Freedom comes with a price, but for many, it's a price worth paying. If you're skilled, well respected among your peers and great at developing software, you might earn more cash if you pursue a ...

Two years ago Roger Dickey, 33, started San Francisco-based Gigster, a platform where companies hire freelance software developers. Its selling point: a heavily screened pool of top developers eager ...

JavaScript, CSS, and HTML top the list of desired skills for software dev contractors. My title is Senior Features Writer, which is a license to write about absolutely anything if I can connect it to ...

Facing economic headwinds, companies are filling gaps in information-technology teams with freelance software developers, coders and other high-skilled tech workers, while pulling back on efforts to ...

So it looks like I'm going to start doing a bit of freelance programming on the side, and I'm looking to come up with an hourly rate. Right now I work at a very small company full time, and am doing ...

Lin Gang Xuan finds his 40-hour workweeks quite fulfilling. Since he’s tackling new projects each day, work is “never boring,” and he gets to meet and collaborate with people from all around the world ...

The developers’ favourite information and advice repository, Stack Overflow, knows full well the potential of the developer gig economy, and the company is setting itself to ensure that it helps it ...

Software developers are still in high demand, but the right mix of skills matters more than ever. Here's what tech employers are looking for right now. One thing that remains stable is that developers ...

Photo subject: Roger Dickey Title/company: CEO of Gigster, a platform where companies hire freelance software developers. Address: 500 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA Contact: Kristi Morales, Executive ...