Apache Flink
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Flink skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Flink over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 697 758
Rank change year-on-year +163 +61 -130
Contract jobs citing Flink 64 22 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.037% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.88% 0.20% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 13 52
10th Percentile £325 £493 £463
25th Percentile £425 £626 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £519 £738 £780
90th Percentile £615 - £811
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +16.19% - -17.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Flink is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,245 10,781 17,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.03% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 7,685 12,759
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.55 £71.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

Flink
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Flink as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Flink in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Flink.

Daily rate trend for Flink in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Flink over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Flink in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Flink.

Hourly rate trend for Flink in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +168 59 £475 -34.48% 15
London +138 49 £463 -36.21% 8
Work from Home +138 15 £475 -34.48% 9
UK excluding London +69 11 £610 +16.19% 9
North of England - 7 £610 - 2
Yorkshire - 7 £610 -
South West +20 2 £400 -40.07%
West Midlands +29 1 - -
Midlands +22 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £638 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 52 (81.25%) Apache
2 10 (15.63%) Apache Spark
3 9 (14.06%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.56%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 49 (76.56%) AWS
2 33 (51.56%) Amazon Kinesis
3 22 (34.38%) Azure
4 7 (10.94%) dbt
5 5 (7.81%) GitHub
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.69%) Dagster
6 3 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.13%) GCP
7 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.56%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.94%) Big Data
3 4 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.25%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.69%) Airbyte
4 3 (4.69%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.13%) MySQL
5 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.13%) Power BI
5 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.56%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.56%) Bigtable
6 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.56%) HBase
6 1 (1.56%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Git
2 3 (4.69%) Poetry
3 1 (1.56%) Ant
3 1 (1.56%) Gradle
3 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) Maven
General
1 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
2 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (3.13%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 30 (46.88%) Data Engineer
2 22 (34.38%) Developer
3 13 (20.31%) Java Developer
4 12 (18.75%) Full Stack Developer
4 12 (18.75%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 9 (14.06%) AWS Data Engineer
5 9 (14.06%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (10.94%) Python Developer
6 7 (10.94%) React Developer
6 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Architect
7 6 (9.38%) Data Architect
8 5 (7.81%) Junior
8 5 (7.81%) Junior Data Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) AWS Architect
9 4 (6.25%) AWS Data Architect
9 4 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Lead
10 3 (4.69%) Lead Data Architect
10 3 (4.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (71.88%) Kafka
2 6 (9.38%) FastAPI
2 6 (9.38%) Flask
3 3 (4.69%) Great Expectations
3 3 (4.69%) Lambda Expressions
3 3 (4.69%) LAPP Stack
3 3 (4.69%) Pandas
3 3 (4.69%) Plotly
3 3 (4.69%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (4.69%) scikit-learn
3 3 (4.69%) SciPy
3 3 (4.69%) Seaborn
4 2 (3.13%) Vue
5 1 (1.56%) CSS
5 1 (1.56%) HTML
5 1 (1.56%) JDBC
5 1 (1.56%) RESTful
5 1 (1.56%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
2 22 (34.38%) Data Engineering
3 18 (28.13%) IT Strategy
3 18 (28.13%) Technology Strategy
4 14 (21.88%) Full Stack Development
5 11 (17.19%) CI/CD
6 10 (15.63%) Data Modelling
7 9 (14.06%) Data Governance
7 9 (14.06%) Data Transformation
8 7 (10.94%) Data Analysis
8 7 (10.94%) Data Ingestion
8 7 (10.94%) DevOps
9 6 (9.38%) Data Science
9 6 (9.38%) Process Improvement
9 6 (9.38%) Prototyping
9 6 (9.38%) TDD
10 5 (7.81%) Analytics
10 5 (7.81%) Data Architecture
11 4 (6.25%) Agile
11 4 (6.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (48.44%) Python
2 27 (42.19%) SQL
3 21 (32.81%) Java
4 4 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.13%) C#
6 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 40 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.69%) Degree
3 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 12 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 17 (26.56%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.94%) Terraform
3 2 (3.13%) Grafana
4 1 (1.56%) Kibana
4 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (7.81%) Oracle
2 3 (4.69%) Databricks
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.56%) Google
4 1 (1.56%) Informatica
4 1 (1.56%) Splunk
4 1 (1.56%) Talend