Apache Flink
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Flink skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Flink over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 853 676 725
Rank change year-on-year -177 +49 +73
Permanent jobs citing Flink 61 305 559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.29% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.34% 1.38% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 36 40 187
10th Percentile £63,750 £54,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,813 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.73% +13.46% -34.01%
75th Percentile £127,500 £83,125 £93,750
90th Percentile £155,665 £96,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% +19.05%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Flink is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,114 22,080 43,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.39% 21.34% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 12,551 13,783 21,426
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £79,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%

Flink
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Flink as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Flink in the UK

Flink
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Flink.

Salary trend for Flink in the UK

Flink
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Flink over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Flink in the UK

Flink
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Flink within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -137 44 £92,500 +23.33% 11
London -101 32 £92,500 +23.33% 8
UK excluding London -5 27 £75,000 +7.14% 5
Work from Home +84 25 £91,250 +19.67% 8
Scotland -61 11 - -
South West -23 8 £122,119 +68.44%
North of England +45 4 £67,500 -3.57%
Northern Ireland - 4 £72,500 - 2
North West +12 3 £67,500 -3.57%
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Flink
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 44 (72.13%) Apache Spark
2 40 (65.57%) Apache
3 14 (22.95%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.28%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (3.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (57.38%) AWS
2 21 (34.43%) GCP
3 16 (26.23%) Azure
4 9 (14.75%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (13.11%) Amazon Kinesis
5 8 (13.11%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (13.11%) GitHub
5 8 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (13.11%) Serverless
6 7 (11.48%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.20%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.56%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (4.92%) CloudFront
10 2 (3.28%) MinIO
10 2 (3.28%) OpenShift
10 2 (3.28%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (57.38%) Big Data
2 22 (36.07%) Hadoop
3 20 (32.79%) Data Lake
3 20 (32.79%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (24.59%) NoSQL
4 15 (24.59%) Relational Database
5 12 (19.67%) BigQuery
6 10 (16.39%) Apache Hive
6 10 (16.39%) SQL Server
7 8 (13.11%) Parquet
8 6 (9.84%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (8.20%) Power BI
10 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (6.56%) Tableau
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (3.28%) Apache Kudu
11 2 (3.28%) Apache Pinot
11 2 (3.28%) Bigtable
11 2 (3.28%) Neo4j
11 2 (3.28%) Presto
Development Applications
1 12 (19.67%) Git
2 9 (14.75%) Jenkins
3 8 (13.11%) CircleCI
3 8 (13.11%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.64%) JUnit
4 1 (1.64%) Mockito
General
1 36 (59.02%) Finance
2 22 (36.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (24.59%) Banking
4 12 (19.67%) Law
5 11 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (18.03%) Social Skills
6 10 (16.39%) Marketing
7 8 (13.11%) Retail Banking
8 4 (6.56%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.28%) Games
9 2 (3.28%) Legal
10 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.64%) Front Office
10 1 (1.64%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 16 (26.23%) Data Engineer
1 16 (26.23%) Senior
2 13 (21.31%) Software Engineer
3 10 (16.39%) Software Engineering Director
4 9 (14.75%) Developer
5 8 (13.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Lead
7 6 (9.84%) Head of Engineering
7 6 (9.84%) Python Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Java Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Senior Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Architect
10 3 (4.92%) Data Analytics Director
10 3 (4.92%) Data Architect
11 2 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
11 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (73.77%) Kafka
2 19 (31.15%) Apache Beam
3 16 (26.23%) AngularJS
3 16 (26.23%) React
3 16 (26.23%) Spring
3 16 (26.23%) Spring Boot
4 8 (13.11%) Apache Avro
4 8 (13.11%) PySpark
4 8 (13.11%) Spark Streaming
5 6 (9.84%) CSS
5 6 (9.84%) HTML
6 5 (8.20%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (6.56%) Django
7 4 (6.56%) Node.js
7 4 (6.56%) RESTful
8 3 (4.92%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (3.28%) Vue
10 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (1.64%) Flask
10 1 (1.64%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (32.79%) Cloud Native
2 13 (21.31%) Data Structures
2 13 (21.31%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (16.39%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (14.75%) Algorithms
4 9 (14.75%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (13.11%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.28%) Cyberattack
7 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
7 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.64%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (68.85%) Software Engineering
2 28 (45.90%) Data Modelling
3 26 (42.62%) CI/CD
3 26 (42.62%) Data Engineering
4 25 (40.98%) Machine Learning
5 22 (36.07%) Agile
6 19 (31.15%) Artificial Intelligence
6 19 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (29.51%) Continuous Delivery
7 18 (29.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (29.51%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (27.87%) Event-Driven
9 16 (26.23%) Operational Stability
10 15 (24.59%) DevOps
11 14 (22.95%) Analytics
11 14 (22.95%) Containerisation
11 14 (22.95%) Decision-Making
12 12 (19.67%) ETL
13 11 (18.03%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (18.03%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 48 (78.69%) Python
2 45 (73.77%) Java
3 32 (52.46%) SQL
4 22 (36.07%) Scala
5 13 (21.31%) Go
6 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
7 6 (9.84%) C#
8 5 (8.20%) VBA
9 2 (3.28%) Bash
9 2 (3.28%) F#
9 2 (3.28%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.64%) C++
10 1 (1.64%) R
10 1 (1.64%) Rust
10 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Degree
2 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 19 (31.15%) Docker
2 8 (13.11%) HDFS
3 2 (3.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 27 (44.26%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.11%) Terraform
3 3 (4.92%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.28%) Argo
4 2 (3.28%) Oozie
5 1 (1.64%) Ansible
5 1 (1.64%) Kibana
5 1 (1.64%) logstash
5 1 (1.64%) Puppet
5 1 (1.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 18 (29.51%) Databricks
2 10 (16.39%) Oracle
2 10 (16.39%) Teradata
3 8 (13.11%) Cloudera
4 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.28%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.64%) Confluent
6 1 (1.64%) Dell
6 1 (1.64%) Google
6 1 (1.64%) StreamSets