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oDesk is one of the big guns in the outsourcing and freelancing industry. With over 500,000 registered service providers and total billings of over $200m it has risen to prominence rapidly since launching in 2004.

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Launched in May 1998, Elance is one of the founding fathers in the online freelancing and outsourcing sector. With over 100,000 professionals providing services, it provides access to a varied pool of talent able to meet the needs of even the most demanding clients. The pricing policy may seem expensive, but when everything is taken into consideration, it shapes up quite well compared to other sites which can take as much as 15% in commissions and offer little in return.

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Founded in Sweden in 2004, Freelancer.com (formerly Getafreelancer.com) is one of the top players in the online outsourcing market today. It was bought in 2009 by an Australian company and has grown quickly. As of February 2010, jobs paid through the site amounted to $50 million. Freelancer.com is a favorite platform of qualified professionals from countries with lower scale salaries, for whom the fees charged at some other sites can be a turnoff.

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At the end of June 2010, RentaCoder was rebranded vWorker. One of the top programming job markets on the web, it is expanding its focus to compete with other freelance marketplaces that have launched since the site was founded in 2001. vWorker currently connects over 300,000 freelance workers with over 150,000 buyers. There are currently over 2,700 open jobs on the site. This is one of the safest places to work, as the use of the escrow system is mandatory for every single project.

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With a cool interface and a good marketing strategy, UK based Peopleperhour.com is the only serious freelance marketplace in the UK. Launched in late 2007 the site has already posted billings around the £8M mark and its growing steadily with high levels of repeat business. The site offers high quality projects to its pool of high quality providers. PeopleperHour.com has thousands of open jobs in a wide variety of freelancing categories.

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