Freelancer Skills Demand Intelligence

Rank skills by active Freelancer project demand with evidence-backed project counts, budgets, bid competition, and source URLs. Built for workforce planners, course creators, agencies, and freelance-market researchers.

Buyer question: Which skills appear most often in the active projects I inspected?

Start with this bounded input

{
  "keywords": [],
  "skills": [],
  "projectType": "any",
  "maxProjects": 50,
  "maxItems": 10
}

Run it, inspect the Dataset and RUN_SUMMARY, then save the input as an Apify Task for recurring use. This starter can create at most 10 paid units, or $0.20 at the launch price. Actual cost is lower when fewer complete units match. Diagnostics never count as paid units.

What you get

• Structured public Freelancer project, skill, budget, and bid evidence
• Stable project IDs and direct source URLs for every paid output
• USD-normalized budgets using the source currency exchange rate
• Pure HTTP execution at 256 MB with bounded inputs and no account login
• JSON, CSV, Excel, API, webhook, MCP, and scheduled Task workflows

Best-fit workflows

• Rank skills in a bounded public-project sample by observed demand
• Compare project share, median budget, and average bid count
• Support course, service-line, or workforce research with source URLs

Output fields

Field	Meaning
skill	Public Freelancer skill represented by this analysis.
category	Source skill category when available.
projectCount	Matching projects in the inspected bounded sample.
projectShare	Share of inspected matching projects containing the skill.
medianBudgetUsd	Median USD-normalized budget in the inspected sample.
averageBidCount	Average observed public bid count in the sample.
sampleProjectUrls	Direct source URLs supporting the aggregate row.
analyzedAt	Timestamp when the bounded analysis was produced.

Output and billing

The paid unit is one evidence-backed skill analysis. Launch price: $20.00 per 1,000 successful units. Only complete project or analysis rows are paid.

RUN_SUMMARY reports source requests, projects fetched, matches, rows saved, paid rows, partial state, and monitor state outside the Dataset. Diagnostics, duplicates, source failures, empty results, baselines, and unchanged monitor checks are never billed.

Choose the right Freelancer Actor

Actor	Use it for
Active Projects Scraper	Current project rows for discovery or export
New Projects Monitor	Only newly observed matching projects after a free baseline
Skills Demand Intelligence	Skill-level demand, budget, and bid aggregates
Project Budget Benchmark	Budget ranges and sample evidence by project type
Bid Competition Intelligence	Skill-level project volume and bid competition

The five Actors use the same public source but charge for different complete outcomes. Do not run every Actor when one buyer question is enough.

Source behavior

The Actor uses Freelancer.com's public projects API. Results are a bounded active-project sample, not a claim of complete marketplace coverage. Currency conversion uses the exchange rate included in the public response. Bid and budget benchmarks describe the inspected sample and are not promises of project value or win probability.

Automation and AI agents

Save the input as a Task, schedule it, connect a webhook, or call it from the Neuton Actors MCP server. The Dataset works with JSON, CSV, Excel, the Apify API, Make, Zapier, n8n, ChatGPT, Claude, and custom agents.

Hosted Apify MCP endpoint: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=neuton/freelancer-skills-demand-intelligence

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SEO keywords

Freelancer jobs scraper, Freelancer projects API, freelance jobs monitor, freelance skills demand, freelance project budget data, bid competition analysis, freelance marketplace intelligence, Apify Actor, AI agent data.

Responsible use

Use public project data for legitimate opportunity research, pricing, market analysis, and workflow automation. Do not spam clients, misrepresent bids, bypass access controls, collect private account data, or make unsupported identity or income claims. Review Freelancer's current terms and applicable laws before production use.