According to LinkedIn: The World's Most inDemand Employers 2013

By Think Marketing on October 17, 2013

LinkedIn released its 2013 list of Most InDemand Employers

LinkedIn today released its 2013 list of Most InDemand Employers. The top two companies were both in the technology sector: Google and Apple. Microsoft and Facebook, however, which were in third and fourth places last year, have slipped to fifth and sixth place, respectively.

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The results are based on LinkedIn’s 238 million users, as well as over 25 billion interactions between professionals and companies. The company also highlighted that Spotify, based in Stockholm, was the smallest company (by number of employees) to make this year’s list at number 99 and that Amazon broke into the top 10.

Here are the 20 tech companies in the 2013 list:

1: Google
2: Apple
5: Microsoft
6: Facebook
7: Amazon
23: Twitter
25: Salesforce.com
38: VMware
39: Oracle
44: Electronic Arts
53: Adobe
55: HP
59: Razorfish
60: Cisco
74: Netflix
84: Red Hat
85: Samsung
89: Siemens
90: IBM
99: Spotify

LinkedIn noted that there was a strong international showing this year: 42 percent of the 2013 Most InDemand employers are located outside the US. Last year the equivalent figure was 32 percent.

For the sake of comparison, here’s the 2012 list:

1: Google
2: Apple
3: Microsoft
4: Facebook
13: Salesforce.com
14: Twitter
25: Amazon
35: Electronic Arts
36: Samsung
37: HP
39: Netflix
41: Groupon
42: Zynga
46: VMware
49: RedHat
74: IBM
75: HTC
81: Activision
87: Adobe
100: LivingSocial

LinkedIn’s list will always be biased towards technology companies. After all, the service is a social network, and these are the types of businesses that follow the latest trends. Furthermore, those who are technology-savvy (many LinkedIn users) are interested in companies that are all about pushing forward in this space.

To determine these rankings, LinkedIn data scientists analyzed the actions of 238+ million professionals on LinkedIn. In 2013, LinkedIn was home to more than 25 billion interactions between members and companies.