Upwork lists Marketplace Monitor at $77k in client spend.
$77,475 in published client spend across 36 contracts. The full read below — free.
Who's actually behind the account.
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What the blended average hides
Don't trust a single 'average' rate — while you see occasional premium spikes ($50–$80/hr) for short specialist tasks, roughly half the visible hourly work clusters at $15–$35/hr and several long-running dev roles sit around $15/hr, so the headline spread hides a commodity-rate core plus sporadic higher-rate niches.
Where the work actually is
All 36 contracts by category. Design, visual & branding leads with 11 of 32 contracts.
Hiring right now, not last year.
When the contracts on record started — and how they're structured. 13 of 36 are still in progress.
Jobs they've posted publicly
Every contract on record — all 36
Freelancer names removed · roles onlyHow they hire, and how they treat people
London-based buyer hiring primarily for mobile apps, web scraping/back-end work, and product design, running a mix of hourly retainers and fixed-price tasks with frequent multi-month engagements.
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