Functional Programming Contracts

Functional Programming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 484 526 594
Rank change year-on-year +42 +68 +56
Contract jobs citing Functional Programming 36 56 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.13% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.15% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 35 91
10th Percentile £450 £450 -
25th Percentile £553 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.40% +11.90% -13.22%
75th Percentile £750 £748 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £68.50
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +32.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Functional Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Programming in the UK

Functional Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Programming in the UK

Functional Programming
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Functional Programming in the UK

Functional Programming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Programming in the UK

Functional Programming
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 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
England +48 30 £725 +3.57% 80
London +27 25 £750 +7.14% 49
Work from Home +40 17 £575 +27.78% 43
UK excluding London +65 5 £525 -4.55% 51
North of England - 5 £525 - 15
Yorkshire - 3 £400 -
North East - 2 £550 - 3

Functional Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.56%) Apache
1 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) CICS
2 1 (2.78%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) GCP
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Azure
4 4 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (8.33%) npm
5 3 (8.33%) Yarn
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub
6 2 (5.56%) Serverless
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.78%) IaaS
7 1 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (2.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) MongoDB
2 7 (19.44%) NoSQL
3 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Big Data
4 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) DB2
4 1 (2.78%) Flink
4 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.78%) MySQL
4 1 (2.78%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 6 (16.67%) Git
2 6 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 4 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 3 (8.33%) Ant
4 3 (8.33%) Babel
4 3 (8.33%) webpack
5 2 (5.56%) GitLab
5 2 (5.56%) JIRA
6 1 (2.78%) MLflow
6 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (41.67%) Banking
2 14 (38.89%) Finance
3 11 (30.56%) Investment Banking
3 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
4 7 (19.44%) Front Office
5 5 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Back Office
7 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 33 (91.67%) Developer
2 9 (25.00%) Scala Developer
3 6 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 5 (13.89%) .NET Developer
4 5 (13.89%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Quantitative Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Haskell Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior
6 3 (8.33%) Angular Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Backend Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 3 (8.33%) React Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.33%) SOA Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior UI Developer
8 1 (2.78%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) .NET
1 9 (25.00%) Akka
1 9 (25.00%) Play Framework
2 8 (22.22%) HTML
2 8 (22.22%) RESTful
3 7 (19.44%) HTML5
4 6 (16.67%) Akka.NET
4 6 (16.67%) Reactive Extensions
4 6 (16.67%) Spring
5 5 (13.89%) .NET Framework
6 4 (11.11%) CSS
6 4 (11.11%) React
6 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 4 (11.11%) Web Services
7 3 (8.33%) CSS3
7 3 (8.33%) Material-UI
7 3 (8.33%) Redux
7 3 (8.33%) RxJS
7 3 (8.33%) Semantic UI
7 3 (8.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Derivative
2 6 (16.67%) Fixed Income
3 5 (13.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (8.33%) Credit Risk
4 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
5 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.78%) DataPower
6 1 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.78%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (77.78%) Agile
2 20 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 16 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (41.67%) Microservices
5 14 (38.89%) TDD
6 12 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (30.56%) Code Quality
8 10 (27.78%) Customer Requirements
9 8 (22.22%) API Development
9 8 (22.22%) Design Patterns
9 8 (22.22%) DevOps
9 8 (22.22%) Electronic Trading
10 7 (19.44%) API Integration
10 7 (19.44%) BDD
10 7 (19.44%) Computer Science
10 7 (19.44%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (19.44%) OO
10 7 (19.44%) SOA
11 5 (13.89%) Clean Code
11 5 (13.89%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) Scala
2 9 (25.00%) C#
2 9 (25.00%) Java
3 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 5 (13.89%) F#
4 5 (13.89%) Haskell
5 4 (11.11%) OCaml
6 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 3 (8.33%) Python
6 3 (8.33%) SQL
7 1 (2.78%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.78%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Kibana
2 3 (8.33%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) CA Endevor
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.78%) IBM
2 1 (2.78%) Splunk
2 1 (2.78%) Typelevel