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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 427 442
Rank change year-on-year +54 +15 +131
Permanent jobs citing Flink 14 18 20
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.11% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.53% 0.43% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6 14 15
10th Percentile £101,250 £80,312 £83,500
25th Percentile £130,000 £89,000 £90,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £92,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +51.35% -11.90% +23.53%
75th Percentile £150,000 £111,938 £127,500
90th Percentile - £131,500 £184,500
England median annual salary £140,000 £92,500 £91,250
% change year-on-year +51.35% +1.37% +12.65%

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 2,657 4,154 4,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.76% 23.95% 22.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,660 2,637 3,361
10th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +8.84% -2.00%
75th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -

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

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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 13 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Flink in London

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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 (64.29%) Apache Spark
2 5 (35.71%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (28.57%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
1 8 (57.14%) GCP
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon EMR
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Apache Iceberg
1 4 (28.57%) BigQuery
1 4 (28.57%) Electronic Patient Records
1 4 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) Big Data
2 1 (7.14%) ClickHouse
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (92.86%) Finance
2 9 (64.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (57.14%) Banking
3 8 (57.14%) Law
3 8 (57.14%) Marketing
4 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (28.57%) Front Office
6 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Data Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Kafka Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Python Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) Kafka
2 4 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (28.57%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Data Structures
2 6 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
4 4 (28.57%) Fixed Income
4 4 (28.57%) Mobile Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
1 9 (64.29%) Software Engineering
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) SDLC
4 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
5 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 4 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Fintech
5 4 (28.57%) Front End Development
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (28.57%) Investment Management
5 4 (28.57%) Open Source
5 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Use Case
7 1 (7.14%) AI
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 9 (64.29%) Java
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
4 4 (28.57%) Kotlin
5 1 (7.14%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Argo
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Confluent