Functional Programming Contracts in England

Functional Programming
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 538 604
Rank change year-on-year +42 +66 -121
Contract jobs citing Functional Programming 40 116 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.26% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 89 104
10th Percentile £500 - £450
25th Percentile £513 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £525 £605
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -13.22% +9.50%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £834
UK median daily rate £594 £525 £605
% change year-on-year +13.10% -13.22% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 4
10th Percentile - £67.75 £45.38
25th Percentile - £70.94 £45.94
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year - +32.74% -13.79%
75th Percentile - - £65.51
90th Percentile - - £65.53
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year - +14.43% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Functional Programming is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,110 45,282 64,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.21% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,055 31,791 45,856
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,255 1,587 1,766
10th Percentile £12.95 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.68
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Functional Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Functional Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Programming in England

Functional Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Functional Programming in England.

Daily rate trend for Functional Programming in England

Functional Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Programming in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Programming in England

Functional Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Programming in England.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Programming in England

Functional Programming
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Programming within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +41 37 £700 +33.33% 15
Midlands - 1 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 2
Functional Programming
UK

Functional Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (12.50%) Anypoint
2 2 (5.00%) Apache
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) AWS
2 7 (17.50%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) OpenShift
3 6 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (15.00%) Serverless
4 5 (12.50%) Apigee
4 5 (12.50%) SaaS
5 3 (7.50%) GCP
6 2 (5.00%) npm
6 2 (5.00%) Sentry
6 2 (5.00%) Yarn
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (15.00%) Big Data
3 4 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Jenkins
2 10 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 8 (20.00%) Git
4 5 (12.50%) ScalaTest
5 3 (7.50%) Appium
5 3 (7.50%) Katalon Studio
5 3 (7.50%) Mockito
6 2 (5.00%) Android Studio
6 2 (5.00%) Ant
6 2 (5.00%) Babel
6 2 (5.00%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (5.00%) Gradle
6 2 (5.00%) IntelliJ
6 2 (5.00%) JUnit
6 2 (5.00%) Postman
6 2 (5.00%) Subversion
6 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (5.00%) webpack
7 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.50%) XCUITest
General
1 14 (35.00%) Banking
1 14 (35.00%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Investment Banking
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Electronics
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (90.00%) Developer
2 17 (42.50%) Scala Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Java Developer
4 5 (12.50%) MuleSoft Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.00%) C# Developer - Commodities
6 2 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.00%) Mobile Tester
6 2 (5.00%) React Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior
6 2 (5.00%) Tester
6 2 (5.00%) UI Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Backend Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Full Stack Python Developer
7 1 (2.50%) iOS Tester
7 1 (2.50%) Mobile Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Scala Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (27.50%) Kafka
2 7 (17.50%) REST
2 7 (17.50%) Spring
3 6 (15.00%) Akka
3 6 (15.00%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (15.00%) Web Services
4 5 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (12.50%) Apache Camel
4 5 (12.50%) Node.js
4 5 (12.50%) OpenAPI
4 5 (12.50%) RAML
4 5 (12.50%) SOAP
4 5 (12.50%) Swagger
5 4 (10.00%) .NET
5 4 (10.00%) CSS
5 4 (10.00%) HTML
5 4 (10.00%) React
5 4 (10.00%) Redux
5 4 (10.00%) RESTful
5 4 (10.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Hedge funds
2 5 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 3 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.50%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.00%) Derivative
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.50%) Equities
5 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Android
2 3 (7.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Microservices
2 14 (35.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (25.00%) Agile
3 10 (25.00%) OO
4 9 (22.50%) Test Automation
5 6 (15.00%) Design Patterns
5 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (15.00%) Low Latency
5 6 (15.00%) OOP
5 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (12.50%) API Management
6 5 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 5 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
6 5 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (12.50%) Software Delivery
6 5 (12.50%) TDD
7 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) Scala
2 12 (30.00%) Java
2 12 (30.00%) SQL
3 8 (20.00%) Python
4 5 (12.50%) C#
4 5 (12.50%) Kotlin
5 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.50%) Swift
5 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.00%) Perl
7 1 (2.50%) F#
7 1 (2.50%) Go
7 1 (2.50%) Jython
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (32.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.50%) Terraform
3 5 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Google
3 5 (12.50%) MuleSoft
3 5 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 5 (12.50%) SAP
3 5 (12.50%) WSO2
4 4 (10.00%) Oracle
5 3 (7.50%) ION Trading
6 2 (5.00%) Splunk
7 1 (2.50%) Typelevel