market-intelligence

Query live Upwork freelance market intelligence directly from your AI agent.

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What it can do

  • Get Market Summary: Get a summary of the current Upwork freelance market: total jobs tracked, jobs posted in last 24h, job type split (fixed vs hourly), and experience level distribution.
  • Get Trending Skills: Get the top trending skills on Upwork over the last 7 days. Returns skill names, job counts, and percentage change vs previous week.
  • Get Budgets By Category: Get average budgets by Upwork job category over the last 7 days. Returns average fixed-price and hourly rates per category with 7-day trend.

What data it sees

Do you need an account

No: the server works without sign-in

Query live Upwork freelance market intelligence directly from your AI agent. Get real-time data about:

  • Trending skills with week-over-week change
  • Average fixed & hourly rates by category
  • Top hiring countries
  • Highest-budget jobs in last 24 hours
  • 7×24 activity heatmap (best times to apply)
  • Client quality distribution by hire rate
  • Daily posting trends

Data is aggregated from 15,000+ live Upwork job postings, updated every minute.

Free for non-commercial use. No authentication required. Rate limited to 30 requests/minute per IP.

Built by SnipeWork — AI-powered Upwork job scanner for freelancers.

How to connect

How to connect market-intelligence to Claude

The server address to paste into Claude settings:

https://market-intelligence--snipework-app.run.tools

  1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
  2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
  3. Click Add custom connector.
  4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
  5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

Authorization

After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

How to connect market-intelligence to ChatGPT

The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

https://market-intelligence--snipework-app.run.tools

  1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
  2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
  3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
  4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
  5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
  6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

Authorization

On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

How to connect market-intelligence to Cursor

The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

https://market-intelligence--snipework-app.run.tools

Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

Manually:

  1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
  2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
  3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

Authorization

If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

Server tool list (8)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

get_market_summaryGet a summary of the current Upwork freelance market: total jobs tracked, jobs posted in last 24h, job type split (fixed vs hourly), and experience level distribution.
get_trending_skillsGet the top trending skills on Upwork over the last 7 days. Returns skill names, job counts, and percentage change vs previous week.
get_budgets_by_categoryGet average budgets by Upwork job category over the last 7 days. Returns average fixed-price and hourly rates per category with 7-day trend.
get_top_countriesGet the top countries where Upwork clients are hiring from in the last 7 days. Returns country names, job counts, and percentage share.
get_hot_jobsGet the hottest (highest budget) Upwork jobs posted in the last 24 hours. Returns job title, budget, country, experience level, skills, and direct link.
get_activity_heatmapGet a 7x24 heatmap of job posting activity (day of week x hour of day, UTC). Useful for finding the best times to be online on Upwork to apply first.
get_client_qualityGet distribution of client quality on Upwork over last 7 days, grouped by hire rate: low (<30%), medium (30-70%), high (>70%).
get_daily_trendGet daily job posting count and average budget for the last 7 days. Useful for spotting recent market shifts.