Make.com Freelance Demand More Than Doubled in One Month

Make.com appeared in 228 Upwork job titles in May 2026, up from 108 in April.

Because Vibeworker observed fewer total postings in May, the more useful comparison is the normalized rate. Make.com rose from 76.0 to 175.9 mentions per 100,000 observed jobs—a 131.4% increase in one month.

That increase pushed Make.com past Zapier in title demand. It was the clearest movement in Vibeworker's April-to-May AI Freelance Demand Index.

Make.com overtook Zapier, but n8n remained ahead

In April, Zapier appeared in 172.4 titles per 100,000 jobs, more than twice Make.com's rate of 76.0. By May, Make.com had climbed to 175.9 while Zapier had fallen to 147.4.

n8n remained the most frequently named automation platform at 318.7 mentions per 100,000 May postings, although that was down 11.7% from April.

Tool	April per 100,000	May per 100,000	Change
Make.com	76.0	175.9	+131.4%
Microsoft Copilot	33.8	44.0	+30.2%
Lovable	99.2	109.6	+10.5%
Replit	42.9	44.8	+4.4%
Gemini	33.8	34.0	+0.6%
Claude	496.1	493.9	−0.4%
AI agent	291.3	287.1	−1.4%
ChatGPT	69.7	64.8	−7.0%
n8n	361.0	318.7	−11.7%
Zapier	172.4	147.4	−14.5%
OpenAI	89.4	67.9	−24.0%

The chart and table apply a minimum threshold of 40 raw title mentions in at least one month. This prevents tiny movements—such as a term rising from three titles to six—from being presented as meaningful triple-digit growth.

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Claude remained the most frequently named AI product

Make.com recorded the largest increase, but Claude remained the overall title-mention leader.

Claude appeared in 493.9 titles per 100,000 May jobs, essentially unchanged from 496.1 in April. n8n followed at 318.7, then the phrase “AI agent” at 287.1. These terms are not mutually exclusive, so a single job can appear in more than one row.

The wider index does not show a uniform AI boom. Some tools grew, some remained flat, and others declined. The May result is better described as a shift within automation demand—particularly toward Make.com—than as evidence that every AI product was attracting more freelance work.

The Make.com increase spread across several job categories

The increase was not created by one unusual batch of identically categorized postings. Make.com appeared throughout May, with mentions on every date in the month.

May category	Make.com title mentions
Scripts & Utilities	96
Web Development	47
Digital Marketing	27
AI Apps & Integration	12
Data Entry & Transcription Services	8
Web & Mobile Design	6
Project Management	6
Ecommerce Development	6

Scripts & Utilities remained the center of demand, but Web Development more than doubled from 18 Make.com-title jobs in April to 47 in May. Digital Marketing rose from 18 to 27.

Twenty-one May titles mentioned both Make.com and n8n, while 14 mentioned both Make.com and Zapier. That overlap suggests some clients were looking for automation specialists who could compare, migrate, or work across platforms rather than treating each ecosystem as completely separate.

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What title mentions can—and cannot—measure

Naming a product in a job title is a strong signal that the client considers it central to the work. It is not a complete measure of platform usage.

Many automation jobs use generic titles such as “Build a lead-routing workflow” and name their preferred tools only in the description. Other clients may choose a platform after hiring. Conversely, a title can mention multiple competing tools because the client wants a recommendation rather than a predetermined implementation.

This index therefore measures explicit demand in public job titles. It does not measure completed contracts, final spending, freelancer supply, or each product's total market share.

Methodology

Vibeworker analyzed 271,710 deduplicated public Upwork job postings observed from April 1 through May 31, 2026 UTC: 142,122 in April and 129,588 in May.

We searched lowercase job titles for 15 literal terms: Claude, ChatGPT, n8n, AI agent, Zapier, Lovable, OpenAI, Make.com, Replit, Gemini, Cursor, Perplexity, Midjourney, Copilot, and Llama. Counts are not mutually exclusive.

May's observed corpus was smaller than April's and included one unusually low-volume collection date. For that reason, month-over-month comparisons use mentions per 100,000 observed jobs rather than raw counts. Normalization adjusts for different corpus sizes; it cannot correct any systematic difference in which jobs were observed.

The dataset covers postings observed by Vibeworker and should not be presented as an official Upwork census. A one-month change is an early signal, not proof of a permanent trend. Future monthly reports can test whether the movement persists.

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