Design skill
Illustration jobs
Drawing original imagery to a brief, by hand or digitally. Distinct from graphic design: illustration makes the picture, design arranges it. Below: the 5 occupations it unlocks on this board, live counts included, and the skills that show up beside it in real postings.
What Illustration unlocks
Occupations whose postings name this skill, from the adjacency data the instrument runs on. Counts are live board inventory, refreshed nightly.
| Occupation | Live roles | More |
|---|---|---|
| Graphic Designer | 546 | salary |
| Motion Designer | 154 | salary |
| Brand Designer | 85 | salary |
| Instructional Designer | 66 | salary |
| Illustrator | 16 | , |
Named beside it
Co-occurrence measured over 28,628 postings: how often each skill appears in the same posting as Illustration.
- Photoshoptogether in 8
- Typographytogether in 8
- Photographytogether in 5
- Motion Designtogether in 17
- Unreal Enginetogether in 9
- Video Editingtogether in 4
Quick answers
What is Illustration?
Drawing original imagery to a brief, by hand or digitally. Distinct from graphic design: illustration makes the picture, design arranges it. On our board Illustration counts as a design skill, and we pull it straight from the text of live postings every night, so the numbers on this page are what employers are asking for right now. Every skill, defined in plain language: the glossary.
How many jobs ask for Illustration?
Quite a few. Right now 867 open roles on our board sit in the 5 occupations where Illustration shows up in postings. The biggest of those is Graphic Designer, with 546 open roles today.
What skills pair with Illustration?
Measured over 28,628 postings, the skills most often named beside Illustration are Photoshop (together in 8), Typography (together in 8), Photography (together in 5).
Skills are extracted from posting text by the nightly scrape and mapped to occupations through the same lexicon the career instrument uses. A skill page exists only while enough live roles are reachable through it; counts are inventory, never padding.