Outsized reveals the skills most in demand in the MENA region in 2024

Revealing a remarkable growth in MENA’s independent talent, the platform’s Talent-On-Demand 2024 report identifies future skills driving this transformative shift

25 March 2024, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: The need for agility, cost flexibility, and access to critical skills became increasingly important in the 2023 talent landscape. As a result, Outsized, the leading on-demand talent platform in the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and Africa, has seen a surge of demand for independent skilled talent from enterprises moving to more agile and flexible workforce models. Findings from its third annual Talent-On-Demand 2024 report, based on proprietary data collected from Outsized’s platform, revealed the MENA region as one of the fastest-growing freelance economies, with 142% growth in freelancer registrations from 2022.