Functional Programming Contracts

Functional Programming
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 586 638
Rank change year-on-year +59 +52 -146
Contract jobs citing Functional Programming 55 126 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.23% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 91 123
10th Percentile £450 - £450
25th Percentile £500 £463 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £550 £605
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £749 £750 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +31.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 7
10th Percentile - £68.50 £45.75
25th Percentile - £71.25 £55.88
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +14.43% +6.10%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year - +32.74% -8.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 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
England +44 39 £700 +28.74% 25
London +33 36 £700 +28.74% 15
Work from Home +73 17 £450 -5.26% 23
UK excluding London +48 3 £550 -8.33% 10
Scotland - 2 £569 -
Midlands - 1 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 2

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 6 (10.91%) Anypoint
2 2 (3.64%) Apache
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.45%) AWS
2 8 (14.55%) Azure
2 8 (14.55%) OpenShift
3 7 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (12.73%) Serverless
4 6 (10.91%) Apigee
4 6 (10.91%) SaaS
5 3 (5.45%) GCP
6 2 (3.64%) npm
6 2 (3.64%) Sentry
6 2 (3.64%) Yarn
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.82%) GitHub
7 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 11 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.91%) Big Data
4 4 (7.27%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (21.82%) Jenkins
2 11 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 9 (16.36%) Git
4 5 (9.09%) ScalaTest
5 4 (7.27%) Gradle
5 4 (7.27%) JUnit
6 3 (5.45%) Mockito
7 2 (3.64%) Android Studio
7 2 (3.64%) Ant
7 2 (3.64%) Appium
7 2 (3.64%) Babel
7 2 (3.64%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (3.64%) IntelliJ
7 2 (3.64%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (3.64%) Postman
7 2 (3.64%) Subversion
7 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (3.64%) webpack
8 1 (1.82%) Maven
8 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (29.09%) Banking
2 15 (27.27%) Finance
3 10 (18.18%) Investment Banking
4 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Electronics
5 4 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.45%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (85.45%) Developer
2 25 (45.45%) Scala Developer
3 7 (12.73%) Java Developer
4 6 (10.91%) MuleSoft Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Scala Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Senior
6 4 (7.27%) Scala Software Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Scala Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (5.45%) Python Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Android Developer
8 2 (3.64%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.64%) C# Developer - Commodities
8 2 (3.64%) Mobile Tester
8 2 (3.64%) React Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Tester
8 2 (3.64%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.45%) Akka
2 11 (20.00%) Kafka
2 11 (20.00%) RESTful
3 8 (14.55%) REST
3 8 (14.55%) Spring
4 7 (12.73%) Play Framework
4 7 (12.73%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (10.91%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (10.91%) Apache Camel
5 6 (10.91%) Node.js
5 6 (10.91%) OpenAPI
5 6 (10.91%) RAML
5 6 (10.91%) SOAP
5 6 (10.91%) Swagger
5 6 (10.91%) Web Services
6 5 (9.09%) CSS
6 5 (9.09%) HTML
6 5 (9.09%) http4s
6 5 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
6 5 (9.09%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (14.55%) Hedge funds
3 6 (10.91%) Public Cloud
4 4 (7.27%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.27%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (5.45%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.64%) Derivative
6 2 (3.64%) Market Risk
6 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.82%) Equities
7 1 (1.82%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) Android
2 2 (3.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (56.36%) Microservices
2 26 (47.27%) CI/CD
3 21 (38.18%) Agile
4 16 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (25.45%) OO
7 11 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 10 (18.18%) Clean Code
8 10 (18.18%) Computer Science
8 10 (18.18%) OOP
9 8 (14.55%) Design Patterns
9 8 (14.55%) Scrum
9 8 (14.55%) Test Automation
10 6 (10.91%) API Management
10 6 (10.91%) Configuration Management
10 6 (10.91%) Continuous Deployment
10 6 (10.91%) Integration Patterns
10 6 (10.91%) Low Latency
10 6 (10.91%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (54.55%) Scala
2 16 (29.09%) Java
3 13 (23.64%) SQL
4 8 (14.55%) Python
5 6 (10.91%) C#
5 6 (10.91%) Kotlin
6 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.64%) F#
8 2 (3.64%) Perl
8 2 (3.64%) Swift
9 1 (1.82%) Go
9 1 (1.82%) Jython
Qualifications
1 9 (16.36%) Degree
2 7 (12.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (14.55%) Docker
2 5 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (25.45%) Kubernetes
2 12 (21.82%) Terraform
3 6 (10.91%) Ansible
4 4 (7.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (20.00%) Google
2 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.91%) MuleSoft
3 6 (10.91%) Salesforce
3 6 (10.91%) SAP
3 6 (10.91%) WSO2
4 5 (9.09%) Oracle
5 4 (7.27%) Okta
5 4 (7.27%) Roku
6 3 (5.45%) ION Trading
7 2 (3.64%) Splunk
8 1 (1.82%) Typelevel