If you are a WordPress Freelancer looking for a job or small gigs, where do you go to find them? Let’s compare the most popular online freelance marketplaces and niche freelance sites that are offering thousands of freelance jobs for WordPress expert freelancers just like you.
oDesk - WordPress Jobs
With over 744 WordPress Jobs available at oDesk marketplace (at time of writing ). The oDesk freelance marketplace is one of the big guns in the outsourcing and freelancing industry. It claims over 500,000 registered service providers and a total projects value of over $140m USD. Over 1.5 million hours of work were carried out in the last quarter meaning Odesk can lay claim to providing full time employment to the equivalent of almost 3,000 people – and that doesn’t take into account, the army of fixed price project workers who generate in excess of $1.5 Million USD per month through the oDesk marketplace.
Elance - WordPress Jobs
Find work deliver results and get paid on Elance like other WordPress freelancers are doing already. There are currently over 400 WordPress projects waiting for you on Elance marketplace. Who is Elance? Launched in May 1998, Elance is one of the founding fathers in the online freelancing and outsourcing sector. Employers can choose from over 152,508 freelance professionals providing services. This provides access to a varied pool of talent able to meet the needs of even the most demanding clients. The pricing policy may seem expensive, but when everything is taken into consideration, it shapes up quite well compared to other sites which can take as much as 15% in commissions and offer little in return.
Freelancer - WordPress Jobs
You will find over 178 WordPress jobs on the Freelancer marketplace. As of February 2010, jobs paid through the site amounted to $50 million. Freelancer.com is a favorite platform for qualified professionals from countries with lower scale salaries, for whom the fees charged at some other sites can be a turnoff. Its also a favorite for those in Europe and North America that want their job done on the cheap. Boasting one of the widest varieties of online job category listings, Freelancer hit 1.5 million users on April 9th, 2010.
Pick.IM - WordPress Jobs
Launched in April 2010! The Pick.im is refreshingly different to the mainstream freelancing sites. The homepage is a simple form which asks two basic questions:
- 1. What type of freelancer do you want?
- 2. What is your budget?
When you click on “find a freelancer” button, you will be presented with a selection of freelancers that meet your requirements and can review their profiles and contact them. This unique concept and ultra simple user interface is a free of charge service for freelancers and employers and provides a unique opportunity for freelancers to market their services.
Guru - WordPress Jobs
Guru marketplace boasts over $100,000,0000 in earnings, and calls on freelancers to be one in a million and not one of millions. There were 108 WordPress Job opportunities for freelancers, last time we checked. Being one of the oldest hands and one of the biggest fish in a growing freelance marketplaces pond, its definitely worth to check out Guru for available freelance WordPress projects.
ScriptLance – WordPress Jobs
Based out of Canada, Scriptlance is one of the most popular and dynamic sites for technically savvy freelancers like WordPress programmers and web developers. This freelancer haven doesn’t charge any fees to register. Over 100 new projects are circulated each day, most of them related to web development, which means plenty of WordPress jobs. This site has some of the lowest fees in the industry and provides users with escrow payment options to help projects get completed smoothly. No recurring fees, no project posting fees. Freelancers must simply pay a commission on acceptance of their bid on a project.
RentaCoder – WordPress Jobs
RentaCoder is one of the top WordPress programming job markets on the web, rentacoder currently connects 285,000 Software coders with 137,000 Software buyers. There are currently over 2,700 open jobs on the site. This is one of the safest places to work, as the use of the escrow system is mandatory for every single project.
GoFreelance – WordPress Jobs
One of the longest established freelancing marketplaces around and over 60,000 unique visitors per month, this site has a very friendly design and interface. With a top ranking on Google and featured on CNN and the Wall Street Journal, it is also one of the biggest freelancer markets. Without registering you can’t see how much work is available, nor what type of work they have listed, this makes it a bit of a gamble compared to the more open marketplaces. Perhaps worth trying as a buyer, but I would be reluctant to pay out hard earned money without seeing what work is on offer.
iFreelance – WordPress Jobs
With a catchy domain name and a very different business model – it doesn’t charge any commission on project fees – iFreelance appears to be an interesting alternative to bigger players such as oDesk and Elance. The site’s marketing pitch is that, since they do not rely on commissions, communication is much more open there than at the bulk of competing online job marketplaces; and you will always pay the same to use the site, no matter how much you’re making.
Jobs.WordPress.net – WordPress Jobs
Jobs.WordPress.Net attracts over 30,000 visitors per month. It is a Job Board that specializes in publishing strictly WordPress related positions. Employer’s job postings are displayed for a period of 21 days or if they decide to take them off, whichever comes first.
People Per Hour – WordPress Jobs
With a cool interface and a good marketing strategy, UK based Peopleperhour.com is the only serious freelance marketplace in the UK. Launched in late 2007 the site has already posted billings around the £8M mark and its growing steadily with high levels of repeat business. The site offers high quality projects to its pool of high quality providers. PeopleperHour.com has thousands of open jobs in a wide variety of freelancing categories.
Lime Exchange – WordPress Jobs
LimeExchange is a part of Lime Labs LLC, the same people behind the hugely popular Lime Wire P2P music downloading network. With $5,680,500 worth of Jobs Posted, 63,814 Freelancers from 181 Countries on file, and over 20,000 unique visitors per month, LimeExchange is an established player among freelance job markets. The site has over 5,000 active projects available for bidding, putting it well up there in the top 10 freelancing sites in terms of buyer activity. A strong management team, a powerful ‘engine’ and strong PR efforts make LimeExchange one of the best up and coming sites.
WooThemes – WordPress Jobs
Become a WooThemes Worker! The makers of WooThemes have built up a dedicated group of official WooThemes modifiers. These Affiliated Woo Workers take care of all the modification work for customers of WooThemes WordPress Templates at a fixed price. These guys & girls know these themes inside / out – so if you work with them, you’re sure to get a beautiful, unique-looking version of WooThemes with all sorts of bells and whistles.
Templatic – WordPress Jobs
Want to make some money by helping people customize their WordPress themes? Then Templatic Customization Jobs is the place to go. It is a place that connects web professionals and templatic customers who wish to customize themes to their particular need.
Posting theme customization here is absolutely FREE and is only available to templatic customers. Not a templatic customer yet? Purchase a theme for your next web project.
