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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 392 462
Rank change year-on-year -3 +70 -102
Permanent jobs citing Flink 15 9 31
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.080% 0.070% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.64% 0.32% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 22
10th Percentile £72,500 £75,750 £73,750
25th Percentile £78,750 £78,395 £78,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £92,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +51.35% - +8.82%
75th Percentile £150,000 £93,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £156,000 £100,750 £154,349
England median annual salary £110,000 £92,500 £92,500
% change year-on-year +18.92% - +23.33%

All Database & 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 2,359 2,830 4,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.62% 21.99% 21.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,535 1,966 3,746
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £55,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Flink
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

Flink
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Flink in London over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Flink in London

Flink
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Flink within the London region over the 6 months to 9 April 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London 0 1 £75,000 -30.23%
Flink
England

Flink
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 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) AWS
2 10 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 10 (66.67%) Amazon Kinesis
2 10 (66.67%) GitHub
2 10 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) ClickHouse
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (6.67%) GIS
3 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Tableau
General
1 10 (66.67%) Banking
1 10 (66.67%) Finance
1 10 (66.67%) Front Office
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Kafka Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Python Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Data Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Lead
3 4 (26.67%) Lead DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) Kafka
2 4 (26.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) D3.js
3 1 (6.67%) PostGIS
3 1 (6.67%) PySpark
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Fixed Income
2 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Investment Management
1 11 (73.33%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 10 (66.67%) DevOps
2 10 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 6 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 6 (40.00%) Front End Development
4 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (26.67%) Incident Management
5 3 (20.00%) Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (20.00%) ETL
5 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Python
2 13 (86.67%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) Go
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (93.33%) Kubernetes
2 10 (66.67%) Argo
3 5 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Confluent
2 1 (6.67%) Mapbox
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft