I scraped 500+ AI automation jobs on Upwork.. here's what I learned
A lot of people are trying to learn AI without any clue what the market actually pays for. So I built a system to get clarity. p.s. If this is helpful, let me know I’ll drop more data from the system or drop a comment if I should drop the full database! For the last 6 months, I’ve been running an automation that scrapes every single Upwork post related to: - AI Experts - Automation Specialists - Python bots - No-code integrations (Make, Zapier, n8n, etc.) Here’s what I’ve learned after analyzing over 1,000 automation-related job posts 👇 The Top 10 Skills You Should Learn If You Want to Make Money with AI Agents: 1. Python***** (highest ROI skill) 2. n8n or Make (you don’t need to “code” to win jobs) 3. Web scraping & APIs** 4. Automated Content Creation (short form videos, blogs, etc.) 5. Google Workspace automation (Docs, Sheets, Drive, Gmail) 6. Lead Generation + CRM workflows 7. Data Extraction & Parsing 8. Cold outreach, LinkedIn bots, DM automations Notice: Most of these aren’t “machine learning” or “data science” they’re real-world use cases that save people time and make them money. The Common Pain Points I Saw Repeated Over and Over: - “I’m drowning in lead gen, I need this to run on autopilot” - “I get too many junk messages on WhatsApp / LinkedIn — need something to filter and qualify leads” - “I have 10,000 rows of customer data and no time to sort through it manually” - “I want to turn YouTube videos into blog posts, tweets, summaries… automatically” - “Can someone just connect GPT to my CRM and make it smart?” Exact Automations Clients Paid For: - Sales Automations for lead gen, contact enrichment, and qualification - Auto-outreach automations for email and DMs - Short form video and image content creation - n8n automation that monitors RSS feeds and creates a custom news aggregator for finance companies These are things you can start learning TODAY and become an expert within 50-100 hours