Flink Job Trends in London

Apache Flink
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Flink skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 424 449
Rank change year-on-year +49 +25 +147
Permanent jobs citing Flink 9 18 23
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.077% 0.100% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.34% 0.41% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1 13 16
10th Percentile - £81,650 £69,375
25th Percentile - £91,250 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £92,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.54% - +8.82%
75th Percentile - £115,000 £121,250
90th Percentile - £133,500 £183,750
England median annual salary £130,000 £92,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +40.54% +5.71% +9.38%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

Flink falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,639 4,379 4,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.53% 24.29% 22.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,654 2,778 3,681
10th Percentile £46,716 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +10.74% +2.76%
75th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Flink relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Flink job vacancy trend in London

Flink
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Flink.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Flink

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 9 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (44.44%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) GCP
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon EMR
3 4 (44.44%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Apache Iceberg
1 4 (44.44%) BigQuery
1 4 (44.44%) Electronic Patient Records
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Terragrunt
General
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
1 9 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (88.89%) Law
2 8 (88.89%) Marketing
3 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (44.44%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Data Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Kafka
2 4 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (44.44%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Data Structures
2 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
2 5 (55.56%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (44.44%) Mobile Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) SDLC
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
3 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (44.44%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Fintech
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Open Source
3 4 (44.44%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Refactoring
4 1 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Java
3 4 (44.44%) Kotlin
3 4 (44.44%) SQL
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus