Functional Programming Job Trends in London

Functional Programming
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Functional Programming skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 416 446
Rank change year-on-year +41 +30 -51
Permanent jobs citing Functional Programming 12 43 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.25% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 44
10th Percentile £95,000 £55,000 -
25th Percentile £100,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £60,000 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% -21.57% -12.57%
75th Percentile £116,250 £77,500 £120,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £82,500 £127,525
England median annual salary £115,000 £63,750 £76,250
% change year-on-year +80.39% -16.39% -7.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,248 17,247 20,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 94.13% 89.43% 93.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,130 10,487 16,994
10th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

Functional Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Functional Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Programming in London

Functional Programming
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Functional Programming.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Functional Programming

Functional Programming
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Programming in London over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Functional Programming in London

Functional Programming
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Programming within the London region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
South London - 1 - -
Functional Programming
England

Functional Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (8.33%) Datadog
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
1 3 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (8.33%) VisualVM
2 1 (8.33%) YourKit
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Haskell Programmer
2 4 (33.33%) Lead
2 4 (33.33%) Programmer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Programmer
3 3 (25.00%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Scala Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Scala Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Scala Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Akka
1 4 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (25.00%) Gherkin
2 3 (25.00%) Play Framework
2 3 (25.00%) Scalaz
3 1 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Derivative
1 4 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (25.00%) Equities
3 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (8.33%) Blockchain
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (41.67%) Risk Management
2 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 4 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 4 (33.33%) Physics
4 3 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (8.33%) Algorithmic Trading
5 1 (8.33%) ATDD
5 1 (8.33%) BDD
5 1 (8.33%) Concurrent Programming
5 1 (8.33%) JVM Tuning
5 1 (8.33%) Low Latency
5 1 (8.33%) Memory Management
5 1 (8.33%) OO
5 1 (8.33%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Scala
2 4 (33.33%) F#
2 4 (33.33%) Haskell
2 4 (33.33%) OCaml
3 1 (8.33%) Elixir
3 1 (8.33%) Erlang
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 4 (33.33%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle