Apache Flink
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Flink skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Flink over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 683 840 677
Rank change year-on-year +157 -163 +63
Permanent jobs citing Flink 13 61 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.058% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.17% 0.33% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7 36 38
10th Percentile £65,450 £64,375 £52,000
25th Percentile £75,750 £73,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £91,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +30.36% +7.69%
75th Percentile £96,875 £115,000 £84,375
90th Percentile £104,500 £155,665 £95,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year - +31.39% +7.45%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,685 18,382 20,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.77% 17.44% 21.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,788 12,507 12,954
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £97,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Flink
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Flink as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Flink in the UK

Flink
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Flink.

Salary trend for Flink in the UK

Flink
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Flink over the 6 months to 4 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Flink in the UK

Flink
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Flink within the UK over the 6 months to 4 June 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
England +122 12 £91,250 -1.35% 37
London +82 10 £84,500 -8.65% 26
UK excluding London +161 3 £90,000 - 11
Work from Home +114 2 £78,750 -13.70% 18
Yorkshire +61 2 £95,000 - 3
North of England +50 2 £95,000 +40.74% 9
Scotland +106 1 £50,000 -

Flink
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (61.54%) Apache Spark
2 5 (38.46%) Apache
3 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (23.08%) Apache Pulsar
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 8 (61.54%) GCP
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon S3
3 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) Serverless
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Iceberg
2 3 (23.08%) BigQuery
2 3 (23.08%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Terragrunt
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 7 (53.85%) Marketing
3 6 (46.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (46.15%) Law
4 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Electronics
6 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Data Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Architect
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Data Architect
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Data Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Principal Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Principal Data Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) Kafka
2 3 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (23.08%) RESTful
3 2 (15.38%) boto
3 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
3 2 (15.38%) SAML
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
1 6 (46.15%) Data Structures
2 4 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (23.08%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
5 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Software Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) SDLC
3 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Fintech
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) Observability
4 3 (23.08%) Open Source
4 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (15.38%) Data Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
5 2 (15.38%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) Kotlin
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Terraform
3 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Okta
1 2 (15.38%) SimCorp
2 1 (7.69%) SAP