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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 507 574
Rank change year-on-year -5 +67 +85
Contract jobs citing Functional Programming 37 65 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.19% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 40 63
10th Percentile £448 £446 -
25th Percentile £472 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £569 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.30% +13.75% -17.36%
75th Percentile £738 £756 £744
90th Percentile £778 £825 £855
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £67.00
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +56.76%

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 29,789 33,520 47,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.40% 85.51% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,650 21,482 32,791
10th Percentile £300 £310 £322
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,662 1,872 1,553
10th Percentile £14.13 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.14 £18.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.41 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.77% -4.91% +61.02%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.95 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.92 £40.94 £39.60
% change year-on-year -44.02% +3.38% +84.19%

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 5 August 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 8 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 5 August 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 +16 30 £718 +2.50% 58
London -16 26 £725 +3.57% 42
Work from Home +19 13 £588 +30.56% 36
UK excluding London +10 3 £525 -4.55% 23
North of England -14 3 £525 +50.00% 11
North West -7 1 £400 +14.29% 10
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 1
North East - 1 £525 -

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 4 (10.81%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Apache
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.41%) CICS
3 1 (2.70%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) AWS
2 5 (13.51%) GCP
3 4 (10.81%) GitHub
4 3 (8.11%) Azure
4 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (8.11%) npm
4 3 (8.11%) Yarn
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) NoSQL
2 7 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.11%) MySQL
5 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.41%) DB2
6 1 (2.70%) Big Data
6 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.70%) Flink
6 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.70%) Parquet
6 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Git
2 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.81%) JIRA
4 3 (8.11%) Ant
4 3 (8.11%) Babel
4 3 (8.11%) JUnit
4 3 (8.11%) TeamCity
4 3 (8.11%) webpack
5 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.41%) GitLab
5 2 (5.41%) Gradle
5 2 (5.41%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.70%) MLflow
General
1 15 (40.54%) Finance
2 14 (37.84%) Banking
3 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
4 8 (21.62%) Front Office
5 7 (18.92%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Back Office
6 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.70%) French Language
7 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (78.38%) Developer
2 6 (16.22%) C# Developer
2 6 (16.22%) Java Developer
3 5 (13.51%) .NET Developer
3 5 (13.51%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (10.81%) Scala Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Android Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Backend Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (8.11%) React Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.11%) SOA Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Haskell Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Lead
6 2 (5.41%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (29.73%) RESTful
1 11 (29.73%) Spring
1 11 (29.73%) Spring Boot
2 9 (24.32%) .NET
3 6 (16.22%) Akka.NET
3 6 (16.22%) Reactive Extensions
3 6 (16.22%) Web Services
4 5 (13.51%) .NET Framework
5 4 (10.81%) JSON
5 4 (10.81%) Play Framework
5 4 (10.81%) React
5 4 (10.81%) REST
6 3 (8.11%) CSS3
6 3 (8.11%) HTML5
6 3 (8.11%) JWT
6 3 (8.11%) Material-UI
6 3 (8.11%) OAuth
6 3 (8.11%) Redux
6 3 (8.11%) RxJava
6 3 (8.11%) Semantic UI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Fixed Income
2 4 (10.81%) Derivative
3 3 (8.11%) Algorithms
3 3 (8.11%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.41%) DataPower
4 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Wiki
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Android
2 2 (5.41%) zOS
3 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) Agile
2 16 (43.24%) DevOps
3 12 (32.43%) CI/CD
3 12 (32.43%) Microservices
4 11 (29.73%) Computer Science
5 10 (27.03%) Design Patterns
5 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (27.03%) TDD
6 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
7 8 (21.62%) SOA
8 6 (16.22%) OO
8 6 (16.22%) OOP
9 5 (13.51%) Customer Requirements
9 5 (13.51%) Requirements Analysis
9 5 (13.51%) Sprint Planning
10 4 (10.81%) Asynchronous Programming
10 4 (10.81%) Clean Code
10 4 (10.81%) Front End Development
10 4 (10.81%) User Experience
10 4 (10.81%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) Java
2 9 (24.32%) C#
3 6 (16.22%) Kotlin
4 5 (13.51%) F#
4 5 (13.51%) Python
4 5 (13.51%) Scala
5 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.81%) SQL
5 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.11%) Haskell
7 2 (5.41%) XPath
8 1 (2.70%) COBOL
8 1 (2.70%) Jython
8 1 (2.70%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (8.11%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Accessibility
1 5 (13.51%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) CA Endevor
3 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.41%) IBM
2 2 (5.41%) Typelevel
3 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.70%) Splunk