Find web design gigs in Melbourne

Most web designers on Unjumble charge $60 to $120 an hour, and a typical small business site runs $2,500 to $7,000 as a gig. Take on two or three gigs a month and you are into real money; plenty of designers run it alongside agency or in-house work. You set your own rate on every bid, and there is no race to the bottom against offshore accounts.

Small business marketing sites are the bread and butter: 5 to 8 pages, brief to launch in a few weeks. After that it is landing pages for campaigns, Shopify stores, redesigns of tired sites, and Webflow or WordPress builds. Businesses in Melbourne also post a steady run of smaller gigs, fix-ups, speed work and new pages on existing sites, which are great for filling gaps between bigger builds.

Most designers bid outcome-based: a fixed price for an agreed scope, split into stages (design, build, launch). Scope the revision rounds up front, two or three is normal, and price the extras (content writing, extra pages, SEO setup) as line items rather than absorbing them. For open-ended work, bid time-based and track the hours. Underquoting to win a gig usually costs you the margin AND the review.

Figma for design, then at least one build platform done well: Webflow, WordPress or Shopify cover most briefs (Framer is growing fast). Beyond the build, the designers who win repeat work know the basics of Google Analytics and Search Console, page-speed tuning, and how to hand a site over so the owner can edit it themselves. Mention the platforms you build on in your bids; businesses search for them by name.

Live sites you have shipped, not mockups; they will open them on their phone, so make sure your portfolio loads fast. A bid that shows you read the brief beats a cheaper generic one almost every time. After your first few gigs, your verified reviews and completion history do most of the selling.

Almost never for web design; most gigs run end to end through chat and a video call or two. Being local still matters though: businesses pick local freelancers because you are in their timezone, you know the market, and they can call you. Some will want one face-to-face for a bigger build.

New freelancers get a fair go in our ranking, you are not buried under established profiles, and a Just joined call-out tells businesses you are fresh, not flaky. Stack the deck: put your three best live sites in your portfolio, bid early (first bids get read first), and write each bid to the brief. One finished gig with a good review changes everything from there.

Every gig is split into stages agreed up front. The business funds each stage before you start, the money is held securely through Stripe, and it is released to you when the stage is signed off. No chasing invoices, no doing the build and hoping.