AgentScout · AI Freelance Market
AI Market Intelligence, Week of July 14-20, 2026
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Across 771 AI-agent jobs sampled this week, median budgets by platform were: freelancer: $450, reddit: $10000, linkedin: n/a, hn: $130000, curated: n/a, n8n: n/a, pph: n/a, remoteok: n/a.
How the pay was stated: 71 stated a fixed budget (median $698), 55 quoted hourly (median $23/hr), 3 were salaried roles, 351 stated no pay at all.
Top skills in demand: automation (64), api integration (57), ai agents (52), n8n (47), api-integration (41).
Tool-mention momentum vs last week: automation +178%, api integration +159%, ai agents +117%, n8n +1075%, api-integration +95%.
Scam watch: AgentScout's filter flagged and suppressed 43 likely-scam postings this week (advance-fee asks, off-platform pushes, repost rings).
Takeaway: budgets and tool demand show where paid AI-agent work is concentrating right now. Bid where the median budget clears your floor and the trending tools match your stack.
How the pay was stated
| No budget stated | 351 postings | |
| Fixed-price projects | 71 postings | median $698 fixed |
| Hourly contracts | 55 postings | median $23/hr |
| Salaried roles | 3 postings | median $146k/yr |
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