Functional Programming
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Functional Programming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Functional Programming over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 780 792 346
Rank change year-on-year +12 -446 +219
Permanent jobs citing Functional Programming 124 201 1,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.19% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.20% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 102 72 149
10th Percentile £57,500 £66,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £71,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £97,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +30.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £93,438 £120,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £101,250 - £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -19.35% +10.71% +36.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Functional Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Programming in the UK

Functional Programming
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Functional Programming.

Salary trend for Functional Programming in the UK

Functional Programming
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Programming over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Functional Programming in the UK

Functional Programming
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Programming within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 -2 103 £80,000 -17.95% 30
UK excluding London +55 57 £62,500 -19.35% 12
Work from Home +64 55 £65,000 -38.10% 14
London +5 53 £82,500 -16.46% 16
North of England +73 25 £62,500 +13.64% 2
West Midlands +28 17 £95,000 +52.61% 1
Midlands +25 17 £95,000 +52.61% 1
Yorkshire - 14 £62,500 -
Scotland -54 10 £60,000 -40.00%
North West +12 8 £62,500 +13.64% 2
East Midlands - 3 £77,500 -
North East - 3 £62,500 -
Northern Ireland +29 2 - -
South East +9 2 - - 5
South West -26 2 £67,500 -33.66% 3
East of England - 2 £55,000 - 1

Functional Programming
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 8 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.65%) Apache
2 7 (5.65%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Simulink
1 2 (1.61%) Stateflow
1 2 (1.61%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 61 (49.19%) AWS
2 28 (22.58%) Serverless
3 27 (21.77%) GCP
4 17 (13.71%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (12.10%) Azure
6 13 (10.48%) GitHub
7 4 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.42%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.81%) OFDM
1 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (0.81%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.71%) MySQL
1 17 (13.71%) SQL Server
2 14 (11.29%) DynamoDB
3 10 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.65%) Apache Hive
4 7 (5.65%) Presto
5 5 (4.03%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.61%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.81%) Big Data
8 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (8.06%) Git
2 4 (3.23%) IntelliJ
3 3 (2.42%) JIRA
4 2 (1.61%) VectorCAST
5 1 (0.81%) Grunt
5 1 (0.81%) gulp
5 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.81%) ScalaTest
General
1 24 (19.35%) Finance
2 21 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (13.71%) Banking
4 16 (12.90%) Social Skills
5 10 (8.06%) Games
6 9 (7.26%) Advertising
6 9 (7.26%) Electronics
7 4 (3.23%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.61%) Avionics
9 2 (1.61%) Law
9 2 (1.61%) Military
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Legal
10 1 (0.81%) Marketing
10 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 67 (54.03%) Software Engineer
2 60 (48.39%) Senior
3 41 (33.06%) Developer
4 40 (32.26%) Senior Software Engineer
5 25 (20.16%) Lead
6 19 (15.32%) Senior Developer
7 18 (14.52%) Backend Developer
8 11 (8.87%) Senior Backend Developer
8 11 (8.87%) Senior Software Developer
8 11 (8.87%) Software Developer
9 9 (7.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (7.26%) Lead Developer
10 8 (6.45%) Scala Engineer
11 7 (5.65%) Lead Software Engineer
11 7 (5.65%) Scala Software Engineer
12 6 (4.84%) Java Engineer
13 5 (4.03%) C# Developer
13 5 (4.03%) C# Software Developer
13 5 (4.03%) Java Developer
13 5 (4.03%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (21.77%) GraphQL
2 25 (20.16%) Node.js
3 24 (19.35%) .NET
3 24 (19.35%) ASP.NET
4 21 (16.94%) React
5 18 (14.52%) Vue
6 17 (13.71%) AngularJS
6 17 (13.71%) ASP.NET Core
6 17 (13.71%) ASP.NET Web API
7 13 (10.48%) http4s
7 13 (10.48%) REST
8 12 (9.68%) Kafka
9 10 (8.06%) Lambda Expressions
10 9 (7.26%) Spring
10 9 (7.26%) Spring Boot
11 7 (5.65%) Web Services
12 6 (4.84%) Spring Cloud
12 6 (4.84%) Spring Integration
12 6 (4.84%) Spring Security
13 4 (3.23%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.52%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.06%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (5.65%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.42%) Blog
4 3 (2.42%) Media Streaming
4 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.42%) Wiki
5 2 (1.61%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.81%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.61%) Solaris
1 2 (1.61%) Unix
2 1 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (58.06%) Agile
1 72 (58.06%) Software Engineering
2 38 (30.65%) Microservices
3 33 (26.61%) Full Stack Development
4 27 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (20.16%) OOP
6 23 (18.55%) SDLC
7 22 (17.74%) Clean Code
7 22 (17.74%) Computer Science
7 22 (17.74%) Roadmaps
8 21 (16.94%) Kanban
9 20 (16.13%) IT Strategy
9 20 (16.13%) Technology Strategy
10 19 (15.32%) Artificial Intelligence
10 19 (15.32%) Software Testing
11 18 (14.52%) OO
12 17 (13.71%) Scrum
13 16 (12.90%) Test Automation
14 15 (12.10%) Machine Learning
14 15 (12.10%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (29.03%) C#
2 35 (28.23%) TypeScript
3 26 (20.97%) Python
3 26 (20.97%) Scala
4 24 (19.35%) Haskell
4 24 (19.35%) Java
5 21 (16.94%) Clojure
5 21 (16.94%) F#
5 21 (16.94%) SQL
6 14 (11.29%) Rust
7 13 (10.48%) JavaScript
8 11 (8.87%) C
8 11 (8.87%) Kotlin
9 10 (8.06%) Go
10 2 (1.61%) Ada
10 2 (1.61%) Ada 83
10 2 (1.61%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (15.32%) Degree
2 8 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.61%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.48%) QA
2 4 (3.23%) DICOM
2 4 (3.23%) HL7
2 4 (3.23%) ISO 13485
3 2 (1.61%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 10 (8.06%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (4.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.06%) Terraform
2 4 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.61%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.81%) Grafana
4 1 (0.81%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (12.90%) Google
2 10 (8.06%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.45%) Databricks
4 7 (5.65%) Confluent
5 3 (2.42%) Sybase
6 1 (0.81%) Monzo