Functional Programming Job Trends in the Midlands

Functional Programming
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 213 - 226
Rank change year-on-year - - +126
Permanent jobs citing Functional Programming 1 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.017% - 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% - 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £56,000
25th Percentile £63,750 - £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 - £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.23%
75th Percentile £65,250 - £78,750
90th Percentile - - £88,500
England median annual salary £115,000 £60,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year +91.67% -21.31% -8.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,813 7,330 4,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.10% 81.96% 93.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,171 3,238 3,658
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,763
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -0.59%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,800 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

Functional Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Functional Programming job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Functional Programming
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Functional Programming.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Functional Programming

Functional Programming
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Programming within the Midlands 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
West Midlands - 1 £64,500 - 2
Functional Programming
England

Functional Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes