Upwork Market Index
Week 38 · Sep 14 – Sep 20, 2026 — computed from 14,648 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
14,648
↓ 3% WoWAvg fixed budget
$523
↓ 26.3% WoWAvg hourly rate
$24/hr
↑ 4.3% WoWFixed-price share
43%
57% 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 | 4,264 | $377 | $80 | $25/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 3,388 | $611 | $105 | $20/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 2,741 | $733 | $120 | $28/hr | |
| Admin Support | 1,051 | $240 | $50 | $14/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 796 | $481 | $150 | $26/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 656 | $946 | $150 | $31/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 424 | $887 | $55 | $33/hr | |
| Writing | 420 | $309 | $75 | $31/hr | |
| Customer Service | 278 | $334 | $75 | $12/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 254 | $387 | $110 | $37/hr | |
| Legal | 198 | $509 | $130 | $58/hr | |
| Translation | 178 | $328 | $39 | $19/hr |
Top client countries
United States5,149 · 35%
USA1,271 · 9%
United Kingdom948 · 7%
India758 · 5%
Australia673 · 5%
Canada579 · 4%
Pakistan281 · 2%
GBR231 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level9%
Intermediate62%
Expert29%
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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