Upwork Market Index
Week 39 · Sep 21 – Sep 27, 2026 — computed from 14,495 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
14,495
↓ 1% WoWAvg fixed budget
$604
↑ 15.5% WoWAvg hourly rate
$24/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 | 4,414 | $390 | $75 | $25/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 3,291 | $646 | $130 | $21/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 2,561 | $820 | $150 | $26/hr | |
| Admin Support | 1,104 | $590 | $75 | $13/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 713 | $570 | $100 | $26/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 653 | $1,280 | $100 | $27/hr | |
| Writing | 395 | $737 | $80 | $29/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 391 | $520 | $100 | $31/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 294 | $593 | $150 | $35/hr | |
| Customer Service | 286 | $1,960 | $150 | $12/hr | |
| Translation | 220 | $413 | $30 | $20/hr | |
| Legal | 173 | $329 | $150 | $57/hr |
Top client countries
United States4,957 · 34%
USA1,272 · 9%
United Kingdom900 · 6%
India835 · 6%
Australia679 · 5%
Canada547 · 4%
Pakistan297 · 2%
GBR262 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level9%
Intermediate62%
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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