Upwork Market Index
Week 30 · Jul 20 – Jul 26, 2026 — computed from 3,138 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
3,138
↓ 80.7% WoWAvg fixed budget
$889
↑ 38.5% WoWAvg hourly rate
$24/hr
↑ 4.3% WoWFixed-price share
43%
57% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 3 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 | 907 | $355 | $100 | $24/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 715 | $2,832 | $150 | $21/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 646 | $607 | $200 | $27/hr | |
| Admin Support | 214 | $340 | $40 | $14/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 153 | $397 | $150 | $25/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 134 | $531 | $130 | $21/hr | |
| Writing | 94 | $276 | $95 | $29/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 78 | $654 | $100 | $42/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 60 | $552 | $250 | $34/hr | |
| Customer Service | 52 | $100 | $10 | $13/hr | |
| Legal | 45 | $368 | $150 | $63/hr | |
| Translation | 40 | $279 | $50 | $25/hr |
Top client countries
United States1,075 · 34%
USA248 · 8%
Australia199 · 6%
United Kingdom178 · 6%
Canada131 · 4%
India131 · 4%
Unknown119 · 4%
Pakistan65 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level8%
Intermediate66%
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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