Hybrid/Remote Flink Contract Job Trends

Apache Flink
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Flink skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 310 394
Rank change year-on-year -6 +84 +149
Contract jobs citing Flink 6 13 8
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.060% 0.11% 0.043%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.31% 0.55% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 7
10th Percentile £424 £513 £313
25th Percentile £517 £519 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £575 £388
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% +48.39% -41.51%
75th Percentile £713 £647 £738
90th Percentile - £728 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £39.85
Median hourly rate - - £42.19
75th Percentile - - £44.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £78.00

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 1,945 2,378 3,302
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.40% 19.63% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,339 1,648 2,376
10th Percentile £350 £334 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £660 £650
90th Percentile £775 £825 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.57% -0.84% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 29 47
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.14 £16.85
25th Percentile £21.02 £20.75 £21.04
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.00 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year +123.21% -39.20% -16.26%
75th Percentile £74.38 £41.75 £66.88
90th Percentile £87.50 £59.20 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £47.50
% change year-on-year +37.90% -33.59% -4.79%

Flink
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Flink and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Flink job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Flink
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Flink.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Flink

Flink
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Flink over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Flink daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Flink
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) dbt
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) MLflow
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Front Office
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Kafka Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Pandas
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (16.67%) IoT
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Management
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Data Design
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Argo
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cloudera
1 1 (16.67%) Confluent
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) SAP
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk