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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 844 653 733
Rank change year-on-year -191 +80 +109
Permanent jobs citing Flink 60 271 607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.32% 1.37% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 40 40 168
10th Percentile £63,750 £54,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £73,438 £65,375 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £72,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% +9.43% -26.39%
75th Percentile £112,500 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £155,665 £111,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £92,319 £68,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +34.77% +7.45% +21.43%

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 18,558 19,753 48,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.89% 21.36% 28.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12,633 12,748 20,937
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 £98,750 £102,500 £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 13 June 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 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -174 48 £92,500 +23.33% 10
London -108 34 £92,500 +8.82% 6
Work from Home +51 26 £90,000 +16.13% 7
UK excluding London -55 21 £92,319 +34.77% 5
North of England +14 7 £67,500 -3.57% 2
South West -35 7 £149,601 +99.47% 1
North West -21 6 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Scotland -76 4 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 £75,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 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 39 (65.00%) Apache
1 39 (65.00%) Apache Spark
2 10 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (8.33%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (3.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (58.33%) AWS
2 19 (31.67%) GCP
3 12 (20.00%) Azure
4 10 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 10 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (16.67%) Serverless
5 9 (15.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 7 (11.67%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
7 5 (8.33%) GitHub
7 5 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.33%) CloudFront
9 2 (3.33%) MinIO
10 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (43.33%) Big Data
2 20 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 17 (28.33%) Hadoop
4 15 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (23.33%) BigQuery
5 14 (23.33%) Relational Database
6 10 (16.67%) NoSQL
7 9 (15.00%) SQL Server
8 7 (11.67%) Apache Hive
9 6 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (8.33%) Parquet
11 4 (6.67%) Bigtable
11 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (6.67%) Power BI
11 4 (6.67%) Tableau
12 3 (5.00%) Oracle Database
13 2 (3.33%) Apache Kudu
13 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
13 2 (3.33%) Presto
Development Applications
1 10 (16.67%) Git
2 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 7 (11.67%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (8.33%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.33%) Gatling
5 2 (3.33%) GitLab
6 1 (1.67%) Mockito
General
1 29 (48.33%) Finance
2 20 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 13 (21.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (18.33%) Banking
6 8 (13.33%) Law
7 5 (8.33%) Retail Banking
8 4 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (6.67%) Legal
8 4 (6.67%) Marketing
9 2 (3.33%) Billing
9 2 (3.33%) Electronics
9 2 (3.33%) Games
10 1 (1.67%) Automotive
10 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.67%) Front Office
10 1 (1.67%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Software Engineer
2 15 (25.00%) Senior
3 12 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 11 (18.33%) Developer
5 9 (15.00%) Lead
6 7 (11.67%) Java Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Head of Engineering
7 6 (10.00%) Python Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (8.33%) Architect
8 5 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Data Architect
9 4 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Software Engineering Director
10 3 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
11 2 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
11 2 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (75.00%) Kafka
2 15 (25.00%) Apache Beam
3 12 (20.00%) Spring
3 12 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 9 (15.00%) AngularJS
4 9 (15.00%) React
5 8 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (8.33%) Apache Avro
6 5 (8.33%) CSS
6 5 (8.33%) HTML
6 5 (8.33%) PySpark
6 5 (8.33%) RESTful
6 5 (8.33%) Spark Streaming
7 4 (6.67%) Node.js
8 3 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (5.00%) REST
8 3 (5.00%) Web Services
9 2 (3.33%) Django
9 2 (3.33%) GraphQL
9 2 (3.33%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 13 (21.67%) Data Structures
3 8 (13.33%) Algorithms
3 8 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (8.33%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
8 2 (3.33%) Blog
8 2 (3.33%) Cyberattack
8 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
8 2 (3.33%) Media Streaming
8 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.67%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 27 (45.00%) Data Engineering
3 23 (38.33%) CI/CD
3 23 (38.33%) Data Modelling
4 22 (36.67%) Agile
5 19 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (28.33%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (28.33%) Event-Driven
7 15 (25.00%) DevOps
7 15 (25.00%) Machine Learning
8 14 (23.33%) Computer Science
8 14 (23.33%) Continuous Delivery
9 13 (21.67%) Analytics
9 13 (21.67%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 11 (18.33%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (16.67%) Operational Stability
12 10 (16.67%) Risk Management
12 10 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 41 (68.33%) Java
2 39 (65.00%) Python
3 28 (46.67%) SQL
4 18 (30.00%) Scala
5 10 (16.67%) Go
6 7 (11.67%) JavaScript
7 6 (10.00%) Kotlin
8 5 (8.33%) C#
8 5 (8.33%) VBA
9 1 (1.67%) Bash
9 1 (1.67%) C++
9 1 (1.67%) F#
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 21 (35.00%) Docker
2 5 (8.33%) HDFS
3 2 (3.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 29 (48.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (18.33%) Terraform
3 3 (5.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.33%) Ansible
4 2 (3.33%) Argo
4 2 (3.33%) Oozie
5 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Oracle
2 11 (18.33%) Databricks
3 9 (15.00%) Teradata
4 5 (8.33%) Cloudera
5 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.67%) Confluent