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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Flink 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 2.94% - 1.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.79% - 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £360
25th Percentile - - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £400
75th Percentile £361 - £425
90th Percentile £381 - £440
South West median daily rate £350 £710 £400
% change year-on-year -50.70% +77.50% -47.28%

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 38 14 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 18.63% 15.38% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 15
10th Percentile £350 £300 £398
25th Percentile £365 £363 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% -2.86% -18.60%
75th Percentile £410 £588 £681
90th Percentile £825 £750 £825
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £48.59 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.68 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +198.72% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £39.75 £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.21% +75.00% -39.39%

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 5 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
Bournemouth - 6 £350 - 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 6 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) Datadog
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (83.33%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Kafka
1 6 (100.00%) RESTful
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (83.33%) Java Concurrency
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
2 5 (83.33%) Concurrent Programming
2 5 (83.33%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Databricks