Flink Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Apache Flink
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Flink skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 - 127
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Flink 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.17% - 0.045%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.92% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - £638
75th Percentile - - £644
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £469
% change year-on-year -6.98% +14.67% -35.34%

All Database & BI Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 325 348 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.96% 21.59% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 222 295
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £358 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -1.05% -4.04%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £558
90th Percentile £630 £589 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 2
10th Percentile £19.53 £20.72 £24.60
25th Percentile £39.69 £22.42 £29.04
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £37.07
Median % change year-on-year +88.68% -28.51% +5.91%
75th Percentile £54.69 £28.07 £45.72
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.25 £50.54
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +51.01% -17.23% -33.33%

Flink
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Flink job vacancy trend in Scotland

Flink
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Flink

Flink
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flink within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Glasgow - 3 £402 - 2
Flink
UK

Flink
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Prime Brokerage
2 1 (33.33%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle