Apache Flink
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Flink skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Flink over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 834 670 712
Rank change year-on-year -164 +42 +111
Permanent jobs citing Flink 61 290 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.29% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.33% 1.37% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 36 40 183
10th Percentile £64,375 £54,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.86% +11.54% -27.78%
75th Percentile £115,000 £83,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £155,665 £95,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £68,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +31.39% +7.45% +21.43%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Flink is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,281 21,129 46,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.11% 21.45% 28.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,536 13,165 21,039
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Flink in the UK

Flink
Top 10 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 23 May 2024. 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 -129 46 £92,500 +23.33% 12
London -97 33 £92,500 +23.33% 9
UK excluding London +10 26 £90,000 +31.39% 4
Work from Home +76 24 £91,250 +17.74% 10
Scotland -60 10 - -
South West -10 8 £122,119 +62.83%
North of England +40 5 £67,500 -3.57% 2
North West +1 4 £67,500 -3.57% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £75,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

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 44 (72.13%) Apache Spark
2 43 (70.49%) Apache
3 14 (22.95%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (4.92%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (3.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (54.10%) AWS
2 21 (34.43%) GCP
3 16 (26.23%) Azure
4 8 (13.11%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (13.11%) GitHub
4 8 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (11.48%) Amazon Kinesis
5 7 (11.48%) Amazon S3
5 7 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (11.48%) Serverless
6 5 (8.20%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
7 4 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (6.56%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (3.28%) CloudFront
8 2 (3.28%) MinIO
9 1 (1.64%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (54.10%) Big Data
2 20 (32.79%) Data Lake
2 20 (32.79%) Hadoop
3 19 (31.15%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (24.59%) Relational Database
5 13 (21.31%) BigQuery
5 13 (21.31%) NoSQL
6 10 (16.39%) Apache Hive
6 10 (16.39%) SQL Server
7 8 (13.11%) Parquet
8 5 (8.20%) Power BI
9 4 (6.56%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (6.56%) Tableau
10 3 (4.92%) Bigtable
10 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (3.28%) Apache Kudu
11 2 (3.28%) Apache Pinot
11 2 (3.28%) Presto
12 1 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (1.64%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 13 (21.31%) Git
2 10 (16.39%) Jenkins
3 8 (13.11%) CircleCI
3 8 (13.11%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.64%) Mockito
General
1 37 (60.66%) Finance
2 21 (34.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (24.59%) Banking
4 13 (21.31%) Law
5 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
6 11 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (16.39%) Marketing
8 8 (13.11%) Retail Banking
9 4 (6.56%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (4.92%) Legal
11 2 (3.28%) Games
12 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.64%) Front Office
12 1 (1.64%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Senior
2 16 (26.23%) Data Engineer
3 13 (21.31%) Software Engineer
4 10 (16.39%) Software Engineering Director
5 9 (14.75%) Developer
6 8 (13.11%) Lead
6 8 (13.11%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Head of Engineering
7 6 (9.84%) Java Developer
7 6 (9.84%) Python Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Senior Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Architect
10 3 (4.92%) Data Analytics Director
10 3 (4.92%) Data Architect
10 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Lead Software Engineer
11 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (73.77%) Kafka
2 19 (31.15%) Apache Beam
3 17 (27.87%) Spring
3 17 (27.87%) Spring Boot
4 15 (24.59%) AngularJS
4 15 (24.59%) React
5 8 (13.11%) Apache Avro
5 8 (13.11%) PySpark
5 8 (13.11%) Spark Streaming
6 6 (9.84%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (8.20%) CSS
7 5 (8.20%) HTML
8 4 (6.56%) Node.js
8 4 (6.56%) RESTful
9 3 (4.92%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (4.92%) Django
10 2 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (1.64%) gRPC
11 1 (1.64%) REST
11 1 (1.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (29.51%) Cloud Native
2 13 (21.31%) Data Structures
3 11 (18.03%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (16.39%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (14.75%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (13.11%) Algorithms
6 8 (13.11%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
8 2 (3.28%) Cyberattack
8 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
8 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.64%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (68.85%) Software Engineering
2 27 (44.26%) Data Modelling
3 26 (42.62%) Data Engineering
4 25 (40.98%) CI/CD
5 24 (39.34%) Machine Learning
6 23 (37.70%) Agile
7 20 (32.79%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (31.15%) Artificial Intelligence
9 18 (29.51%) Continuous Delivery
9 18 (29.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (29.51%) Data Pipeline
9 18 (29.51%) Event-Driven
10 16 (26.23%) Operational Stability
11 15 (24.59%) DevOps
12 14 (22.95%) Decision-Making
13 13 (21.31%) Analytics
13 13 (21.31%) Containerisation
14 11 (18.03%) Data Analytics
14 11 (18.03%) TDD
15 10 (16.39%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 46 (75.41%) Java
1 46 (75.41%) Python
2 31 (50.82%) SQL
3 20 (32.79%) Scala
4 11 (18.03%) Go
5 7 (11.48%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.20%) C#
6 5 (8.20%) VBA
7 3 (4.92%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.64%) Bash
8 1 (1.64%) C++
8 1 (1.64%) F#
8 1 (1.64%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Degree
2 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 19 (31.15%) Docker
2 8 (13.11%) HDFS
3 2 (3.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 27 (44.26%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.11%) Terraform
3 3 (4.92%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.28%) Ansible
4 2 (3.28%) Argo
4 2 (3.28%) Oozie
5 1 (1.64%) Kibana
5 1 (1.64%) logstash
5 1 (1.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (29.51%) Databricks
2 10 (16.39%) Oracle
2 10 (16.39%) Teradata
3 8 (13.11%) Cloudera
4 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.28%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.64%) Confluent