27 Places to Find Web Design Jobs
By Steven Snell | Published January 28th, 2009 in Business/FreelanceWith the current economic conditions many people in just about every industry are looking for jobs. Web designers and web developers have the advantage of having some great resources to help them find work. Last week the DesignM.ag job board was launched to give employers a free place to post jobs, and to help designers and developers find the right opportunities.
In addition to our job board, there are a number of other niche specific places to look for work. In this post we’ll take a look at 27 of the options for designers and developers. Whether you’re looking for full-time work, freelance gigs, or just part-time work, there are opportunities out there.
Sensational Jobs
Sensational Jobs offers full-time and freelance listings for web designers and professionals. The site includes live search as well as custom RSS and email alerts.
DesignM.ag Job Board
Our own job board is less than a week old, so there is admittedly not much posted there yet. But if you want to stay up-to-date as new jobs are posted, you can subscribe to the job board’s RSS feed.
Smashing Jobs
Smashing Magazine’s job board has a large selection of jobs posted. There is a good variety of freelance and full-time jobs, as well as both design and development.
37signals
37signals also has an active job board. Theirs has more postings for development jobs, but still a goo number of design jobs.
Authentic Jobs
Authentic Jobs focuses exclusively on design and development, and there are a good number of listings.
Coroflot
Coroflot has an active job board that includes jobs in all different types of design.
Xemion
Xemion’s Web Design and Development Jobs page is an aggregator that displays recent job listings from a number of different job boards.
CrunchBoard
CrunchBoard focuses on tech jobs, including web development.
ReadWriteWeb
Almost all of the jobs posted at ReadWriteWeb (which is currently more than 100 jobs) are in the programming/development category.
Ars Technica
Ars Technica includes a large selection of IT and programming jobs, with a smaller, but still decent, number of jobs in the design category.
Ajaxian
Ajaxian has a good selection of development jobs, but very little for design.
Slashdot
Slashdot has another tech-focused job board that includes a number of development jobs. However, there are not as many listings as most of the others mentioned so far.
Wired Job Board
Wired has a popular job board with a lot of listings in development and programming.
Mashable Jobs
Mashable’s job board includes web development, although there is not much in the area of design.
Creative Hotlist
Creative Hotlist is a rather large job board that includes jobs in a variety of creative fields, including design and development.
Favourite Website Awards Job Board
The job board at Favourite Website Awards includes a number of jobs in both design and development.
design:related
design:related has a somewhat active job board that includes jobs in design of all kinds.
AIGA
AIGA has a good number of jobs listed, mostly for web and graphic design.
Freelance Switch
Freelance Switch includes web design and development along with other types of freelance opportunities. Users must pay $7 per month to get access to contact information for those posting the jobs.
CenterNetworks
CenterNetworks has a good mix of design and development, but not as many jobs as some other boards.
Just Tech Jobs
Just Tech Jobs lists jobs from over 100 different websites.
Zend
Zend is a good place to look for PHP work, but there not all that many jobs listed.
Jobs on the Wall
Jobs on the Wall is another new job board from a leading design blog. There are not a lot of jobs posted, but the quality is good and this job board is likely to grow.
Behance Network JobList
The Behance Network has a fairly small job board that includes design jobs.
Krop
Krop is a large job board for design and development. Its listings are displayed on a number of other websites and blogs.
Highend Careers
Highend Careers includes design and development, among other things.
Freshwebjobs
Freshwebjobs includes design and development, but very few jobs have been posted recently.
PeoplePerHour helps companies find freelancers in a variety of industries, including web design and development.
PureDesignResources
PureDesignResources is an aggregator and includes a column that shows listings from several job boards.
ProgrammerMeetDesigner
ProgrammerMeetDesigner is a site for collaboration among designers and programmers/developers.
“Looking to Hire” from the SitePoint Marketplace
The SitePoint Marketplace includes a section called “Looking to Hire” that includes opportunities for designers and developers.
What a great list! That’s what I was looking for yesterday and you just wrote it today. You must have been reading in my mind.
Great list of job boards. I have used a lot of them and even gotten some pretty quality work from a few like, FreelanceSwitch and AuthenticJobs. Although, the most work I think I have gotten is from social networks and just interacting on them. Some of my biggest clients found me on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.
Always good to network, it is a lot more than entertainment when you are a freelance and even when you are looking for a full time gig.
http://twitter.com/dustinbrewer/
Very helpful, thank you.
Very nice collection of links, we have been to some of these websites and would love to see the rest. There is one site I would want to add to this list and that is 99designs.com. It is unique in its own style and works very well for both designers and people looking to get something designed by multiple designers. Its crowd sourcing.
Thank you for your sharing, i looking forward to hiring new job.
This article is helpful for me
Maybe i’ll try something new. Many usefull job sources – thanks a lot!
It looks like developers are more in demand. Could it be that more developers now have day-to-day design skills or is it that designers are becoming programmers?
Either way, it is no longer clear cut so if you are a designer, getting some programming chops sounds like a good idea. There is a MASSIVE amount of resources to get programming anyway and a cource in programming would not go astray.
aris,
It definitely seems from these sites that there is more demand for developers. My guess is because developers tend to be more specialized. Skilled graphic designers can design all different types of sites, but developers may need very specific skills for a certain job.
You should never underestimate the power of craigslist!
Aetoric Design,
True, but the purpose of this list was to point out niche-specific resources aside from the big sites like Craigslist, Monster, and Career Builder.
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No Dice.com on list? Hmmmmm
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Awesome list. Much appreciated
David,
I missed that one, sorry. Thanks for pointing that out.
nice useful resources thanks..
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Woh, so many job sites to choose from. This is a great resource for web design jobs.
These 27 places really rock.
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I have not been having much luck with craigslist, I will have to give these a try. Most of my work comes from word of mouth.
Thanks!
good list, more then 10 are new for me, i hope i can get some freelancer work/
Great Job List. I already visit most of your Job Listed Website. Looking of some outsource work. Thanks for your website List. raj – skype ID – Rajbhar.dipak
Thank you very much for this marvellous list! I hope with this sites I can get more work!
Thanks for sharing this list. Very helpful.
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Thanks for the list. How about a how to find web design jobs outside of jobboards post?
You got a great list here.
The opportunity for online jobs are greatly increasing due to the demands of high productivity at a lower cost. Most companies outsource their job requirements in order to meet up with the viewers’ satisfaction and to ensure that the customers are well provided with quality services online.
What about The Hidden Network?
Are you kidding me?!? I just missed your post by a month with the release of Your Web Job – http://yourwebjob.com
Oh well…maybe next time and we’ll have 28 Places to Find Web Design Jobs.
Tony
http://www.crowdspring.com/ – another really good web design ONLY (not coding) place
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also simple but effective – and highly releative for the uk http://www.webdesignjobs.co.uk
Found http://www.jobplot.co.uk to be pretty good as well
You might consider adding DesignBay to the list next time:
http://jobs.designbay.com
I wish there was a Canadian specific site like these. Seems like most of them target the US or European markets.
Either way, good list.
This is what a web designer should bookmark and think about first whenever he needs a job.
I have been looking for job boards lately, thanks!
Also, the FreelanceSwitch job board is great. I recommend it to any freelancer.
I have to give this list the thumbs up, have hit up almost all of these sites in 1 day.
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Great list! Very helpful!
Although, FreshWebJobs is currently auctioning off it’s domain… LOL!
Tyler,
That’s disappointing about FreshWebJobs. Hopefully someone buys it and does something good with it.
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WHOA I had no idea there were so many web design job boards! I think I only have 3-4 of these currently bookmarked. Best round up post ever, thanks!
Very helpful post as I’m a new website designer looking for work!
Thank you!
http://www.Webbyslist.com
Another great Web job site that aggregates most of the major job sites into a single (very long) list. Tons of web jobs here…
http://www.technojobs.co.uk/jobs/web-designer – over 200 live web design jobs here mainly from the UK. employer and agency jobs.
Freshwebjobs.com is back up and running with the same design and all, so not much has changed. However, if anyone has any suggestions for what they would like to see on the site let us know, http://www.freshwebjobs.com/contact.
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Awesome list!
I recently started out as a freelance web designer so this helps a lot to find work (which is my main problem right now). At least until I start getting referred 
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I also found this site (http://www.ineedapricequote.com). Take a look at it if you get a chance and let me know if it’s something I should use.
Thanks!
Not such a great list! most people should know these places if they really want to get a job
Jayanta,
There are a lot of people out there that aren’t familiar with more than a few of these.
While most of these are job boards, it can take a lot of time to browse all these so I just use freelance job aggregators like http://www.webfreelancing.com, makes it easy to find jobs across sites for categories I’m best at.. like for Wordpress Jobs I just click the Wordpress category and get a list of lots of freelance wordpress stuff, etc. Or you can just go to a more general category. There’s lots of aggregators out there, some search different sites. Check them out!!
Wow ! a lot of job list over there !!
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Here’s a new one: http://www.designmoves.co.uk
The site has more of a ‘design’ focus than web specifically, caters predominantly for the UK market and looks the business!