Upwork Market Index
Week 33 · Aug 10 – Aug 16, 2026 — computed from 3,153 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
3,153
↓ 80.1% WoWAvg fixed budget
$1,482
↑ 101.4% WoWAvg hourly rate
$24/hr
↑ 4.3% WoWFixed-price share
42%
58% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 6 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 | 918 | $338 | $100 | $25/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 716 | $884 | $100 | $21/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 602 | $1,443 | $175 | $28/hr | |
| Admin Support | 238 | $14,356 | $100 | $12/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 183 | $531 | $150 | $25/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 134 | $1,721 | $105 | $24/hr | |
| Writing | 81 | $373 | $100 | $26/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 72 | $488 | $250 | $30/hr | |
| Legal | 62 | $171 | $100 | $59/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 53 | $168 | $80 | $36/hr | |
| Customer Service | 48 | $231 | $110 | $15/hr | |
| Translation | 46 | $99 | $38 | $19/hr |
Top client countries
United States1,084 · 34%
USA265 · 8%
United Kingdom229 · 7%
Australia173 · 6%
India147 · 5%
Canada135 · 4%
GBR55 · 2%
Pakistan53 · 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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