Upwork Market Index
Week 35 · Aug 24 – Aug 30, 2026 — computed from 2,950 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
2,950
↓ 78.8% WoWAvg fixed budget
$580
↓ 16.7% WoWAvg hourly rate
$23/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
43%
57% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 8 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 | 816 | $429 | $100 | $24/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 718 | $991 | $100 | $20/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 595 | $689 | $100 | $26/hr | |
| Admin Support | 223 | $270 | $58 | $13/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 148 | $395 | $150 | $29/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 120 | $370 | $200 | $29/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 77 | $383 | $150 | $31/hr | |
| Writing | 67 | $370 | $200 | $24/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 58 | $647 | $175 | $31/hr | |
| Customer Service | 48 | $209 | $113 | $15/hr | |
| Legal | 46 | $205 | $50 | $49/hr | |
| Translation | 34 | $140 | $50 | $20/hr |
Top client countries
United States1,036 · 35%
USA221 · 8%
United Kingdom178 · 6%
Australia160 · 5%
India152 · 5%
Canada110 · 4%
GBR52 · 2%
Germany50 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level8%
Intermediate66%
Expert26%
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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