Upwork Market Index
Week 33 · Aug 10 – Aug 16, 2026 — computed from 14,953 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
14,953
↓ 5.5% WoWAvg fixed budget
$621
↓ 15.6% WoWAvg hourly rate
$23/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
44%
56% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 10 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 | 4,234 | $391 | $80 | $23/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 3,529 | $669 | $100 | $20/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 2,994 | $877 | $150 | $26/hr | |
| Admin Support | 1,063 | $393 | $60 | $13/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 765 | $388 | $100 | $27/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 616 | $772 | $100 | $25/hr | |
| Writing | 416 | $496 | $100 | $32/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 400 | $2,590 | $100 | $37/hr | |
| Customer Service | 267 | $408 | $120 | $14/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 260 | $607 | $200 | $36/hr | |
| Legal | 213 | $312 | $200 | $53/hr | |
| Translation | 196 | $345 | $50 | $21/hr |
Top client countries
United States5,263 · 35%
USA1,286 · 9%
United Kingdom904 · 6%
India723 · 5%
Australia703 · 5%
Canada630 · 4%
Unknown340 · 2%
Pakistan282 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level7%
Intermediate66%
Expert27%
Busiest category this week: Design & Creative with 28% 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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