Freelance Skills
The most common skills for freelancers are JavaScript, Python, and React, based on how often they appear in 11412 rate submissions.
To see the individual submissions behind these numbers, browse the Freelancer hourly rates list, where you can filter by any skill below.
Skill frequency does not measure hiring demand or prove a skill increases rates. Skills with fewer than 5 records are omitted. Methodology
Most common skills — share of submissions
All tracked skills
| Skill | Share of submissions | Submissions | Rates |
|---|---|---|---|
| JavaScript | 13.9% | 1588 | View → |
| Python | 11.3% | 1287 | View → |
| React | 8.1% | 919 | View → |
| Figma | 7.8% | 889 | View → |
| TypeScript | 7.2% | 825 | View → |
| AWS | 7.2% | 821 | View → |
| ReactJS | 7% | 796 | View → |
| NodeJS | 6% | 683 | View → |
| PHP | 5.6% | 639 | View → |
| CSS | 5.5% | 629 | View → |
| HTML | 5.5% | 626 | View → |
| Wordpress | 5% | 571 | View → |
| Java | 4.6% | 528 | View → |
| .NET | 4.2% | 483 | View → |
| Adobe Creative Cloud | 3.1% | 350 | View → |
| PostgreSQL | 2.6% | 301 | View → |
| SQL | 2.5% | 280 | View → |
| Adobe Illustrator | 2.3% | 258 | View → |
| Azure | 2.3% | 258 | View → |
| Django | 2.1% | 240 | View → |