According to me, There will be support for Magento 1.9.1.0. Currently most of the Magento Developers are working on Magento 1.9 version.
The support will not stop suddenly but it will gradually decrease.
Magento community has so many certified developers who are certified on 1.x
You will definitely find someone who works as freelancer according to your need.
As you can see here :
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so many ecommerce sites are running on Magento 1.8 and older version.
Until all the sites will be upgraded to Magento 2 there will be support for Magento 1.9. [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/tgunm.png
