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Adobe InDesign

Skill in demand · Lightcast

Adobe InDesign is a specialized skill in the Lightcast Open Skills taxonomy — the vocabulary employers use to describe what work requires. It maps to 38 occupations that together employ about 9,821,180 workers, with a median wage of $60,930. Its reach across the occupation map is moderate. The occupations that use it sit, on average, at the 68th percentile of AI task-exposure ( high) — a measure of how much the work overlaps with what AI can do, not of the skill's value. See where every skill sits.

This page is built from a crosswalk that maps each occupation's O*NET knowledge, skill, and ability requirements to the named Lightcast skill — it reflects which jobs require the skill, not a direct count of job postings. Employment and pay are BLS OEWS national figures for the occupations, not for the skill itself.

Occupations that need this skill

Occupations whose O*NET requirements map to Adobe InDesign, ranked by employment. Wage and employment are BLS OEWS (national, cross-industry, May 2024).

Occupation Workers Median pay
Retail Salespersons 3,800,250 $34,580
Office Clerks, General 2,510,550 $43,630
Project Management Specialists 1,006,160 $100,750
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks 385,000 $57,770
Public Relations Specialists 280,590 $69,780
Graphic Designers 214,260 $61,300
Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers 192,480 $37,350
Helpers--Production Workers 167,490 $38,220
Printing Press Operators 145,110 $45,160
Architects, Except Landscape and Naval 111,140 $96,690
Advertising Sales Agents 97,470 $61,460
Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 96,950 $49,390
Public Relations Managers 76,060 $138,520
Library Technicians 73,770 $39,970
Interior Designers 69,580 $63,490
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing 63,350 $40,440
Technical Writers 55,530 $91,670
Photographers 51,230 $42,520
Art Directors 50,370 $111,040
Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers 47,800 $72,270
News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists 41,550 $60,280
Brokerage Clerks 40,090 $62,940
Social Science Research Assistants 32,940 $58,040
Film and Video Editors 28,860 $70,980
Office Machine Operators, Except Computer 24,740 $39,020
Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film 24,460 $68,810
Prepress Technicians and Workers 23,070 $47,300
Special Effects Artists and Animators 21,280 $99,800
Fashion Designers 20,910 $80,690
Landscape Architects 19,580 $79,660
Museum Technicians and Conservators 13,070 $47,460
Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators 10,000 $60,560
Archivists 7,050 $61,570
Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators 5,550 $40,100
Proofreaders and Copy Markers 5,160 $49,210
Historians 3,140 $74,050
Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers 2,860 $67,670
Animal Breeders 1,730 $52,000
Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 38 occupations in occupations that need Adobe InDesign. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Helpers--Production Workers Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing Animal Breeders Printing Press Operators Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers Museum Technicians and Conservators Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators Library Technicians Retail Salespersons Special Effects Artists and Animators Fashion Designers Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks Art Directors Public Relations Managers Interior Designers Historians Technical Writers Proofreaders and Copy Markers AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that need Adobe InDesign, by AI task-overlap and median pay

How this skill maps to occupations

The O*NET attribute types that bridge to this Lightcast skill, and how many of the mapped occupations each accounts for.

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Datasets behind this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Adobe InDesign." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/demand-skills/adobe-indesign

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Adobe InDesign. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/demand-skills/adobe-indesign

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-adobe-indesign,
  title  = {Adobe InDesign},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/demand-skills/adobe-indesign}
}

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