For domain investors who focus on occupation and service related domains, knowing which categories are hot and which are fading is important. UpWork recently published what are the top 20 highest paying skills for Independent Professionals currently on their platform.
Top Upwork skills and their average hourly rates
- Legal entity structuring – $255
- Blackline – $220
- Bitcoin – $215
- International Accounting Standards – $215
- Software licensing – $200
- Applied Behavioral Analysis – $195
- Behavioral design – $195
- Trade law – $185
- Image object recognition – $180
- Trademark consulting – $180
- Due diligence – $180
- Virtual machine – $175
- Property and equipment leases – $175
- SQR – $170
- S Corporation – $170
- Patents – $170
- IT strategy – $165
- C Corporation – $165
- Lucene search – $165
- Orcad – $165
With more and more people working on a freelance basis it makes sense to know which skills are paying best as they would be most likely able to afford a better domain for their business.
Disclaimer: This data was sourced from the Upwork database and is based on average hourly rates charged by U.S. freelancers from Jan 1, 2019 – June 30, 2019. Each skill had a minimum of 2 contracts and 40 hours billed (equivalent of 1 week of work and more than 1 project) for reliability.
