Functional Programming Contracts in the UK excluding London

Functional Programming
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Functional Programming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Functional Programming over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 445 496
Rank change year-on-year +45 +51 -105
Contract jobs citing Functional Programming 3 12 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.050% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.056% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 13
10th Percentile £460 £504 £489
25th Percentile £475 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +31.43%
75th Percentile £603 £675 £638
90th Percentile £605 £690 £695
UK median daily rate £594 £525 £605
% change year-on-year +13.10% -13.22% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 4
10th Percentile - £67.75 £45.38
25th Percentile - £70.94 £45.94
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year - +32.74% -13.79%
75th Percentile - - £65.51
90th Percentile - - £65.53
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year - +14.43% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Functional Programming is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,507 21,404 27,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.51% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,460 14,856 19,229
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,060 1,308 1,363
10th Percentile £12.34 £11.00 £12.03
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Functional Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Programming in the UK excluding London

Functional Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Programming in the UK excluding London

Functional Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Programming in the UK excluding London

Functional Programming
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland - 2 £569 -
Midlands - 1 £500 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 1
Functional Programming
UK

Functional Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Gradle
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Android Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Android Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (66.67%) Dagger
1 2 (66.67%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (66.67%) Retrofit
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Android Development
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
1 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
1 2 (66.67%) MVVM
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Development
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreaded Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ION Trading