Flink Contracts

Apache Flink
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 662 745
Rank change year-on-year +142 +83 -82
Contract jobs citing Flink 59 22 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.039% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.81% 0.22% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 12 53
10th Percentile £325 £500 £470
25th Percentile £425 £613 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £718 £625
Median % change year-on-year -35.54% +14.80% -1.57%
75th Percentile £528 £738 £750
90th Percentile £615 £816 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -17.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,302 9,963 17,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.67% 19.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,237 7,078 12,316
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -0.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £755 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 177 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.99
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.40 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £44.48
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +34.91% +64.97%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £72.75 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Flink in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Flink.

Daily rate trend for Flink in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Flink over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Flink in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Flink.

Hourly rate trend for Flink in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flink within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +129 52 £463 -34.86% 15
London +130 39 £463 -36.21% 10
Work from Home +122 18 £475 -34.48% 9
UK excluding London +51 13 £610 -2.40% 6
North of England +37 10 £610 -2.40% 3
Yorkshire +28 9 £610 -2.40%
South West +6 2 £400 -47.28% 1
Midlands +24 1 - -
West Midlands +14 1 - -
North West - 1 £650 - 3

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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 43 (72.88%) Apache
2 12 (20.34%) Apache Spark
3 9 (15.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 41 (69.49%) AWS
2 28 (47.46%) Amazon Kinesis
3 26 (44.07%) Azure
4 4 (6.78%) dbt
5 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.39%) GCP
6 2 (3.39%) GitHub
6 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.69%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.69%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.25%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.17%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.47%) Big Data
4 3 (5.08%) Airbyte
4 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.39%) MySQL
5 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.39%) Power BI
5 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.69%) Bigtable
6 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.69%) HBase
6 1 (1.69%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Git
2 1 (1.69%) Ant
2 1 (1.69%) Gradle
2 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.69%) Maven
General
1 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
2 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (1.69%) Finance
2 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (1.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (49.15%) Data Engineer
2 21 (35.59%) Developer
3 13 (22.03%) Java Developer
4 12 (20.34%) Full Stack Developer
4 12 (20.34%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 7 (11.86%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) React Developer
5 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 6 (10.17%) Junior
6 6 (10.17%) Python Developer
7 5 (8.47%) AWS Data Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Junior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Data Modeller
8 3 (5.08%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) AWS Architect
9 2 (3.39%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (74.58%) Kafka
2 6 (10.17%) FastAPI
2 6 (10.17%) Flask
3 3 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.39%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (3.39%) Vue
5 1 (1.69%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.69%) CSS
5 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.69%) Google JAX
5 1 (1.69%) HTML
5 1 (1.69%) JDBC
5 1 (1.69%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.69%) REST
5 1 (1.69%) RESTful
5 1 (1.69%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
1 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Linux
1 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.29%) Data Pipeline
2 18 (30.51%) Data Engineering
3 16 (27.12%) IT Strategy
3 16 (27.12%) Technology Strategy
4 14 (23.73%) Full Stack Development
5 11 (18.64%) Data Modelling
6 9 (15.25%) Data Transformation
7 8 (13.56%) CI/CD
8 7 (11.86%) Data Governance
8 7 (11.86%) Data Ingestion
9 6 (10.17%) Analytics
9 6 (10.17%) Process Improvement
9 6 (10.17%) Prototyping
9 6 (10.17%) TDD
10 4 (6.78%) Agile
10 4 (6.78%) Data Analysis
10 4 (6.78%) DevOps
10 4 (6.78%) Software Engineering
11 3 (5.08%) Logical Data Model
11 3 (5.08%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.98%) Java
2 22 (37.29%) Python
3 21 (35.59%) SQL
4 2 (3.39%) C#
5 1 (1.69%) C
5 1 (1.69%) Julia
5 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.69%) Scala
5 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (55.93%) Security Cleared
2 32 (54.24%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) Degree
4 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 9 (15.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 17 (28.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.78%) Terraform
3 2 (3.39%) Grafana
4 1 (1.69%) Ansible
4 1 (1.69%) Kibana
4 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (5.08%) Databricks
1 3 (5.08%) Oracle
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.69%) Informatica
3 1 (1.69%) Splunk
3 1 (1.69%) Talend