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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 749 790 344
Rank change year-on-year +41 -446 +225
Permanent jobs citing Functional Programming 135 185 1,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.19% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.19% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 93 71 152
10th Percentile £57,500 £68,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £71,000 £63,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £97,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +30.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £101,250 - £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -21.88% +14.29% +36.59%

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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 20 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 20 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 +20 114 £80,000 -17.95% 40
UK excluding London +43 68 £62,500 -21.88% 18
London +4 53 £82,500 -15.38% 25
Work from Home +55 51 £63,750 -39.29% 14
North of England +68 36 £62,500 -3.85% 6
North West +17 22 £62,500 -3.85% 4
West Midlands +23 14 £95,000 +41.79% 3
Midlands +3 14 £95,000 +41.79% 3
Yorkshire - 11 £62,500 -
Scotland -55 10 £60,000 -40.00%
North East - 3 £62,500 - 2
Northern Ireland +31 2 - - 1
South East +12 2 - - 6
South West -26 2 £67,500 -33.66% 2
East of England - 2 £55,000 -

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 11 (8.15%) Apache Spark
2 10 (7.41%) Apache
2 10 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Simulink
1 2 (1.48%) Stateflow
1 2 (1.48%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 74 (54.81%) AWS
2 30 (22.22%) GCP
3 28 (20.74%) Serverless
4 18 (13.33%) Azure
5 17 (12.59%) Amazon Kinesis
5 17 (12.59%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (9.63%) GitHub
7 2 (1.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.74%) OFDM
1 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (0.74%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.74%) DynamoDB
2 21 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (14.07%) NoSQL
4 17 (12.59%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (12.59%) MySQL
4 17 (12.59%) SQL Server
5 10 (7.41%) Apache Hive
5 10 (7.41%) Presto
5 10 (7.41%) Redis
6 3 (2.22%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.74%) Big Data
7 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (8.15%) Git
2 10 (7.41%) Gatling
3 5 (3.70%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.22%) JIRA
5 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.48%) ScalaTest
5 2 (1.48%) VectorCAST
6 1 (0.74%) Grunt
6 1 (0.74%) gulp
General
1 30 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.30%) Electronics
3 20 (14.81%) Finance
4 18 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.63%) Banking
6 10 (7.41%) Billing
6 10 (7.41%) Games
7 9 (6.67%) Advertising
8 4 (2.96%) Tech for Good
9 3 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.48%) Avionics
10 2 (1.48%) Law
10 2 (1.48%) Military
10 2 (1.48%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.74%) Legal
11 1 (0.74%) Marketing
11 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (59.26%) Software Engineer
2 59 (43.70%) Senior
3 38 (28.15%) Senior Software Engineer
4 36 (26.67%) Developer
5 32 (23.70%) Lead
6 17 (12.59%) Senior Developer
7 16 (11.85%) Backend Developer
8 14 (10.37%) Lead Software Engineer
8 14 (10.37%) Scala Engineer
9 11 (8.15%) Senior Backend Developer
9 11 (8.15%) Senior Software Developer
9 11 (8.15%) Software Developer
10 10 (7.41%) Scala Software Engineer
11 9 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 9 (6.67%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.44%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) Technical Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) Technical Leader
13 5 (3.70%) C# Software Developer
13 5 (3.70%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (28.15%) GraphQL
2 33 (24.44%) http4s
3 27 (20.00%) REST
4 25 (18.52%) Node.js
5 23 (17.04%) Lambda Expressions
6 22 (16.30%) Web Services
7 21 (15.56%) .NET
7 21 (15.56%) ASP.NET
7 21 (15.56%) React
8 18 (13.33%) Vue
9 17 (12.59%) AngularJS
9 17 (12.59%) ASP.NET Core
9 17 (12.59%) ASP.NET Web API
9 17 (12.59%) Scalaz
10 10 (7.41%) Kafka
11 9 (6.67%) Spring
11 9 (6.67%) Spring Boot
12 6 (4.44%) Spring Cloud
12 6 (4.44%) Spring Integration
12 6 (4.44%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (12.59%) Blog
2 17 (12.59%) Media Streaming
3 10 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.22%) Wiki
6 2 (1.48%) Analogue Electronics
6 2 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.74%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.48%) Solaris
1 2 (1.48%) Unix
2 1 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (66.67%) Agile
2 85 (62.96%) Software Engineering
3 50 (37.04%) Microservices
4 33 (24.44%) Computer Science
5 31 (22.96%) OOP
6 30 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
7 29 (21.48%) Unit Testing
8 27 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
8 27 (20.00%) Kanban
9 25 (18.52%) Roadmaps
10 24 (17.78%) OO
10 24 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (17.04%) Clean Code
12 20 (14.81%) Integration Testing
12 20 (14.81%) IT Strategy
12 20 (14.81%) Scrum
12 20 (14.81%) SDLC
12 20 (14.81%) Technology Strategy
13 19 (14.07%) DevOps
13 19 (14.07%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (32.59%) Scala
2 37 (27.41%) Java
3 33 (24.44%) C#
4 32 (23.70%) TypeScript
5 26 (19.26%) Python
6 18 (13.33%) Haskell
6 18 (13.33%) SQL
7 17 (12.59%) Kotlin
8 15 (11.11%) Clojure
8 15 (11.11%) F#
9 13 (9.63%) JavaScript
10 11 (8.15%) C
11 10 (7.41%) Go
11 10 (7.41%) Rust
12 2 (1.48%) Ada
12 2 (1.48%) Ada 83
12 2 (1.48%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (23.70%) Degree
2 21 (15.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.07%) QA
2 4 (2.96%) DICOM
2 4 (2.96%) HL7
2 4 (2.96%) ISO 13485
3 2 (1.48%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.74%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 16 (11.85%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (11.85%) Terraform
2 2 (1.48%) Functional Safety
2 2 (1.48%) Grafana
2 2 (1.48%) Kibana
3 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (14.07%) Google
2 16 (11.85%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.15%) Databricks
4 7 (5.19%) Confluent
5 3 (2.22%) Sybase
6 1 (0.74%) Monzo