Upwork Market Index
Week 32 · Aug 3 – Aug 9, 2026 — computed from 15,821 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
15,821
↓ 0.3% WoWAvg fixed budget
$736
↑ 35.5% WoWAvg hourly rate
$23/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
44%
56% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 11 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 | 4,597 | $832 | $75 | $24/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 3,625 | $892 | $100 | $20/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 3,160 | $663 | $100 | $26/hr | |
| Admin Support | 1,056 | $237 | $50 | $13/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 893 | $492 | $150 | $27/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 663 | $957 | $128 | $24/hr | |
| Writing | 433 | $539 | $100 | $29/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 364 | $923 | $150 | $29/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 290 | $695 | $150 | $35/hr | |
| Customer Service | 263 | $655 | $100 | $13/hr | |
| Translation | 242 | $406 | $50 | $18/hr | |
| Legal | 235 | $251 | $150 | $56/hr |
Top client countries
United States5,623 · 36%
USA1,380 · 9%
United Kingdom937 · 6%
Australia836 · 5%
India788 · 5%
Canada653 · 4%
Pakistan313 · 2%
GBR239 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level7%
Intermediate66%
Expert27%
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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