Flink Contract Job Trends in England

Apache Flink
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Flink skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 514 564
Rank change year-on-year +29 +50 +142
Contract jobs citing Flink 27 14 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.097% 0.043% 0.062%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.54% 0.23% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 18
10th Percentile £425 £395 £459
25th Percentile £512 £481 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -12.50%
75th Percentile £662 £738 £692
90th Percentile £738 £851 £721
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile - - £58.24
25th Percentile £51.25 - £74.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £78.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £84.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
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 5,029 6,003 7,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.10% 18.23% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,465 4,163 4,959
10th Percentile £335 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £666
90th Percentile £750 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £545
% change year-on-year -6.19% -2.20% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 81 140
10th Percentile £21.23 £17.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £29.33 £21.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -31.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.22%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Flink

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Flink in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Flink in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Flink.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Flink

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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 18 September 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
North of England -6 12 £550 -10.20% 3
London +25 11 £525 -19.79% 12
Yorkshire -7 11 £575 - 1
South West +27 2 £710 +102.86%
East of England - 1 - -
North East - 1 £400 -
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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 21 (77.78%) Apache Spark
2 9 (33.33%) Apache
3 3 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) GCP
2 9 (33.33%) AWS
3 8 (29.63%) Amazon S3
4 3 (11.11%) Azure
4 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.70%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.70%) Dagster
6 1 (3.70%) Prefect
6 1 (3.70%) Serverless
6 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) NoSQL
2 7 (25.93%) MongoDB
3 4 (14.81%) BigQuery
3 4 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (11.11%) Apache Hive
4 3 (11.11%) Big Data
4 3 (11.11%) Parquet
4 3 (11.11%) Power BI
4 3 (11.11%) RDBMS
4 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (7.41%) Power Query
5 2 (7.41%) PowerPivot
6 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) MLflow
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Architect
1 10 (37.04%) Data Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Kafka Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) GCP Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Data Architect
5 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Kafka Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.70%) GCP Architect
6 1 (3.70%) GCP Data Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Lead
6 1 (3.70%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (66.67%) Kafka
2 14 (51.85%) Apache Beam
3 11 (40.74%) Spark Streaming
4 7 (25.93%) JDBC
5 3 (11.11%) Apache Avro
5 3 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 3 (11.11%) JWT
5 3 (11.11%) OAuth
5 3 (11.11%) RESTful
6 2 (7.41%) REST
6 2 (7.41%) Spring
6 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
7 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.70%) Keycloak
7 1 (3.70%) React
7 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.70%) Data Fabric
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (55.56%) DevOps
3 13 (48.15%) Event-Driven
4 11 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (29.63%) High Availability
6 7 (25.93%) Data Ingestion
6 7 (25.93%) Decision-Making
6 7 (25.93%) ETL
7 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 6 (22.22%) Data Modelling
8 5 (18.52%) Analytics
8 5 (18.52%) Machine Learning
9 4 (14.81%) Data Engineering
9 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 4 (14.81%) Visualisation
10 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
10 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
10 3 (11.11%) Data Encryption
10 3 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
10 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) Java
3 5 (18.52%) Scala
4 4 (14.81%) SQL
5 3 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (11.11%) Go
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (18.52%) Grafana
2 5 (18.52%) Prometheus
3 4 (14.81%) Ansible
3 4 (14.81%) Terraform
4 3 (11.11%) Kibana
5 1 (3.70%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Cloudera
2 2 (7.41%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Confluent
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk