Upwork Market Index
Week 34 · Aug 17 – Aug 23, 2026 — computed from 2,861 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
2,861
↓ 80.9% WoWAvg fixed budget
$609
↓ 1.9% WoWAvg hourly rate
$23/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
43%
57% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 7 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 | 808 | $438 | $80 | $27/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 659 | $682 | $200 | $21/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 514 | $550 | $150 | $27/hr | |
| Admin Support | 225 | $286 | $100 | $11/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 149 | $660 | $150 | $20/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 129 | $801 | $150 | $21/hr | |
| Writing | 109 | $487 | $60 | $30/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 60 | $875 | $400 | $31/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 59 | $547 | $150 | $28/hr | |
| Customer Service | 57 | $106 | $60 | $14/hr | |
| Translation | 52 | $5,072 | $175 | $15/hr | |
| Legal | 40 | $230 | $143 | $65/hr |
Top client countries
United States1,016 · 36%
USA247 · 9%
United Kingdom175 · 6%
Australia168 · 6%
India127 · 4%
Canada114 · 4%
Pakistan56 · 2%
GBR45 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level8%
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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