Upwork Market Index
Week 30 · Jul 20 – Jul 26, 2026 — computed from 16,098 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
16,098
↓ 0.9% WoWAvg fixed budget
$681
↑ 6.1% 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 | 4,709 | $397 | $80 | $24/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 3,548 | $1,177 | $100 | $19/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 3,439 | $669 | $100 | $26/hr | |
| Admin Support | 1,089 | $240 | $50 | $14/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 851 | $535 | $150 | $28/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 638 | $1,883 | $150 | $26/hr | |
| Writing | 400 | $576 | $100 | $28/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 379 | $956 | $100 | $29/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 317 | $489 | $150 | $32/hr | |
| Customer Service | 261 | $275 | $71 | $12/hr | |
| Legal | 237 | $382 | $100 | $46/hr | |
| Translation | 230 | $1,946 | $50 | $17/hr |
Top client countries
United States5,602 · 35%
USA1,284 · 8%
Unknown1,111 · 7%
United Kingdom936 · 6%
India785 · 5%
Australia727 · 5%
Canada618 · 4%
Pakistan308 · 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, and the full history is published as an open dataset on GitHub (CSV, CC-BY-4.0).
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