Flink Contract Job Trends in London

Apache Flink
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Flink skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 337 339
Rank change year-on-year -42 +2 +137
Contract jobs citing Flink 39 18 46
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.19% 0.65% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 42
10th Percentile £407 £458 £333
25th Percentile £448 £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year +26.57% +13.51% -36.21%
75th Percentile £775 £556 £488
90th Percentile £888 £573 £575
England median daily rate £525 £538 £463
% change year-on-year -2.33% +16.22% -36.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Database & BI Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,288 2,780 3,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.26% 22.42% 21.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,236 1,959 2,827
10th Percentile £363 £380 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 35
10th Percentile £18.19 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.32 £25.62
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.14% -30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60.88 £58.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.75 £70.30
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.05 £40.25
% change year-on-year +40.41% -20.37% -31.30%

Flink
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Flink job vacancy trend in London

Flink
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Flink

Flink
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Flink in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Flink in London

Flink
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Flink

Flink
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flink within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
East London - 1 £669 - 1
Flink
England

Flink
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 18 (46.15%) Apache Spark
2 16 (41.03%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (64.10%) AWS
2 18 (46.15%) GCP
3 15 (38.46%) Azure
4 10 (25.64%) Amazon Kinesis
5 9 (23.08%) Amazon MSK
6 8 (20.51%) Amazon S3
7 7 (17.95%) Serverless
8 6 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (15.38%) Apigee
8 6 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (10.26%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (10.26%) GitHub
9 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
10 3 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (5.13%) SaaS
12 1 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) NaaS
1 2 (5.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) NoSQL
2 9 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (20.51%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (20.51%) BigQuery
4 7 (17.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (17.95%) Tableau
5 6 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (15.38%) Amazon QuickSight
5 6 (15.38%) Apache Iceberg
5 6 (15.38%) Data Vault
5 6 (15.38%) MongoDB
5 6 (15.38%) OLTP
5 6 (15.38%) Star Schema
6 4 (10.26%) Apache Hive
6 4 (10.26%) Parquet
6 4 (10.26%) Power BI
6 4 (10.26%) Power Query
6 4 (10.26%) PowerPivot
6 4 (10.26%) RDBMS
6 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Git
1 4 (10.26%) Gradle
1 4 (10.26%) Maven
1 4 (10.26%) SonarQube
2 3 (7.69%) GitLab
2 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.69%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.56%) MLflow
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Banking
2 7 (17.95%) Finance
2 7 (17.95%) Front Office
3 3 (7.69%) Investment Banking
3 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.13%) Billing
4 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
4 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Architect
1 10 (25.64%) Developer
1 10 (25.64%) Java Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Senior
3 6 (15.38%) Data Architect
3 6 (15.38%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Kafka Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Lead
4 4 (10.26%) Senior Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Senior Java Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) GCP Data Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Kafka Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (71.79%) Kafka
2 13 (33.33%) Apache Avro
3 9 (23.08%) Protocol Buffers
4 8 (20.51%) Spring
5 7 (17.95%) Apache Beam
6 6 (15.38%) Spring Boot
7 4 (10.26%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (7.69%) JSON
8 3 (7.69%) REST
9 2 (5.13%) GraphQL
9 2 (5.13%) gRPC
9 2 (5.13%) OpenAPI
9 2 (5.13%) PyTorch
9 2 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (5.13%) React
9 2 (5.13%) Swagger
10 1 (2.56%) Gherkin
10 1 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (2.56%) PySpark
10 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) PACS
1 6 (15.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.56%) CMDB
4 1 (2.56%) Equities
4 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) Data Modelling
2 21 (53.85%) Event-Driven
3 19 (48.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 17 (43.59%) CI/CD
5 15 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
6 13 (33.33%) DevOps
7 12 (30.77%) Analytics
8 11 (28.21%) Microservices
9 10 (25.64%) Agile
10 9 (23.08%) Clean Code
10 9 (23.08%) Decision-Making
10 9 (23.08%) Software Engineering
10 9 (23.08%) Test Automation
11 8 (20.51%) Observability
11 8 (20.51%) TDD
12 7 (17.95%) AI
12 7 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
12 7 (17.95%) Data Engineering
13 6 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (61.54%) Java
2 22 (56.41%) SQL
3 18 (46.15%) Python
4 11 (28.21%) Scala
5 4 (10.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (7.69%) Go
7 2 (5.13%) C++
7 2 (5.13%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (10.26%) Degree
2 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 10 (25.64%) Terraform
3 6 (15.38%) Grafana
3 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 4 (10.26%) Argo
5 2 (5.13%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (2.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Confluent
2 2 (5.13%) Amdocs
2 2 (5.13%) Ciena
2 2 (5.13%) Cloudera
2 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
2 2 (5.13%) Google
2 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.56%) BT
3 1 (2.56%) Splunk