Survey Report: Freelance programmers are really free and profitable?

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In 2015, Freelancer was named the most happy job in China. "Disposable Time", "Workplace freedom" and "high income" are the main reasons people choose to become freelancers. Especially in the rapid development of the internet today, "996" of the work of the normal to people's work and life has brought great pressure, more and more people, especially those related to software development practitioners, want to become a freelancer.

In order to deepen people's understanding of the software development industry freelancer, the Programmer's Inn especially for Beijing, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Sichuan and other more than 10 provinces, municipalities and Special administrative regions of the freelancer did this investigation. The survey report makes a statistical analysis of the age composition, gender ratio, occupation type, income level and life pressure of the freelancer.

Most popular in developed regions

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In 2015, the professional social networking platform, LinkedIn, conducted a freelance survey, which showed that Chinese freelancers accounted for the largest number of large-scale cities. From the results of this survey, in the geographical distribution, software development-related freelancers also have the same attributes.

Freelancers mainly focus on the "Heihe-Tengchong Line" east of the region, which is also the main concentration of China's population, densely populated, economically developed. Especially in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, these developed municipalities and provinces are most favored by freelancers engaged in software development.

For developers who have just started freelancing, there are more opportunities in the first tier cities where they can accumulate resources and develop their own business more quickly. At the same time, they can find jobs faster if they choose to give up their freelance jobs.

The number of males is greater, and the proportion of female singles is larger

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In freelancers, the number of males far exceeds the number of females. Such a big difference may be related to the software development industry. Overall, the size of the IT industry, small to software development, the number of male practitioners is far greater than the number of women. In addition, more than 60% per cent of female practitioners are single, compared with less than 50% of male singles.

Young people are the main force, the older the more "not popular"

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From the survey results, the software development industry, the Freelancer group to the majority of young people, more than 70% to 30 years of age. About 25% of the population age is between 30-40 years old. The proportion of the population over 40 years of age is less than 5%. Overall, the "age, the number of the less" trend.

The largest number of designers, the main way to connect in the platform

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Designers, back-end engineers and mobile developers are the main groups of freelancers in the entire software development industry, accounting for about 70% of them, including designer UI designers, 46.81% women and 53.19% males. Second, product managers and front-end engineers, each accounted for about 9%. 7.65% of the other groups are mainly all-stack engineers, sales and project management.

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In the software industry, more than half of freelancers are earning money by receiving orders on major platforms. 14.06% of freelancers are self-employed by developing small projects, and only about 3% of them specialize in technical articles and technical training. The remaining 28% of freelancers ' income comes mainly from the development, operation of personal websites, and the adoption of projects through friend relationships.

The length of the work varies and the income is substantial

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Freelancers can arrange their work time, and the hours of work are different every day. According to the survey results, 30% of freelancers work less than 6 hours a day, and 50% of freelancers work 6-10 hours a day. However, nearly 20% of the group work more than 10 hours a day. As you can see, as a freelancer, there is no easy way to say it.

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30% of the group's annual income is less than 80,000, and 50% of the group's annual income is less than 120,000, so not everyone can earn a monthly income from a freelance career. But it is undeniable that, relatively, there are a large part of the group to achieve higher incomes, more than 30% of the freelancer annual salary of more than 200,000, of which about 10% of the annual salary of more than 300,000.

Life is under pressure, still keep hope

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Survey results show that in the software development industry freelancers, only 19.7% of the group through a free career to obtain a satisfactory income, the face of life without pressure. More than 50% of freelancers say that while freelancing has brought some pressure on their lives, they can afford it. In addition, more than 20% of the population still feel the pressure of life is very high.

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In the face of life pressure, 46.97% of the group will continue to be a freelancer, while 16.67% of the population said to consider abandoning the freelance profession. More than 1/3 of freelancers are on the sidelines on whether to pursue a freelance career, depending on the situation.

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Although more than 80% of freelancers feel a certain life pressure as a freelancer, but this does not affect people's optimistic about freelancing, more than 60% of the groups think that freelancing is a trend, only about 12% feel free career no future. In addition, there are one-fourth of free career prospects without a clear understanding of the freedom of the profession is good or bad itself is not clear.

Summarize

In our country, the economically developed city is engaged in the software development profession Freelancer's main gathering place, the younger is the freelancer's obvious characteristic. The single problem of the Freelancer community, especially the female practitioner, deserves attention.

Designers, back-end engineers, and mobile developers are the main groups of freelancers who are the primary means of making money on the big platforms.

"Freelance work" is one of the labels that people post to freelancers, but judging from the findings, long-term work is hard to avoid, despite the varying lengths of freelance work. In addition, in the software development industry, the monthly income is not high, from this point of view, the software industry freelancer is difficult to define as "high-income people."

Most groups are optimistic about the prospect of a freelance career, but in the face of enormous pressure to live, many people are unsure about whether to stick to freelancing.

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Survey Report: Freelance programmers are really free and profitable?