Upwork Market Index
Week 38 · Sep 14 – Sep 20, 2026 — computed from 3,003 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
3,003
↓ 80.1% WoWAvg fixed budget
$641
↓ 9.7% WoWAvg hourly rate
$24/hr
↑ 4.3% WoWFixed-price share
42%
58% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 11 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 | 833 | $289 | $70 | $25/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 701 | $1,207 | $100 | $21/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 550 | $951 | $150 | $27/hr | |
| Admin Support | 240 | $267 | $50 | $13/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 171 | $539 | $175 | $28/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 147 | $439 | $150 | $26/hr | |
| Writing | 84 | $394 | $100 | $30/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 78 | $1,474 | $200 | $29/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 60 | $199 | $100 | $49/hr | |
| Customer Service | 57 | $564 | $300 | $13/hr | |
| Legal | 46 | $400 | $100 | $62/hr | |
| Translation | 36 | $55 | $28 | $14/hr |
Top client countries
United States1,038 · 35%
USA266 · 9%
United Kingdom215 · 7%
Australia145 · 5%
India125 · 4%
Canada110 · 4%
Pakistan61 · 2%
United Arab Emirates48 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level9%
Intermediate61%
Expert31%
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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