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)
794
-2.3%
Avg rate
$43.53/hr
+4.9%
High-paying ($75+)
35
New today (24h)
13

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.

Nothing $75+/hr in the last 24 hours. Check back tomorrow.

What's trending (last 7 days)

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

GoHighLevel
236+4%
Zapier
197-7%
Claude/OpenAI
177-8%
n8n
162-4%
Make.com
127+3%
AI Agents
94-6%
HubSpot
70+1%
Airtable
60-14%
Voice AI
47-13%
Salesforce
14+17%

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