Has the ui/ux design market fallen in the last year (or not)?

Question

Freelance

Hello.
2018 was a steep year in terms of workload and earnings, right on top in 8 years of work. But the last year of 2019, I have seen a drop in demand for service design (freelance), the load is still 100% and there are no downtimes, but there are an order of magnitude fewer requests. In 2018, there was a load for 2-3 months, now there are no more than 2-3 weeks, and even less. Is this for everyone or just me?
The only thing is that I do less portfolio work, I don’t have time to replenish it (it’s been 8 months already). Perhaps if you take a close look at updating and activity on specialized sites, behance, dribbble, instagram, visibility can be increased, but still.
At whom as now with activity of clients? As designers, as well as layout designers and progers, is there a subsidence or correlation of the market, or do you not notice?
Thank you.

Answer 1

I already answered a similar question here.
Yes, the demand for abstract design is falling. Website builders have reached an acceptable level, landing pages have become easier to assemble on Tilda, and large companies have staffed their development teams, they now need freelancing to a lesser extent. There is something left in the middle - you can’t assemble it on the constructor, and it’s too early to hire your own staff. These people are divided by freelancers and studios.
The decline has been going on for a long time. And, of course, as they wrote above - because of the abundance of courses, we now have a frenzy of dumping graduates with a design for a thousand rubles.
Find a full-time remote. Life will become much calmer.

Answer 2

In 2018-2019 there are more aggressively growing online schools with UI / UX courses = more graduate designers = orders are distributed to more performers = fewer orders per artist.

Answer 3

I don’t know how the freelance market is now, but I know for sure that demand has not fallen on the labor market.
It is likely that many product teams are now recruiting remotely, so there is less demand for freelance orders. Perhaps this is due to the fact that a lot of studios have appeared on the market.
You need to analyze the cause not by the number of orders that you have, but by the number of common projects and responses to them.

Answer 4

It was just the height of the Javascript hype.