3% |
| 44 | Shopping Carts | 2944 | 3059 | -3.8% |
| 45 | iPhone | 5298 | 5508 | -3.8% |
| 46 | Social Networking | 5820 | 6131 | -5.1% |
| 47 | 2240 | 2392 | -6.4% | |
| 48 | 6581 | 7186 | -8.4% | |
| 49 | iPad | 2036 | 2376 | -14% |
| 50 | BPO | 2946 | 4493 | -34 |
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