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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 775 786 358
Rank change year-on-year +11 -428 +230
Permanent jobs citing Functional Programming 122 217 1,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.20% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.21% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 110 76 146
10th Percentile £57,500 £65,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £68,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +16.13% +19.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £103,750
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 83,908 102,297 145,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 95.66% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 59,730 59,825 83,628
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
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 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +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 18 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 18 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 +29 102 £82,500 -8.33% 30
Work from Home +70 59 £63,750 -36.25% 22
UK excluding London +48 55 £62,500 -19.35% 8
London +27 52 £82,500 -15.38% 20
North of England +75 24 £62,500 -3.85% 4
West Midlands +54 17 £95,000 +52.61% 2
Midlands +24 17 £95,000 +52.61% 2
Yorkshire +92 14 £62,500 -16.67%
Scotland -52 8 £60,000 -40.00%
North West +13 7 £62,500 +13.64% 4
East Midlands - 3 £77,500 -
North East - 3 £62,500 -
East of England - 3 £55,000 -
South East +28 2 - -
Northern Ireland +25 2 - -
South West -17 2 £67,500 -33.66% 2

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 5 (4.10%) Apache
1 5 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (4.10%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Simulink
1 2 (1.64%) Stateflow
1 2 (1.64%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 55 (45.08%) AWS
2 28 (22.95%) Serverless
3 21 (17.21%) GCP
4 17 (13.93%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (10.66%) GitHub
6 9 (7.38%) Azure
7 4 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.82%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.82%) OFDM
1 1 (0.82%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (0.82%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.93%) MySQL
1 17 (13.93%) SQL Server
2 11 (9.02%) DynamoDB
3 8 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.10%) Apache Hive
4 5 (4.10%) Presto
5 3 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.46%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.20%) Git
2 4 (3.28%) IntelliJ
2 4 (3.28%) JIRA
3 2 (1.64%) VectorCAST
4 1 (0.82%) Grunt
4 1 (0.82%) gulp
General
1 26 (21.31%) Finance
2 21 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.57%) Banking
4 15 (12.30%) Social Skills
5 9 (7.38%) Advertising
5 9 (7.38%) Games
6 7 (5.74%) Electronics
7 4 (3.28%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.64%) Avionics
8 2 (1.64%) Military
9 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (50.82%) Software Engineer
2 58 (47.54%) Senior
3 44 (36.07%) Developer
4 41 (33.61%) Senior Software Engineer
5 20 (16.39%) Backend Developer
6 19 (15.57%) Lead
7 17 (13.93%) Senior Developer
8 13 (10.66%) Software Developer
9 11 (9.02%) Senior Backend Developer
9 11 (9.02%) Senior Software Developer
10 9 (7.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 9 (7.38%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.92%) Java Developer
11 6 (4.92%) Scala Engineer
12 5 (4.10%) C# Developer
12 5 (4.10%) C# Software Developer
12 5 (4.10%) Scala Software Engineer
12 5 (4.10%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (4.10%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 4 (3.28%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (21.31%) Node.js
2 25 (20.49%) GraphQL
3 24 (19.67%) .NET
3 24 (19.67%) ASP.NET
4 21 (17.21%) React
5 18 (14.75%) Vue
6 17 (13.93%) AngularJS
6 17 (13.93%) ASP.NET Core
6 17 (13.93%) ASP.NET Web API
7 11 (9.02%) Kafka
8 10 (8.20%) REST
8 10 (8.20%) Spring
8 10 (8.20%) Spring Boot
9 6 (4.92%) Spring Cloud
9 6 (4.92%) Spring Integration
9 6 (4.92%) Spring Security
10 5 (4.10%) HTML
10 5 (4.10%) http4s
10 5 (4.10%) jQuery
10 5 (4.10%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.57%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.20%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.10%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.64%) Analogue Electronics
4 2 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (1.64%) Wiki
5 1 (0.82%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.82%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.46%) Linux
2 2 (1.64%) Solaris
2 2 (1.64%) Unix
3 1 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (57.38%) Software Engineering
2 63 (51.64%) Agile
3 38 (31.15%) Full Stack Development
4 34 (27.87%) Microservices
5 26 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (18.03%) Computer Science
6 22 (18.03%) SDLC
7 21 (17.21%) Clean Code
8 20 (16.39%) Artificial Intelligence
8 20 (16.39%) IT Strategy
8 20 (16.39%) OOP
8 20 (16.39%) Technology Strategy
9 19 (15.57%) Roadmaps
9 19 (15.57%) Software Testing
10 18 (14.75%) User Experience
10 18 (14.75%) UX Design
11 16 (13.11%) Kanban
12 15 (12.30%) Test Automation
13 14 (11.48%) Machine Learning
14 13 (10.66%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (29.51%) C#
2 34 (27.87%) TypeScript
3 32 (26.23%) Haskell
4 29 (23.77%) F#
5 27 (22.13%) Clojure
6 25 (20.49%) Python
7 23 (18.85%) SQL
8 20 (16.39%) Rust
8 20 (16.39%) Scala
9 19 (15.57%) Java
10 13 (10.66%) JavaScript
11 12 (9.84%) Go
12 11 (9.02%) C
13 5 (4.10%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.64%) Ada
14 2 (1.64%) Ada 83
14 2 (1.64%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (14.75%) Degree
2 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.64%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.20%) QA
2 4 (3.28%) DICOM
2 4 (3.28%) HL7
2 4 (3.28%) ISO 13485
3 2 (1.64%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.82%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.82%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 7 (5.74%) Docker
2 5 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (4.10%) Kubernetes
1 5 (4.10%) Terraform
2 2 (1.64%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 11 (9.02%) Google
2 7 (5.74%) Confluent
3 5 (4.10%) Databricks
3 5 (4.10%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.28%) Sybase
5 1 (0.82%) Monzo