From time to time, we evaluate and update the skills listed on Upwork to reflect the current trends and talents that freelancers offer. These updates improve our site’s search and matching capabilities, so it’s important that they’re kept up-to-date.
Often, these updates involve simple renaming, merging, and corrections to streamline the user experience. You may not even notice them! However, they improve our metadata and result in clearer information, improved organization, and more accurate listings in our marketplace and your job searches.
For example:
- If you are a client, specialties and skills help categorize your job post and match your project with the talent you need
- If you are a freelancer, specialties and skills help you market your talents and create specialized profiles that accurately reflect your expertise
In this particular update, we’ve added a COVID-19 attribute to Writing Topics in Content Writing, Ghostwriting, Copywriting to help identify this timely topic.
We have automatically updated related categories, job filters and feeds, existing profiles, and job posts with any applicable changes.
Pro tip: Top freelancers tell us they frequently check the skills listed on their profile to make sure they are accurate and current. They also review their job search filters to keep opportunities up-to-date.
- Renamed Business Development specialty to Sales & Business Development
- Updated related skills to enhance accuracy and streamline the user experience
- Added Data Analytics Expertise (e.g. Growth Analytics, Marketing Analytics, Product Analytics, etc)
- Added Data Analytics Deliverables (e.g. Dashboard, Presentation, Report, etc)
- Added Data Analytics Tools (e.g. Google Analytics, Microsoft Excel, Tableau, etc)
- Added Data Analytics Languages (e.g. SQL, R, Python, etc)
- Updated related skills to enhance accuracy and streamline the user experience
- Added Data Mining Tools (e.g. NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, Rapid Miner, etc)
- Added Data Mining Languages (e.g. Python, R, Scala, etc)
- Updated related skills to enhance accuracy and streamline the user experience
- Added Data Extraction Deliverables (e.g. Web Scraper, ETL Pipeline, API Integration)
- Added Data Extraction Tools (e.g. Selenium, Beautiful Soup, Requests, etc)
- Added Data Extraction Languages (e.g. C#, Python, PHP, etc)
- Updated related skills to enhance accuracy and streamline the user experience
- Added Data Processing Skills (e.g. Data Entry, Data Labeling, Data Annotation, etc)
- Added Data Processing Tools (e.g. Talend Open Studio, OpenRefine, Apache Kafka)
- Added Data Processing Languages (e.g. Python, SQL, etc)
- Updated related skills to enhance accuracy and streamline the user experience
- Added Data Visualization Deliverables (e.g. Dashboard, Map, Presentation, etc)
- Added Data Visualization Tools (e.g. AnyChart, dygraphs, Grow, etc)
- Added Data Visualization Languages (e.g. Python, R, JavaScript, etc)
- Updated related skills to enhance accuracy and streamline the user experience
- Added Machine Learning Deliverables (e.g. Chatbot, Consultation, Machine Learning Model, etc)
- Added Machine Learning Methods (e.g. Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, etc)
- Added Machine Learning Techniques (e.g. Anomaly Detection, Classification, Clustering, etc)
- Added Machine Learning Tools (e.g. Azure Machine Learning, Databricks, Keras, etc)
- Added Machine Learning Languages (e.g. C++, Java, Scala, etc)
- Updated related skills to enhance accuracy and streamline the user experience
- Added Data Engineering Deliverables (e.g. Consultation, Data Migration, Query Tuning, etc)
- Added Data Engineering Tools (e.g. Docker, Elasticsearch, Solr, etc)
- Added Data Engineering Languages (e.g. Python, Java, R, etc)
- Updated related skills to enhance accuracy and streamline the user experience
- Added Deep Learning Skills (e.g. Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Supervised Learning, etc)
- Added Deep Learning Deliverables (e.g. Deep Learning Model, Consultation, Recommendation System, etc)
- Added Deep Learning Tools (e.g. MLflow, Sonnet, ONNX, etc)
- Added Deep Learning Languages (e.g. Java, Python, C++, R, etc)
- Updated related skills to enhance accuracy and streamline the user experience
- Added Experimentation & Testing Tools (e.g. Google Tag Manager, Hotjar, Dynamic Yield, etc)
- Updated related skills to enhance accuracy and streamline the user experience
- Added A/B Testing Skills (e.g. Conversion Rate Optimization, Hypothesis Testing, Funnel Testing)
- Added A/B Testing Tools (e.g. Google Tag Manager, Hotjar, Dynamic Yield, etc)
- Updated related skills to enhance accuracy and streamline the user experience
- Added Knowledge Representation Deliverables (e.g. Knowledge Graph)
- Added Knowledge Representation Tools (e.g. Amazon Neptune, Apache Jenga, FIBO, etc)
- Updated related skills to enhance accuracy and streamline the user experience