Web Designer (Website Builders & CMS)
🧱Builds websites for small businesses with Wix, WordPress, Squarespace and the like: picks a template, adds content, connects forms and payments, maintains the site.
Prospects & pay
What the work is like
💼 Job market
🇺🇸 $98k a year on average · +3.8% jobs by 2035 · 5,300 openings a year
Web developers — US: Census ACS 2020–24 (full-time), BLS projections 2025–35
🇬🇧 £48.7k median a year · 11,000 jobs
Web design professionals — UK: ONS ASHE 2025 (full-time)
🤖 AI & automation
AI site builders create a website from a single sentence in minutes. Simple sites will be in short supply; treat this as a side gig only.
Who it suits
Interests: 🎨 Drawing and design, 💻 Coding and digital, 📱 Media, content, advertising.
Key strengths: artistic taste, organisation.
Where to study
- Course Web design and WordPress courses, self-study
- Vocational College course in digital media / web design
Key school subjects (A-level / IB / AP): Art & Design, Computer Science.
🧗 Courses and self-study are enough, sometimes a college course in digital media. No degree needed, but as a main career it is risky; most of this work is freelance.
Things to know
🪑 Sitting at a computer all day
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