Upwork Market Index
Week 39 · Sep 21 – Sep 27, 2026 — computed from 2,843 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
2,843
↓ 80.6% WoWAvg fixed budget
$630
↑ 20.5% WoWAvg hourly rate
$24/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
44%
56% 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 | 870 | $447 | $50 | $28/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 682 | $551 | $120 | $19/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 513 | $767 | $138 | $25/hr | |
| Admin Support | 194 | $273 | $65 | $14/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 132 | $301 | $100 | $26/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 125 | $793 | $138 | $24/hr | |
| Writing | 72 | $1,172 | $78 | $30/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 64 | $429 | $120 | $37/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 63 | $417 | $250 | $32/hr | |
| Translation | 51 | $207 | $20 | $18/hr | |
| Customer Service | 45 | $8,760 | $10 | $13/hr | |
| Legal | 32 | $221 | $165 | $61/hr |
Top client countries
United States996 · 35%
USA238 · 8%
United Kingdom181 · 6%
India178 · 6%
Australia129 · 5%
Canada115 · 4%
GBR57 · 2%
Pakistan56 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level8%
Intermediate64%
Expert28%
Busiest category this week: Design & Creative with 31% 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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