Functional Programming Jobs

Functional Programming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Functional Programming skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Functional Programming over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 645 780 781
Rank change year-on-year +135 +1 -441
Permanent jobs citing Functional Programming 45 122 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 41 100 73
10th Percentile - £57,500 £66,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -28.21% +30.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £95,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £101,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% -19.35% +10.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,790 84,812 96,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.76% 85.58% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,810 59,843 56,946
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Functional Programming in the UK

Functional Programming
Top 15 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 9 May 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
Work from Home +133 42 £55,000 -13.73% 45
UK excluding London +167 39 £55,000 -12.00% 53
England +96 37 £55,000 -33.33% 88
South East +110 18 £55,000 - 21
South West +119 7 £55,000 -18.52% 6
Scotland +121 5 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Midlands +51 3 £65,000 -31.58% 1
North of England +30 3 £60,000 -4.00% 17
Yorkshire +51 2 £61,250 -2.00% 1
West Midlands +46 2 £75,000 -21.05% 1
Wales - 2 £64,000 - 1
London +60 1 - - 57
East Midlands +45 1 £55,000 -29.03%
East of England +36 1 £60,000 +9.09% 4
North West +6 1 £55,000 -12.00% 13

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 2 (4.44%) Apache
1 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 38 (84.44%) AWS
2 35 (77.78%) AWS Lambda
2 35 (77.78%) Serverless
3 7 (15.56%) SaaS
4 4 (8.89%) npm
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (4.44%) GitHub
6 2 (4.44%) Yarn
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.22%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (68.89%) DynamoDB
2 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.44%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Babel
1 4 (8.89%) webpack
2 2 (4.44%) Ant
2 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.44%) Mocha
2 2 (4.44%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (4.44%) Agriculture
1 2 (4.44%) Banking
1 2 (4.44%) Finance
1 2 (4.44%) Front Office
1 2 (4.44%) Law
1 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (86.67%) Senior
2 33 (73.33%) Developer
3 32 (71.11%) Senior Developer
4 20 (44.44%) Senior Software Developer
4 20 (44.44%) Software Developer
5 12 (26.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (24.44%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (11.11%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Architect
9 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Technical Architect
9 2 (4.44%) UI Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) UX Engineer
10 1 (2.22%) AWS Engineer
10 1 (2.22%) C# Software Engineer
10 1 (2.22%) Data Engineer
10 1 (2.22%) Platform Engineer
10 1 (2.22%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (82.22%) React
2 33 (73.33%) GraphQL
2 33 (73.33%) Node.js
3 6 (13.33%) CSS
4 4 (8.89%) .NET
4 4 (8.89%) HTML
4 4 (8.89%) Redux
4 4 (8.89%) RESTful
5 3 (6.67%) JSON
6 2 (4.44%) CSS3
6 2 (4.44%) DOM
6 2 (4.44%) Enzyme
6 2 (4.44%) HTML5
6 2 (4.44%) Jest
6 2 (4.44%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (4.44%) Material-UI
6 2 (4.44%) Semantic UI
6 2 (4.44%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (4.44%) Web Services
6 2 (4.44%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.44%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (75.56%) Microservices
2 33 (73.33%) Clean Code
2 33 (73.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 33 (73.33%) Kanban
3 31 (68.89%) Event-Driven
3 31 (68.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 31 (68.89%) Secure Coding
3 31 (68.89%) Technology Strategy
3 31 (68.89%) Test Automation
3 31 (68.89%) Unit Testing
4 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
5 6 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 5 (11.11%) Front End Development
6 5 (11.11%) Web Application Development
7 4 (8.89%) Agile
7 4 (8.89%) Domain-Driven Design
7 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.89%) User Experience
8 3 (6.67%) OOP
8 3 (6.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 42 (93.33%) TypeScript
2 12 (26.67%) C#
3 9 (20.00%) SQL
4 7 (15.56%) F#
4 7 (15.56%) Haskell
5 6 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.67%) Python
7 2 (4.44%) Erlang
7 2 (4.44%) Scala
8 1 (2.22%) Elixir
8 1 (2.22%) Elm
8 1 (2.22%) Java
8 1 (2.22%) Lisp
8 1 (2.22%) PureScript
8 1 (2.22%) SHACL
8 1 (2.22%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Degree
2 6 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Docker