Upwork Market Index
Week 28 · Jul 6 – Jul 12, 2026 — computed from 13,803 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
13,803
new seriesAvg fixed budget
$513
new seriesAvg hourly rate
$23/hr
new seriesFixed-price share
45%
55% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 2 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 | 4,050 | $368 | $80 | $23/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 3,124 | $600 | $100 | $21/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 2,815 | $756 | $130 | $27/hr | |
| Admin Support | 982 | $241 | $45 | $13/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 638 | $587 | $110 | $26/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 603 | $537 | $100 | $26/hr | |
| Writing | 393 | $349 | $75 | $26/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 357 | $623 | $100 | $31/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 254 | $665 | $100 | $35/hr | |
| Customer Service | 229 | $805 | $100 | $11/hr | |
| Translation | 180 | $166 | $80 | $16/hr | |
| Legal | 178 | $458 | $150 | $61/hr |
Top client countries
United States4,899 · 36%
USA1,247 · 9%
United Kingdom786 · 6%
India653 · 5%
Australia638 · 5%
Canada522 · 4%
Unknown521 · 4%
Pakistan277 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level7%
Intermediate68%
Expert25%
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.
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