Functional Programming Job Trends in the West Midlands

Functional Programming
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Functional Programming skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 - 196
Rank change year-on-year - - +101
Permanent jobs citing Functional Programming 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.031% - 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% - 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51,500
25th Percentile £63,750 - £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.00%
75th Percentile £65,250 - £88,750
90th Percentile - - £92,500
England median annual salary £115,000 £65,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year +76.92% -14.75% -7.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,808 4,819 3,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.21% 79.61% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,784 2,521 2,732
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,375 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Functional Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Functional Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Programming in the West Midlands

Functional Programming
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Functional Programming
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Worcestershire - 1 £64,500 -
Functional Programming
England

Functional Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 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