State of the Upwork
Continuing the work originally published by Aaron Melton at Ascend Automation Agency.

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Pulse

What's happening on the Upwork automation market in the last 24 hours and last 7 days.

Updated daily at 06:00 UTC — that's 1am Central US (10pm Pacific the night before), 7am London, 8am Berlin, 11:30am Mumbai, 2pm Singapore, 4pm Sydney. Full monthly report drops on the 1st.

7-day snapshot vs prior 7 days

Jobs (last 7d)
704
-20.1%
Avg rate
$39.83/hr
+0.3%
High-paying ($75+)
31
New today (24h)
35

Today's high-paying jobs ($75+/hr)

Posted in the last 24 hours. Top 10 by hourly max. The summary is what each client wants — skills + scope.

Automated Lead-Generation System Developer$100/hr

Python/web scraping developer to build an automated lead-generation system targeting active MLS listings and orchestrating outreach workflows for a virtual real estate staging company.

posted Thu, Aug 20, 3:55 AM
徵台灣 LINE Messaging API + AI 工程師|MVP 專案$90/hr

Taiwan-based LINE Messaging API developer for LLM-integrated chatbot MVP with group webhook support, AI text/image processing, and cloud deployment.

posted Thu, Aug 20, 4:11 AM
Senior Klaviyo Technical Specialist$80/hr

Klaviyo technical specialist to own flow builds, integrations, and attribution troubleshooting across a 10+ brand DTC portfolio for an Australian agency using Claude Code in daily workflows.

posted Thu, Aug 20, 4:08 AM

What's trending (last 7 days)

Mention counts in titles + descriptions. Direction = vs prior 7 days.

Zapier
220-29%
GoHighLevel
195-15%
n8n
188-20%
Claude/OpenAI
160-29%
AI Agents
96-24%
Make.com
81-33%
HubSpot
52-24%
Voice AI
43-32%
Airtable
42-30%
Salesforce
19-17%

Pulse is computed from raw scraped data. Numbers may differ slightly from the canonical monthly report which uses end-of-month aggregates.