Upwork Market Index
Week 31 · Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026 — computed from 15,864 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
15,864
↓ 1.5% WoWAvg fixed budget
$543
↓ 20.3% 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 | 4,707 | $471 | $75 | $24/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 3,642 | $565 | $100 | $20/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 3,144 | $678 | $100 | $26/hr | |
| Admin Support | 1,060 | $425 | $50 | $13/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 824 | $561 | $200 | $26/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 635 | $846 | $138 | $27/hr | |
| Writing | 452 | $268 | $75 | $31/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 377 | $615 | $100 | $30/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 295 | $840 | $150 | $40/hr | |
| Customer Service | 268 | $321 | $100 | $14/hr | |
| Legal | 249 | $351 | $200 | $61/hr | |
| Translation | 211 | $419 | $50 | $18/hr |
Top client countries
United States5,681 · 36%
USA1,329 · 8%
United Kingdom918 · 6%
India817 · 5%
Australia760 · 5%
Canada663 · 4%
Unknown360 · 2%
Pakistan265 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level7%
Intermediate67%
Expert26%
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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