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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 515 583
Rank change year-on-year -125 +68 +87
Contract jobs citing Balsamiq 5 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.024% 0.009%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.086% 0.17% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile £355 £331 £472
25th Percentile £356 £414 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £506 £520
Median % change year-on-year -29.09% -2.64% +9.47%
75th Percentile £382 £550 £551
90th Percentile £393 - £564
UK excluding London median daily rate £359 £400 £565
% change year-on-year -10.25% -29.20% +24.18%

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 5,833 4,205 5,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.92% 14.59% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,790 2,805 3,443
10th Percentile £350 £340 £350
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 75 221
10th Percentile £35.00 £20.85 £26.24
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.21 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.78 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +5.69%

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 6 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 4 June 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 -114 5 £359 -10.25%
UK excluding London -100 4 £359 -10.25%
Midlands - 2 £400 -
South East - 2 £359 -
West Midlands - 2 £400 -
London -73 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
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Figma
3 2 (40.00%) Lucidchart
4 1 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (20.00%) Google Gemini
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Front Office
1 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (20.00%) International Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
1 5 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Pega Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ADO
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) User Stories
2 4 (80.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Epics
2 4 (80.00%) Wireframes
3 3 (60.00%) Backlog Management
3 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) BDD
4 2 (40.00%) BPMN
4 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (40.00%) Design Thinking
4 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (40.00%) User Research
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) EU AI Act
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Pega
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI