[lelanthran]

The tech companies are more in tune with market rates on freelancing sites than non-tech companies, so they say "we need golang, postgres, Aws and some JavaScript" and they know what that costs.

The non-tech companies say "we have this problem we'd like solved". They aren't going to limit to market rates because your cost in their eyes is a percentage of the profit that results when you solve their problem.

When they look at your cost they look at it in terms of their business. When a tech company looks at your cost they compare it to the cheapest reliable person they can find on freelancing sites, typically between $30 and $50 per hour.