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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 432 422
Rank change year-on-year +71 -10 +106
Permanent jobs citing Flink 13 14 20
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.098% 0.086% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.53% 0.36% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 13 12 14
10th Percentile £78,000 £88,550 £83,250
25th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £86,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £92,500 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year +51.35% -1.33% +10.29%
75th Percentile £150,000 £115,625 £115,000
90th Percentile £158,000 £135,500 £132,500
England median annual salary £140,000 £94,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +48.94% +4.44% +11.11%

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 2,433 3,897 3,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.34% 23.90% 21.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,565 2,465 3,105
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £59,750 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £125,750 £138,750 £114,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% -2.40%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 +47 1 £75,000 -21.47% 1
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 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Amazon EKS
1 10 (76.92%) Amazon Kinesis
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
1 10 (76.92%) GitHub
1 10 (76.92%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) ClickHouse
1 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 10 (76.92%) Banking
2 10 (76.92%) Front Office
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (76.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) AWS DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Kafka Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Python Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Lead
3 4 (30.77%) Lead DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) Kafka
2 4 (30.77%) React
3 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Fixed Income
2 3 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
1 11 (84.62%) DevOps
2 10 (76.92%) Agile
2 10 (76.92%) Investment Management
2 10 (76.92%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (76.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 6 (46.15%) Front End Development
4 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Use Case
6 2 (15.38%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
6 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 2 (15.38%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 11 (84.62%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) Go
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (76.92%) Argo
3 4 (30.77%) Terraform
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Confluent
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft