Functional Programming Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Functional Programming
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 287 327 410
Rank change year-on-year +40 +83 +130
Contract jobs citing Functional Programming 17 18 67
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.12% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.13% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 44
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £500 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -5.26% -21.49%
75th Percentile £750 £600 £575
90th Percentile £800 £725 £726
UK median daily rate £725 £588 £525
% change year-on-year +23.40% +11.90% -13.22%
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 median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Functional Programming
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Functional Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Functional Programming trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Functional Programming
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Functional Programming.

Functional Programming daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Functional Programming
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Functional Programming daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Functional Programming
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Functional Programming.

Functional Programming hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Functional Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) GCP
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) MongoDB
2 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Flink
3 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) MLflow
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Front Office
3 4 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (11.76%) Finance
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Developer
2 8 (47.06%) Scala Developer
3 5 (29.41%) .NET Developer
3 5 (29.41%) C# .NET Developer
3 5 (29.41%) C# Developer
4 3 (17.65%) SOA Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 1 (5.88%) GCP Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) Akka
1 8 (47.06%) Play Framework
2 5 (29.41%) .NET
2 5 (29.41%) .NET Framework
2 5 (29.41%) Akka.NET
2 5 (29.41%) Reactive Extensions
3 4 (23.53%) RESTful
4 2 (11.76%) Kafka
5 1 (5.88%) Apache Avro
5 1 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (5.88%) HTML
5 1 (5.88%) HTML5
5 1 (5.88%) JSON
5 1 (5.88%) JWT
5 1 (5.88%) NumPy
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth
5 1 (5.88%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.88%) Spring
5 1 (5.88%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Fixed Income
2 4 (23.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Agile
2 10 (58.82%) TDD
3 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 7 (41.18%) Code Quality
4 7 (41.18%) Microservices
4 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (35.29%) API Integration
5 6 (35.29%) Design Patterns
6 5 (29.41%) API Development
6 5 (29.41%) BDD
6 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
6 5 (29.41%) Requirements Analysis
6 5 (29.41%) SOA
6 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
7 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (23.53%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
7 4 (23.53%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (23.53%) Visualisation
8 3 (17.65%) OO
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Scala
2 5 (29.41%) C#
2 5 (29.41%) F#
3 3 (17.65%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kibana
2 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) Typelevel