Upwork Market Index
Week 37 · Sep 7 – Sep 13, 2026 — computed from 15,095 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
15,095
↓ 3.9% WoWAvg fixed budget
$710
↓ 5.5% WoWAvg hourly rate
$23/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
44%
56% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 14 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 | 4,313 | $392 | $80 | $23/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 3,507 | $673 | $100 | $20/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 2,864 | $815 | $150 | $28/hr | |
| Admin Support | 1,153 | $351 | $50 | $13/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 804 | $598 | $120 | $28/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 660 | $656 | $230 | $26/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 393 | $803 | $150 | $29/hr | |
| Writing | 391 | $458 | $90 | $28/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 296 | $589 | $100 | $36/hr | |
| Customer Service | 276 | $16,959 | $30 | $12/hr | |
| Legal | 231 | $404 | $137 | $57/hr | |
| Translation | 207 | $175 | $40 | $16/hr |
Top client countries
United States5,413 · 36%
USA1,272 · 8%
United Kingdom964 · 6%
India791 · 5%
Australia715 · 5%
Canada566 · 4%
Pakistan275 · 2%
GBR241 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level9%
Intermediate64%
Expert28%
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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