List of Freelance Web Design in Singapore

Being a web designer in Singapore doesn’t earn you much these day.

There are emerging on demand front end software which replace all the Front End web designer using drag and drop systems.Unless one keep on upgrading their knowledge, or else one might not survive in this competitive market.

As Drag and drop website building software gets more and more intelligent and efficient. Jobs like Layout designer, graphic designer, web illustrator will lose their job.Even for articles and copyrighting, are replace by Bots

Disruptive Technologies

We are heading towards a disruptive web technologies era.Anything which works for today might not for tomorrow.

To survive Designer will have no choice to upgrade themselves from a front end web designer to a full stack web developer.Illustration and HTML skill will not be enough,designer will need to know the hard code on the back end side to stay competitive.

Future Prospect of this Industries

Base on research and data gathered, the outlook of the web design in Singapore, industry doesn’t look bullish. Only those solution provider which will be able to provide added value beyond drag and drop technology platform will survive.

If you read my previous blog , i have did a research and gather a list of Web Design Companies in Singapore.

There are huge amount of competition in the web design sector in Singapore. In order to differentiate your service from other, the solution provider will need to provide more added value.

Potential Customers

99% of the Enterprises are SMEs they employed 3.5 million people in Singapore.There are 216,000 of them , 84% owns by locals i pulled these Data from Singstat .

Lets do some math, to calculate the potential customer which required a Web Design Services , using the Pareto Rules.

20% of the 216000 SME might need a website, which means there are 43,200 of them. 80% of them might try to use a drag and drop platform , outsource or DIY as cheaper option, the numbers left are 8640. 80% of them will go to Design Agency.

That is 6912 for the Agency and 1728 for Freelancers.

80% of business will go to the top 10 Agencies,that only left 1382 for new Start Up Agencies.

There are approximate 30 new Web Start Up Agencies every year, 1382 divided by 30, you can do the math.

In the mean time,80% of business will go to the top 10 freelancer.That left 345 customer for new freelancers.

Projected there are 500 Web Developer that would try to freelance , to earn extra income.

What is the Outlook

Referring the words on top, looks like the situation sounds bad.Anyway lets stay positive do our best and things will happen.