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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 845 672 725
Rank change year-on-year -173 +53 +92
Permanent jobs citing Flink 62 282 603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.30% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.34% 1.39% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 36 38 173
10th Percentile £64,375 £52,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.36% +7.69% -29.73%
75th Percentile £115,000 £84,375 £90,000
90th Percentile £155,665 £95,750 £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 18,414 20,218 47,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.54% 21.36% 28.29%
Number of salaries quoted 12,548 12,894 20,996
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 £103,675 £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 1 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 1 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 -181 47 £92,500 +23.33% 12
London -91 34 £92,500 +8.82% 7
UK excluding London -30 26 £90,000 +31.39% 6
Work from Home +61 24 £91,250 +17.74% 8
Scotland -67 10 - -
South West -21 8 £122,119 +62.83% 1
North of England +34 5 £67,500 -3.57% 3
North West -4 4 £67,500 -3.57% 3
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 45 (72.58%) Apache Spark
2 43 (69.35%) Apache
3 13 (20.97%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (8.06%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (3.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (53.23%) AWS
2 21 (33.87%) GCP
3 15 (24.19%) Azure
4 8 (12.90%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (11.29%) Amazon Kinesis
5 7 (11.29%) Amazon S3
5 7 (11.29%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (11.29%) GitHub
5 7 (11.29%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (11.29%) Serverless
6 5 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (8.06%) Power Platform
7 4 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (6.45%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (3.23%) CloudFront
8 2 (3.23%) MinIO
9 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.61%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (51.61%) Big Data
2 19 (30.65%) Data Lake
2 19 (30.65%) Hadoop
3 18 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (24.19%) Relational Database
5 14 (22.58%) BigQuery
6 12 (19.35%) NoSQL
7 10 (16.13%) SQL Server
8 9 (14.52%) Apache Hive
9 7 (11.29%) Parquet
10 5 (8.06%) Power BI
11 4 (6.45%) Bigtable
11 4 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (6.45%) Tableau
12 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (3.23%) Apache Kudu
13 2 (3.23%) Apache Pinot
13 2 (3.23%) Presto
14 1 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (1.61%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 12 (19.35%) Git
2 9 (14.52%) Jenkins
3 8 (12.90%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (11.29%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.61%) GitLab
5 1 (1.61%) Mockito
General
1 37 (59.68%) Finance
2 21 (33.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (22.58%) Banking
3 14 (22.58%) Law
4 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
5 11 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (16.13%) Marketing
7 7 (11.29%) Retail Banking
8 4 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (6.45%) Legal
9 2 (3.23%) Games
10 1 (1.61%) Automotive
10 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.61%) Front Office
10 1 (1.61%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (25.81%) Senior
2 15 (24.19%) Data Engineer
3 14 (22.58%) Software Engineer
4 10 (16.13%) Lead
4 10 (16.13%) Software Engineering Director
5 9 (14.52%) Developer
6 7 (11.29%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Head of Engineering
7 6 (9.68%) Java Developer
7 6 (9.68%) Python Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Senior Developer
8 5 (8.06%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (6.45%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Lead Software Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Architect
10 3 (4.84%) Data Analytics Director
10 3 (4.84%) Data Architect
10 3 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
11 2 (3.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (74.19%) Kafka
2 18 (29.03%) Apache Beam
3 17 (27.42%) Spring
3 17 (27.42%) Spring Boot
4 15 (24.19%) AngularJS
4 15 (24.19%) React
5 8 (12.90%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (11.29%) Apache Avro
6 7 (11.29%) PySpark
6 7 (11.29%) Spark Streaming
7 5 (8.06%) CSS
7 5 (8.06%) HTML
7 5 (8.06%) RESTful
8 4 (6.45%) Node.js
9 3 (4.84%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (4.84%) Django
10 2 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (1.61%) gRPC
11 1 (1.61%) Swagger
11 1 (1.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (30.65%) Cloud Native
2 14 (22.58%) Data Structures
3 10 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (16.13%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (12.90%) Algorithms
4 8 (12.90%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (11.29%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.23%) Cyberattack
7 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
7 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.61%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (67.74%) Software Engineering
2 27 (43.55%) Data Engineering
2 27 (43.55%) Data Modelling
3 25 (40.32%) CI/CD
4 23 (37.10%) Agile
4 23 (37.10%) Machine Learning
5 21 (33.87%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (30.65%) Artificial Intelligence
7 18 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (29.03%) Data Pipeline
7 18 (29.03%) Event-Driven
8 17 (27.42%) Continuous Delivery
9 16 (25.81%) Operational Stability
10 14 (22.58%) Decision-Making
10 14 (22.58%) DevOps
11 13 (20.97%) Containerisation
12 12 (19.35%) Analytics
13 11 (17.74%) TDD
14 10 (16.13%) Data Analytics
14 10 (16.13%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (75.81%) Java
2 46 (74.19%) Python
3 30 (48.39%) SQL
4 19 (30.65%) Scala
5 11 (17.74%) Go
6 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
7 5 (8.06%) C#
7 5 (8.06%) VBA
8 4 (6.45%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.61%) Bash
9 1 (1.61%) C++
9 1 (1.61%) F#
9 1 (1.61%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Degree
2 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 21 (33.87%) Docker
2 7 (11.29%) HDFS
3 2 (3.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 29 (46.77%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.90%) Terraform
3 3 (4.84%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.23%) Ansible
4 2 (3.23%) Argo
4 2 (3.23%) Oozie
5 1 (1.61%) Kibana
5 1 (1.61%) logstash
5 1 (1.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (27.42%) Databricks
2 10 (16.13%) Oracle
2 10 (16.13%) Teradata
3 7 (11.29%) Cloudera
4 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.61%) Confluent