Upwork Market Index
Week 45 · Nov 2 – Nov 8, 2026 — computed from 7,178 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
7,178
↓ 66% WoWAvg fixed budget
$742
↑ 2.9% WoWAvg hourly rate
$24/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
41%
59% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 18 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 | 1,946 | $497 | $100 | $26/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 1,645 | $784 | $150 | $19/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 1,144 | $747 | $150 | $28/hr | |
| Admin Support | 657 | $951 | $50 | $13/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 373 | $492 | $200 | $25/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 310 | $1,161 | $200 | $27/hr | |
| Writing | 298 | $573 | $100 | $31/hr | |
| Customer Service | 193 | $1,539 | $150 | $13/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 189 | $463 | $100 | $39/hr | |
| Translation | 161 | $259 | $40 | $16/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 140 | $6,914 | $200 | $39/hr | |
| Legal | 122 | $414 | $100 | $54/hr |
Top client countries
United States2,320 · 32%
USA595 · 8%
United Kingdom448 · 6%
India373 · 5%
Australia308 · 4%
Canada251 · 4%
Pakistan179 · 3%
GBR119 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level11%
Intermediate62%
Expert27%
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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