Flink Contract Job Trends in the South West

Apache Flink
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Flink skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 113 148
Rank change year-on-year -23 +35 +25
Contract jobs citing Flink 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.19% 0.12% 0.031%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.97% 0.85% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £677 -
25th Percentile - £683 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £710 £450
Median % change year-on-year -50.70% +57.78% -
75th Percentile £361 £733 -
90th Percentile £381 £736 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -34.48%

All Database & BI Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 305 235 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.91% 13.86% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 178 213
10th Percentile £355 £361 £353
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% -
75th Percentile £608 £664 £650
90th Percentile £701 £741 £720
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 15
10th Percentile £18.25 £25.21 £14.36
25th Percentile £32.50 £25.75 £15.74
Median hourly rate £51.00 £67.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% +68.75% -38.46%
75th Percentile £74.68 £70.00 -
90th Percentile - £71.74 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +51.70% -17.60% -30.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Flink job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Flink.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Flink

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Flink.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Flink

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flink within the South West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Dorset - 6 £350 -
Flink
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) Datadog
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (83.33%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Kafka
1 6 (100.00%) RESTful
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (83.33%) Java Concurrency
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
2 5 (83.33%) Concurrent Programming
2 5 (83.33%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Databricks