Upwork Market Index
Week 31 · Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026 — computed from 3,143 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
3,143
↓ 80.5% WoWAvg fixed budget
$1,204
↑ 76.8% WoWAvg hourly rate
$22/hr
↓ 4.3% WoWFixed-price share
43%
57% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 4 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 | 948 | $363 | $100 | $22/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 725 | $521 | $100 | $20/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 614 | $4,022 | $150 | $24/hr | |
| Admin Support | 196 | $459 | $42 | $13/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 154 | $438 | $200 | $26/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 136 | $250 | $200 | $28/hr | |
| Writing | 93 | $354 | $100 | $23/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 77 | $336 | $100 | $29/hr | |
| Customer Service | 64 | $128 | $150 | $10/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 59 | $303 | $150 | $41/hr | |
| Legal | 42 | $309 | $100 | $42/hr | |
| Translation | 35 | $634 | $55 | $19/hr |
Top client countries
United States1,075 · 34%
USA271 · 9%
United Kingdom201 · 6%
India166 · 5%
Unknown159 · 5%
Australia155 · 5%
Canada111 · 4%
Pakistan56 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level7%
Intermediate68%
Expert25%
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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