Upwork’s Design & Creative Skills for 2024:

• Top 10 Most In-Demand Skills
  1. Graphic Design
  2. Video Editing
  3. Presentation Design
  4. Illustration
  5. Image Editing
  6. 3D Animation
  7. Video Production
  8. Product & Industrial Design
  9. Cartoon & Comic Illustration
  10. Logo Design
      
      
• Top 3 Fastest-Growing Skills
  
  1. Packaging Design
  2. Music Production
  3. Videography

Connect with skilled, global, in-demand talent on Upwork’s work marketplace. For further information on these skills and how to apply them, tune into an online Q&A with Kelly Monahan, managing director of Upwork’s Research Institute, on April 10, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. PST/12:00 p.m. EST on our community events page.

Methodology

Skills data was sourced from the Upwork database and is based on U.S. freelancer earnings from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023. Each skill had a minimum of 250 projects with active work during the period. Year-over-year growth was estimated by comparing freelancer earnings in the full year 2023 to freelancer earnings over the same period in 2022.

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¹ Note: This skill was not available in 2022, but was the fastest-growing in terms of percentage growth in 2023.

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