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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 754 769 342
Rank change year-on-year +15 -427 +212
Permanent jobs citing Functional Programming 129 190 1,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.19% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.20% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 94 75 150
10th Percentile £57,500 £68,750 £48,625
25th Percentile £58,750 £70,000 £62,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £97,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +30.00% +23.97%
75th Percentile £93,438 £120,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £101,250 - £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +33.33%

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 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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% +10.53%

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 17 May 2024.

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 17 May 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 +23 108 £80,000 -17.95% 34
UK excluding London +29 63 £62,500 -16.67% 16
Work from Home +38 52 £62,500 -40.48% 11
London +10 52 £82,500 -15.38% 19
North of England +74 31 £62,500 -3.85% 5
North West +10 17 £62,500 -3.85% 3
West Midlands +23 14 £95,000 +52.61% 2
Midlands +2 14 £95,000 +52.61% 2
Yorkshire - 11 £62,500 -
Scotland -47 10 £60,000 -40.00%
North East - 3 £62,500 - 2
Northern Ireland +23 2 - - 1
South East -2 2 - - 5
South West -21 2 £67,500 -33.66% 2
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 10 (7.75%) Apache Spark
2 9 (6.98%) Apache
2 9 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Simulink
1 2 (1.55%) Stateflow
1 2 (1.55%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 67 (51.94%) AWS
2 28 (21.71%) GCP
2 28 (21.71%) Serverless
3 17 (13.18%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (12.40%) Azure
5 13 (10.08%) GitHub
6 12 (9.30%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.78%) OFDM
1 1 (0.78%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (0.78%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.83%) DynamoDB
2 17 (13.18%) MySQL
2 17 (13.18%) SQL Server
3 16 (12.40%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (11.63%) NoSQL
5 12 (9.30%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (6.98%) Apache Hive
6 9 (6.98%) Presto
7 7 (5.43%) Redis
8 3 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.78%) Big Data
9 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (8.53%) Git
2 7 (5.43%) Gatling
3 5 (3.88%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.33%) JIRA
5 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.55%) ScalaTest
5 2 (1.55%) VectorCAST
6 1 (0.78%) Grunt
6 1 (0.78%) gulp
General
1 25 (19.38%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.50%) Finance
3 18 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (13.95%) Electronics
4 13 (10.08%) Banking
5 10 (7.75%) Games
6 9 (6.98%) Advertising
7 7 (5.43%) Billing
8 4 (3.10%) Tech for Good
9 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.55%) Avionics
10 2 (1.55%) Law
10 2 (1.55%) Military
10 2 (1.55%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.78%) Legal
11 1 (0.78%) Marketing
11 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (58.14%) Software Engineer
2 57 (44.19%) Senior
3 38 (29.46%) Senior Software Engineer
4 37 (28.68%) Developer
5 29 (22.48%) Lead
6 17 (13.18%) Senior Developer
7 16 (12.40%) Backend Developer
8 11 (8.53%) Lead Software Engineer
8 11 (8.53%) Scala Engineer
8 11 (8.53%) Senior Backend Developer
8 11 (8.53%) Senior Software Developer
8 11 (8.53%) Software Developer
9 9 (6.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (6.98%) Lead Developer
9 9 (6.98%) Scala Software Engineer
10 6 (4.65%) Java Engineer
11 5 (3.88%) C# Developer
11 5 (3.88%) C# Software Developer
11 5 (3.88%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.88%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (25.58%) GraphQL
2 26 (20.16%) http4s
3 25 (19.38%) Node.js
4 22 (17.05%) REST
5 21 (16.28%) .NET
5 21 (16.28%) ASP.NET
5 21 (16.28%) React
6 20 (15.50%) Lambda Expressions
7 18 (13.95%) Vue
8 17 (13.18%) AngularJS
8 17 (13.18%) ASP.NET Core
8 17 (13.18%) ASP.NET Web API
8 17 (13.18%) Web Services
9 12 (9.30%) Scalaz
10 10 (7.75%) Kafka
11 9 (6.98%) Spring
11 9 (6.98%) Spring Boot
12 6 (4.65%) Spring Cloud
12 6 (4.65%) Spring Integration
12 6 (4.65%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.18%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (9.30%) Blog
2 12 (9.30%) Media Streaming
3 10 (7.75%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (6.98%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.33%) Wiki
7 2 (1.55%) Analogue Electronics
7 2 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.78%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.55%) Solaris
1 2 (1.55%) Unix
2 1 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (64.34%) Agile
2 80 (62.02%) Software Engineering
3 48 (37.21%) Microservices
4 29 (22.48%) Computer Science
4 29 (22.48%) OOP
5 27 (20.93%) Full Stack Development
6 25 (19.38%) Kanban
7 24 (18.60%) Continuous Integration
7 24 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (18.60%) Roadmaps
7 24 (18.60%) Unit Testing
8 23 (17.83%) Clean Code
9 22 (17.05%) OO
10 20 (15.50%) IT Strategy
10 20 (15.50%) SDLC
10 20 (15.50%) Technology Strategy
11 19 (14.73%) Software Testing
12 18 (13.95%) Scrum
13 16 (12.40%) CI/CD
13 16 (12.40%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (29.46%) Scala
2 34 (26.36%) Java
3 33 (25.58%) C#
4 32 (24.81%) TypeScript
5 25 (19.38%) Python
6 18 (13.95%) Haskell
6 18 (13.95%) SQL
7 15 (11.63%) Clojure
7 15 (11.63%) F#
7 15 (11.63%) Kotlin
8 13 (10.08%) JavaScript
9 11 (8.53%) C
10 10 (7.75%) Go
10 10 (7.75%) Rust
11 2 (1.55%) Ada
11 2 (1.55%) Ada 83
11 2 (1.55%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (21.71%) Degree
2 17 (13.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.55%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.18%) QA
2 4 (3.10%) DICOM
2 4 (3.10%) HL7
2 4 (3.10%) ISO 13485
3 2 (1.55%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.78%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 14 (10.85%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (10.85%) Terraform
2 2 (1.55%) Functional Safety
2 2 (1.55%) Grafana
2 2 (1.55%) Kibana
3 1 (0.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (13.18%) Google
2 14 (10.85%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.75%) Databricks
4 7 (5.43%) Confluent
5 3 (2.33%) Sybase
6 1 (0.78%) Monzo