Functional Programming Contract Job Trends in England

Functional Programming
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Functional Programming skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 493 540
Rank change year-on-year 0 +47 +76
Contract jobs citing Functional Programming 27 42 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.098% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 22 50
10th Percentile £337 £363 -
25th Percentile £446 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £685 £769 £844
90th Percentile £795 £848 £875
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £650
% change year-on-year - -23.08% +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £64.00
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

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 25,056 28,263 37,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.86% 86.13% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,889 17,551 26,191
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £405 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £645 £653
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,513 1,284 1,449
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%
75th Percentile £48.71 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.06%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Functional Programming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Functional Programming

Functional Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Programming in England over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Programming in England

Functional Programming
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Functional Programming.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Functional Programming

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 21 September 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 +12 23 £500 -30.56% 12
North of England -25 3 £525 +5.00% 2
North West -8 1 £400 +14.29% 2
Yorkshire -21 1 £550 +10.00%
North East - 1 £525 -
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 4 (14.81%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) CICS
3 1 (3.70%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) Sentry
2 2 (7.41%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.41%) DB2
3 2 (7.41%) MySQL
3 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Big Data
4 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.70%) Parquet
4 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Appium
1 4 (14.81%) Charles Proxy
1 4 (14.81%) IntelliJ
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
1 4 (14.81%) Katalon Studio
1 4 (14.81%) Postman
1 4 (14.81%) XCUITest
2 3 (11.11%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) JUnit
3 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.41%) GitLab
3 2 (7.41%) Gradle
3 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (44.44%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Banking
4 5 (18.52%) Front Office
5 3 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 2 (7.41%) Back Office
7 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.70%) French Language
7 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Software Developer
4 3 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Android Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 3 (11.11%) F# Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Quality Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) SOA Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Haskell Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.70%) GCP Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Android Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) Spring
1 8 (29.63%) Spring Boot
2 6 (22.22%) .NET
2 6 (22.22%) Web Services
3 5 (18.52%) RESTful
4 3 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 3 (11.11%) Akka.NET
4 3 (11.11%) JSON
4 3 (11.11%) Reactive Extensions
5 2 (7.41%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (7.41%) Dagger
5 2 (7.41%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (7.41%) JWT
5 2 (7.41%) OAuth
5 2 (7.41%) Retrofit
5 2 (7.41%) SOAP
5 2 (7.41%) WSDL
5 2 (7.41%) XSLT
6 1 (3.70%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (3.70%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Mobile App
2 3 (11.11%) Fixed Income
3 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.41%) DataPower
3 2 (7.41%) Wiki
4 1 (3.70%) Derivative
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Android
2 4 (14.81%) Apple iOS
3 2 (7.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) Computer Science
3 10 (37.04%) Test Automation
4 8 (29.63%) DevOps
5 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (22.22%) Design Patterns
6 6 (22.22%) OOP
6 6 (22.22%) Process Improvement
7 5 (18.52%) Clean Code
7 5 (18.52%) OO
7 5 (18.52%) SOA
8 4 (14.81%) API Testing
8 4 (14.81%) Microservices
8 4 (14.81%) Product Requirements
8 4 (14.81%) Regression Testing
8 4 (14.81%) Software Deployment
8 4 (14.81%) TDD
8 4 (14.81%) Test Scripting
8 4 (14.81%) Test Strategy
8 4 (14.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Java
2 10 (37.04%) Kotlin
3 6 (22.22%) C#
3 6 (22.22%) F#
4 4 (14.81%) Python
4 4 (14.81%) Swift
5 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.41%) Haskell
6 2 (7.41%) Scala
6 2 (7.41%) XPath
7 1 (3.70%) COBOL
7 1 (3.70%) Jython
7 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Degree
2 6 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) QA
2 5 (18.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) CA Endevor
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Splunk
3 2 (7.41%) Atlassian
3 2 (7.41%) IBM