Balsamiq Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Balsamiq
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Balsamiq skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 98 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing Balsamiq 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.12% 0.077% -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.22% 0.59% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £355 £558 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £565 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.55% - -
75th Percentile £362 £573 -
90th Percentile £363 - -
South East median daily rate £359 £565 -
% change year-on-year -36.55% - -

All Development Application Skills
Berkshire

Balsamiq falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 164 169 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.84% 13.08% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 90 133
10th Percentile £350 £350 £391
25th Percentile £401 £409 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +22.45%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £638
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 0
10th Percentile £77.80 £51.15 -
25th Percentile £82.00 £55.87 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £56.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.60% - -
75th Percentile £100.00 £57.62 -
90th Percentile £103.30 £71.05 -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £61.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.81% +6.47%

Balsamiq
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Balsamiq relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Balsamiq job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Balsamiq
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Balsamiq.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Balsamiq

Balsamiq
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Balsamiq within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham -30 2 £359 -36.55%
Balsamiq
South East

Balsamiq
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Lucidchart
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 2 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Design Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Epics
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) User Research
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
1 2 (100.00%) Wireframes
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared