Is the market for UX/UI designers full?

Question

Career in IT

Looking through the Ukrainian boards with vacancies djinni and dou noticed interesting numbers.

According to djinni statistics - 3700 designers left their resumes and on average these applications receive 1.3 responses per person.
While 17 designers on average respond to 1 vacancy from companies.

Based on these numbers, you can understand that approximately 1 out of 10-15 designers gets a job (but this is not accurate).

The situation with developers is radically different. According to their statistics, the opposite is true - recruiters leave an average of 15 offers for 1 developer.

What do these numbers really mean? There are too many designers, but not enough work, or are most of these people students after 2-month courses? And why such a hype around developers.

I believe that in the CIS countries the situation is the same in this regard, please share your opinion)

Answer 1

I think everything is much simpler.
As in any IT profession - at the first level (juniors), everything is very tight, for each employer there are 200 responses from juniors, at the second level (middles), the employer already starts running after the programmer, at the third level everything is very bad - the market is almost empty (there are very few good seniors, and if there are - at first they are looking for their place in the sun - if they haven’t burned out yet)
I think the same problem with designers, there are very few good designers with 5-6+ years of experience, because besides that to just draw in figma, or adobe products, you need to be great at analytics and product vision, and not just redraw designs from behance.

Answer 2

There are too many designers, but not enough work, or are most of these people students after 2-month courses?

Or
the Market decided everything. If there is a shortage of programmers and an overabundance of designers, then this indicates the laboriousness of training the first and second, which means the number of specialists on the market.

Answer 3

Two reasons, and quite simple ones. 

• Low entry threshold​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
  
• Low need
  

Regarding the difference with programmers, global digitalization has required more technical strength, so many employers simply turn a blind eye to insufficient qualifications. Any digital product always requires more technical than creative power. 
Also, the lack of clear criteria that would determine a quality candidate. Good designers don't hang out on stock exchanges, and work experience isn't a determinant. Therefore, for hr it becomes a real challenge. 
The numbers only show that people are chasing trends in the hope that they will fly into IT with the highest available skills. It is worth disappointing them, it is not so.