Upwork Market Index
Week 41 · Oct 5 – Oct 11, 2026 — computed from 3,991 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
3,991
↓ 83.4% WoWAvg fixed budget
$769
↓ 8.6% WoWAvg hourly rate
$24/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
40%
60% 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 | 1,066 | $309 | $95 | $24/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 915 | $841 | $138 | $21/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 710 | $1,184 | $160 | $29/hr | |
| Admin Support | 324 | $427 | $50 | $13/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 205 | $517 | $125 | $29/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 196 | $524 | $100 | $24/hr | |
| Writing | 126 | $673 | $90 | $29/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 116 | $4,479 | $150 | $29/hr | |
| Customer Service | 110 | $599 | $215 | $13/hr | |
| Translation | 86 | $608 | $80 | $22/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 82 | $2,402 | $250 | $33/hr | |
| Legal | 55 | $422 | $300 | $58/hr |
Top client countries
United States1,357 · 34%
USA342 · 9%
United Kingdom248 · 6%
India195 · 5%
Canada161 · 4%
Australia149 · 4%
Pakistan88 · 2%
United Arab Emirates82 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level10%
Intermediate62%
Expert28%
Busiest category this week: Design & Creative with 27% 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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