Upwork Market Index
Week 35 · Aug 24 – Aug 30, 2026 — computed from 15,054 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
15,054
↑ 8.1% WoWAvg fixed budget
$612
↓ 12.1% 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 | 4,396 | $420 | $80 | $23/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 3,485 | $652 | $103 | $20/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 2,880 | $646 | $100 | $27/hr | |
| Admin Support | 1,125 | $665 | $50 | $12/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 767 | $411 | $150 | $25/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 601 | $2,183 | $100 | $24/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 438 | $997 | $100 | $29/hr | |
| Writing | 430 | $412 | $100 | $30/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 280 | $2,827 | $150 | $39/hr | |
| Customer Service | 247 | $302 | $50 | $12/hr | |
| Translation | 215 | $251 | $43 | $18/hr | |
| Legal | 190 | $335 | $200 | $52/hr |
Top client countries
United States5,376 · 36%
USA1,408 · 9%
United Kingdom961 · 6%
India718 · 5%
Australia712 · 5%
Canada529 · 4%
Pakistan286 · 2%
GBR222 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level8%
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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