August 2026 market snapshot

Freelance budget range

Based on 343 priced freelance/contract listings (USD).

Demand by category

Share of listings posted this month.

• Web Development
  321 · 23.7%
• Other
  229 · 16.9%
• AI & Data
  150 · 11.1%
• Design & Creative
  147 · 10.9%
• Marketing & SEO
  106 · 7.8%
• Sales & BizDev
  79 · 5.8%
• Finance & Legal
  79 · 5.8%
• Admin Support
  68 · 5%
• Writing & Translation
  47 · 3.5%
• DevOps & SysAdmin
  43 · 3.2%

Top skills & tags

Most common tags on listings this month.

• sales
  82
• customer support
  62
• graphic design
  56
• finance
  51
• marketing
  50
• ops
  46
• content writing
  44
• engineering
  44
• vogel
  39
• video editing
  37
• infosec
  36
• cloud
  35