Yes. You have to learn a skill with demand that cannot be met. That is the easiest way to get side work.
Learn Salesforce development. I've accepted a new contract role that is full time hours and my older employer straight up told me, "We cannot match your new hourly rate, but here is still a raise. Feel free to work on things for us whenever you want, whenever you have time, remotely."
I'm nothing special, an average developer. But businesses cannot find enough Salesforce developers, so some take what they can get, even if it's part-time.
I would imagine that clients that would want to get contractors for Salesforce development would want those individuals working during normal business hours, which would conflict with an existing job. Have you found clients are more flexible in hours?
Can’t really give you a quantifiable answer time wise. It really depends on how much time you put in and how good of a developer you already are.
It took me 4 years working full time to get to the point I’m at now. But I also worked Uber, Postmates, and fast food jobs to support my family at night till I got side gig developer work. In my 3rd year things really started to take off. I now have 8 certifications.
full life cycle development. pretty much anything to get something launched. integrations, front-end, apex back-end. Right now I'm learning about SQL server and DDL stuff to get a feature launched cause the integration doesn't have a REST or SOAP API, so I need to build the API myself.
Learn Salesforce development. I've accepted a new contract role that is full time hours and my older employer straight up told me, "We cannot match your new hourly rate, but here is still a raise. Feel free to work on things for us whenever you want, whenever you have time, remotely."
I'm nothing special, an average developer. But businesses cannot find enough Salesforce developers, so some take what they can get, even if it's part-time.