TechBaro is the IT freelance market barometer we always wished existed—honest, transparent, and completely free of corporate BS.
As freelancers ourselves, we were tired of asking the same questions in Slack channels and LinkedIn DMs:
Job boards show open positions, but they don't show the reality on the ground. Recruitment agencies have their own agenda. Corporate reports are months out of date.
We needed a real-time pulse check from real freelancers. So we built it.
TechBaro was created by a small group of IT freelancers who were frustrated by the lack of transparent market data. We're developers, engineers, and product folks who have experienced the ups and downs of freelance life.
We're not a company trying to monetize your data. We're not building a recruitment platform. We're just freelancers who built a tool we needed, and decided to share it with the community.
Freelancers share their current reality: workload, opportunities, and market outlook. Takes 30 seconds, completely anonymous.
Individual responses are immediately aggregated and anonymized. No individual data is ever exposed.
The TechBaro Index updates weekly, showing market trends by role, region, and time period.
Everyone gets access to the same data. No premium tiers, no paywalls, no gatekeeping.
Every data point comes directly from a real person sharing their experience. We don't scrape job boards or parse LinkedIn posts.
We only collect email for spam prevention. Your submissions are immediately aggregated with hundreds of others. Individual responses are never visible.
No ads, no premium features, no data selling. TechBaro will always be free because we built it for us—the freelance community.
We show our data sources, sample sizes, and confidence intervals. If the data is uncertain, we say so.
The data belongs to the community. We're just the custodians keeping the servers running and the spam out.
Freelancing is unpredictable. One month you're drowning in work, the next you're wondering if your network has dried up or if the entire market has slowed down.
The problem? You can't see the big picture when you're stuck in your own bubble.
Here's what we were missing:
TechBaro answers these questions with real data from real freelancers. It's the barometer we always wanted—and now it exists for everyone.
TechBaro only works if freelancers like you contribute. The more data we have, the more accurate and useful the insights become.
Share your market view once a week. Takes 30 seconds.
Share TechBaro with your freelance network. More voices = better data.
Found a bug? Have an idea? We're always listening to the community.
We're keeping it simple. No grand plans, no "Series A" dreams, no pivot to recruitment.
Our roadmap is straightforward:
What we won't do: Ads, premium tiers, selling data, recruitment partnerships, or anything that compromises our core mission.
TechBaro is powered by freelancers like you. Together, we can create the transparency the freelance market desperately needs.
Questions? Feedback? Email us at hello@techbaro.com