Functional Programming Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Functional Programming
England > North of England

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 163 194
Rank change year-on-year -30 +31 +58
Contract jobs citing Functional Programming 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.071% 0.15% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.18% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £423 £413 -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -14.89%
75th Percentile £556 £538 -
90th Percentile £568 £550 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £675
% change year-on-year -9.09% -18.52% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,779 3,406 4,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.11% 84.29% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,480 1,851 3,003
10th Percentile £250 £294 £285
25th Percentile £369 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £562 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £655 £679
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 178 209
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.28 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.48 £18.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £24.26 £35.00 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -30.69% +23.67% +33.18%
75th Percentile £40.97 £51.90 £46.18
90th Percentile £64.75 £70.00 £62.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

Functional Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Functional Programming relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Functional Programming job vacancy trend in the North of England

Functional Programming
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Functional Programming
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Functional Programming in the North of England

Functional Programming
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
North East -5 1 £525 -4.55% 1
North West -18 1 £400 +14.29%
Yorkshire -31 1 £550 +10.00%
Functional Programming
England

Functional Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Gradle
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Android Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (33.33%) Dagger
1 1 (33.33%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (33.33%) Retrofit
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Android Development
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) MVVM
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes