Functional Programming Contracts in London

Functional Programming
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 328 355 389
Rank change year-on-year +27 +34 +61
Contract jobs citing Functional Programming 25 36 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.20% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.23% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 86
10th Percentile £641 £500 -
25th Percentile £713 £519 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +33.33% -13.22%
75th Percentile - £800 £750
90th Percentile £800 £825 £825
England median daily rate £725 £700 £525
% change year-on-year +3.57% +33.33% -13.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Functional Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Programming in London

Functional Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Programming in London

Functional Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Programming in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Programming in London

Functional Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Programming in London

Functional Programming
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +1 5 £725 -3.33%
Functional Programming
England

Functional Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (8.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) CICS
2 1 (4.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Cloud Computing
1 4 (16.00%) GCP
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) npm
2 3 (12.00%) Yarn
3 2 (8.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) GitHub
3 2 (8.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.00%) IaaS
4 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Big Data
4 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) DB2
4 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (24.00%) TeamCity
3 4 (16.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (12.00%) Ant
4 3 (12.00%) Babel
4 3 (12.00%) webpack
5 2 (8.00%) Git
5 2 (8.00%) GitLab
5 2 (8.00%) JIRA
6 1 (4.00%) MLflow
6 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (60.00%) Banking
2 13 (52.00%) Finance
3 11 (44.00%) Investment Banking
4 7 (28.00%) Front Office
5 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
6 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Back Office
7 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 22 (88.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) C# Developer
3 5 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Quantitative Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Haskell Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Angular Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Backend Developer
5 3 (12.00%) React Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) SOA Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) .NET
2 7 (28.00%) HTML
3 6 (24.00%) Akka.NET
3 6 (24.00%) HTML5
3 6 (24.00%) Reactive Extensions
4 5 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 5 (20.00%) Spring
5 4 (16.00%) CSS
5 4 (16.00%) React
5 4 (16.00%) RESTful
5 4 (16.00%) Web Services
6 3 (12.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (12.00%) CSS3
6 3 (12.00%) Material-UI
6 3 (12.00%) Redux
6 3 (12.00%) RxJava
6 3 (12.00%) RxJS
6 3 (12.00%) Semantic UI
6 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
6 3 (12.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Derivative
2 6 (24.00%) Fixed Income
3 3 (12.00%) Credit Risk
3 3 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) DataPower
4 1 (4.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
4 8 (32.00%) Microservices
4 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (32.00%) TDD
5 7 (28.00%) Computer Science
5 7 (28.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 7 (28.00%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (28.00%) Design Patterns
5 7 (28.00%) DevOps
5 7 (28.00%) Electronic Trading
5 7 (28.00%) SOA
6 6 (24.00%) OO
7 5 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 4 (16.00%) Analytical Thinking
8 4 (16.00%) Event-Driven
8 4 (16.00%) OOP
8 4 (16.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) C#
2 7 (28.00%) Java
3 6 (24.00%) Scala
3 6 (24.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (20.00%) F#
4 5 (20.00%) Haskell
5 4 (16.00%) OCaml
6 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (12.00%) Python
6 3 (12.00%) SQL
7 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
7 1 (4.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) CA Endevor
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.00%) IBM