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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 581 661
Rank change year-on-year +61 +80 -153
Contract jobs citing Functional Programming 58 101 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.20% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 71 109
10th Percentile £450 - £450
25th Percentile £488 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £500 £605
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -17.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £746 £688 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £797
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +26.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 6
10th Percentile - £68.50 £45.63
25th Percentile - £71.25 £51.07
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +14.43% +0.03%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +57.89% -27.50%

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 36,498 50,798 79,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 89.72% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,542 35,172 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £482
% change year-on-year - +3.73% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,685 1,905
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £15.99 £15.53
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -5.88%

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 22 May 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 22 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
England +57 41 £700 +43.59% 33
London +48 39 £700 +47.37% 23
Work from Home +77 17 £450 -5.26% 12
UK excluding London +44 3 £550 -8.33% 10
Scotland - 2 £569 -
North of England +34 1 £350 -46.15% 3
North West +20 1 £350 -46.15% 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 (10.34%) Anypoint
2 2 (3.45%) Apache
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.72%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.14%) AWS
2 8 (13.79%) OpenShift
3 7 (12.07%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (12.07%) Azure
3 7 (12.07%) SaaS
3 7 (12.07%) Serverless
4 6 (10.34%) Apigee
5 2 (3.45%) GCP
5 2 (3.45%) npm
5 2 (3.45%) Sentry
5 2 (3.45%) Yarn
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) MongoDB
2 11 (18.97%) NoSQL
3 8 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (10.34%) Big Data
5 4 (6.90%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 11 (18.97%) TeamCity
3 10 (17.24%) Git
4 5 (8.62%) ScalaTest
5 4 (6.90%) Appium
5 4 (6.90%) Gradle
5 4 (6.90%) JUnit
5 4 (6.90%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (5.17%) Mockito
7 2 (3.45%) Android Studio
7 2 (3.45%) Ant
7 2 (3.45%) Babel
7 2 (3.45%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (3.45%) IntelliJ
7 2 (3.45%) Postman
7 2 (3.45%) Subversion
7 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (3.45%) webpack
8 1 (1.72%) Maven
8 1 (1.72%) XCUITest
General
1 16 (27.59%) Banking
2 15 (25.86%) Finance
3 10 (17.24%) Investment Banking
4 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Electronics
5 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.17%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (81.03%) Developer
2 25 (43.10%) Scala Developer
3 7 (12.07%) Senior
4 6 (10.34%) Java Developer
4 6 (10.34%) MuleSoft Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Scala Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Scala Software Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Scala Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (5.17%) Mobile Tester
7 3 (5.17%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.17%) React Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Tester
8 2 (3.45%) Android Developer
8 2 (3.45%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.45%) C# Developer - Commodities
8 2 (3.45%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.86%) Akka
2 12 (20.69%) RESTful
3 10 (17.24%) Kafka
4 9 (15.52%) REST
5 8 (13.79%) Play Framework
5 8 (13.79%) Spring
6 7 (12.07%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (10.34%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (10.34%) Apache Camel
7 6 (10.34%) CSS
7 6 (10.34%) HTML
7 6 (10.34%) Node.js
7 6 (10.34%) OpenAPI
7 6 (10.34%) RAML
7 6 (10.34%) Redux
7 6 (10.34%) SOAP
7 6 (10.34%) Swagger
7 6 (10.34%) Web Services
8 5 (8.62%) React
9 4 (6.90%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.14%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (13.79%) Hedge funds
3 6 (10.34%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.90%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.90%) Mobile App
4 4 (6.90%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.45%) Derivative
6 2 (3.45%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.72%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.72%) Equities
7 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Android
2 5 (8.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (53.45%) Microservices
2 28 (48.28%) CI/CD
3 20 (34.48%) Agile
4 17 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (25.86%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (22.41%) OO
7 11 (18.97%) Clean Code
7 11 (18.97%) Computer Science
7 11 (18.97%) Software Engineering
8 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (15.52%) OOP
9 9 (15.52%) Test Automation
10 8 (13.79%) Design Patterns
11 7 (12.07%) Scrum
12 6 (10.34%) API Management
12 6 (10.34%) Configuration Management
12 6 (10.34%) Continuous Deployment
12 6 (10.34%) Integration Patterns
12 6 (10.34%) Software Delivery
13 5 (8.62%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 30 (51.72%) Scala
2 16 (27.59%) Java
3 14 (24.14%) SQL
4 8 (13.79%) Python
5 6 (10.34%) C#
5 6 (10.34%) Kotlin
6 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.90%) Swift
6 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.45%) F#
7 2 (3.45%) Perl
8 1 (1.72%) Bash
8 1 (1.72%) Go
8 1 (1.72%) Jython
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Degree
2 6 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 9 (15.52%) Docker
2 4 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (25.86%) Kubernetes
2 11 (18.97%) Terraform
3 6 (10.34%) Ansible
4 4 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Google
2 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.34%) MuleSoft
3 6 (10.34%) Salesforce
3 6 (10.34%) SAP
3 6 (10.34%) WSO2
4 5 (8.62%) Oracle
5 4 (6.90%) Okta
5 4 (6.90%) Roku
6 2 (3.45%) ION Trading
6 2 (3.45%) Splunk
7 1 (1.72%) Databricks
7 1 (1.72%) Typelevel