Upwork Market Index
Week 37 · Sep 7 – Sep 13, 2026 — computed from 12,013 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
12,013
↓ 23.5% WoWAvg fixed budget
$785
↑ 4.5% WoWAvg hourly rate
$23/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
43%
57% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 10 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 | 3,332 | $453 | $80 | $23/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 2,838 | $631 | $100 | $20/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 2,265 | $767 | $150 | $29/hr | |
| Admin Support | 966 | $252 | $50 | $13/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 617 | $704 | $100 | $28/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 509 | $758 | $300 | $27/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 328 | $824 | $150 | $28/hr | |
| Writing | 314 | $549 | $100 | $28/hr | |
| Customer Service | 244 | $18,092 | $23 | $13/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 233 | $1,974 | $150 | $35/hr | |
| Legal | 188 | $314 | $150 | $52/hr | |
| Translation | 179 | $184 | $50 | $16/hr |
Top client countries
United States4,106 · 34%
USA965 · 8%
United Kingdom798 · 7%
Australia640 · 5%
India627 · 5%
Canada455 · 4%
Pakistan212 · 2%
GBR206 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level8%
Intermediate64%
Expert28%
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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