Flink Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Apache Flink
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Flink skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 166 165
Rank change year-on-year -77 -1 +32
Contract jobs citing Flink 4 17 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.054% 0.43% 0.097%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.40% 2.57% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £475 £564
25th Percentile - £550 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% -6.12% -2.00%
75th Percentile - £600 £691
90th Percentile - £625 £711
England median daily rate £492 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -14.43% - -8.00%

All Database & BI Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 997 661 619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.45% 16.62% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 457 416
10th Percentile £356 £318 £363
25th Percentile £413 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -5.79% -2.35%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £575
90th Percentile £650 £612 £650
England median daily rate £500 £515 £543
% change year-on-year -2.91% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 7 16
10th Percentile £20.08 £21.02 £11.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £21.76 £12.88
Median hourly rate £46.15 £33.11 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.38% +61.51% -49.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 £38.00 £38.44
90th Percentile £78.88 £59.50 £69.25
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.82 £37.50
% change year-on-year +9.87% -7.16% -31.82%

Flink
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Flink job vacancy trend in the North of England

Flink
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Flink

Flink
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
North East -41 3 - - 6
North West - 1 £425 - 4
Flink
England

Flink
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Prefect
2 1 (25.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Low Latency
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAI