Flink Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Apache Flink
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Flink skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Flink 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.81% - 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.85% - 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £381 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - £450
75th Percentile £394 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £388 - £450

All Database & BI Skills
Dorset

Flink falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 26 28 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 21.14% 30.43% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 30
10th Percentile £321 £405 £358
25th Percentile £375 £464 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -37.50% +35.59%
75th Percentile £425 £675 £825
90th Percentile £445 £688 -
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
Median hourly rate £74.68 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +198.72% - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £27.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year +139.63% -32.19% -33.33%

Flink
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Flink relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Flink job vacancy trend in Dorset

Flink
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Flink.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Flink

Flink
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flink within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 31 January 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
Bournemouth - 1 £388 - 1
Flink
South West

Flink
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Java Concurrency
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks