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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 768 783 348
Rank change year-on-year +15 -435 +226
Permanent jobs citing Functional Programming 126 211 1,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.20% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.21% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 105 76 148
10th Percentile £57,500 £66,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £69,688 £63,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £92,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +23.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £101,250 - £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -19.35% +19.23% +30.00%

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 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +26 106 £82,500 -10.81% 28
UK excluding London +35 59 £62,500 -19.35% 11
Work from Home +53 56 £65,000 -36.12% 22
London +20 54 £82,500 -15.38% 17
North of England +68 27 £62,500 +13.64% 4
West Midlands +38 17 £95,000 +52.61% 2
Midlands +18 17 £95,000 +52.61% 2
Yorkshire - 14 £62,500 -
North West +14 10 £62,500 +13.64% 4
Scotland -51 10 £60,000 -40.00%
East Midlands - 3 £77,500 -
North East - 3 £62,500 -
South East +27 2 - - 2
Northern Ireland +26 2 - -
South West -27 2 £67,500 -33.66% 2
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 (6.35%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.56%) Apache
2 7 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Simulink
1 2 (1.59%) Stateflow
1 2 (1.59%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 62 (49.21%) AWS
2 28 (22.22%) Serverless
3 26 (20.63%) GCP
4 17 (13.49%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (11.11%) Azure
6 13 (10.32%) GitHub
7 4 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.79%) OFDM
1 1 (0.79%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (0.79%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.49%) MySQL
1 17 (13.49%) SQL Server
2 14 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 10 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.56%) Apache Hive
4 7 (5.56%) Presto
5 4 (3.17%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.79%) Big Data
7 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (7.14%) Git
2 3 (2.38%) IntelliJ
2 3 (2.38%) JIRA
3 2 (1.59%) VectorCAST
4 1 (0.79%) Grunt
4 1 (0.79%) gulp
General
1 26 (20.63%) Finance
2 21 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.08%) Banking
4 18 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 10 (7.94%) Games
6 9 (7.14%) Advertising
6 9 (7.14%) Electronics
7 4 (3.17%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.59%) Avionics
9 2 (1.59%) Law
9 2 (1.59%) Military
10 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Marketing
10 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (53.97%) Software Engineer
2 60 (47.62%) Senior
3 42 (33.33%) Developer
4 41 (32.54%) Senior Software Engineer
5 24 (19.05%) Lead
6 19 (15.08%) Backend Developer
7 18 (14.29%) Senior Developer
8 13 (10.32%) Software Developer
9 11 (8.73%) Senior Backend Developer
9 11 (8.73%) Senior Software Developer
10 9 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 9 (7.14%) Lead Developer
11 8 (6.35%) Scala Engineer
12 7 (5.56%) Scala Software Engineer
13 6 (4.76%) Java Engineer
13 6 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
14 5 (3.97%) C# Developer
14 5 (3.97%) C# Software Developer
14 5 (3.97%) Java Developer
14 5 (3.97%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (21.43%) GraphQL
2 25 (19.84%) Node.js
3 24 (19.05%) .NET
3 24 (19.05%) ASP.NET
4 20 (15.87%) React
5 18 (14.29%) Vue
6 17 (13.49%) AngularJS
6 17 (13.49%) ASP.NET Core
6 17 (13.49%) ASP.NET Web API
7 12 (9.52%) http4s
7 12 (9.52%) REST
8 11 (8.73%) Kafka
9 9 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
9 9 (7.14%) Spring
9 9 (7.14%) Spring Boot
10 6 (4.76%) Spring Cloud
10 6 (4.76%) Spring Integration
10 6 (4.76%) Spring Security
10 6 (4.76%) Web Services
11 4 (3.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.87%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.94%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.38%) Blog
4 3 (2.38%) Media Streaming
4 3 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.38%) Wiki
5 2 (1.59%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.79%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.38%) Linux
2 2 (1.59%) Solaris
2 2 (1.59%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (59.52%) Software Engineering
2 70 (55.56%) Agile
3 37 (29.37%) Microservices
4 35 (27.78%) Full Stack Development
5 27 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (19.05%) OOP
7 23 (18.25%) Computer Science
7 23 (18.25%) SDLC
8 21 (16.67%) Clean Code
8 21 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 20 (15.87%) Artificial Intelligence
9 20 (15.87%) IT Strategy
9 20 (15.87%) Kanban
9 20 (15.87%) Technology Strategy
10 19 (15.08%) Software Testing
11 17 (13.49%) OO
12 16 (12.70%) Machine Learning
12 16 (12.70%) Scrum
12 16 (12.70%) User Experience
12 16 (12.70%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 36 (28.57%) C#
2 34 (26.98%) TypeScript
3 29 (23.02%) Haskell
4 28 (22.22%) Python
5 26 (20.63%) F#
5 26 (20.63%) Scala
6 24 (19.05%) Clojure
6 24 (19.05%) Java
7 21 (16.67%) SQL
8 18 (14.29%) Rust
9 13 (10.32%) JavaScript
10 12 (9.52%) Go
11 11 (8.73%) C
12 10 (7.94%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.59%) Ada
13 2 (1.59%) Ada 83
13 2 (1.59%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (15.08%) Degree
2 8 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.59%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.52%) QA
2 4 (3.17%) DICOM
2 4 (3.17%) HL7
2 4 (3.17%) ISO 13485
3 2 (1.59%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.79%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 9 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.14%) Terraform
2 4 (3.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.59%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 15 (11.90%) Google
2 9 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.35%) Databricks
4 7 (5.56%) Confluent
5 3 (2.38%) Sybase
6 1 (0.79%) Monzo