Upwork Market Index
Week 34 · Aug 17 – Aug 23, 2026 — computed from 13,930 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
13,930
↓ 6.8% WoWAvg fixed budget
$696
↑ 12.1% WoWAvg hourly rate
$23/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
45%
55% 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 | 3,939 | $733 | $75 | $23/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 3,274 | $655 | $100 | $20/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 2,801 | $958 | $128 | $27/hr | |
| Admin Support | 1,024 | $306 | $80 | $13/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 753 | $468 | $128 | $25/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 597 | $484 | $150 | $30/hr | |
| Writing | 377 | $325 | $75 | $31/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 351 | $512 | $120 | $32/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 233 | $507 | $100 | $34/hr | |
| Customer Service | 229 | $381 | $50 | $12/hr | |
| Legal | 186 | $753 | $160 | $56/hr | |
| Translation | 166 | $467 | $33 | $16/hr |
Top client countries
United States4,802 · 35%
USA1,217 · 9%
United Kingdom906 · 7%
India649 · 5%
Australia648 · 5%
Canada531 · 4%
Pakistan299 · 2%
Unknown281 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level8%
Intermediate65%
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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