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:

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:

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

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