I’m an InDesign professional — how can I land a stable remote job?

I’ve been working with Adobe InDesign for several years, primarily on book typesetting and publishing projects rather than general graphic design.

My work includes long-form book layouts, textbooks, bilingual books, Urdu and English typesetting, RTL layouts, paragraph/character styles, tables, footnotes, references, page composition, revisions, and preparing print-ready files. I’m comfortable taking a manuscript and turning it into a properly structured, professionally typeset book.

I also work with both Urdu and English, which has led me to work on projects that can be a little more technically complicated than standard English-only book layouts.

I’ve been doing this as a freelancer through various freelance platforms. The problem is that the income is very irregular. Some months are good, other months are painfully slow, and I’m honestly getting tired of constantly having to look for the next project.

So I’m wondering about something I haven’t really figured out:

Is there a realistic way to turn these skills into a stable remote job?

I’m based in Pakistan, but I’m specifically interested in working remotely for an international publisher, book production company, DTP agency, localization company, design studio, or similar organization.

For those of you who work in publishing/DTP/InDesign:

Are companies actually hiring remote InDesign/typesetting people?

What job titles should I be searching for?

Where do these jobs usually get posted?

Is it better to approach publishers/agencies directly?

What skills or software should I add to become more employable?

And if you’ve personally moved from freelance work into a remote full-time/long-term position, how did you do it?

I’m not necessarily looking for another freelance marketplace. I’d really like to find a more stable, long-term arrangement where I can use the skills I’ve already spent years developing.

I’d appreciate any honest advice from people working in this field.

P.S. Used ChatGPT to help organize and polish this post.