Upwork Market Index
Week 40 · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026 — computed from 3,899 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
3,899
↓ 73.1% WoWAvg fixed budget
$716
↑ 18.5% WoWAvg hourly rate
$24/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
40%
60% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 13 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 | 1,093 | $317 | $75 | $24/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 884 | $981 | $150 | $21/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 642 | $1,017 | $100 | $29/hr | |
| Admin Support | 356 | $1,005 | $50 | $14/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 196 | $437 | $150 | $27/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 182 | $2,177 | $190 | $24/hr | |
| Writing | 152 | $280 | $90 | $29/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 104 | $310 | $50 | $31/hr | |
| Customer Service | 82 | $174 | $50 | $13/hr | |
| Translation | 76 | $338 | $20 | $21/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 67 | $1,136 | $100 | $32/hr | |
| Legal | 65 | $507 | $300 | $56/hr |
Top client countries
United States1,161 · 30%
USA331 · 9%
United Kingdom241 · 6%
India215 · 6%
Unknown188 · 5%
Australia172 · 4%
Canada142 · 4%
United Arab Emirates76 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level11%
Intermediate60%
Expert29%
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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