Upwork Market Index
Week 44 · Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026 — computed from 3,602 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
3,602
↓ 83.7% WoWAvg fixed budget
$603
↓ 14% WoWAvg hourly rate
$24/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
40%
60% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 17 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 | 966 | $250 | $63 | $25/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 863 | $618 | $150 | $18/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 553 | $1,649 | $120 | $31/hr | |
| Admin Support | 331 | $292 | $50 | $14/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 180 | $784 | $100 | $27/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 178 | $444 | $188 | $42/hr | |
| Writing | 115 | $463 | $50 | $31/hr | |
| Customer Service | 94 | $237 | $30 | $14/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 91 | $299 | $75 | $33/hr | |
| Legal | 80 | $384 | $250 | $61/hr | |
| Translation | 77 | $228 | $50 | $19/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 74 | $254 | $75 | $31/hr |
Top client countries
United States1,221 · 34%
USA282 · 8%
United Kingdom220 · 6%
India213 · 6%
Australia176 · 5%
Canada115 · 3%
Pakistan79 · 2%
United Arab Emirates57 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level11%
Intermediate63%
Expert26%
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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