Upwork Market Index
Week 32 · Aug 3 – Aug 9, 2026 — computed from 15,309 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
15,309
↓ 3.5% WoWAvg fixed budget
$757
↑ 39.4% WoWAvg hourly rate
$23/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
44%
56% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 5 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 | 4,451 | $805 | $80 | $25/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 3,471 | $1,073 | $100 | $21/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 3,035 | $656 | $100 | $27/hr | |
| Admin Support | 1,071 | $242 | $50 | $13/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 811 | $415 | $150 | $26/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 653 | $861 | $100 | $24/hr | |
| Writing | 415 | $617 | $100 | $30/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 367 | $820 | $155 | $29/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 287 | $691 | $150 | $36/hr | |
| Customer Service | 286 | $648 | $129 | $15/hr | |
| Translation | 247 | $494 | $38 | $19/hr | |
| Legal | 215 | $596 | $145 | $48/hr |
Top client countries
United States5,471 · 36%
USA1,298 · 9%
United Kingdom924 · 6%
Australia817 · 5%
India754 · 5%
Canada596 · 4%
Pakistan295 · 2%
Germany246 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level7%
Intermediate67%
Expert26%
Busiest category this week: Design & Creative with 29% 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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