What is the average fixed-price budget on Upwork?

Short answerFixed-price Upwork jobs currently average several hundred dollars, but the median sits near $100 — a long tail of large projects pulls the average up while most posts are small. Roughly 4 in 10 posted jobs are fixed-price, the rest hourly. Live weekly numbers are below.

Live market data — Jul 13 – Jul 19, 2026

$587avg fixed budget
$100median fixed
$23/hravg hourly rate
43%fixed-price share

Source: SnipeWork Upwork Market Index · updated weekly from live job posts via the official Upwork API · free to cite with a link.

Average vs median — read both

The gap between the average and the median fixed budget is the single most useful market fact: the typical posted project is small, and the money is concentrated in a minority of well-funded posts. Strategy follows directly — the high-budget minority is where speed and targeting pay off most, because those posts attract the most competition within hours.

Where the big budgets live

Development, data and engineering categories carry the largest fixed budgets; creative categories post more volume at lower medians. The weekly Market Index breaks this down per category with week-over-week movement, so you can see demand shifting before it shows up in your proposal stats.

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