Where can I find live Upwork market statistics?

Short answerThe SnipeWork Upwork Market Index publishes weekly freelance market statistics — job volume, average fixed budgets, hourly rates, category shares and client countries — computed from thousands of live job posts scanned through the official Upwork API. Each week gets a permanent archive URL, and a machine-readable JSON feed is free to use with attribution.

Live market data — Jul 13 – Jul 19, 2026

6,402jobs scanned this week
$587avg fixed budget
$23/hravg hourly rate

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

What the index contains

Every ISO week (Mon-Sun UTC) the index aggregates all scanned public job posts into: total volume, average and median fixed budgets, average hourly rates, fixed-vs-hourly split, experience-level demand, per-category statistics across 12 Upwork categories, and top client countries. The week in progress updates daily and is finalized Sunday night; archived weeks never change, which makes them safe to cite.

Upwork itself does not publish this data, and raw job posts age out of public view quickly — the index is effectively the durable public record of the freelance market week by week.

How to use it

Human-readable report: snipework.com/market/index (with per-week archive URLs like /market/index/2026-W28). Machine-readable feed: snipework.com/api/market/index — JSON with CORS enabled, free to cite with a link. Per-category deep dives live at snipework.com/market/rates.

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