Flink Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Flink skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 363 397
Rank change year-on-year +2 +34 +114
Contract jobs citing Flink 15 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.097% 0.033% 0.089%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.63% 0.24% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 15
10th Percentile £490 £393 £563
25th Percentile £550 £456 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +49.70%
75th Percentile £659 £656 £713
90th Percentile £726 £698 £728
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £72.75
25th Percentile - - £76.13
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 2,379 2,464 3,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.38% 13.75% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,568 1,625 2,142
10th Percentile £300 £319 £325
25th Percentile £385 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £672 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £545
% change year-on-year -6.19% -2.20% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 57 103
10th Percentile £20.89 £16.54 £21.00
25th Percentile £23.34 £19.30 £26.94
Median hourly rate £39.48 £30.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.60% -45.45% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £74.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.90 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.22%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Flink.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Flink

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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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Flink in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Flink.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Flink

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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 18 September 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 -6 12 £550 -10.20% 4
Yorkshire -7 11 £575 - 1
South West +27 2 £710 +102.86%
East of England - 1 - -
North East - 1 £400 -
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UK

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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 (73.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (26.67%) Apache
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) GCP
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) MongoDB
1 7 (46.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Architect
2 7 (46.67%) Kafka Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) GCP Architect
5 1 (6.67%) GCP Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) Kafka
2 10 (66.67%) Apache Beam
2 10 (66.67%) Spark Streaming
3 7 (46.67%) JDBC
4 3 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (13.33%) Spring
5 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (6.67%) Keycloak
6 1 (6.67%) React
6 1 (6.67%) REST
6 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (60.00%) Event-Driven
3 8 (53.33%) DevOps
4 7 (46.67%) Data Ingestion
4 7 (46.67%) Decision-Making
4 7 (46.67%) High Availability
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Data Management
5 2 (13.33%) ETL
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Workflow
6 1 (6.67%) Data Architecture
6 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (6.67%) Open Source
6 1 (6.67%) Scrum
6 1 (6.67%) TDD
6 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Visualisation
6 1 (6.67%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Cloudera
1 1 (6.67%) Google