# Find contract-to-hire software engineer jobs on Upwork

**Use case:** 

Find contract-to-hire software engineering jobs on Upwork for freelancers
who want long-term roles. This task searches "software engineer" and
"full stack developer" with contract-to-hire enabled, returning up to 100
listings with title, description, budget, skills, and publish time as
JSON, CSV, or Excel. Pricing is $2.00 per 1,000 job listings scraped.

## Input

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "software engineer",
    "full stack developer"
  ],
  "sort": "relevance",
  "jobTypes": [],
  "experienceLevels": [],
  "category2Uids": [],
  "locations": [],
  "timezones": [],
  "clientHires": [],
  "budgetRanges": [],
  "hourlyRate": "",
  "projectDurations": [],
  "workloads": [],
  "contractToHire": true,
  "pageSize": 10,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "Job Link",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "jobUrl": {
    "label": "Job URL",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "jobType": {
    "label": "Job Type",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "contractorTier": {
    "label": "Experience",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "hourlyBudgetMin": {
    "label": "Hourly Min",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "hourlyBudgetMax": {
    "label": "Hourly Max",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "fixedPriceAmount": {
    "label": "Fixed Price",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "projectDuration": {
    "label": "Duration",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "publishTime": {
    "label": "Published",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "publishedText": {
    "label": "Published text",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "skills": {
    "label": "Skills",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "searchQuery": {
    "label": "Search Query",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "description": {
    "label": "Description",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Upwork Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/rigelbytes/upwork-jobs-scraper.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/rigelbytes/upwork-jobs-scraper.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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