I had made several Advanced Search filter for Top Rated Upwork Freelancers. Here I’m making a list of only 10 Independent Web Developer who billed at least 1000 hours within last 6 months.
All of the profiles have a 100% Job Success Score and all of them billed this hours for their independent projects.
Most interestingly, All of them were active within last 2 weeks, and their hourly rate is $60 per hour and above.
Independent Web Developer from Upwork

Top 10 Independent Web Developer from Upwork Who billed 1000 hours within last 6 Months.
I found 25 freelancers in this Search but here I’m listing only 10 from the top of the list.
01 Ron Zvagelsky

Ron Zvagelsky is a Premium WordPress Developer from Los Angeles, United States.
As of July 2022, He is an independent web developer and a Top rated freelancer at Upwork who has 100% Job Success score, has billed 32,398 hours and completed 836 projects. Still now he earned $2M+ from Upwork.
At this moment, He has 117 jobs in progress! His hourly rate is $75.00.
Ron Zvagelsky’s Upwork Profile
02 John Kevin B.
John Kevin is a Web and Hybrid Mobile Developer from Legazpi City, Philippines. He is a Top rated freelancer from Upwork who is an independent web developer, has 100% Job Success score, has billed 4,447 hours and he has done only 16 project!
That means he has all long time clients. His hourly rate is $66.67.
John Kevin’s Upwork Profile
03 Yauheni Z.
Yauheni is a Java developer from Minsk, Belarus. He is completed only 12 projects but he billed 6,705 hours!
He is also a Top rated freelancer from Upwork who has 100% Job Success score. His hourly rate is $87.50.
Very interestingly, I found, he worked for 3,469 hours for his last project with the rate of $40/hr and earned $1,37,886!
Yauheni’s Upwork Profile
04 Oleg G.
Oleg is a MAGENTO Certified Developer from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. He completed only 21 jobs but billed 3,269 hours.
He is also a Top rated Upwork freelancer and has a 100% Job Success score. 7 jobs in progress on his hand an he billed 111 hours for his last project within Sep 2016 with $66.67 per hour rate and earned $7,367.
Oleg’s Upwork Profile
05 Stephen K.
Stephen worked 471 hours with $75.00 per hour rate and earned $35,350 for his last project. He is Certified Magento Developer from Strongsville, United States.
He is also a Top rated freelancer from Upwork who has 100% Job Success score, worked for 4,188 hours and completed 38 jobs. His hourly rate is $80.
Stephen’s Upwork Profile
06 Tomasz S.
Tomasz worked 2,153 hours with $66.67 per hour rate and earned $139,606 for his last project. He is a Python/Django/jQuery Web Developer from Warsaw, Poland.
He is also a Top rated freelancer from Upwork who has 100% Job Success score, worked for 6,435 hours and completed 28 jobs. His hourly rate is $80.
Tomasz’s Upwork Profile
07 Alexander L.
Alexander is a Cloud Expert / AWS / DevOps / Linux Admin / Full Stack Developer / WordPress developer from Dresden, Germany.
He is also a top rated freelancer and independent web developer from Upwork who has 99% Job Success score, worked for 2,859 hours and completed 50 jobs. His hourly rate is $67.
Alexander’s Upwork Profile

08 Dmitry Semenov
Dmitry is a PHP and Full Stack independent web developer from Dresden, Germany with 8+ years experience in web applications building and management, which includes quite varied expertise – creating e-commerce platforms, traffic detection systems, affiliate systems, servers for online games, blogs, etc.
He is also a Top rated freelancer from Upwork and independent web developer who has 100% Job Success score, worked for 5,385 hours and completed only 7 jobs. His hourly rate is $65.
Dmitry Semenov’s Upwork Profile
09 Ivan McAvinchey
Ivan worked 81 hours and earned $2,829 for his last project. He is also a Top rated freelancer from upwork who is an independent web developer and has 100% Job Success score. He worked for 1,322 hours and completed only 13 jobs.
His hourly rate is $75. Ivan is an Expert ColdFusion & SQL Server Developer from Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Ivan McAvinchey’s Upwork Profile
10 Michael Saucedo
Saucedo is a top notch independent web developer from Irvine, United States. He completed only 12 jobs but billed for 2,377 hours. In an average he worked 198 hours for a project!
He is also a Top rated freelancer from upwork who has 100% Job Success score. His hourly rate is $75.
Michael Saucedo’s Upwork Profile
