Balsamiq Contracts

Balsamiq
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Balsamiq skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Balsamiq over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 580 701
Rank change year-on-year +67 +121 +116
Contract jobs citing Balsamiq 7 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.005% 0.028%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.17% 0.039% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 12
10th Percentile £318 - £414
25th Percentile £400 - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £550 - £588
90th Percentile - - £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 - £455
% change year-on-year - - -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £47.50
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,103 5,181 9,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.89% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,744 3,477 6,339
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £717 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 197 246
10th Percentile £26.92 £32.48 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.53 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £81.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Balsamiq
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Balsamiq as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Balsamiq in the UK

Balsamiq
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Balsamiq.

Daily rate trend for Balsamiq in the UK

Balsamiq
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Balsamiq over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Balsamiq in the UK

Balsamiq
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Balsamiq.

Hourly rate trend for Balsamiq in the UK

Balsamiq
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Balsamiq within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
England - 5 £400 - 4
UK excluding London - 3 £400 - 4
Work from Home +41 2 £431 -4.17% 5
South East - 2 - - 1
London - 2 £369 -
North West - 1 £400 - 1
North of England - 1 £400 - 1

Balsamiq
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (42.86%) InVision
1 3 (42.86%) Sketch
2 2 (28.57%) UXPin
3 1 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (14.29%) Adobe XD
3 1 (14.29%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Axure RP
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Interaction Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Product Owner
2 2 (28.57%) UX Designer
3 1 (14.29%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) Framer.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Graphic Design
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) User Experience
2 6 (85.71%) Wireframes
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
4 4 (57.14%) User Research
4 4 (57.14%) UX Design
5 3 (42.86%) Information Architecture
5 3 (42.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (28.57%) B2B
6 2 (28.57%) B2C
6 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
6 2 (28.57%) Creative Thinking
6 2 (28.57%) Epics
6 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
6 2 (28.57%) Product Management
6 2 (28.57%) Scrum
6 2 (28.57%) SDLC
6 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (28.57%) Sprint Retrospective
6 2 (28.57%) Usability Testing
6 2 (28.57%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (28.57%) QA
3 1 (14.29%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe