Upwork Market Index
Week 42 · Oct 12 – Oct 18, 2026 — computed from 3,828 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
3,828
↓ 84.2% WoWAvg fixed budget
$1,284
↑ 79.6% WoWAvg hourly rate
$24/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
41%
60% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 15 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 | 1,042 | $484 | $82 | $24/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 892 | $870 | $150 | $18/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 663 | $3,978 | $150 | $32/hr | |
| Admin Support | 311 | $425 | $43 | $13/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 210 | $1,161 | $150 | $24/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 193 | $526 | $175 | $22/hr | |
| Writing | 128 | $337 | $100 | $28/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 96 | $913 | $200 | $31/hr | |
| Translation | 86 | $562 | $90 | $25/hr | |
| Customer Service | 82 | $479 | $20 | $15/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 77 | $430 | $175 | $31/hr | |
| Legal | 48 | $981 | $200 | $81/hr |
Top client countries
United States1,269 · 33%
USA258 · 7%
United Kingdom234 · 6%
India202 · 5%
Australia170 · 4%
Unknown134 · 4%
Canada103 · 3%
GBR76 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level11%
Intermediate61%
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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