Flink Contracts in the Midlands

Apache Flink
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 108 132 165
Rank change year-on-year +24 +33 -
Contract jobs citing Flink 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 0.036% 0.058%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.06% 0.24% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £525
75th Percentile £675 - £563
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £538 £469 £725
% change year-on-year +14.67% -35.34% +3.57%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 283 416 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.79% 15.09% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 308 412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £16.31 - £21.53
25th Percentile £17.00 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £18.20 £14.00 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -45.87% -26.10%
75th Percentile £19.25 £27.49 £32.93
90th Percentile £20.90 £40.50 £47.54
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Flink in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Flink in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flink within the Midlands 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
East Midlands - 2 - - 6
West Midlands +14 1 £650 - 10
Flink
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Hudi
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Iceberg
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Delta Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Parquet
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Scala Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Avro
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
3 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Scala
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks