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 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 351 376 432
Rank change year-on-year +25 +56 +108
Contract jobs citing Flink 11 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.082% 0.049% 0.037%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.38% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile £425 £459 £403
25th Percentile £469 £509 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £655 £488
Median % change year-on-year -19.79% +34.26% -30.36%
75th Percentile £591 £813 £600
90th Percentile £694 £925 £669
England median daily rate £550 £575 £613
% change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £90.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 - £78.00

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,868 3,730 4,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.33% 22.90% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,002 2,679 3,018
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 25 38
10th Percentile £28.66 £25.70 £19.05
25th Percentile £34.09 £36.25 £35.06
Median hourly rate £53.75 £47.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £68.63 £55.00 £71.99
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.50 £90.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -31.82% +22.22%

Flink
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Flink in London

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Flink in London

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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

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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 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
West London - 1 £512 -
Central London - 1 - - 3
Flink
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (81.82%) Apache Spark
2 4 (36.36%) Apache
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) Dagster
5 1 (9.09%) Prefect
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) BigQuery
2 3 (27.27%) Apache Hive
2 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Parquet
2 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Power BI
2 3 (27.27%) RDBMS
2 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
3 2 (18.18%) Big Data
3 2 (18.18%) Power Query
3 2 (18.18%) PowerPivot
4 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MLflow
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Data Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Developer
4 2 (18.18%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Kafka Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Kafka
2 4 (36.36%) Apache Beam
3 3 (27.27%) Apache Avro
3 3 (27.27%) GraphQL
3 3 (27.27%) JWT
3 3 (27.27%) OAuth
3 3 (27.27%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Data Fabric
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (63.64%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 5 (45.45%) ETL
4 4 (36.36%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven
4 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
5 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (27.27%) Data Encryption
5 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
7 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics
7 1 (9.09%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) Scala
3 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (27.27%) Go
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Grafana
2 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 3 (27.27%) Kibana
4 1 (9.09%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Cloudera
2 1 (9.09%) Confluent
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk