Upwork Market Index
Week 36 · Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026 — computed from 15,704 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
15,704
↑ 4.3% WoWAvg fixed budget
$751
↑ 22.7% 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 | 4,469 | $452 | $80 | $23/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 3,683 | $1,538 | $100 | $20/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 2,944 | $888 | $120 | $28/hr | |
| Admin Support | 1,175 | $279 | $50 | $13/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 844 | $660 | $110 | $24/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 662 | $353 | $100 | $24/hr | |
| Writing | 471 | $427 | $100 | $29/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 449 | $632 | $100 | $32/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 305 | $606 | $170 | $36/hr | |
| Customer Service | 283 | $257 | $40 | $11/hr | |
| Legal | 239 | $579 | $150 | $63/hr | |
| Translation | 180 | $628 | $50 | $20/hr |
Top client countries
United States5,471 · 35%
USA1,345 · 9%
United Kingdom977 · 6%
India797 · 5%
Australia790 · 5%
Canada669 · 4%
Pakistan304 · 2%
Unknown242 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level8%
Intermediate64%
Expert28%
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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