The next development skill is Shopify development.
Shopify developers on Upwork charge anywhere between $15 and $29 per hour on average.
And it all depends on your Shopify slash, your ecommerce experience.
The rates that you charge can vary due to a lot of different factors, including your expertise, your
experience and the market conditions and experience.
Shopify developer may command much higher fees, but also work at a faster pace.
They may have more specialized area of expertise and they may be able to deliver higher quality work.
Now, a contractor who is still in the process of building a client base may price their Shopify developer
services more competitively.
So that is all things to keep in mind.
Rates typically charged by a Shopify developer on Upwork are $15 an hour for beginners.
$33 an hour for intermediate level and $95 per hour for an advanced level.
And it all depends on finding out which level you are in so you can charge the right rate for the services
that you are providing as a Shopify developer.
It's all up to you as a Shopify developer and working in e-commerce to stay up to date with the trends.
Because trends are ever evolving, especially in the online space, the e-commerce space, and you need
to stay up to date with what is best practice so you don't get left behind.
And so you can stay competitive with all of the clients competition and you can build a website for
them that is going to be profitable.
So something you can do that's very helpful is to sign up to receive updates from the Shopify Partners
website.
So for example, brushing up on your knowledge with up to date articles that will allow you to gain
experience faster and close more projects than someone who doesn't keep up with the times and they don't
know what the different trends are.
And this is going to help you so much, especially when you're sending proposals out and you're interviewing
with clients, because it is very easy to tell someone who is up to date on the most recent practices
and trends in someone who is stuck five or ten years in the past.
Whatever you do, it's essential to review your technology stack and to test your themes, your sites
and your apps before releasing them off into the wild.
Performance remains a key concern for any merchant that is hiring a freelancer to build a Shopify website
for them.
And it's in the top three, along with return on ad spend and retention.
In the end, don't use new tech just for the sake of it.
If you do implement a new tool or an emerging technology, it has to make sense for the brand, the
product and the specific project you are working on.
So always ask yourself before you go and you set up a new theme or you set up some brand new app.
Make sure it is something that the client really needs in that Shopify development and not just something
you want to test out to see how it performs.
So to summarize, Shopify developers charge anywhere between $15 to $29 per hour, while their top hourly
rates are $95 plus per hour.
And the demand for Shopify development is high.
And the competition I have it set to medium to high because there are a lot of jobs out there, there
are a good amount of people that are also providing these services.
But I wrote medium to high because there are still a lot of opportunities for you to get your foot in
the door as a Shopify developer, especially when you're just getting started out because like we went
over, you have some of that leniency there to charge a little bit less on your initial projects.
But once you have that portfolio, bill, Shopify development can become a very lucrative skill set
for you to provide as a developer.
I'll see you in the next lesson.