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by pranavpiyush 3955 days ago
One way of answering this question is to look at total number of service providers on odesk, elance, fiverr, etc...

This article has some stats - http://fortune.com/2012/11/27/welcome-to-the-age-of-the-free...

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Thanks! This is a great article for what I'm trying to figure out.

One thing I see in a lot of these articles is general reference to the term 'freelancer'. This seems to lump programmers in with writers, designers, accountants, and anyone else who can work on a contract basis.

I wonder how many of the 1 million freelancer jobs posted on elance in 2012 were programmer jobs specifically?