Growth Metrics

Upwork (UPWK) Gross Margin (2017 - 2025)

Upwork has reported Gross Margin over the past 9 years, most recently at 77.99% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Gross Margin at 77.99% for Q4 2025, up 26.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 77.82% (up 45.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 77.82%, up 45.0%.
  • Gross Margin for Q4 2025 was 77.99% at Upwork, up from 77.28% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Gross Margin for UPWK hit a ceiling of 78.31% in Q1 2025 and a floor of 72.74% in Q3 2021.
  • Median Gross Margin over the past 5 years was 75.22% (2023), compared with a mean of 75.51%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Gross Margin: skyrocketed 267bps in 2024 and later plummeted -32bps in 2025.
  • Upwork's Gross Margin stood at 72.93% in 2021, then rose by 2bps to 74.51% in 2022, then grew by 1bps to 75.06% in 2023, then grew by 4bps to 77.73% in 2024, then increased by 0bps to 77.99% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Gross Margin were 77.99% (Q4 2025), 77.28% (Q3 2025), and 77.72% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.