Upwork Market Index
Week 46 · Nov 9 – Nov 15, 2026 — computed from 3,390 live Upwork job posts scanned via the official API.
Jobs scanned
3,390
↓ 83.8% WoWAvg fixed budget
$767
↑ 22.3% WoWAvg hourly rate
$24/hr
→ 0% WoWFixed-price share
39%
61% hourlyWeekly job volume — last 19 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 | 931 | $332 | $80 | $22/hr | |
| Sales & Marketing | 821 | $1,492 | $150 | $19/hr | |
| Web, Mobile & Software Dev | 541 | $801 | $150 | $30/hr | |
| Admin Support | 285 | $564 | $85 | $14/hr | |
| Accounting & Consulting | 186 | $2,152 | $75 | $34/hr | |
| Engineering & Architecture | 160 | $572 | $110 | $25/hr | |
| Writing | 124 | $392 | $60 | $28/hr | |
| Customer Service | 81 | $286 | $46 | $15/hr | |
| Data Science & Analytics | 79 | $394 | $50 | $33/hr | |
| IT & Networking | 72 | $627 | $200 | $36/hr | |
| Translation | 60 | $314 | $43 | $16/hr | |
| Legal | 50 | $423 | $200 | $54/hr |
Top client countries
United States1,173 · 35%
USA279 · 8%
United Kingdom231 · 7%
Australia145 · 4%
India130 · 4%
Canada129 · 4%
Pakistan68 · 2%
United Arab Emirates64 · 2%
Experience level demand
Entry level10%
Intermediate63%
Expert27%
Busiest category this week: Design & Creative with 28% 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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