Skills Set Required for Web Developers in Pakistan

Abstract

As the pool of potential employees for businesses throughout the world grows, the world is transforming into a global village. Pakistan is currently the 4th fastest-growing freelancing market in the world having growth rate 47%. The web development sector is essential to the economies of developing countries like Pakistan. In this study, the web development in Pakistan is surveyed to get statistical conclusions about the demand for particular job roles and skills set, required in the context of Pakistani web industry. This is accomplished by extracting and examining job listings from the most well-known job portals in Pakistan such as rozee.pk, mustakbil.com, and indeed. The study findings provide the present demand in the Pakistani web sector for web developers. For instance, expertise in Git, Firebug, Adobe photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Figma, WordPress, Shopify, Magento, OOP, MVC, AJAX, SEO, MySql, MongoDB, are at highest rank. The conducted study will be beneficial for student counselling groups, job seekers, researchers, industry professionals, academic curriculum developers, government planners, and decision-makers.