IT industry has become a
high-salaried industry, as the popularization of the Internet today,also become
a development trend around the world. The demand for talent soared due to the
rapid development of society. Therefore, the vocational skill requirements
derived from the Internet environment for IT staff are constantly keeping up.
If you want to gain a firm foothold in the IT industry, no matter the basic
office skills, or professional application development language, and
professional design tools, that are essential career competences for IT staff,
according to the requirements of different industries.
So, you may raise questions
under the precondition of the sustainable growth of Internet popularity. What’s
the most wanted skill? What’s the most potential industry? And what’s the most
promising job? Data from an IT survey shows that the most popular 10 IT
skills/professions are as follows:
1. UI/UX designer
2. Full-stack Web and
product developers
3. Network engineers
4. Security/network security
experts
5. Mobile engineers
6. Business analysts
7. IT project manager
8. Cloud
architect/integration
9. Data scientist
10. CMS
This survey shows that UI/UX
designers listed at the top among these IT skills/professions. An
article, 29 Best Jobs for
Work-Life Balance, published on Forbes shows that the work-life
balance of UI designer and UX designer are 4.0 and 4.1, which listed at 5th and
2nd places among the 29 best jobs respectively. The universal annual salary
levels of them are maintained around $ 84,500 and $ 95,000. Obviously, UI/UX
designer is the most popular and perfect job at the current environment. You
can not only gain high income but also can keep a good balance between life and
work.
How much the UI/UX designers
earn in the entire year? Here is a figure below for your reference to learn how
much the UI/UX designers earn in every part of the world. Salary varies
according to economic development.
UI/UX Designer Average Annual Salaries Around the World:
Popular Employer Salaries
for UX Designer:
Source: payscale.com
Source: payscale.com
Global Average UX Salaries by Years of Experience:
Source:
uxdesignersalaries.com
In the final analysis, we
have a look at the UI/UX salary level in China. In recent years, the UI/UX
design industry gets flourish, many people are wondering how the situation and
how much salary could gain in China. A survey from a Chinese UI/UX design
website shows that the average monthly UI salary is more than 6K RBM, and the
average monthly UI salary over 10K RMB also accounted for a large proportion.
Therefore, UI/UX salary increases with the accumulation of work experience.
Experience can be wealth, too.
It appears that the average
salary of a fledgling designer is around 6.5k RMB. Salary level will get
improve as experience improving. Of course, the salary of UI/UX designers is
connected to the skills and tools they mastered. The more technique and tool
mastered the more potential and better on salary and career development. Salary
of UI/UX designer listed in this article is only for reference, and the
ultimate is depending on your situation. Please remember that there is no easy
way to get succeed. The best to keep you a high salary is self-motivated and
always looking into the latest UI/UX design trend. If you are a newbie who just
gets into this industry, here is a list of must-read books
& resources recommended.
Some people are jealousy the
high salary of UI/UX designers, while their cognition to UI/UX design, and
product design are still remaining at the very superficial stage: designer is
who use the prototyping/wireframing tools such as Axure, Mockplus,
or Sketch, Photoshop to
draw beautiful wireframe model to help engineers better development.
More disappointed is that
many people still think design is a fake and only to show good appearance.
"To make the product more eye-catching!", "To make the interface
more artistic!" - These are often heard. This is how people think about
design, superficially, no technique content. Let alone to have a clear
understand the terms of UI, UX,
IA, IxD.
As an enterprising UI/UX
designer longing for high-income, how to do to master the basic skills to
achieve the salary goal? You may get some inspiration from the recruitment
requirement. Generally speaking, in addition to the specific requirements of
jobs, for example, playing computer games well will be a plus when you applying
for a game developing company, the highly understanding and insights of UI/UX
design is always concerned. Caring for the latest UI/UX trends, keep learning
to keep ahead. Good communication and collaboration skills are also required to
be an excellent designer. Besides, skill improvement is inevitable, the popular
prototyping tools Axure, Mockplus, Proto.io are always required to master well.
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About Author
Grace Jia
Prototyping tools, UI&UX news & information, article sharer, writer.
Email: grace@jongde.com
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