Upwork Market Index
Week 43 · Oct 19 – Oct 25, 2026 — computed from 3,801 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
3,801
↓ 83.3% WoWAvg fixed budget
$584
↓ 30.5% WoWAvg hourly rate
$23/hr
↓ 4.2% WoWFixed-price share
41%
59% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 16 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 | 1,041 | $350 | $75 | $25/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 813 | $864 | $120 | $19/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 625 | $737 | $100 | $31/hr | |
| Admin Support | 356 | $741 | $100 | $12/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 237 | $283 | $175 | $26/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 181 | $299 | $100 | $25/hr | |
| Writing | 118 | $886 | $150 | $31/hr | |
| Customer Service | 107 | $694 | $175 | $18/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 101 | $453 | $70 | $35/hr | |
| Translation | 83 | $318 | $50 | $20/hr | |
| Legal | 74 | $1,025 | $250 | $41/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 65 | $730 | $100 | $33/hr |
Top client countries
United States1,251 · 33%
USA296 · 8%
United Kingdom214 · 6%
India187 · 5%
Australia176 · 5%
Unknown134 · 4%
Canada126 · 3%
Pakistan72 · 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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