Demand For Freelancers Explodes, Thanks To Agentic Ai

According to Fiverr, nan existent inclination towards AI agents has led to companies relying connected skilled freelance workers astatine a record-breaking rate.

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As nan spring 2025 version of Fiverr’s “Business Trends Index” shows, companies are looking for specialists who tin efficaciously instrumentality AI agents. According to caller information from nan freelancer platform, hunt queries for this expertise person risen by 18,347% successful nan past six months. In Germany, inquiries accrued by an moreover larger 19,033%.

According to Fiverr, this is owed to technological advances successful nan section of agentic AI, which alteration “digital colleagues” to execute tasks specified arsenic reference emails, scheduling meetings, aliases answering customer inquiries independently and without changeless supervision. While experts foretell that agentic AI could go a trillion-dollar market, galore companies are struggling pinch nan challenges of implementing nan exertion — truthful they’re turning to freelancers pinch these circumstantial skills.

“Nearly 30% of my Fiverr assignments are for AI supplier development, pinch request shifting dramatically from elemental chatbots to multi-agent systems that activity crossed web, WhatsApp, and sound channels,” says Mark Kashef, an AI advisor connected Fiverr and laminitis and CEO of Prompt Advisors. “Companies person gone from asking ‘What tin AI do?’ to ‘How quickly tin we merge AI into our workflows?’ — pinch automation, sound and integration requests now making up 49% of my task pipeline.”

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Yoav Hornung, Head of Verticals astatine Fiverr, explains nan accrued request pinch nan beardown discrepancy betwixt companies’ ambitions and their method realities. Despite nan awesome liking successful AI agents, astir companies do not cognize precisely what they are aliases really they tin beryllium used. This knowledge spread is driving nan accrued request for freelancers.

“Now that generative AI is wide available, galore companies are turning to freelancers to elevate their contented pinch caller perspectives, creativity, and expertise that will elevate their activity beyond what automation unsocial tin achieve,” says Hornung.

According to Fiverr, this paradox is reflected successful nan 641% summation successful world request for freelancers who tin “humanize” AI contented — rewriting chatbot scripts, trading emails, and website contented to make it look much natural.

“I thought my copywriting services wouldn’t beryllium arsenic overmuch successful request aft nan motorboat of ChatGPT, but I get requests almost regular to rework AI texts truthful they still sound human,” nan level usability quotes Gabrielle Gerbus, a freelance marque developer.

In summation to AI itself, companies are besides progressively relying connected freelance experts to instrumentality workflow automation tools. Fiverr information shows a increasing request for experts successful workflow devices specified arsenic Go High Level (up 1,489%) and Make.com (up 1,083%). Experts who tin create newsletters connected inclination platforms specified arsenic Substack (up 2,028%) and Beehiiv (up 1,211%) are besides progressively successful demand.