Flink Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apache Flink
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 295 330 469
Rank change year-on-year +35 +139 +120
Contract jobs citing Flink 9 15 8
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.098% 0.031%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.43% 0.52% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 6
10th Percentile £405 £335 -
25th Percentile £413 £453 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £725
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -34.48% +16.00%
75th Percentile £506 £488 £738
90th Percentile £525 - -
UK median daily rate £538 £463 £725
% change year-on-year +16.22% -36.21% +11.54%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Flink as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Flink trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Flink.

Flink daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 4 (44.44%) Apache
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) dbt
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Kafka
2 3 (33.33%) Apache Beam
2 3 (33.33%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (11.11%) PySpark
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (44.44%) High Availability
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Data Science
3 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
3 2 (22.22%) Workflow
4 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) ETL Development
4 1 (11.11%) MLOps
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk