Upwork Market Index
Week 29 · Jul 13 – Jul 19, 2026 — computed from 16,241 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
16,241
↑ 17.7% WoWAvg fixed budget
$642
↑ 25.1% WoWAvg hourly rate
$23/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
45%
55% 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 | 4,848 | $327 | $80 | $23/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 3,675 | $636 | $100 | $20/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 3,356 | $1,010 | $150 | $26/hr | |
| Admin Support | 1,060 | $381 | $50 | $13/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 775 | $434 | $100 | $28/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 658 | $1,029 | $150 | $27/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 447 | $725 | $100 | $31/hr | |
| Writing | 418 | $496 | $100 | $30/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 315 | $4,742 | $150 | $35/hr | |
| Customer Service | 284 | $257 | $50 | $14/hr | |
| Legal | 225 | $376 | $200 | $55/hr | |
| Translation | 180 | $187 | $40 | $18/hr |
Top client countries
United States5,797 · 36%
USA1,372 · 8%
United Kingdom923 · 6%
Unknown897 · 6%
Australia805 · 5%
India712 · 4%
Canada595 · 4%
Pakistan347 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level7%
Intermediate69%
Expert24%
Busiest category this week: Design & Creative with 30% 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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