Flink Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 313 388 455
Rank change year-on-year +75 +67 +42
Contract jobs citing Flink 23 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.053% 0.029%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.14% 0.42% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 3
10th Percentile £520 £430 £468
25th Percentile £550 £563 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £610 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +16.19% -
75th Percentile £675 £615 £636
90th Percentile £722 £621 £680
UK median daily rate £538 £463 £725
% change year-on-year +16.22% -36.21% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £72.00
25th Percentile - - £74.25
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £78.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Flink in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Flink in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Flink in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Flink in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Flink in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Flink in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Flink in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +26 14 £575 -5.74% 37
Yorkshire +14 13 £600 -1.64% 15
Midlands +24 3 £650 - 32
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
South West +46 2 £710 +77.50% 19
East Midlands - 2 - - 12
West Midlands +14 1 £650 - 18
East of England - 1 - - 25
North East - 1 £400 - 5
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 11 (47.83%) Apache
1 11 (47.83%) Apache Spark
2 7 (30.43%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) GCP
2 5 (21.74%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) OpenShift
5 2 (8.70%) Azure
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) NoSQL
2 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (8.70%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (8.70%) Big Data
3 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.70%) Delta Lake
3 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.70%) Parquet
3 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Banking
2 6 (26.09%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (13.04%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Data Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Scala Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.35%) GCP Architect
6 1 (4.35%) GCP Data Architect
6 1 (4.35%) GCP Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (69.57%) Kafka
2 8 (34.78%) Apache Beam
2 8 (34.78%) Spark Streaming
3 4 (17.39%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (17.39%) JDBC
4 2 (8.70%) Apache Avro
4 2 (8.70%) JSON
4 2 (8.70%) Keycloak
4 2 (8.70%) Spring
4 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.35%) PySpark
5 1 (4.35%) React
5 1 (4.35%) REST
5 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Credit Risk
1 3 (13.04%) Equities
1 3 (13.04%) Fixed Income
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Data Pipeline
1 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (39.13%) Agile
2 9 (39.13%) Data Management
2 9 (39.13%) ETL
2 9 (39.13%) Event-Driven
3 8 (34.78%) High Availability
4 7 (30.43%) Workflow
5 5 (21.74%) Data Lineage
5 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
5 5 (21.74%) DevOps
5 5 (21.74%) Visualisation
5 5 (21.74%) Workflow Management
6 4 (17.39%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
7 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
7 3 (13.04%) Clean Code
7 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
7 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
7 3 (13.04%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) Scala
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks