Flink Contracts in England

Apache Flink
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Flink skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Flink over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 443 484 634
Rank change year-on-year +41 +150 +83
Contract jobs citing Flink 42 58 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.16% 0.038%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.91% 0.93% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 52 13
10th Percentile £442 £355 £493
25th Percentile £483 £425 £626
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £469 £725
Median % change year-on-year +14.67% -35.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £613 £519 £738
90th Percentile £675 £615 -
UK median daily rate £538 £463 £725
% change year-on-year +16.22% -36.21% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £72.00
25th Percentile £51.25 - £74.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £78.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £78.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Flink in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Flink in England.

Daily rate trend for Flink in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Flink in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Flink in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Flink in England.

Hourly rate trend for Flink in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flink within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +9 19 £525 +13.51% 31
North of England +26 14 £575 -5.74% 21
Yorkshire +14 13 £600 -1.64% 8
Midlands +24 3 £650 - 17
South West +46 2 £710 +77.50% 10
East Midlands - 2 - - 6
West Midlands +14 1 £650 - 10
East of England - 1 - - 13
North East - 1 £400 - 3
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 24 (57.14%) Apache Spark
2 23 (54.76%) Apache
3 10 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (52.38%) GCP
2 18 (42.86%) AWS
3 13 (30.95%) Amazon S3
4 8 (19.05%) Azure
5 7 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 6 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (11.90%) Serverless
8 3 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.76%) dbt
9 2 (4.76%) GitHub
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (2.38%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (2.38%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (23.81%) Data Lake
3 9 (21.43%) NoSQL
4 8 (19.05%) BigQuery
5 7 (16.67%) Big Data
6 6 (14.29%) Relational Database
7 5 (11.90%) Parquet
8 4 (9.52%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (7.14%) Apache Hive
9 3 (7.14%) Oracle Database
9 3 (7.14%) Power BI
9 3 (7.14%) RDBMS
10 2 (4.76%) Apache Hudi
10 2 (4.76%) DynamoDB
10 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
10 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (4.76%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Git
1 2 (4.76%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.38%) GitLab
General
1 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Banking
3 5 (11.90%) Finance
3 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Legal
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (45.24%) Data Engineer
2 13 (30.95%) Architect
3 6 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 4 (9.52%) AWS Architect
4 4 (9.52%) AWS Data Architect
4 4 (9.52%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) GCP Data Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Lead
5 3 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Data Product Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Developer
6 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Products Support Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Scala Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (66.67%) Kafka
2 12 (28.57%) Apache Beam
3 9 (21.43%) Spark Streaming
4 5 (11.90%) Apache Avro
5 4 (9.52%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (9.52%) JDBC
5 4 (9.52%) PySpark
6 2 (4.76%) JSON
6 2 (4.76%) Keycloak
6 2 (4.76%) Spring
6 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.38%) React
7 1 (2.38%) REST
7 1 (2.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 18 (42.86%) ETL
3 16 (38.10%) Data Modelling
4 12 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 12 (28.57%) DevOps
4 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (23.81%) Data Governance
6 9 (21.43%) Event-Driven
6 9 (21.43%) Visualisation
7 8 (19.05%) CI/CD
7 8 (19.05%) Workflow
8 7 (16.67%) Agile
8 7 (16.67%) Analytics
8 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 7 (16.67%) Data Management
9 6 (14.29%) Data Integration
9 6 (14.29%) Data Lineage
9 6 (14.29%) High Availability
9 6 (14.29%) Workflow Management
10 5 (11.90%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 23 (54.76%) Python
2 21 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (11.90%) Java
3 5 (11.90%) Scala
4 3 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (40.48%) Security Cleared
2 14 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 8 (19.05%) Terraform
3 2 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (2.38%) Grafana
4 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Google
2 7 (16.67%) Databricks
3 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.14%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) Confluent
4 2 (4.76%) IBM