Balsamiq Contract Job Trends

Balsamiq
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Balsamiq skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 588 536 588
Rank change year-on-year -52 +52 +182
Contract jobs citing Balsamiq 6 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.031% 0.031%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.11% 0.23% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £333 £315 £443
25th Percentile £363 £325 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £451 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.13% -24.79% +17.07%
75th Percentile £550 £592 £635
90th Percentile £580 £627 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate - £451 £600
% change year-on-year - -24.79% +17.07%

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 5,515 4,755 5,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.13% 13.21% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,820 2,972 4,091
10th Percentile £331 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £542
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.36% -2.43%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £514
% change year-on-year -2.06% -5.69% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 116 223
10th Percentile £30.40 £36.90 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.75 £49.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.04 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £89.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

Balsamiq
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Balsamiq job vacancy trend in the UK

Balsamiq
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Balsamiq.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Balsamiq

Balsamiq
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Balsamiq in the UK

Balsamiq
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Balsamiq.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Balsamiq

Balsamiq
Top 2 Contract Job 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 6 December 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
London 0 4 £375 -22.28% 3
England -20 4 £375 -16.90% 10

Balsamiq
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) InVision
1 5 (83.33%) Sketch
2 3 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (50.00%) OmniGraffle
2 3 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 3 (50.00%) UXPin
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Figma
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Axure RP
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Front Office
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Designer
2 3 (50.00%) Interaction Designer
2 3 (50.00%) UX Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) KYC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Framer.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (33.33%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) User Experience
1 6 (100.00%) UX Design
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Interaction Design
2 3 (50.00%) Wireframes
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) Information Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Storyboarding
3 2 (33.33%) Task Model
3 2 (33.33%) User Research
3 2 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Information Security
4 1 (16.67%) Intelligent Automation
4 1 (16.67%) KYC
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility