UK findings from ALA’s Web Design Survey 2007
by Rob Mason ~ October 20th, 2007 Filed under: Random.
A List Apart (ALA), one of the best web magazines around, recently ran a survey for web designers and developers. The results have now been published.
The results make for interesting reading and have sparked a healthy debate, but the results are skewed due to data coming from various worldwide locations. For example you cannot compare the wages paid in the US with those paid in India.
UK results
Being the ever helpful people that they are, ALA provided the source data, and are actively encouraging people to give their take on it. So what I’ve done is re-cut the data purely for the UK. The summary doe snot contain all of the data analysis, ‘cos there’s far too much to wade through for my brain to handle.
Conclusions
I’ve drawn some conclusions from this data as follows (I’m not a data analyst, so some of this is going to be really obvious and high level):
- 83% are under 40
- Over 55% have a degree, but nearly 85% didn’t study a web-related topic
- 97% feel web design is an exciting arena to be in most of the time
- 70% have a blog or personal site and have been using it for the last few years
- 75% work relatively standard hours (30 to 50 pw)
- Average wages range from ?19,500 to ?40,000
- There isn’t a strong trend towards geographical, age, gender or ethnic bias
August 6th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
How can there be no ’strong trend towards…age…bias’ when 83% are under 40?
August 7th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
It was late and very rushed when I published, so good spot!