Where and how to get a job as a UX designer (freelance) at Axure Pro and is the field in demand?

Question

Freelance

A familiar colleague has mastered Axure Pro, read books on usability, seen enough video tutorials.
Asks where and how can you work with these skills?
Is such a position in demand, is such a specialist in demand in the market?
If you get a job, how long will it take to work?
What price segment and how much can you earn?
What are the prospects for a UX designer at Axure Pro in Russia and abroad?
In what area is it better to look for work in general: web, desktop, or mobile applications?
Do I need to learn other prototyping tools?
What else can be relevant in this area to find a job and develop?

Answer 1

You missed one simple and, at the same time, important thing:
Axure is, as indicated above, just a tool. A tool without a product vision is meaningless.
What is the point of a person who has learned to move buttons and throw events to them?
Judge for yourself - well, a little.
After all, you need to make a prototype not only after analyzing business processes, the market (if you work for a customer), people, problems, but also to issue a beautiful and concise prototype, understanding what typography, colors on the web, people's behavior are. Knowing only Axure will not achieve this.
Therefore, a little advice from a person who came to UX (with these accusations of yours) is to move into web design. I started as a webmaster in a small studio and riveted sites for myself from scratch on Joomla)
Pros: understanding of technologies, market, problems.
Cons: nerves, because. You will have to work a lot with customers.
Skype interviews are normal, so I eventually moved to St. Petersburg to work.
A counter-question: here is a friend who did all this, and why he could not find an answer to the question whether he is in demand and further down the list? ...

Answer 2

Definitely has no prospects under the condition of freelancing, IMHO!
As a rule, a UI / UX specialist is attracted only for large and serious projects and, in practice, there is no chance to get into such a project from the street.
Let's simulate the situation:
1. In a certain company (not IT) they decided that they need a program/service/website/copy of the Internet.
Possible solutions: a) officially order from the studio; b) entrust the son of an accountant or find one freelancer who will tin a turnkey shit product. In the second case, this is done to save money and space, and there are no funds in this scheme for a UI / UX specialist.
2. A certain company that has a developer (s) in the state decided to make a program / service / website / copy of the Internet.
Possible solutions: a) the design you like is torn off; b) The freelancer draws a picture. There is also no place for a UI/UX specialist.
I am not talking about companies that develop several large projects, and which, for sure, already have analysts, designers, coders, and basic developers, and testers on their staff.
Way out :
1. Learn HTML, CSS, JS, PHP + master graphics programs or find yourself a designer partner and please random customers in the freelance field.
2. Establish a web studio, find and hire specialists, constantly look for customers, competing with other web studios and fighting off dumping freelancers.

Answer 3

globuzer, I read your questions / answers and got the feeling that you are shooting into the air with a shotgun in the hope of killing a deer, or rather your colleague.