Balsamiq Contract Job Trends

Balsamiq
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Balsamiq skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 550 633
Rank change year-on-year -8 +83 +179
Contract jobs citing Balsamiq 10 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.023% 0.037%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.20% 0.18% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 14
10th Percentile £298 £482 £413
25th Percentile £313 £510 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -5.83% +33.33%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £633
90th Percentile - - £650
UK excluding London median daily rate - £565 £600
% change year-on-year - -5.83% +20.00%

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 5,003 5,115 6,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 13.28% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,364 3,269 4,608
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 176 245
10th Percentile £31.28 £28.62 £46.00
25th Percentile £50.75 £51.19 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £87.05 £72.81 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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
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 18 September 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 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 18 September 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 +24 5 £325 -31.58% 4
England +14 5 £325 -42.48% 5
UK excluding London -10 1 - - 4
Scotland - 1 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) Drupal
1 1 (10.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (10.00%) Umbraco
1 1 (10.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (80.00%) InVision
1 8 (80.00%) Sketch
2 4 (40.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (40.00%) OmniGraffle
2 4 (40.00%) Photoshop
2 4 (40.00%) UXPin
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Figma
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Axure RP
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Front Office
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Publishing
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Designer
2 4 (40.00%) Interaction Designer
2 4 (40.00%) UX Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Content Designer
3 1 (10.00%) KYC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Framer.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (40.00%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) User Experience
1 9 (90.00%) UX Design
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Wireframes
3 4 (40.00%) Information Architecture
3 4 (40.00%) Interaction Design
3 4 (40.00%) Storyboarding
3 4 (40.00%) Task Model
3 4 (40.00%) User Research
3 4 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (30.00%) CRM
5 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
6 1 (10.00%) Backlog Management
6 1 (10.00%) Content Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (10.00%) DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Intelligent Automation
6 1 (10.00%) KYC
6 1 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (10.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility