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Upwork market data for the niche you bid in

Market Insights reports what your niche pays, how crowded it is, and how proposals sent into it perform. Scope it to one of your job filters or to the whole Upwork market.

Size up a niche before you spend connects

Difficulty, volume and budgets for any search. Scope it to one of your job filters or to the whole market.

Niche difficulty

46 Medium
19
applicants / job
15.4%
get interviewed
32.1%
jobs that hire

Market volume

128K 3.9%
Hourly 60% Fixed 40%
Jul 2026 Aug 2026

Budgets & rates

Avg hourly rate
$26.89/hr 0.9%
Avg fixed budget
$833.2 6.2%
Avg connects to apply
12 0.5%

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See what happened after freelancers bid

View rates, reply rates and connects per reply, from tens of thousands of proposals sent through Vollna for these exact jobs. Measure your own view and reply rates against the same jobs' average.

Proposal outcomes

Based on 29,000+ proposals from Vollna users for these jobs.

Avg view rate
18.2%
17.6%
Avg reply rate
5.7%
18.7%
Connects per reply
565connects
45.5%
Avg hourly bid
$79.81/hr
Avg fixed bid
$3,592
Avg boost bid
35connects
Avg time to bid
3.9 h
Avg position
#25
Avg cover letter length
200words
You vs market Based on 613 of your proposals in this scope
Your view rate
28.2%
10 pt above market
Your reply rate
6.0%
0.4 pt above market
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Find the keywords your search is missing

Related keywords that surface work in your niche your current terms leave out, each with the jobs behind it from the last 30 days.

Graphic Design 16.4K Video Editing 12.1K Social Media Marketing 11.5K Web Design 9.1K Adobe Photoshop 8.7K Lead Generation 8.6K Web Development 8.4K Adobe Illustrator 8.2K Data Entry 7.7K Video Production 6.4K Marketing Strategy 6.2K WordPress 6.1K

Know the work and the clients

Read the shape of the work

Project type

Ongoing project 47.5%
One-time project 42.2%
Complex project 9.9%

Check who the clients are

Client persona

Payment verified 77.2%
Avg hire rate 54.4%
Avg lifetime spend $130K
Avg rate paid $20.16

See where the clients are

Top client countries Share $/hr
United States 47.9% $28.6
United Kingdom 7.0% $25.6
India 5.7% $25.5
Australia 5.5% $23.0

Find where the demand sits

Break demand down by category

Jobs Share
Design & Creative 35.9K 28.1%
Sales & Marketing 27.5K 21.5%
Web, Mobile & Software 24.1K 18.8%
Digital Marketing 16.5K 12.9%
Video & Animation 15.2K 11.9%

See the skills clients ask for

Share of matching jobs

Graphic Design 12.9%
Video Editing 9.5%
Social Media Marketing 9.0%
Web Design 7.1%

Track which skills are rising

Change vs previous period

Cold Calling 3.7K +3.4%
Adobe Illustrator 8.2K +0.6%
Social Media Mgmt 4.6K +0.4%
JavaScript 5.1K -9.4%
WordPress 6.1K -10.9%

Compare two niches side by side

Put two job filters against each other, or one against the whole market, and read the gap in every panel.

More reasons to use Vollna as your go-to Upwork platform

Market Insights tells you where to bid. The rest of Vollna handles the bidding.

Testimonials

Leadjem

I run a lead-generation agency on Upwork, and Vollna quietly became the co-worker I wish I was paying — it automates bidding and tailors every proposal. My reply rate and project quality have both gone up. Less grind, more good leads.

Ihor Skrypka

Ihor Skrypka

Lead gen · cold email · Clay GTM

DevelopsToday

Our Upwork lead generation runs through Vollna now. We find good jobs faster, keep business development in one place, and the integrations plug it into the rest of our workflow. Support turns requests around quickly, too.

Alex Maistrenko

Alex Maistrenko

Head of Sales

GrowMyMail

Auto-bidding lets us send far more proposals without anyone on the team applying by hand. We started seeing results fast and landed new clients within the first few weeks. For an agency, that extra volume really adds up.

Iliyan Hristov

Iliyan Hristov

Klaviyo email marketing expert

LongRun

I get 2+ hours of my day back, every day. Vollna finds the good jobs and makes applying fast, so I send more bids with less busywork. The flow of quality projects is a lot steadier than when I did everything manually.

Daniel Katruk

Daniel Katruk

GTM engineer · B2B outbound

PioGroup Software

We stopped wasting time and connects on unproductive job searches. Now only the best projects in our industry get our attention, and the whole team stays in sync through Slack, so nothing good slips past us.

Alexey Shapran

Alexey Shapran

EdTech software development

100% JSSTop Rated Plus

Before analysing my Vollna data I was on a 5.3% reply rate. Using the analytics I more than doubled it to over 11% and cut my cost per lead by 45%. Serious Upwork users are leaving money on the table without it.

Luke Raper

Luke Raper

Google Ads for ecommerce

CBRAND

Relevant jobs reach our team the moment they're posted, so we respond before the competition even sees them. It keeps our agency's Upwork pipeline moving week after week — a big productivity win for the whole team.

Denys G.

Denys G.

Digital marketing agency

100% JSSTop Rated

I've used Vollna for over 4 months now. It covers everything: finding the right jobs, writing proposals, tracking my numbers. I got a contract in my very first month, which paid for the tool many times over. Definitely recommend.

Bouchala Mohamed Toufik

Bouchala Mohamed Toufik

Direct response video editor

Peiko

A must-have for any Upwork team. Vollna brings in a steady stream of relevant jobs, so our people spend their time bidding instead of searching. Nobody at Peiko sits refreshing the job feed anymore — the leads come to us.

Oleksii Soloviov

Oleksii Soloviov

Web3 & fintech development

Thinkpal

We've used Vollna for over 4 years — it's our main tool for winning clients on Upwork. The analytics show exactly what moves our reply rate, and the proposal generator runs on our own prompts, so every bid still sounds like us.

Stanislav Galandzovskyi

Stanislav Galandzovskyi

PPC expert · fintech & forex

FAQ

Common questions

What is Market Insights built on?

Two sources. The first is the Upwork jobs Vollna monitors: volume, budgets, connects, categories, skills, job attributes, client details, and client countries.

The second is the outcome of proposals sent through Vollna for those same jobs — whether they were viewed, whether the client replied, and what they cost in connects. That second source is what makes Proposal outcomes possible.

Which plans include Market Insights?
Market Insights is part of the paid plans. It is not available on the free tier or during a free trial.
Can I scope the data to my own searches?

Yes. Pick any of your job filters as the scope and every panel recalculates against the jobs that filter matches. Pick the whole market instead when you want the wider picture.

On top of that you can add ad-hoc filters — keywords matched in the title, description or skills, plus category — and save the result as a named search to come back to.

How far back does the data go?
Ranges run from 7 days to 1 year: 7 days, 14 days, 30 days, 90 days, 6 months, and 1 year. Deltas compare the selected range against the previous period of the same length.
What does "you vs market" mean in Proposal outcomes?
Your own view rate, reply rate and connects per reply on the matching jobs, shown next to the same numbers for everyone bidding on them through Vollna. It answers whether a weak reply rate comes from the niche or from your proposals.
Can I compare two niches side by side?
Yes. Compare mode puts two scopes next to each other — two job filters, or one filter against the whole market — and shows both sets of numbers in every panel, with the difference between them.
How current is the data?
Results are computed for the selected scope and cached for up to an hour. A recompute control refreshes a scope on demand when you want the newest numbers.
Do the averages show what clients pay or what they post?
Budgets and rates are averages of what clients post in the job. Client persona reports the hourly rate those clients have actually paid on Upwork, which is a separate number and often a lower one.

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Numbers for the niche you bid in every day

Difficulty, volume, budgets, demand, clients, and real proposal outcomes, scoped to your own filters. Included on paid plans.