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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 669 540 554
Rank change year-on-year -129 +14 +75
Contract jobs citing Balsamiq 3 10 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.030% 0.024%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.048% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £405 £298 £482
25th Percentile £413 £313 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -18.14% -5.83%
75th Percentile - £550 £573
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 - £565
% change year-on-year - - -5.83%

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 6,243 5,018 5,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 15.21% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 3,389 3,252
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 111 178
10th Percentile £34.59 £30.75 £27.40
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.50 £50.81
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.70 £87.50 £71.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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
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 8 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 10 September 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
UK excluding London -113 3 £425 - 1
England -121 3 £425 +30.77% 1
Work from Home - 2 £425 - 1
Midlands - 2 £413 -
North West - 1 £425 -
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
North of England - 1 £425 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £425 -

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 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Figma
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Lucidchart
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Business Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Pega Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) OpenAPI
1 2 (66.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Journey Map
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Management
2 2 (66.67%) Impact Mapping
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Map
2 2 (66.67%) Story Mapping
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) User Journey Map
2 2 (66.67%) Wireframes
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Pega