Is it possible to make money on freelancing only UX and design (without photoshop)?

Question

Freelance

How realistic is it to make money on freelancing (both foreign and Russian) in the field of usability and interface design, development of landing pages, concepts and site structures, without delving into and touching the intricacies of graphics (without drawing the final site)?
Is it really possible to work like this?
Of course, in the ideal case, it is better to know both Photoshop and Illustrator and all sorts of sketchups. What price tag can you expect on average if you only deal with usability? Is it possible to work in this topic, area, without special knowledge in Photoshop? What advice can you give, who has experience in this area of ​​work: prototyping, design, usability and all that in terms of interfaces for sites, applications, landing pages, information systems ??? Thanks
But, is it necessary to spread out, maybe the designer should be engaged in design, and the designer should be engaged in design (just usability, working out the concept of the site, interfaces, etc.).
What tools should a designer use? What do you use?
What tools are in demand in the foreign market, what is in demand?

Answer 1

For some reason I think you already know the answer.
A question from the field "what is the chance to win the lottery in xxx". Just count the number of vacancies and the number of people who fit them.
If 10 vacancies and 10 people - good, if 1 vacancy and 10 people - nine in flight, but yes, this one will have a real and possibly good salary.
A good UI designer IMHO doesn't really care about websites at all, because few websites are so cool that they already need usability. This applies more to corporate orders, fat clients, and full-fledged applications. If we take the vast majority of sites that are not expensive portals, then the issue of usability is not so acute there, and there is little money, therefore it is easier to have one person who is a master of all trades than a separate specialist for each item.

Answer 2

You will look for a very long time, both on foreign and on Russian exchanges.
There are very few such offers. Everyone needs UI/UX.
A separate UX has only now begun to be required in Russia offline in large companies in large cities. Freelancing won't come soon.
You can go to UX from related freelancing professions. Those. find a good customer in another (adjacent) specialization, establish yourself and start pushing as UX again. Of the related ones, these are web analytics, design, front-end, and marketing.
You can also join English-speaking and Russian-speaking communities and try to make connections there. Be active in blogs, forums to get noticed.

Answer 3

on good landings, guys raise a lot of money,
but it’s very difficult to make it