Upwork Market Index
Week 40 · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026 — computed from 23,983 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
23,983
↑ 65.5% WoWAvg fixed budget
$841
↑ 39.2% WoWAvg hourly rate
$24/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
41%
59% 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 | 6,642 | $654 | $80 | $25/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 5,454 | $635 | $120 | $21/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 4,181 | $1,102 | $150 | $28/hr | |
| Admin Support | 2,107 | $473 | $70 | $14/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 1,259 | $728 | $150 | $26/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 1,106 | $1,592 | $150 | $28/hr | |
| Writing | 822 | $465 | $100 | $27/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 649 | $3,627 | $53 | $33/hr | |
| Customer Service | 519 | $383 | $50 | $14/hr | |
| Translation | 446 | $574 | $50 | $18/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 435 | $1,323 | $100 | $35/hr | |
| Legal | 363 | $360 | $200 | $56/hr |
Top client countries
United States7,519 · 31%
USA1,895 · 8%
United Kingdom1,471 · 6%
India1,309 · 6%
Unknown1,192 · 5%
Australia982 · 4%
Canada935 · 4%
Pakistan473 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level11%
Intermediate62%
Expert28%
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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