Functional Programming
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Functional Programming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Functional Programming over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 782 766 347
Rank change year-on-year -16 -419 +223
Permanent jobs citing Functional Programming 123 207 1,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.20% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.21% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 102 72 146
10th Percentile £57,500 £66,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £69,688 £62,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £97,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +30.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £93,438 £120,000 £103,438
90th Percentile £101,250 - £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -19.35% +19.23% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Functional Programming is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,360 99,485 147,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59,619 58,411 83,272
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Functional Programming.

Salary trend for Functional Programming in the UK

Functional Programming
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Programming over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Functional Programming in the UK

Functional Programming
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Programming within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
England +18 103 £80,000 -17.95% 36
UK excluding London +33 59 £62,500 -19.35% 14
Work from Home +53 56 £65,000 -39.53% 21
London +11 51 £82,500 -15.38% 20
North of England +60 27 £62,500 +13.64% 3
West Midlands +37 17 £95,000 +52.61% 2
Midlands +10 17 £95,000 +52.61% 2
Yorkshire - 14 £62,500 -
North West +23 10 £62,500 +13.64% 3
Scotland -51 10 £60,000 -40.00%
East Midlands - 3 £77,500 -
North East - 3 £62,500 -
Northern Ireland +27 2 - -
South East +19 2 - - 4
South West -22 2 £67,500 -33.66% 4
East of England - 2 £55,000 - 1

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 8 (6.50%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.69%) Apache
2 7 (5.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Simulink
1 2 (1.63%) Stateflow
1 2 (1.63%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 60 (48.78%) AWS
2 28 (22.76%) Serverless
3 26 (21.14%) GCP
4 17 (13.82%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (11.38%) Azure
6 13 (10.57%) GitHub
7 4 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.81%) OFDM
1 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (0.81%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.82%) MySQL
1 17 (13.82%) SQL Server
2 14 (11.38%) DynamoDB
3 10 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.69%) Apache Hive
4 7 (5.69%) Presto
5 4 (3.25%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.81%) Big Data
7 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (7.32%) Git
2 3 (2.44%) IntelliJ
2 3 (2.44%) JIRA
3 2 (1.63%) VectorCAST
4 1 (0.81%) Grunt
4 1 (0.81%) gulp
General
1 24 (19.51%) Finance
2 21 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (14.63%) Social Skills
4 17 (13.82%) Banking
5 10 (8.13%) Games
6 9 (7.32%) Advertising
6 9 (7.32%) Electronics
7 4 (3.25%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.63%) Avionics
9 2 (1.63%) Law
9 2 (1.63%) Military
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Marketing
10 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (53.66%) Software Engineer
2 59 (47.97%) Senior
3 41 (33.33%) Developer
4 40 (32.52%) Senior Software Engineer
5 24 (19.51%) Lead
6 18 (14.63%) Backend Developer
6 18 (14.63%) Senior Developer
7 13 (10.57%) Software Developer
8 11 (8.94%) Senior Backend Developer
8 11 (8.94%) Senior Software Developer
9 9 (7.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (7.32%) Lead Developer
10 8 (6.50%) Scala Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) Scala Software Engineer
12 6 (4.88%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.88%) Lead Software Engineer
13 5 (4.07%) C# Developer
13 5 (4.07%) C# Software Developer
13 5 (4.07%) Java Developer
13 5 (4.07%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (21.95%) GraphQL
2 25 (20.33%) Node.js
3 24 (19.51%) .NET
3 24 (19.51%) ASP.NET
4 20 (16.26%) React
5 18 (14.63%) Vue
6 17 (13.82%) AngularJS
6 17 (13.82%) ASP.NET Core
6 17 (13.82%) ASP.NET Web API
7 12 (9.76%) http4s
7 12 (9.76%) REST
8 11 (8.94%) Kafka
9 9 (7.32%) Lambda Expressions
9 9 (7.32%) Spring
9 9 (7.32%) Spring Boot
10 6 (4.88%) Spring Cloud
10 6 (4.88%) Spring Integration
10 6 (4.88%) Spring Security
10 6 (4.88%) Web Services
11 4 (3.25%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.13%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (5.69%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.44%) Blog
4 3 (2.44%) Media Streaming
4 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.44%) Wiki
5 2 (1.63%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (1.63%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.81%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.44%) Linux
2 2 (1.63%) Solaris
2 2 (1.63%) Unix
3 1 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (59.35%) Software Engineering
2 70 (56.91%) Agile
3 37 (30.08%) Microservices
4 32 (26.02%) Full Stack Development
5 27 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (19.51%) OOP
7 23 (18.70%) SDLC
8 22 (17.89%) Computer Science
9 21 (17.07%) Clean Code
9 21 (17.07%) Roadmaps
10 20 (16.26%) IT Strategy
10 20 (16.26%) Kanban
10 20 (16.26%) Technology Strategy
11 19 (15.45%) Artificial Intelligence
11 19 (15.45%) Software Testing
12 17 (13.82%) OO
13 16 (13.01%) Scrum
14 15 (12.20%) Machine Learning
14 15 (12.20%) Test Automation
14 15 (12.20%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (29.27%) C#
2 34 (27.64%) TypeScript
3 28 (22.76%) Python
4 26 (21.14%) Haskell
5 25 (20.33%) Scala
6 24 (19.51%) Java
7 23 (18.70%) F#
8 21 (17.07%) Clojure
8 21 (17.07%) SQL
9 16 (13.01%) Rust
10 13 (10.57%) JavaScript
11 12 (9.76%) Go
12 11 (8.94%) C
13 10 (8.13%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.63%) Ada
14 2 (1.63%) Ada 83
14 2 (1.63%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (15.45%) Degree
2 8 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.76%) QA
2 4 (3.25%) DICOM
2 4 (3.25%) HL7
2 4 (3.25%) ISO 13485
3 2 (1.63%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 9 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.32%) Terraform
2 4 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.63%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 15 (12.20%) Google
2 9 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.50%) Databricks
4 7 (5.69%) Confluent
5 3 (2.44%) Sybase
6 1 (0.81%) Monzo