Need Help Hiring Freelance Developers?

Finding a quality freelance developer is not easy, but worth the investment.

Nor is it easy to know what you should pay attention to when you interview them. And perhaps it’s also challenging to know how much you should pay for a top freelance developer.

You have to find very honest, organized people who are effective communicators, and happen to be great developers as well. Most people you find are going to lack in some area that prevents them from being successful.

This is why finding the right freelance platform to hire the right developer can help you scale your business even faster.

Freelance platforms add more transparency to the hiring process. You can easily find a freelancer’s reviews and portfolio in one place. Some platforms will even vet the talent for you.

Furthermore, working with freelancers allows you access to build a dream team faster. It takes an average of 56 days to fill an engineering job. But some freelance websites can help you find and place a qualified candidate in a week or less.

Hiring freelancer developers can also help you bring in niche experts when they’re needed. Finding a full-time “AWS DevOps Engineer who understands Docker, Jenkins, CI/CD, and RDS...” is near impossible. Finding a freelancer with this skillset is tremendously easier.

So which freelance platform is the best to hire a developer?

We’ve collected hundreds of reviews for more than 30 freelance websites (and counting). In the table below you’ll find a list of the top 10 best websites to hire a freelance developer. 

Our ranking methodology is similar to Amazon’s ranking system. This is as follows:

1. Find the total and average ratings on Trustpilot, G2, and Facebook.
2. Multiple the total ratings by the average ratings. So 100 ratings X a 3-star average rating = 300 points.
3. Rank the websites by the total points.

That said, a freelance website with the best ratings may not be the best for your situation.

From these ratings, we wrote an article about each platform. Some platforms pay us a commission at no extra cost to you. Like Consumer Reports, our research team is separate from the monetization team to reduce the review bias.

I recommend reading at least three reviews below to help you make an educated decision about which freelance platform is best for your needs. If you find our review helpful, we’d feel honored if you visited the website from our review. This is an easy way to say “thank you” to our team as we receive a commission from the platform, again at no cost to you.

With that, here are...