AgentScout · AI Freelance Market
AI Agent Market Intelligence, Week of 2026-08-03
Median budgets, top skills, and tool momentum. · August 3, 2026
Across 529 AI-agent and automation postings sampled in the 7 days ending August 3, 2026, the platforms quoting fixed project budgets ran: freelancer ~$750, reddit ~$500 (median stated price).
How the pay was stated: 79 stated a fixed budget (median $675), 58 quoted hourly (median $23/hr), 4 were salaried roles, 265 stated no pay at all.
Top skills in demand: ai agents (69), n8n (55), api integration (48), workflow automation (32), rag (30).
Tool-mention momentum vs last week: ai agents -24%, n8n -48%, api integration -61%, workflow automation -51%, rag -30%.
Scam watch: AgentScout's filter flagged and suppressed 29 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 | 265 postings | |
| Fixed-price projects | 79 postings | median $675 fixed |
| Hourly contracts | 58 postings | median $23/hr |
| Salaried roles | 4 postings | median $80k/yr |
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