Flink Contracts

Apache Flink
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 467 519 696
Rank change year-on-year +52 +177 +68
Contract jobs citing Flink 53 63 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.14% 0.037%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.95% 0.86% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 55 13
10th Percentile £436 £325 £493
25th Percentile £483 £425 £626
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £463 £725
Median % change year-on-year +16.22% -36.21% +11.54%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £738
90th Percentile £675 £615 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £610 £525
% change year-on-year -1.64% +16.19% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £72.00
25th Percentile £51.25 - £74.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £78.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,552 7,317 10,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.80% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,834 5,210 7,665
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 143 183
10th Percentile £19.97 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.06 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.15 £58.62 £70.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 13 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 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
England +41 42 £538 +14.67% 40
UK excluding London +75 23 £600 -1.64% 16
London +9 19 £525 +13.51% 29
North of England +26 14 £575 -5.74% 6
Yorkshire +14 13 £600 -1.64% 1
Work from Home +35 9 £450 -5.26% 19
Midlands +24 3 £650 - 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
South West +46 2 £710 +77.50% 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands +14 1 £650 - 2
East of England - 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £400 - 1

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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 29 (54.72%) Apache
2 27 (50.94%) Apache Spark
3 12 (22.64%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.89%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (43.40%) GCP
2 22 (41.51%) AWS
3 13 (24.53%) Amazon S3
4 11 (20.75%) Snowflake
5 10 (18.87%) Azure
6 6 (11.32%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (9.43%) Serverless
8 4 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (7.55%) dbt
8 4 (7.55%) GitHub
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (5.66%) OpenShift
9 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.77%) Datadog
10 2 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.77%) IaaS
10 2 (3.77%) PaaS
11 1 (1.89%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.42%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (20.75%) NoSQL
3 10 (18.87%) Data Lake
4 8 (15.09%) Big Data
4 8 (15.09%) BigQuery
5 6 (11.32%) Relational Database
6 5 (9.43%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (9.43%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (9.43%) Parquet
7 4 (7.55%) MongoDB
8 3 (5.66%) Apache Hive
8 3 (5.66%) DynamoDB
8 3 (5.66%) Hadoop
8 3 (5.66%) Oracle Database
8 3 (5.66%) Power BI
8 3 (5.66%) RDBMS
9 2 (3.77%) Apache Hudi
9 2 (3.77%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (3.77%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Git
1 3 (5.66%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.89%) GitLab
2 1 (1.89%) Jaeger
General
1 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.75%) Finance
3 6 (11.32%) Banking
4 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.66%) Law
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
6 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (41.51%) Data Engineer
2 13 (24.53%) Architect
3 6 (11.32%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Data Architect
3 6 (11.32%) Developer
4 4 (7.55%) AWS Architect
4 4 (7.55%) AWS Data Architect
4 4 (7.55%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Java Developer
5 3 (5.66%) Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Data Product Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) GCP Data Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Lead
5 3 (5.66%) Lead Data Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Product Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Products Support Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Senior
5 3 (5.66%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (73.58%) Kafka
2 13 (24.53%) Apache Beam
3 10 (18.87%) Spark Streaming
4 5 (9.43%) Apache Avro
4 5 (9.43%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (7.55%) JDBC
5 4 (7.55%) PySpark
6 3 (5.66%) Spring
6 3 (5.66%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.77%) JSON
7 2 (3.77%) Keycloak
8 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.89%) Loki
8 1 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (1.89%) PyTorch
8 1 (1.89%) REST
8 1 (1.89%) scikit-learn
8 1 (1.89%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Credit Risk
1 3 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Equities
1 3 (5.66%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (47.17%) Data Pipeline
2 23 (43.40%) ETL
3 18 (33.96%) Data Modelling
4 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (26.42%) DevOps
6 12 (22.64%) Data Engineering
7 11 (20.75%) Agile
7 11 (20.75%) High Availability
8 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
8 10 (18.87%) Containerisation
8 10 (18.87%) Data Governance
8 10 (18.87%) Data Management
8 10 (18.87%) Event-Driven
9 9 (16.98%) Visualisation
9 9 (16.98%) Workflow
10 8 (15.09%) Analytics
11 6 (11.32%) Data Integration
11 6 (11.32%) Mentoring
11 6 (11.32%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (11.32%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (56.60%) Python
2 28 (52.83%) SQL
3 9 (16.98%) Java
4 5 (9.43%) Scala
5 3 (5.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.43%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.55%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.66%) Degree
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.87%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
System Software
1 14 (26.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (30.19%) Kubernetes
2 12 (22.64%) Terraform
3 3 (5.66%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.77%) Ansible
4 2 (3.77%) Grafana
5 1 (1.89%) Istio
5 1 (1.89%) linkerd
5 1 (1.89%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Google
2 7 (13.21%) Databricks
3 5 (9.43%) Confluent
4 4 (7.55%) Splunk
5 3 (5.66%) IBM
5 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.66%) Oracle
6 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace