From time to time, we evaluate and update the specialties and skills listed on Upwork to reflect the current trends and talents that members of Upwork have to offer. These updates improve your chances of being found on Upwork, so it’s important that they’re kept up-to-date.

Often, these updates involve simple renaming, merging, and corrections to streamline your 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

Updates to Marketplace attributes:

Significant changes have been made to Upwork skill attributes in this release. We added over 2,900 roles and skills to our ontology based on top queries from freelancers and clients, and from standardized roles and skills developed by European and US agencies. We continue to add synonyms to improve search results and capture variations in how freelancers and clients describe their skills and needs. With a constant eye on streamlining categories and avoiding ambiguity, we've merged 308 values and deprecated 103 values.

In this particular update, we’ve added brand new subcategories and specialties in the Customer Service and Admin Support categories. We’ve also made additional improvements to the rest of the Marketplace Taxonomy. Please find these changes in the list below.

Marketplace Category Structure