Top Freelance Websites | Best Freelance Work Job Websites

In the modern world of technology, everything is shifting from manual work to computerized work. The whole concept of business is getting online. Therefore, the concept of labor is also shifting from traditional lines to the online version. Today, a lot more people are earning their livelihood through various businesses that have no physical presence and are internet based. The physical presence of employee is not necessarily required in the office premises as they can do the same job while sitting in their favorite couch in the comfort of their homes.

Moreover, the cost of these skilled internet based workers has gone tremendously high in the developed world where the demand for such skilled people is high while their supply is limited. It is in these circumstances that the concept of freelancing has emerged. Today, more and more companies are outsourcing their work to poor countries but with highly skilled people who can do the work through web while being actually thousands of miles away from the office. The concept of Freelancing emerged and fast became choice of the employers.

The modern day employers find it very convenient to hire cheap skilled resources from the developing world based on their requirements and without any long term commitment. A lot of specialized sites have emerged advertising Freelance Jobs and hence we realized that our fans have become confused as they can’t find one place where they can find all the best sites that offer Freelance work. So here is a list of Top 10 Freelance Websites.

Elance:

Elance is a great place for professionals in the domain of freelancing. It offers work opportunities in approx all areas as shown on the front page of the website. If you are a finance professional or a graphic designer, you can easily get good opportunities on the site that will suit your requirements. Managers can post unlimited job posting for as low as $10 while it charges approx 6.5% – 8.5% from the freelancers as service charges.

Official Website: Elance

Guru

Guru is one of the World largest freelancing website. It has freelance opportunities in mainly three categories i.e Technology, Creative Arts and Business. However, just like other sites, it has covered approx all job domains under it. Guru has approximately 250,000 plus freelancers associated with it. Guru offers both free and paid memberships and they range from $29.95 to $99.95 per quarter. However, if you manage to get a job, Guru takes between 5 % – 10 % commission from it.

Official Website: Guru

ScriptLance

ScriptLance is another nice addition to the Freelance websites. It is generally famous to offer cheapest rates and a lot of freelancers consider it their first site since it is generally consider easy to get work here. The four main areas it covers are for programmers, designers, writers and marketers. ScriptLance is a free service and it charges 5% commission on the completed jobs.

Official Website: ScriptLance

oDesk

oDesk is the marketplace for online workteams, with the best business model for both employers and contractors. oDesk unique approach guarantees to employers that an hour billed is an hour worked, while guaranteeing to contractors that an hour worked is an hour paid.

This win-win approach attracts more work to oDesk than to any other online work marketplace. Each month, thousands of companies of all sizes post jobs on oDesk, representing more than $65,000,000. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of top-notch professionals, including web developers, software programmers, graphic designers, writers, customer service representatives and virtual assistants, offer their services through oDesk.

Official Website: oDesk

LimeExchange

LimeExchange, is an online services marketplace, offering a platform to Small Medium Businesses & Entrepreneurs looking for options to outsource or offshore. LimeExchange provides quick and easy access to freelance talent. LimeExchange currently allows exchange of services for Freelance professionals & experts across various categories such as writing & translation, graphic design, services, web design, web development, software development, networking, audio/video, multimedia, programming etc.

Official Website: LimeExchange

FreeLancer

This one is special in a sense that i started with it myself even though i never made it to complete any job. Freelancer.com (formerly GetAFreelancer) is the world’s largest outsourcing place for small business. Freelancer has hundreds of thousands of satisfied customers from all over the world. It connect over 1.5 million employers and freelancers globally from over 234 countries & regions. At Freelancer, employers can hire freelancers from any areas such as software, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering and the sciences, sales and marketing, and accounting & legal services. The average job at Freelancers is under US$200, making outsourcing for the first time extremely cost effective for small businesses.

Official Website: Freelancer

FreelanceWebMarket

FreelanceWebmarket offers an exciting professional environment where a diverse group of talented, experienced individuals work together as a team to build a new and exciting marketplace with a broad range of projects and services available to you at any time necessary. FreelanceWebMarket members are freelancers, companies and individuals from the United States, Canada, India, Romania and many other countries. The site mainly focuses on Web and computers and programming geeks. It claims to have 19000 + registered members.

Official Website: FreelanceWebMarket

vWorker

vWorker.com, formely known as RentaCoder is a dynamic online marketplace where 143,490 employers hire and manage 297,175 virtual workers to assist them in business and personal projects. Virtual workers span every country across the globe and every imaginable expertise, including computer programming, writing, graphic design, marketing and many more.

Official Website: vWorker

Net4ManPower

Net4Manpower.com is an incorporated service of net4manpower LTD in United Kingdom providing this online service for the manpower related resources. Using this service you can find the suitable freelancer or companies around the online.
Net4manpower is a global market place for manpower (Buy and Sell manpower service). Providers / Buyers can find the talent professionals to do their projects or to fill part-time positions.

Official Website: Net4ManPower

FreeLancers Network

Freelancers has been helping freelancers find work and clients find freelancers since 1999. Freelancers is UK focused and lists many jobs and projects open to UK freelancers, however clients from across the globe use Freelancers regularly to source freelancers outside of the UK.

Official Website: Freelancers Network

I am sure the above is a long list and you will surely get a lot of useful opportunities through these websites. Do let us know if there is any other website that we might have missed in our list. We would love to hear your personal feedback about these sites as well.

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Computer Consultant September 9, 2010 at 12:43 pm

Thanks for sharing the list of websites

Every freelance job is a good source of income; it is based on the performance, your efficiency and the time management. By considering these things the project owners will pay you the amount for your work.

Mudassar October 19, 2010 at 4:21 am

Great!
Nice piece of information to guide people find jobs on net.

Thanks

Alan October 20, 2010 at 6:43 pm

vWorker has an amazing project posting process. They ask the right questions and tell you the right things, especially as a new employer in this field. I’m very impressed. Now I just hope I find someone good!

Faysal February 23, 2011 at 6:11 pm