The Pulse of Rent A Coder

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The Pulse of Rent a coder
(taken on 11/6/2009 11:35:37 PM)
Rent A Coder is a global marketplace that connects buyers of services (such as programing, design, marketing and translations) with sellers. It is the home of the world's largest number of completed software projects and is currently made up of 128,917 buyers and 273,205 coders. These participants come from virtually every country in the world, and negotiate and complete thousands of projects each month.

Rent A Coder statistics provide an instantaneous pulse reading on global trends in domestic and global outsourcing, offshoring and nearshoring. It has been the subject of numerous studies by leading educational instutitutions, including Harvard University, American University, University of Massachusetts and numerous others. (If you are a public research institution and have a project you'd like to propose, please contact us.)

How many projects are completed each month on Rent A Coder?
What percentage of Rent A Coder buyers are repeat customers?
Which countries are the biggest buyers and coders on the site?
How does Rent A Coder rank compared to other sites on the Internet?

How many projects are succesfully completed each month on Rent A Coder?

Pay for Deliverables Projects (Only):

9058

Oct
2007

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Oct
2009

Average Monthly Growth Rate: 1.43%
Average Yearly Growth Rate: 17.15%

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Date	# of 100% completed projects
Oct 2009	8,171
Sep 2009	7,644
Aug 2009	8,216
Jul 2009	8,598
Jun 2009	7,970
May 2009	8,302
Apr 2009	8,251
Mar 2009	9,058
Feb 2009	8,023
Jan 2009	7,866
Dec 2008	7,393
Nov 2008	7,538
Oct 2008	8,025
Sep 2008	8,072
Aug 2008	7,644
Jul 2008	7,761
Jun 2008	7,366
May 2008	7,657
Apr 2008	7,809
Mar 2008	7,682
Feb 2008	7,179
Jan 2008	7,239
Dec 2007	6,674
Nov 2007	7,427
Oct 2007	7,736

Pay for Time Projects Billable Hours(Only):

774

Jul
2009

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Oct
2009

Average Monthly Growth Rate: 119.84%
Average Yearly Growth Rate: 1,438.08%

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What percentage of Rent A Coder buyers are repeat customers?

Percentage of all projects last month
(10/2009)

95.76

4.24 %

95.76 %

First-time
buyers

Repeat
buyers

According to a study by KPMG, the average software industry business has a 64% repeat buyer rate.

Which countries are the biggest buyers and coders on the site?

Top 10 Buyer Countries last month
10/2009

Top 10 Coder Countries last month
10/2009

How does Rent A Coder rank compared to other sites on the Internet?

Alexa is a site ranking service owned by Amazon. It ranks Rent A Coder among the top 13,000 most popular sites on the entire Internet.
Rent A Coder is proud to have made the prestigous Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies in the United States. It is ranked the 82nd fastest growing software company in the nation, the 3rd fastest growing company in the Tampa Bay area (out of all types of companies).