Today I got an email from oDesk (Yes. I am getting it regularly) about their performance in the year 2006. They have served a total of 35000 manhours of work through around 8555 jobs posted.

Skill Set Job Openings Average Expected Duration (hours) Average Payout
PHP/MySQL

1632

187

$411
Flash/Macromedia

535

178

$174
ASP.NET+ADO

396

332

$488
PHP

387

151

$403
C#/.NET

338

483

$668
AJAX

299

340

$194
Graphics

283

176

$154
ASP

279

289

$608
HTML/DHTML/Javascript

251

263

$530

Interesting thing is that PHP/MySQL duo continues to excel in the job market with the largest number of projects posted. But when it comes to payout, .Net with C\# gets an upper hand with ASP in the second (Never thought ASP is still alive?). I love these kind of statistics. It gives a good direction to people where to go for his bread and butter. Of course, It will be interesting to watch what will happen this year.