Functional Programming Contracts in England

Functional Programming
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Functional Programming skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Functional Programming over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 503 536
Rank change year-on-year +48 +33 +65
Contract jobs citing Functional Programming 30 39 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.10% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.12% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 90
10th Percentile £456 £500 -
25th Percentile £556 £509 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +33.33% -13.22%
75th Percentile £750 £788 £750
90th Percentile £798 £825 £825
UK median daily rate £725 £588 £525
% change year-on-year +23.40% +11.90% -13.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £67.75
25th Percentile - - £70.94
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Functional Programming falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +27 25 £750 +7.14% 49
North of England - 5 £525 - 15
Yorkshire - 3 £400 -
North East - 2 £550 - 3
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 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) CICS
2 1 (3.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
1 4 (13.33%) GCP
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) npm
2 3 (10.00%) Yarn
3 2 (6.67%) Azure
3 2 (6.67%) GitHub
3 2 (6.67%) Serverless
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.33%) IaaS
4 1 (3.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) MongoDB
2 5 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Big Data
4 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.33%) DB2
4 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 4 (13.33%) Bitbucket
4 3 (10.00%) Ant
4 3 (10.00%) Babel
4 3 (10.00%) webpack
5 2 (6.67%) Git
5 2 (6.67%) GitLab
5 2 (6.67%) JIRA
6 1 (3.33%) MLflow
6 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (50.00%) Banking
2 13 (43.33%) Finance
3 11 (36.67%) Investment Banking
3 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
4 7 (23.33%) Front Office
5 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Back Office
7 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 27 (90.00%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 5 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 5 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Quantitative Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Scala Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Haskell Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Angular Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Backend Developer
5 3 (10.00%) React Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.00%) SOA Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (3.33%) Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) .NET
2 7 (23.33%) HTML
3 6 (20.00%) Akka.NET
3 6 (20.00%) HTML5
3 6 (20.00%) Reactive Extensions
4 5 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 5 (16.67%) Akka
4 5 (16.67%) Play Framework
4 5 (16.67%) Spring
5 4 (13.33%) CSS
5 4 (13.33%) React
5 4 (13.33%) RESTful
5 4 (13.33%) Web Services
6 3 (10.00%) CSS3
6 3 (10.00%) Material-UI
6 3 (10.00%) Redux
6 3 (10.00%) RxJS
6 3 (10.00%) Semantic UI
6 3 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 3 (10.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Derivative
2 6 (20.00%) Fixed Income
3 5 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (10.00%) Credit Risk
4 3 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.33%) DataPower
5 1 (3.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) Agile
2 17 (56.67%) CI/CD
3 13 (43.33%) Microservices
3 13 (43.33%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (43.33%) TDD
4 12 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (26.67%) Code Quality
7 7 (23.33%) API Development
7 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
7 7 (23.33%) Continuous Delivery
7 7 (23.33%) Design Patterns
7 7 (23.33%) DevOps
7 7 (23.33%) Electronic Trading
7 7 (23.33%) SOA
8 6 (20.00%) BDD
8 6 (20.00%) OO
9 5 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
9 5 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
9 5 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) Scala
2 9 (30.00%) C#
3 7 (23.33%) Java
4 6 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (16.67%) F#
5 5 (16.67%) Haskell
6 4 (13.33%) OCaml
7 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (10.00%) Python
7 3 (10.00%) SQL
8 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
8 1 (3.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Kibana
2 3 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (3.33%) CA Endevor
3 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.33%) IBM