Top Python freelancers

Of the freelancers who list Python on Upwork, 4,159 of 31,617 earn $1k+ a month; the typical one makes $2.5k, the top $102k.

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# Freelancer		SinceMember since
Orest A. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Full Stack Developer & AI Developer \| SaaS, API & Automation Expert	$101k↑ 8%	Oct 2019Oct 19, 2019
Dmytro K. 🇺🇦🇺🇦 AI Developer \| AI Agents, LLM & RAG \| OpenAI API & AI Integration	$65k↓ 7%	Mar 2019Mar 15, 2019
Ayan S. 🇮🇳🇮🇳 AI-Integrated Web & SaaS Developer\|WordPress, Shopify & Custom WebApps	$52k↓ 11%	Mar 2017Mar 17, 2017
4 Dhaval S. 🇮🇳🇮🇳 Full Stack Developer \| Web App \|Mobile Apps\|React Native\|PM\|AI\|Flutter	$42k↓ 4%	Feb 2012Feb 13, 2012
5 Bhaval P. 🇮🇳🇮🇳 Claude Certified Developers \| Mobile App \| Web \| AI agents \| AI/ML	$41k↓ 6%	Apr 2015Apr 3, 2015
6 Raza R. 🇨🇦Private profile: Upwork shows its earnings only to signed-in members, so we check it every few weeks, not daily. MRR here is a rough estimate (Upwork's six-month earnings ÷ months active). Last read Oct 7, 2026.🇨🇦 Expert AI/Full-Stack Engineer, React, LangChain, Claude, MCP, Voice AI	≈$41k–	Feb 2025Feb 14, 2025
7 Abdul A. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Senior AI Engineer\| Production RAG & AI Agents Claude \| OpenAI\| Python	$39k↑ 1%	Nov 2023Nov 16, 2023
8 Rafael D. 🇧🇷🇧🇷 Principal Architect \| Improving communication and architectures	$33k↓ 20%	Aug 2024Aug 8, 2024
9 Jesse Aiden S. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 AI Web and Mobile Developer \| 800+ Projects Delivered	$32k↑ 12%	Jun 2015Jun 26, 2015
10 Guy P. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 AI Consultant \| Agentic AI, AI Development, Full-Stack Developer	$32k↓ 10%	Jul 2019Jul 16, 2019

Freelancer	MRR	Member since
11 Sam W. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Fractional CISO / vCISO \| SOC 2, HIPAA, NYDFS, CMMC & AI Security	$32k↑ 11%	Dec 2022Dec 14, 2022
12 Jonathan G. 🇺🇸Private profile: Upwork shows its earnings only to signed-in members, so we check it every few weeks, not daily. MRR here is a rough estimate (Upwork's six-month earnings ÷ months active). Last read Nov 11, 2026.🇺🇸 AI & Embedded Systems Architect \| Hardware, Edge, Agents & Cloud	≈$32k–	Jul 2018Jul 13, 2018
13 Adam N. 🇺🇸 NewPrivate profile: Upwork shows its earnings only to signed-in members, so we check it every few weeks, not daily. MRR here is a rough estimate (Upwork's six-month earnings ÷ months active). Last read Nov 11, 2026.New🇺🇸 Full-Stack Engineer \| .NET, React/Angular, AWS/Azure, LLM & Healthcare	≈$30k–	May 2026May 21, 2026
14 Daxesh P. 🇮🇳🇮🇳 Mobile App Developer \| iOS \| Android \| Flutter \| React Native	$28k↓ 4%	May 2013May 22, 2013
15 Dhruv B. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Senior AI Automation Engineer \| AI SaaS, Enterprise AI (Azure/On-prem)	$28k↓ 1%	Mar 2025Mar 13, 2025
16 Tahir H. 🇵🇰🇵🇰 AI Engineer \| Python, LLM, RAG, OpenAI, Claude, LangGraph, Voice AI	$27k↑ 4%	Dec 2017Dec 20, 2017
17 Volodymyr T. 🇺🇦🇺🇦 Cross-Platform Software Architect	$26k↓ 1%	Nov 2006Nov 1, 2006
18 Ruslan M. 🇨🇾🇨🇾 Principal Software Engineer \| AI Agents, E-commerce	$26k↑ 7%	Nov 2014Nov 3, 2014
19 Vlad Z. 🇺🇦🇺🇦 Big Data Engineer \| Data Architect \| ETL \| Databricks \| Snowflake	$25k↑ 13%	Sep 2015Sep 30, 2015
20 mubashir k. 🇵🇰🇵🇰 Full Stack Developer-AI-LLM-Langchain-OpenAI-Twilio-Emr/Ehr-FHIR-HIPAA	$25k↑ 2%	Mar 2017Mar 18, 2017

Freelancer	MRR	Member since
21 Yaroslav N. 🇺🇦🇺🇦 Senior Python, Go & React Engineer \| SaaS, AI Agents & Integrations	$24k–	Nov 2019Nov 10, 2019
22 Denis P. 🇺🇸Private profile: Upwork shows its earnings only to signed-in members, so we check it every few weeks, not daily. MRR here is a rough estimate (Upwork's six-month earnings ÷ months active). Last read Nov 11, 2026.🇺🇸 Senior Full Stack Engineer \| B2B, ERP & CRM \| AI-Driven Solutions	≈$24k–	Oct 2025Oct 16, 2025
23 Alessio M. 🇮🇹🇮🇹 Airtable Consultant	$24k↓ 4%	Oct 2020Oct 28, 2020
24 Mikhail O. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 AI Automation & AI Agents \| CRM/ERP Integration \| HubSpot, Salesforce	$23k↑ 3%	Jan 2022Jan 20, 2022
25 Danielle K. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Website Designer \| Wordpress Expert \| CRO \| Graphic Design	$23k↑ 4%	Apr 2019Apr 1, 2019
26 John M. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Yale PhD, AI Engineer, Agentic Software, Claude Code, Codex, UX Design	$23k↓ 17%	Apr 2021Apr 27, 2021
27 Oleksandr P. 🇺🇦🇺🇦 Full Stack Developer \| AI Automation, SaaS, IoT \| React, Node, Python	$23k0%	Jun 2015Jun 11, 2015
28 Akshay P. 🇮🇳🇮🇳 WEB & Mobile App Developer - React Native \| Node.js \| DJANGO \| LARAVEL	$22k↓ 5%	May 2010May 29, 2010
29 Andrew A. 🇺🇸Private profile: Upwork shows its earnings only to signed-in members, so we check it every few weeks, not daily. MRR here is a rough estimate (Upwork's six-month earnings ÷ months active). Last read Nov 11, 2026.🇺🇸 Ex-Apple/Google \| Full Stack AI Engineer \| Go, Python, RAG, AI Agents	≈$22k–	Feb 2022Feb 14, 2022
30 Denis S. 🇺🇦🇺🇦 AI product engineer \| Full stack developer \| React, Node, LLM	$22k↓ 2%	Nov 2021Nov 28, 2021

Freelancer	MRR	Member since
31 Aaron S. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Embedded Systems Engineer \| Firmware, Hardware, BLE, Embedded Linux	$22k↑ 3%	Jun 2022Jun 15, 2022
32 Alex L. 🇬🇧🇬🇧 Data & BI Engineer \| Analytics Infrastructure, Dashboards, Automation	$22k↓ 5%	Apr 2025Apr 30, 2025
33 Artem S. 🇬🇧🇬🇧 Chartered Fluid Mechanics PhD Engineer \| CFD \| CAD \| MATLAB \| ANSYS	$22k↑ 7%	May 2019May 25, 2019
34 Tanzeel ur R. 🇨🇦Private profile: Upwork shows its earnings only to signed-in members, so we check it every few weeks, not daily. MRR here is a rough estimate (Upwork's six-month earnings ÷ months active). Last read Nov 11, 2026.🇨🇦 Full Stack AI Engineer \| Python, RAG, AI Agents & Automation	≈$22k–	Mar 2015Mar 23, 2015
35 Senad C. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Power BI & Microsoft Fabric Engineer	$21k↑ 4%	Jan 2021Jan 10, 2021
36 Saad N. 🇵🇰Private profile: Upwork shows its earnings only to signed-in members, so we check it every few weeks, not daily. MRR here is a rough estimate (Upwork's six-month earnings ÷ months active). Last read Oct 30, 2026.🇵🇰 AI Agents & Automation Specialist \| AI Voice Agents \| RAG \| Chatbot	≈$21k–	Jun 2025Jun 26, 2025
37 Isaac J. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Senior developer, Django, Laravel, Postgres, MySQL,Codeigniter, AWS	$20k↑ 9%	Feb 2008Feb 25, 2008
38 Yurij M. 🇺🇦Private profile: Upwork shows its earnings only to signed-in members, so we check it every few weeks, not daily. MRR here is a rough estimate (Upwork's six-month earnings ÷ months active). Last read Sep 25, 2026.🇺🇦 React Developer \| Full Stack Developer React Node \| Frontend React AI	≈$20k–	Nov 2021Nov 25, 2021
39 Shuaib B. 🇿🇦🇿🇦 Mechanical Engineer \| CFD & FEA for Product Designs Optimization	$20k↑ 10%	Jul 2020Jul 10, 2020
40 Waqar A. 🇦🇪🇦🇪 Data Engineer \| Airflow, Matillion, BigQuery, Snowflake, dbt	$20k↓ 3%	Aug 2019Aug 16, 2019

Freelancer	MRR	Member since
41 Cesar R. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 GA4 Tracking, Data Engineering & AI Agents \| BigQuery, Power BI	$20k↑ 6%	Jan 2019Jan 24, 2019
42 Dimitri S. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 (Top 1 Percent) Web Apps & AI Business Solutions Agency	$20k↑ 2%	Sep 2014Sep 4, 2014
43 Wali Hassan J. 🇨🇦🇨🇦 Top Rated Plus Full-Stack Dev, React, Node, Python, AI, RAG	$20k↓ 10%	Jul 2013Jul 9, 2013
44 Nik B. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 AI Automation & Full-Stack Developer \| Claude, Codex, n8n, MCP	$19k↓ 2%	Aug 2018Aug 23, 2018
45 Kevin B. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Lead AI Engineer - Multi-Agent Systems, FedRAMP SaaS, AWS IDP	$19k↓ 3%	Sep 2023Sep 17, 2023
46 Charles G. 🇷🇴🇷🇴 Chief Technology Officer	$19k↑ 7%	Sep 2023Sep 7, 2023
47 Eduard M. 🇰🇿🇰🇿 C/C++, DirectShow, ActiveX, COM/DCOM, reverse engineering	$19k↑ 4%	May 2011May 4, 2011
48 Muyukani K. 🇰🇪🇰🇪 Data Engineer	$19k↑ 4%	Jul 2021Jul 13, 2021
49 Jude L. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Senior Full-Stack & AI Engineer - Upwork Expert-Vetted (Top 1 percent)	$19k↑ 3%	Nov 2017Nov 9, 2017
50 Bogdan T. 🇺🇦🇺🇦 AI Developer Expert \| Full Stack Developer AI \| Python Developer	$18k↑ 11%	Mar 2019Mar 29, 2019

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