Functional Programming Job Trends in England

Functional Programming
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Functional Programming skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 603 613 637
Rank change year-on-year +10 +24 -4
Permanent jobs citing Functional Programming 13 101 57
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.028% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11 9 54
10th Percentile £100,000 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £107,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £60,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% -21.31% -8.96%
75th Percentile £125,625 £63,750 £96,154
90th Percentile £131,250 £82,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +91.67% -20.00% -11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Functional Programming falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,387 50,699 44,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 86.10% 83.49% 93.69%
Number of salaries quoted 24,287 26,420 34,127
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Functional Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Functional Programming relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Functional Programming job vacancy trend in England

Functional Programming
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Functional Programming.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Functional Programming

Functional Programming
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Programming in England over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Functional Programming in England

Functional Programming
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Programming within the England region over the 6 months to 16 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +41 12 £115,000 +91.67% 22
Midlands - 1 £64,500 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £64,500 - 2
Functional Programming
UK

Functional Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Datadog
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) VisualVM
1 2 (15.38%) YourKit
2 1 (7.69%) Appium
2 1 (7.69%) Charles Proxy
2 1 (7.69%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (7.69%) MLflow
2 1 (7.69%) Postman
2 1 (7.69%) XCUITest
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Front Office
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Haskell Programmer
2 4 (30.77%) Programmer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Programmer
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Scala Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Scala Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Data Science Leader
5 1 (7.69%) Front Office Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Real Time Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Akka
1 2 (15.38%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Derivative
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Blockchain
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Risk Management
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
3 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Mathematics
4 4 (30.77%) Pair Programming
4 4 (30.77%) Physics
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Garbage Collection
5 3 (23.08%) Low Latency
5 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (15.38%) Algorithmic Trading
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Concurrent Programming
6 2 (15.38%) JVM Tuning
6 2 (15.38%) Memory Management
6 2 (15.38%) OO
6 2 (15.38%) Quantitative Trading
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Scala
2 4 (30.77%) F#
2 4 (30.77%) Haskell
2 4 (30.77%) OCaml
3 2 (15.38%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) Elixir
4 1 (7.69%) Erlang
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Swift
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
1 5 (38.46%) Master's Degree
2 4 (30.77%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle
1 1 (7.69%) Splunk