Upwork Market Index
Week 32 · Aug 3 – Aug 9, 2026 — computed from 3,005 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
3,005
↓ 81.1% WoWAvg fixed budget
$630
↑ 16% WoWAvg hourly rate
$24/hr
↑ 4.3% 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 | 892 | $253 | $80 | $28/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 666 | $1,377 | $105 | $21/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 605 | $774 | $100 | $27/hr | |
| Admin Support | 237 | $194 | $60 | $15/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 150 | $431 | $100 | $23/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 119 | $439 | $225 | $25/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 80 | $487 | $350 | $29/hr | |
| Writing | 77 | $819 | $150 | $34/hr | |
| Customer Service | 63 | $417 | $100 | $17/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 40 | $719 | $80 | $35/hr | |
| Translation | 40 | $780 | $25 | $18/hr | |
| Legal | 36 | $2,136 | $100 | $36/hr |
Top client countries
United States1,083 · 36%
USA236 · 8%
United Kingdom198 · 7%
Australia165 · 6%
India148 · 5%
Canada91 · 3%
Germany63 · 2%
United Arab Emirates56 · 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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