The 10 highest-paid jobs you can do from home

The number of people working from home has surged in recent years. The economic downturn, coupled with changes in work patterns, means that freelancers have become the fastest growing group in the UK labour market.

There are now 4.2m home workers - a rise of 30pc from 1998, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Elance-oDesk, a jobs website which businesses use to hire freelancers across the world, says that 2.7m jobs are posted each year on its platform.

It has identifed the top 10 most lucrative freelance occupations in the UK, by hourly rate .... http://www.telegraph.co.uk