Upwork Market Index
Week 35 · Aug 24 – Aug 30, 2026 — computed from 12,029 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
12,029
↓ 13.6% WoWAvg fixed budget
$642
↓ 7.8% WoWAvg hourly rate
$23/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
43%
57% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 8 weeks
Categories this week
Share of scanned posts and typical money per category. Click a category for its full live rate report.
| Category | Jobs | Share | Avg fixed | Median fixed | Avg hourly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design & Creative | 3,403 | $385 | $100 | $24/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 2,891 | $694 | $120 | $20/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 2,323 | $682 | $100 | $27/hr | |
| Admin Support | 915 | $832 | $50 | $12/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 613 | $458 | $150 | $28/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 479 | $2,714 | $180 | $26/hr | |
| Writing | 343 | $442 | $100 | $30/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 337 | $738 | $100 | $31/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 218 | $3,336 | $150 | $33/hr | |
| Customer Service | 200 | $285 | $50 | $12/hr | |
| Legal | 163 | $372 | $150 | $51/hr | |
| Translation | 144 | $188 | $45 | $19/hr |
Top client countries
United States4,325 · 36%
USA1,057 · 9%
United Kingdom760 · 6%
India596 · 5%
Australia587 · 5%
Canada427 · 4%
Pakistan207 · 2%
GBR185 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level8%
Intermediate66%
Expert26%
Busiest category this week: Design & Creative with 28% of posts.
Methodology
SnipeWork continuously scans public job posts through the official Upwork GraphQL API. Each ISO week (Mon–Sun, UTC) the scanned posts are aggregated into this report: budget averages use the midpoint of posted ranges; hourly outliers above $500/hr and zero budgets are excluded; category shares are computed over posts with a known category. The week in progress is recomputed daily and finalized on Sunday night — archived weeks never change, so they are safe to cite. Data is free to reference with a link to this page; a machine-readable feed lives at /api/market/index, and the full history is published as an open dataset on GitHub (CSV, CC-BY-4.0).
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