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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 524 579
Rank change year-on-year -68 +55 +143
Contract jobs citing Balsamiq 5 8 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.026% 0.029%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.089% 0.19% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile £356 £319 £503
25th Percentile £357 £348 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £431 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.45% -28.13% +17.07%
75th Percentile £445 £547 £643
90th Percentile £538 £611 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £359 £400 £600
% change year-on-year -10.38% -33.33% +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 5,649 4,184 5,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.83% 13.56% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,853 2,681 3,703
10th Percentile £344 £331 £363
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £627
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 64 212
10th Percentile £34.53 £25.55 £37.75
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.88 £47.96
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.06
90th Percentile £83.00 £79.54 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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

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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 20 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Balsamiq in the UK

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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 4 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 20 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
England -98 4 £359 -16.75% 3
South East -32 2 £359 -36.55%
London -49 2 £388 -16.22% 2
UK excluding London -79 2 £359 -10.38% 1

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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) InVision
1 2 (40.00%) Sketch
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (20.00%) OmniGraffle
2 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (20.00%) UXPin
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Lucidchart
3 1 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (20.00%) Figma
3 1 (20.00%) Google Gemini
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Axure RP
3 1 (20.00%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) International Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Interaction Designer
3 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ADO
2 1 (20.00%) Framer.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Wireframes
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Epics
2 3 (60.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) User Research
2 3 (60.00%) User Stories
2 3 (60.00%) UX Design
3 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Community of Practice
3 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Design Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) EU AI Act
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAI